The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-02

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NOR In circulation here that QueeD
VICTORIA has written Queen WfIbeI-
nina, of the Netherlands, depIorinr
the turn events have taken in Soutb
Africa and assuring the Dutch mon
arch that she has gone to the nj
hiost limits of her constitutional
rights In the endeayOr to secure
peace"
JOHANNESBURG, Oct. 1.-The COM
Wandering orders are completed. and The
burghers are ready for the field. A largo
Douy passed through the town Yesterday
AFTERNOON. Business has virtually ceased.
Inc merchants have finished barricading
their premises, and the proprietors of the
drinking saloons expect to receive a mo-
t11cation to close their establishments TO-
morrow.
A party OF 200 Germans has been no.
lhed to leave, and the Irish corps, COM
manded by Blake, an Irish-American, will
go early in the week The mines are pay
ing a pound ($5) daily for food.
Three trains, filled with armed burghers
for the Natal border, were this evening
reported as unable to leave Braalfontein.
owing to blockade on the line. which
has disorganized the whole train service.
Two thousand passengers left here yes
terday by the morning and afternoon
trains, and nearly 1000 by the outgoing
train last night.
The government undertakes to provide
for the families of the burghers who go
to the front.
READY FOR WAR.
NEWCASTLE, Natal Oct. 1.-The Jo-
hannesburg mail train, due at midnight.
only arrived this morning It was crowd
ed with refugees who reported that the
train was sdetracked at Standerton.
Transvaal, to make way for trains carry
ing burghers to the Natal border
A body of police arrived here today
from Charlestown. Four thousand Beers
are at sandsprint and Volksrust, just be-
yond the Natal border. The Natal police
are being called in from outlying sta
items. and the local troops and barbineers
are mobilizing fer the defense of New
castle.
NO HOPE OF PEACE.
LONDON, Oct. 1.-From all points in
the Transvaal, Natal and Cape Colony
come reports of continued military ac-
tivity on the frontier and, while the
movements of individual commands, as
yet do not show concerted plans, it is
evident that the narrow, wedgelil1e strip
of Natal, whose apex is crowned with the
ominous Majuba hill, will be the center
of the coming storm.
Late yesterday the Beers established a
camp at Scheepers Neck, near Vyrheid,
and they will mobilize great force on
the Bufo river tomorrow, which the au-
thorities at Dundee expect will move
across the border to that spot, probably
at once. 1t is believed that a conflict at
this point will occur early in the week
AT the same time the Beers are collect
ing force of 1900 men, under the no.
torcus Commandant Cronje, in the Null
mani gold field near the Mafeking border,
where Col Powell is stationed.
BURGHERS MASsING.
Dispatches from Tuli, Rhodesia. an
nounce that another force of burghers is
massed at Petersburg, fifty miles south.
and that outlying parties are posted at
all drifts along the Limpoperve.
IN the nSanllIIle Col. RUNNER column
is moving fifty miles nearer the Trans
vaal frontier, and has established con-
nections to within six miles of Rhodesia,
on the Limpopo. Enthusiastic scenes at
all the stations have marked the ad-
vance of the Natal volunteers. Dispatches
from Mafeking announce that Command
ant Cronje, commander of the Transvaal
border police. crossed the border and
visited Chief Baralolga apparently with
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British commissioner ordered the chief
to stay to protect the women. telling him
that he would not be allowed to fight
The Beers openly threaten TO raid
Vreyburg in British Bechuanaland as
soon as hostilities open, and the l[imber-
ley Advertiser complains of the apathy
of the Cape ministry in not taking steps
to prevent this
The Transvaal field cornets are taking
the names of colonial Roers who are
Wiling to cross the border in the event of
war.
CENTER OF INTEREST.
1t is evident tonight that the Buffalo
river, the northeastern boundary of Ma
tai is to be the Potomac of the war In
view of it's strategic value, Joshua Jou-
bert has taken personal command of the
Boer forces there establishing a strong
line of pickets along the river, and has
ordered the natives to drive III all the
stock. All the available burShers in the
neighborhood have been requisitioned,
with the result that some csc have mobl-
lized at Wakerstroom, the chief point of
mobilization there.
WAR IN THE BALANCE.
Cardinal Herbert Vaughn, archbishop of
Westminster preaching in the pro-cathe-
dral today, referred to the Transvaal
crisis, saying:
'"War is still trembling in the balance
and great responsibility rests upon
those deputed to safeguard the British
nation. An unjust or an unnecessary
war would be a great nationaf crime,
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