Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-10-05
THE TRANSvAAL.
Optimistic Report Comes to London
From Cape Town.
BUT NEWS rs CONFLICTING.
Another story Has 1t That Kruger
Has Sent an Ultimatum Dee
manding Withdrawal of
Troops From Frontier.

| Cape Town indicate widespread inn
4 preston there that unless Ne Beers be-
! gin hostilities at once they will not fight,
but will yield to the imperial demands
when formulated. 6 e,
On the other hand, a number of the
Partisan papers say that the Beers have
sent an ultimatum to England demanding
| the Withdraw wal of the troops from the
frontier within 4S hours. The papers
| congratulate President Kruger for COM
ing to this decision.
A London news agency publishes dis
| patch from Paris saying it is rumored
there that a semiofiicial exchange Of
views is proceeding between Russia,
| France and Germany with reference to
| the Transvaal crisis. IfEH NV
The most sensational news from South
| Africa is reiteration Of report of the
acquisition by the Transvaal authorities
of 100000 in gold, which was on the
way to Cape Town from Johannesburg.
| The confirmation of the story comes from
| two sources.
The Cape Argus asserts that the Beers
| made the seizure at Vereeniging. the
amount being the weeks shipment Of
| gold on the way from the Rand to Cape
| Town, and forwarded the treasure to
| Pretoria.
The report is also confirmed by ca
blegram received by a mining company
in London from their representative,
which is to the effect that the train upon
| which he was travelling from Johannes
burg to Cape Town was held up and
looted by Beers, who secured 100000
in gold, the amount being considerably
less than the original estimate.
Nothing Tangible In News.
There is nothing very tangible in the
news. but the situation remains as
strained as ever. unless hope may be de-
rived from the apparent fact that the
forces on the frontier are regarded by
both sides as wholly defensive for the
present and from the statement that Mr..
]. H. Hofmeyr, the Afrikander leader in
Cape Colony, is still prepared to endeavor
to secure the adhesion of the Transvaal
government to the "irreducible minimum"
proposed at the Bloemfontein conference
to President Kruger by Sir Alfred Mil
ner the British high commissioner, If
the imperial government will stand by
the high commissioners original proposal.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt the dis
tinguished Liberal statesman. member of
parliament for West Monmouthshre,
has another slashing attack in the papers
upon the policy Of the secretary Of state
for the colonies, Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain.
He reiterates his original statement
that Mr.. Chamberlain's assertion that
the Transvaa refused to redress the
grievances of the outlanderS is the re-
verse of the case and he insists that
Great Britain is responsible for "Sam-
| ming the door in the face of President
Kruger just when arrangements were
approaching a settlement"
Kruger Looks For War.
A more extended account of the speech
Of President Kruger at the adjourn
ment of the raads is now obtainable.
According to trustworthy reports, he
he said:
"Everything points to war because
spirit of falsehood has overtaken other
countries and because the people of the
Transvaal wish to govern themselves.
Although thousands may come to at
tack us, we have nothing to fear, for the
lord is the final arbiter and he will de-
eide.
bullets came by thousands at the time
VI tHc IuIU, uuL tIle DuTkuerS
we're untouched. Over hundred were
killed on the other side showing that
the Lord directed our bullets. The Lord
rules the world"
Advices from Cape Town announce
that General Sir George Stewart White,
V. c., who will command the British
forces in Natal, proceeds to Durham at
once. On his arrival at Cape Town he
found the situation on the Natal border
so grave that he wired for immediate
transportation for himself and staff to
Durham, and the British second class
cruiser Forte was placed at his disposal.
There is a well authenticated report
that large force of Beers is assembled
at Seik, at the junction of the Crocodile |
and Pongola rivers, evidently with the
object of destroying the railway.
A special dispatch from Johannesburg
says the Boer officials there continue to |
urge the British subjects who remain to |
leave at once and it is believed that all
who do not will be marched under es-
cort along the railway until train is
reached to carry them off
Additional transports with troops from |
India have arrived at Durham, Natal, |
and will proceed to the front immediate
ly.
1t is rumored there that the Beers are |
withdra wing from the Natal border, ow-
ing to lack of forage.