The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-17
CAPE TOWN AROUSED.

The Daily Nails Cape Town corre-
spCndent says that Sir Alfred Miner is
worked to DEATH and says Cape Town is
filled with bitter resentment at what it
| calls the Schreiner cabinets abandon
ment of Mafeking' by it's constant re-
| fusal to send force of volunteer artil-
| lery thither.
| Many residents of Cape Town have rel
| atives at VrybuIg, and they are furious
at Messrs. Merriman and Sauer, respec-
lively, colonial treasurer and commission
er of public works, and the ministers are
mobbed whenever they appear in public.
Mr.. Hofmeyer, the Afrikander leader has
gone to the country in order to escape
the outbursts of indignation.
l. Sunday evening the streets were filed
with angry citizens, and it was feared
that riotinS would occur. This, COM
bined with the pressure of the imperial
gov ernment, brought the Schreiner gov
ernment to a sense of its peril as we'll
as of its duty and moved 1t to decide
to call out the volunteers The ministerial
party also worked its hardest to prevent
the ovation to Conyngham Greene on his
arrival from Pretoria, but failed.
The volunteers are 1000 strong, and
have eleven pieces of artillery. There is
no further news regarding the present
position.
The Natal invasion was made in three
u y.
Bothas Pass, Laing's Mex and from Wax
kerstroom, the objective point of the in
vaders being Newcastle. The Beers util-
lied several thousand natives, who were
tramping from the Rand, to drive their
heavy guns up Laing's Mex.
PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES.
Precautionary measures are being taken
for the defense of PietermGritzburg and
in hn ir1o m
the enemy may elude the vigilance Of the
British "a Ladysmith and Glencoe camps
A dispatch from the latter place says the
partial closing down of the Natal coal
nlines will rot interrupt the imperial sup
plies for tho imperial transports at Dur
ban, as was imagined by the Beers, large
quantities of coal being already on the
water from India. Regular shipments
will arrive from India until the Natal
mines open again.
The calling out Of the Cape Colony vol
unteers is supplemented by decision to
raise 2,000 more volunteers in Cape Col
ony and 1000 in Natal Thus the total
strength of the volunteer forces in both
places will amount to 1850 men.
According to the programme of embark
ations from Great Britain, next Friday
and the four following days, which has
been published, there will be shipped
a tctal of $4,000 troops of all ranks and
1,600 horses. Among the newly-chartered
vessels are the White Star steamer Brit
annie and the National liner America.
Since the reports of the fighting at KIM
herley and the Orange river bridge, peo-
pie are urging the immediate removal OF
families from Daar Junction.
The latest Kimberley and Vryburg re-
ports were brought to Orange river by q
dispatch rider who succeeded in getting
through the Boer forces.
FALSE STATEMENTS CORRECTED.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Times says he learns on the highest au-
thority that there is no truth In the state
ment being Observation-Disclosures with
seditious motives-that the imperial gov
ernment has decided to place small bodies
of troops in the various country districts.
Martial law, he says, has been proclaimed
at Mafeking Vryburg, Taungs, Herbert
and Barkley West.
Dispatches from Dundee say that ac-
cording to the report of refugees the Boer
Invaders of Natal are estimated at 10000.
All the -combatants and women and
children have been sent from Dundee.
The news that the Beers have arrived
at Dannhauser raised hopes that they
would risk an engagement in the open,
hut 1t is now ascertained that the detach'
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