The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-02
WAR is CERTAIN.
President Kruger Himself
Has Said So.

London, Sept. 2-The Pretoria CORE
spondent of the Morning Post says:
President Kruger told a prominent
Boer yesterday that war was practical
~ certain. Every Boer IS armed with
a Mauser and has a hundred rounds
for practice.
I am convinced that the reports of
the Boer not being prepared are only
a pretense and that they will strike a
blow when it is least expected
JOHANNESBURG GETTING READY
Johannesburg, Sept. 2-The town is
preparing for the eventualities of war.
The inmates of the children's home are
going to Natal. The town council IS
providing a three months supply of
food for the men and animals connect
ed with the scavenger department
All the outgoing trains are crowded
and most of the prominent men have
already left Johannesburg.
GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC.
London, Sept. 2.-The secretary of
state for the colonies, Joseph Chamber
lain, has issued the text OF the Trans
wall dispatches of August 10 and Au-
gust q and of the reply of the imperial
government on August %. The pub
LEGATION is accompanied by a note en-
phasizing the ACCESSIBILITY of making
the correct version known, owing to the
fact that an incorrect version has been
published in Pretoria
contains the proposals regarding the
franchise, which go upon the assump-
ton that Great Britain will agree that
the present Intervention does not con-
stitute a precedent and will allow the
Suzerainty question to drop.
The dispatch of August q makes the
proposed concessions expressly cOndi-
tional upon Great Britain undertaking
not to interfere in the future affairs of
the Transvaal, not to insist upon a fur
Their assertion of the existence of SUI
erainty, and to agree to arbitration.
The reply of the imperial government,
dated August q, declares that Great
Britain considers that the proposals put
forward as alternative to those of July
81, assume the adoption in principle of
a franchise which will not be hamper
ed by conditions impairing its useful
ness and which will secure immediate
representation.
With respect to Intervention, the i'm
perial note gays that the government
can not debar themselves from their
rights under the conventions, or divest
themselves of the obligations of civ
ilized power to protect its subjects
abroad from injustice.
The note concludes by reminding the
TransVaal that other matters exist
which the grant of a political franchise
will not settle and which are not the
proper subjects of arbitration. These,
the note declares, it will be necessary
to settle cOncurrently with the ques-
lions already under discussion and
they will form, with the question of ar
bitratiOn, proper subjects for the pro-
posed Cape Town conference.
The Pretoria version of the imperial
reply was that Mr.. Chamberlain was
unable to consider the TransvaaPs pro-
posaIs as an alternative to a Joint com
mission of inquiry.
The Johannesburg correspondent of
the Standard says:
1t is generally understood that there
is the strongest inclination in the
VOlksraad to repudiate British suzer-
ainty. A large section Of the Beers is
strongly opposed to a concession of the
franchise on the basis of a five year
residence and their position is still very
grave.