The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-10-02
FOR DEATH STRUGGLE.
Ominous Preparations in
South AFRICA.
Armed Beers Are Hoviag to the
Frontier.
Majuba Hill May Be
Storm Centre.
Report That War WIN Be De-
clarsd Tuesday.


London, octoLcr !. From all points
in the 1ransvaal, Natal ana Capa colony
come reports Of continued military aotiv-
ity ON this frantisrs; and whiie the move.
ment Of individual commands as zee do
not show concerted plans. 1t Is esidsnt
that the narrow wedRs-ilke strip OF
Natal whose apex Is crowned with the
onincus nains Of Maiuha Hiil, viii be
the center Of the coming storm. Late
yesterday the Beers established 9 camp
Ht Scheepsrs Neck. near VFyheid, and
they Will mnbilizs great force on the
Buffalo river tomorrow which the thor
tiles at Dnndes expect viii move a0rcss
the bordsr to that spot, probably at once
It.is Relieved that conflict at this point
viii certainly occur early in tho week
At the same time the / oers are collecting
q force Of two thousand men, under the
notorious commandant, Cronjs, In the
Mnimani gold fields near hafeking,
wnere Col. Baden Powell is stationed.
Dispatches from Tuli, Rhodesla, an
nounce that another force of burgbers is
massed at Petersburg, so miles south, aud
that outlying parties are posted at all the
drifts along the Limpopo river. In the
meantime Col Piummer's column is
moving ilfty miles nearer tha Transyaal
frontier aud has established telephone
connections to within six miles Of
Rhodesia Drift, one CT the Llmpopo.
POTOMAC OF THE WAR.
London, October Lit ia evident shat
the Bnffaio river, the northeastern hcan-
dary o. Natal, is to be the Potomac Of sne
var. In View Of It's strategic value ~s-
hun Joph r.. has takes s-r fEonaI esitn
paEd IF the boer forces there, esiaDssh-
ing strong line Of piokets along the
river and has ordered the natives to drive
iu oil the stock. All ths available
hurghers in the neighhorhood have been
requ isitioned with the result that some
| s,tC0 have modified at Wakkerstroom,
the chief point Of motllssation.
UNFAsINEss ON BORDER.
Mafeking, October I.-tsreat uneasiness
exists hsre ov er the massing Of the Beers
near the frontier At largely attended
moeting tOday Mr, Kiosle "a former May
or, and other sneakers complained that
the in nperisl authorities were negl otlnq
TO provide pr per protection for the in
hahitants. as this border is much more
exposed than the Natal border
WAR 10 BE DECLARED TUESDAY
London, October 2.--phe Berlin cor
respondent of the Daily News sars: Ac-
cording to advices from The Hague Or.
Leyds, the European representative of the
I'ransvaal has named tuesday as tho day
for a formal declaration of war by the
Beers. There is an unconfrmed rumor In
'r culatlon here thas Queen Victoria has
written Que Wilhelmina of the Neither
lands, deploring the turn events have
taken in South Africa and assuring tie
Dutch monarch that abe has gone TO the
u most limits OF her constitutional ri0hts
In her eudeavors TO secure peace
ENTHUSIASM AT STATIONS. S
London, October l.-Enthusiastic scenes
at all the railway stations have marked
the advance OF the Natal volunteers
Dispatches from Mafeking announce that
cosnmandsnt Gronjs. commander OF the
Iransvaal border police crossed the bor-
der and visited Chief Baralonga, appar-
entity with this object of inoiting him to
fight The British civil commissioner
ordered the ohiff to stay and Lrotsct the
women and children. telling him that
he would not be allowed to tight.
KIMBERLY THREAPENED.
Cape Town. October 2.-The Beers ars
reported to be threatening Kimberly
which. however, owing TO the presence
OF i'm perial volunteers and the usual
guards for the mines, is considered quite