Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-10
.U[NNA1UN 70 BRITAIN
The TraDsvaal Demands Withdrawal
Of British Troops From the
Republics Borders.
A Favorable Answer Must Be Forth
coming Tomorrow or Hostilities
Will Commence.
-Four Demands, Amounting to Dec
laration of War, Made-Peacs
Talk Abandoned.

Transvaal has sent an ultimatum te
Great Britain.
London, Oct. 10-Outside the momen.
tous news of an ultimatum, nothing ot
moment was received this morning
from the scene of action, except the an.
nouncement that the Beers have con.
structed forts commanding Laingsneck,
that guns have been mounted on Mount
Pogwane AMI Mount Prospect. The eff.
feet of the ultimatum upon the stock
exchange was steadying. The Kaffirs
are firmer in the belief that the mos,
gigantic gold industry in the world will
be incorporated in British colony as
the outcome of war.
The text of the Transyaal ultimat,,n
is understood to be on the way here
According to the latest advices the time
limit expires tomorrow afternoon at
O'Clock. when, if the demands of the
Beers are not complied with, further
landing or dispatch of troops will be
considered an act of war and hostilities
Will be commenced Immediately
1t is reported that at the coming ses-
sion of parliament a formal announce
ment will be made of the cession OF
Delagoa bay and the surrounding terri
tory by Portugal to Great Britain. The
price is said to be s4O,00O,OOO.
The Westminster Gazette says: eve
learn from a trustworthy source that
the British government has also dis
patched a note containing stringent de-
mands, which must have crossed the
Boer ultimatum. Diplomacy has thus
said the last word and the last word on
each side is of a kind to which the other
is not likely to yield.'
A news agency publishes the follow
ing from Pretoria. filed there at 7:40 D
m. yesterday.
AN urgent dispatch has just beer
handed Conyngham Greene, British
diplomatic agent, requesting explicit as
surances of the withdrawal within
forty y-eight hours of British troops from
the Transvaal borders, as we'll as the
withdrawal of all the British forces
landed in South Africa since the Bloem-
fontein conference
TRANsvAAL,s DEMAND.
Text of the Principal Demands Con-
tatned In the Ultimatum.
London, Oct. 10-The Transvaal ulti-
matum concludes with the following
demands:
First-That all points of mutual diff
ference be regulated by friendly re-
course to arbitration or by whatever
amicable way may be agreed on by this
government and her majesty's govern
ment.
Second-All troops on the border of
this republic shall be instantly with
drawn
Third-All reinforcements of troops
which have arrived in South Africa
since June /, 1899. shall be removed
from South Africa within a reasonable
time to be agreed on with this govern
ment; no attack upon or hostilities
against any portion of possessions of
the British government shall be made
by this republic during further negoti-
ations within a period of time to be
subsequently, agreed upon by the gov
ernments, and this government shall,
upon compliance Herewith, be prepared
to withdraw the armed burghers of this
republic from it's borders
Fourth-That her majesty's troops
which are now on the high seas shall
not be landed in any part of South At
rica.
To these demands is appended a time
limit for repply. as follows:
This government presses for an i'm
mediate affirmative answer to these
four questions and earnestly requests
her majesty's government to return an
answer before or on Wednesday, Oct.
18th, 1s9s not later than :. p. m.
1T desires further to add that, in the
event of an answer not sat
isfactory being received by it within
the interval. it will. with great regret,
be compelled to regard the action of her
government as formal dec
laration of war and will not hold itself
for the consequences there
of, and that in the event of any other
of troops receiving within
the above mentioned time in a nearer
direction to our borders. this govern
ment will be compelled to regard that
also as a formal declaration of war"
The following paragraph Immediate
ly precedes the four demands of the ul-
timatum:
Her majesty's unlawful intervention
in the internal affairs OF this republic.
in conflict with the London convention
Of 1884. by the extraordinary strength
ening Of her troops in the neighborhood
borders Of this republic. has caused an