The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-08-31

AMBUSCADES FOR THE BRITISH
Text of krueger's Counter Proposal
Is Under Consideration by
Secretary Chamberlain.

CAPE TOWN, August 23-The Ma
rapidly. Several hundred recruits
have arrived and been equipped here
and have joined Vivian's camp. Ev-
cry train is bringing fresh recruits 1t
is rumored that 800 Beers have formed
Lager on the border.
Although the cabled summary of the
counter proposals of the Transvaal
Government to Great Britain's propo-
sitiOn for a joint commission to inquire
as to what effect the reform franchise
measures would have on the Outland-
ers is probably incomplete, it un-
doubtedly gives the general lines ac-
curately.
PIETERMARITZBURG, Natal l,
South Africa, August 23.-In connec-
ton with the rumor that there are
many Beers who are British subjects
and outwardly sympathize with the
British while in reality they are secret
agents of President Kruger of the
Transvaal Republic, the Premier of
Natal declared last evening that it was
the intention of the Government to
take steps to detect and punish any
British subjects cooperating with the
enemies of the Queen.
1t is understood that much secret in
formation has been conveyed to Pres
ident Kruger, and that even ambus
cades have been prepared for the Brit
these secret agents.
A force of police has been ordered
to Colonso, owing to rumors of the in
tention of the Beers to destroy the
railroad bridge at that place.
BIRMINGHAM, Eng, August 23.-A
firm of this place has received an or
der for fourteen million Mauser> car
tridges for urgent delivery to South
Africa. Secrecy is being observed as
to the exact destination of the car
tridges, but it is said that the Beers
alone use Mauser rifles in that terri
tory.
CHICAGO, August 23.-"There can
be only one outcome to the war which
is, think, inevitable between England
and the Boer Government, and that is
complete victory for England and the
political ruin of Dom Paul." said Jas.
A. Robinson, a solicitor from Port
Elizabeth, South Africa and an ex-
member of the Cape Colony Parlia-
ment, at the Grand Pacific Hotel. He
continued:
president Krugers actions in the
recent negotiations with England, as
given in press dispatches since [ left
South Africa, are in perfect accord
with that which was expected there.
He will temporize as long as possible
to delay war and then, it is generally
supposed, will pursue deSultory tactics
in the hope that either some foreign
power or the Liberal party in England
will come to his rescue. AS the for
mer is out of the question, he is prob
ably hoping for interference by the
Liberals, which was all that saved him
in 1880. when Gladstone's influence
stopped hostilities.
t'Since the matter has come to a
crisis Dom Paul may make some con-
cessions in the matter of franchises for
Uitlanders, but it is not probable that
he will give in where the financial in
terests of the Dutch ring are at stake.
He will probably fight rather than al
low the Dutch dynamite and other mo-
nopolies to be broken up. But wheth-
er there is war or not, there is only
one thing which can save Kruger his
prestige, and that is weakening on the
part of England. That is most un-
likely. If there is war he is certain
to be crushed. If there is no war, ow-