The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1899-09-29
GEN. JOUBERT'S
GREAT FORCE.
Boer Commander Counting on
$4,000 Men.
NO EUROPEAN INTERVENTION.
The Representative of the South African
Republic Convinced of the Hopeless
ness of Such Help-Late Note of Cham
berlsin to President Kruger.

CAPE Town, Sept. 26.--It is reported
from Pretoria that Commandant Cen
eral Piet Joubert reckons on $4,000
Transvaal troops, 10000 from the
Orange Free State, 5000 from Cape
Colony, 1000 from Natal and 5000 Hol-
lander, German and other volunteers.
LONDON, Sept. 26.-The Brussels cor
respondent of The Standard says that
DIR. Leyds, European representative of
the South African republic, now recog
nizes the hopelessness Of any attempt to
obtain European Intervention.
LONDON, Sept. 26.-The officials of
the foreign office gave out the text of
the letter of the secretary of state for
the colonies, Mr.. Chamberlain, to the
British high commissioner In South
Africa, Sir Alfred Miner, dated Sept.
%. The British reply expresses regret
that her majesty's offer, No. 5, of
Sept. 8 had been refused and said:
"The object her majesty's government
had in view in the recent negotiations
has been stated in a manner which can
not admit of misapprehension, viz, to
obtain such substantial and immediate
representation for the Outlanders as
will enable them to secure for them
selves that fair and just treatment
which was formally promised them in
1881 and which her majesty intended to
secure for them when she granted privi-
leges of self-government to the Trans.
vaal. No conditions less comprehensive
than those contained in the telegram of
Sept. can be relied ON to effect this OBJ
ject.
"The refusal OF the South African
government to entertain the offer thus
made, coming as it does after four
months of protracted negotiation !,
themselves the climax of five years of
extended agitation, makes it useless to
further pursue the discussion on the
lines hitherto followed, and the inn
perial government is now compelled to
consider the situation afresh and formu-
late new proposals for final settle.
ment of the issues which have been Gre
ated in South Africa by the policy con.
stantly followed for many years by the
government of South Africa. They will
communicate the result of their deliber.
ations in later dispatch"
The imperial government takes up
| the charge OF breach of faith insinuated
W Secretary OF Stats Reitz, Sept. l6,
(which we Cannot pass over in silence"
| Mr.. Chamberlain refutes this charge.
At another point the communication
said:
1.-The imperial government sees no
ground for misapprehension on the
| part of the South African republic as
| to It's answer regarding non-interfer
ence and suzeralnty, as the imperial
government had already stated that it
would not press for the appointment Of
| JOINT commission of inquiry, i'll view
| of the fact that such an inquiry would,
in the opinion of the government OF
the South African republic, prejudice
the right Of independence repeatedly
recognized by the imperial government
LAS to the use of the English Ian
| guage in the volksraad, the imperial
| government regards this as reasonable
and is astonished that the government
OF the South African republic should
deem it unnecessary and make a point
of denying that the government OF the
South African republic ever proposed
the same to the British agent"
| DURHAM, Natal, Sept. 26.-Seven hun
dred and fifty men of the Leicestershire
regiment, 750 of the Royal Dublin fusil-
iers, 200 mounted infantry and the
| Eighteenth huzzars arrived at Dundee
from Ladysmith.
| JOHANNESBURG, Sept. 26.-Von Welt
helm, the former trooper in the Cape
police, who shot and killed Woolf Joel,
| nephew, partner and executor of the
| late Barney Barnato, in Johannesburg
in March of last year, after failing in an
attempt to blackmail, has been arrested
while crossing the frontier.
| 1t is said that he was returning with
the object Of giving the government in
formation.