The record-union., 1899-09-23
Kruger Says Things Are Serious
and viii Become GraVer.
But That a Peaceful Settlement Of the
Trouble VIII be Attained.
Large Numbers of Danes, Germans,
Frenchmen, Ho11anders and
Americans at Pretoria Offered
Their Services to the Boer Com

Their Services to the Boer Com
mander in Case of HostiIities.
CAPE TOWN, Sept. 22.-Writing to
an intimate friend here, President kru-
ger said: Things are serious, and will
become graver, but a peaceful settle
ment will be attained
In the Cape House of the Assembly
to-day, discussing the question of vol
unteers, w P. Schreiner, athe Premier,
said he hoped some day to see a force
established. The English and the Dutch
will unite for the defense of the Colony,
and render it independent of imperial
troops.
The Berkshire Battalion, it is report
ed, will be moved tomorrow from Kin g
Williamtown to the Orange Free State
border, apparently in response to Presi-
dent Steyn's speech at the opening of
the Raad yesterday.
THE RAAD WILL ASSIST THE
TRANSVAAL.
LONDON, Sept. 23.-The Cape Town
correspondent Of the DAILY Chronicle"
says:
I have the best of authority for the
statement that the Orange Free State
Raad has unanimously resolved to as
sist the Transvaal against British ag-
gression.'
FOREIGNERS OFFER THEIR SER
VICES TO TRANSVAAL.
PRETORIA, Sept. 22.-The Executive
Council sat until o'clock yesterday
vening. A telegram containing Presi-
dent Steyn's reply to Sir Alfred Miner.
the British High Commissioner, was
loudly cheered. A large order for
Free State The field comets say that
in the event of mobilization 1000 men
will be available at Pretoria alone.
President Kruger has been in tele-
graphic conference with President
Steyn this afternoon regarding the sit
uation, and the decision of the Raad
of the Orange Free State is awaited
with much interest.
Large numbers of local Danes, Ger
mans, Frenchmen, Hollanders and
Americans have offered their services
to General Joubert in the event of hos
tiIifYas ssssss
The elder burghers still fail to see
the grounds of a casus belli, but if Mr..
Chamberlain makes what they would
characterize as "humiliating demands,
such as, for instance, disarmament,
war would be inevitable.
A green book has been issued con-
tanning the report of State Attorney
SmutS to the Government on the pour
parleurs between himself and the Brit
ish diplomatic agent, Conyngham
Greene, leading to the conditional five
years franchise proposal.
Mr.. SHUTS asserts that the proposal
was the result of a private discussion
and an arrangement that both govern
ments should informally decide about
the offer and it's acceptance before the
offer should be formally submitted. He
also contends that the exact draft OF
the offer was wired to the British High
Commissioner, Sir Alfred Miner, and
that the Imperial Government sent a
dispatch to Mr.. Greene, which the lat
ter interpreted as an acceptance of the
offer.
Mr.. Smuts says that had the Trans
yaal known any difficulty would be
made about suzerainty, his Govern
ment would never have made the pro-
| posals, but would have probably inn
mediately accepted the invitation TO q
Joint commission of inquiry regarding
the seven-year proposal.
He also denies that he promised MI.
! Greene that the new members of tbs
Raad would be allowed to speak Eng
isb. All he said on this subject, he
! declares. was that the matter WOULD
! easily settle itself, and he shows that
| in the telegram to- Sir Alfred Miner
no mention was made of this subject
The Government denies that State
| Attorney Smuts has Informed Coyng-
| ham Greene that further British mobil
| ization will be regarded as an unfriend-
| ly act
| + w. Reitz, the State Secretary, says
| that when martial law is proclaimed
| il will apply to the whole country.
/ Mr.. Reitz has replied to an applica'
| ton made by certain Uitlanders to re
main at johannesburg in the event o.
war that all who desire may do so.
| Commander General Joubert, reply
! ing to numerous requests on the par
| of journalists for permission to accom-
pany the commanders, said that tht
applications were premature.
MEETING OF BRITISH CABINET
! LONDON, Sept. pa Cabinet coun-
ell was held to-day, beginning at l2:3e
! n. m. A large crowd assembled about
/ Downing street early in the day. The
Cabinet Ministers were loudly cheered
the Secretary of State for the Colonies
| Mr.. Chamberlain, receiving the lions
share of the applause.
Previous TO the meeting of the Cab
| met. Baron Rothschild visited the
First Lord of the Treasury, Mr.. Bal
four. The circumstance is unusual ant
is said TO be in connection with the
money difficulties the Government Ii
encountering regarding the prospective
military campaign.
When the Cabinet went into session
no new DEVELOPMENTS in the Trans
| vaal situation had transpired. The
| dispatches from the Cape continued Of
a. warlike tone and voiced the indig.
nation of the British contingent agains
the Orange Free State and Afrikandel
/ attitudes
The Cabinet meeting ended at 2:4t
D. m. The Ministers were cheered a.
they came out of the Foreign Office
Nothing transpired regarding the ac
ton taken, though the general impres
sion spread that a vigorous line hat