The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-12

since Kruger has justified English re-
sistance to a secession movement with
in the empire. The English conscience
is no longer disturbed by any misgiv-
1ngs respecting the justice and neces-
Sity of war. President Kruger by a
single bad stroke has convinced every
body except Mr.. Stead that the Eng
uSh nave a righteous cause. The great
est English battle for the empire since
Waterloo is coming on and with $4,000
regulars in South Africa victory will be
certain.
A well known South African said that
while President Kruger was getting old
he never had allowed anybody to die
tate policies to him and that it was q.
mistake to assume that he had been
rushed by young and restless burghers.
CENSORSHIP ESTABLISHED.
New York, Oct. 1.-THE Commercial
Gable company has issued the following
notice:
I'VE are advised that the Natal ad-
minfstration announces that a military
censorship has been established over
messages to and from Natal. kilograms
in code will not be accepted without
the production of the code for veriflca-
KRUGER's TO AMERICA.
Chicago. Oct. 1.-THE following ca
blegram was received last night by the
Chicago Tribune from President Kru-
ger of the Transvaa1 republic.
The cablegram was sent in answer to
a message from the Tribune requesting
Transvaal in the present crisis. In the
cablegram follows small words have
been filled in, in order to make smooth
er reading:
Pretoria, Oct. II, 1899.
Tribune, Chicago:
Through the Tribune we wish to
thank our many American friends for
sympathy in the present crisis, of the
republic. Last Monday we gave Eng
land 48 hours notice within which to
give assurance that the dispute will be
settled by arbitration or other peaceful
means. The notice expires at today.
The British agent is recalled and war is
certain. This is the fitting end of the
British policy of force and fraud which
has marked all South Africa with the
blood of Afrikanders. We must now
make South Africa free or the white
mans grave. The republics forces in
clude all nationalities, among them
strong American corps, showing it is
not a case of BOer against Uttlander,
but all nations against the English. We
have full faith in freedom and repub-
1icanism, in the righteousness which
guides the destinies of nations.
PRESIDENT KRUGER.
An answer of ten words from the Tr1-
bune to President Kruger giving the
time of the receipt of the message in
Chicago was prepaid-the people in
Pretoria being evidently somewhat ap-
prehensive that the message might not
get through.
BRITISH ADVANCE.
London, Oct. ia dispatch from
Mafeking under today's date says that
Col. Baden-POwen has just sent
strong British force from Mafeking
toward the border, with field gun and
ambulances, presumably with view of
occupying advantageous defensive high
ground.
FRANCE IS NOTIFIED.
Paris, Oct. 12.-Secretary Cander-
hooven of the TransvaaI European
agency officially notified the French
government this morning that a state
of war between the South African re-
public and Great Britain exists and has
exitsed since last evening.
GREEN'S F'AREWE TO KRUGER.
Cape Town, Oct. 12.-News has been
received here that the British diplomat
agent in the Transvaal, Mr.. COnying-
ham Green, paid his formal farewell
visits to President Kruger and the high
boer officials at Pretoria last evening.
BRITISH REINFORCEMENT
Durham, Oct. 12.-The Imperial re-
serve in Natal have been called out.
Everybody has left Charlestown, the
last train bringing away the railway
from Newcastle also continues. The
Fifth Dragons arrived this morning
from India, landed Immediately and at
once proceeded to the front.
TO BLOW UP A BRIDGE.
Lorenzo, Marquese, Oct 12-Informa-
tion has reached here that the Beers
have mined three piers of the bridge at
Kamiti Port on the Kamiti river.
London, Oct. 12.-As a, pendant to his
dispatch to America, President Kruger
has cabled the Transvaal European
agent as follows from Pretoria under
date of October Il:
please convey the heartfelt thanks
of the government of the South Afri-
can republic to their friends in England
for the courageous way in which they
have defended the cause ofright What
ever the outcome may be the two re-
publics will always gratefully bear in
mind the assistance and support shown
them in these critical days"
HELP FOR BOERS.
London, Oct. 12.-AccOrdirg to a dis
patch from Cape Town, it is asserted
there that the Beers have arranged
with Chief Linch-We, a prominent chief
of the northwestern border, to take up
arms against Great Britain.
BURGHERS ENTER CAPE COLONY,
London, Oct. 12.-The Free State
burghers, according to a private mes
sage just received in the city of Lon
don, have crossed the Orange river into
Cape Colony and have occupied Phil
ipstown. Their object, it is supposed,
is to cut the railway at De Aar Juno
tion, which is considered an important
strategic point.
BRITISH ARE PLEASED.
London, Oct. 1.-THE afternoon pa
perS express great satisfaction that the
American government has undertaken
to protect British interests in the
Transvaal. They say the Americans
are certain to show the same tact and
devotion in dischargine the resDOnsibiI-
ity which aroused the enthusiasm of
''our kin beyond the sea- when the
British undertook a similar task in
their behalf.
A dispatch from Durham says the ar
rangements for forming an Outlander
corps have been completed
Valentine CHOSEN.