The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-22

staff have sailed for the Cape
The cost of transp pOrtation to South
Africa is estimated at 100000 pounds
BOER RAID EXPECTED
London. Sept. CIV hen the cabinet
went into session today no new de-
VelOpmentS in the TranSVaal situation
had transpired. The dispatches from
the Cape continued of a warlike tone
and voiced the indignation of the Brit
ish contingent against the Orange Free
State and Afrikander attitudes.
The impression current here though
not based on anything tangible was
that publicly the cabinet would only
take steps tending TO protect the ne
gotiations. While secretly it would pre-
pare the details of an aggressive cam
paign, perhaps deciding 10 conVOke
parliament, though il was scarcely be
lieVed the latter determination would
be announced Immediately.
News from South Africa is eagerly
awaited, many think the cabinet
council will be Immediately followed by
a Boer raid.
The cabinet meeting ended at 2:4O
y. m The ministers were cheered as
they came out of the foreign Office.
Nothing tranSpired regarding the ac-
tion taken though the general impress
sion spread that a vigorous line had
been adopted.
The secretary of state for war. the
Marquis of Lansdowne and the first
lord Of the admiralty, Mr.. George J.
Goschen Immediately proceeded TO the
war office.
Pretoria, Sept 22-The executive
council sat until . o'clock yesterday
evening. A telegram containing Presi-
dent Steyns reply to Sir Alfred Miner,
the British high commissioner in South
Africa, was loudly cheered. A large or
der for horses has been given in the
Orange Free State.
The field cornets say that i'll the
event of mobilization four thousand
men viii be available at Pretoria alone
1t IS reported that an experiment at
Zuurfontein with a locally manufac-
tured dynamite gun. resulted in the gun
bursting though no one was injured.
BOYS DRAFTED.
Durham. Natal Sept. 22.-Refugees
from Barberton complain bitterly of
the arrogance of the field comets
They say British boys of fifteen wears
are placed on the lists of the command
erS
TRANSVAAL WILL SHOOT FIRST.
London. Sept 22.-The Pail Mall GA
zette this afternoon published a dis
patch from Cape Town which saws it is
stated the Beers have given a guaran-
tee 10 their sympathizers in the Orange
tree state and Cape Colony that the
Transvaal will be the first TO make wg1,
GERMANY HAS SOMETHING TO
SAY
London, Sept. 22.-Immediately after
the cabinet council today the German
ambassador, Count Won Hatzfeldt-
Wildenburg, visited the premier Lold
Salisbury, and had a long conference
q
Immediately followed the previous cab
met council leads some persons TO ar
tach significance to il and to infer that
Emperor William of Germany is taking
an active part in Transvaal affairs The
oflclaI German press. however, has been
so outSpOken in telling President kru-
ger that he must not expect German
aid that il is scarcely possible to at
tach credence to that inference. Tt is
much more probable that the question
OF DelagOa Bay was discussed If the dis
patch printed today by the Pioneer of
7Aliahabad, saving negotiations had
been concluded by Great Britain for
taking possession OF DelagOa Bay No
Nember I. is correct
Many rumOrS are current regarding
the result of the cabinet council. all
processing to be based on good sources
But these are vague and contradictory
one news agency announces that i'm
mediate and decisive action has not
been decided upon.
Later in the day various 1lD1ors We're
still current regarding the cabinet
meeting but the following which the
Pail Mall Gazette publishes, is believed
to be correct:
The comparatively short duration
of the council warrants the conclusion
that nothing of supreme Importance
was decided at it and such We believe
10 be the fact
Information in our possession is TO
the effect that it was an interim cabinet
summoned to consider an interim dis
patch II Is believed that this paper,
which met with the unanimous aDprov-
al Of Mr.. Chamberlain's colleagues Will
be published as soon as received by the
Boer government on Monday or at the
latest on Tuesday,
According to the Pail Mall Gazette
the dispatch opens with an expression
of regret at the unfavorable character
OF secretary Reitz's last reply and pro-
ceeds with very firm insistence upon
a he population of the claim of the
-Transvaal of the status of i sovereign
state. once more pointing OUT British
readiness to settle at once the nature
OF the proposed arbitration tribunal.
provided the other British conditions
are promptly and unreservedIy accept
ed. and concluding with the fntimation
that the imperial government is now
engaged in drawing up its own terms
and that the TransVaal may expect to
hear from there very shortly.
The Pail Mall Gazette says that an
other meeting of the cabinet viii take
place next Thursday or Friday when
the issues viii be presented in more