The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-04
SITUATION Has
NO new FEATURES
No Change Of Any Importance in Trans
Vaal Matters.
AN APPEAL TO SALISBURY
N. Arnaud Would Have the Var
AYerted.
WHITE EXPECTS AN ULTIMATUM
Latest News from Johannesburg Says
That the Last Rush of Europeans
from the Town Has Occurred
Anxiety for Those Behind

London, October 3.-There are no new de-
velopments in the Transvaal situation. Ar
rangements for the dispatch of war stores
and men continue. A quantity of balloon
material has been sent to South Africa,
the war office considering that military
ballooning will prove of the greatest val lie
in the kind of warfare expected in South
Africa. The charterng of transports is
still going on. Five vessels of the Cunard
line are now engaged. One result of the
war scare Is an advance of one shilling to
eighteen pence in the price asked for the
wheat offered in the Lynn market today.
A telegram from Paris announces that
M. Arnaud, president of the international
Arbitration and Peace league, has sent an
appeal to Lord Salisbury entreating him
to choose a power to act with power cho-
sen by the Transvaal with the object Of
averting war.
Tr.es a Personal Appeal
Mr. Montague White, consul-general for
the South African republic in London, told
the Associated Press this morning that he
telegraphed President Kruger yesterday
urging him to make personal appeal o
Lord Salisbury, dwelling upon the iniquity
of the war, and proposing a scheme as
basis of further negotiations.
He said he was momentarily expecting
to hear that the Transvaal government
was sending an ultimatum to Great Britain
declaring the dispatch of troops a casus
belli, in which event he would be compelled
to close his offices. Mr.. White added a
curious statement to the effect that a rep
~. ,..tt t-tr,
of the Rand had called upon him this
morning and asserted that 1t was known
in capitalist circles that Lord Salisbury
had determined that there should not be
war, and had instructed the secretary of
state for the colonies, Mr.. Chamberlain to
wire to South Africa further assurances
with regard to the British desire to respect
the complete independence of the Trans
vaal. No confirmation of this is obtainable
in official circles.
The dispatches from South Africa are
largely a repetition of those of last week.
Advices from New Castle, Natal report
that telegraph communication is interrupt
ed beyond Charlestown where the stores
have been looted by the natives since the
departure of the whites
Stories of the movements of Beers and
British and of the hurried muster and dis
patch of troops on both sides have come
from other points. telegram from Lady
Smith, Natal, says that the Orange Free
State troops have occupied and closed
Bothas-Pass, on the Free State border,
and that Commandant Allerich, chief of
the Free State artillery, is proceeding in
the direction of Kimberly with consider
able force of artillery. Another force of
artillery under Commandant Boning has
gone to Harry Smith, while Commandant
Smith commands a force of artillery en-
route for Kroonstadt
Europeans Are Leaving
The latest news received from Johannes
the last rush of Europeans to leave the
town has occupied. They crowded the
trains like sardines, occupying every posi-
BILE, inch on the trucks. There is consid-
cradle anxiety with regard to the few who
remain behind as communication seems to
be cut off.
The mining commissioner stated officially
that the proclamation Of September 20. rel
ative to the protection Of miners had been
Withdrawn and he therefore advised all the
Britishers to leave as soon as possible.
The British steamer Lakoora now in the
transport service arrived last night at
Durbna Natal with field artillery, hos
pital corps and commissarat stores from
India. The troops were promptly dsem-
barked and sent by train up the country.
The Natal authorities have announced
that no more malls will be despatched to
the Transvaal until further notice. Last
Fridays mail was sent back from the
frontier.
A Bloemfontein dispatch says that the
Orange Free State government has ga
zetted an alien expulsion law and also a
law forbidding the export of grain, stock
and other necessaries without a permit.
Communicating is proceeding there at a
lively rate. According to dispatch from
Lourenza Marques, Portuguese East Africa,
a crowd Of Beers who were assembled at
the Marchdore station forced the refugee
passengers to uncover during the singing of
a Boer national air and severely mall
treated several Englishmen, stabbing one
and kicking and trampling upon others. 1t
is reported there were also two ladies' out
rageously assaulted at Paardokop station
by Beers, one being struck In the face by
a rifle showed through the railway carriage
window and the other struck by her as
sailant's fists.
Raad Adj0urns
special from Pretoria, dated Monday,
saws the meeting of the raad adjourned at
/ o'clock In the morning and that only a
legal quorum Of members was present.
a.. .1,<.,1
described war as unjust and unnecessary
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