The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-02
WAIT The ATTACK.
Expects Boer
Onslaught This
Week.
INTERESTED IN DEWEY.
Approaching Yacht Races
Fail to Arouse
Londoners.
BRITISH INTERESTED IN DEWEY.


Copyright, 1899. The Associated Press.)
London, Oct. /. War now seems
certain. The extraordinary delay of
the Beers in taking a hostile initiative,
as pointed out last week, is still a
pacific circumstance. But it has
doubtful significance when compared
with the genuine and far-reaching
preparations they are making for hos
tilities.
AS frequently mentioned in these dis
patches, the attitude of the British
government in always insisting upon
sovereign power, has practically under.
gone no change throughout the entire
negotiations. Every stage has depend
ed upon President Kruger. If he would
not back down when the British de-
mands were less sweepingly expressed,
he can scarcely do so now, when they
are formulated with almost brutal
frankness. The negotiations, according
to President Kruger's own statements,
and judging from all the available in
inl0gsse.
Rumors of the interference of for
eign power continue to crop up, but the
most sanguine scarcely believe this
would turn the British from their deter
mination, evident from the first, to at
tempt to compel President Kruger to
submit absolutely to their terms,
awkward complications which might
ensue by German or Russian diversion
in various parts of the globe. Bereft
of the countless confusing phases due
to secrecy regarding the intentions of
the governments involved policy and
the contradictory reports from the
troubled territory, the most probable
solution of the present situation seems
this:
The Beers, who must have plainly
seen the efforts of the British govern
ment to avert hostilities until the ar
rival of reinforcements, having weeks
ago planned a campaign, will put it in
action, perhaps as early as this week
They will probably avoid engagements,
devoting their energies to the destruc-
ton OF property and the capture of
prisoners, perhaps including a raid on
Delagoa Bay. 1t seems unlikely that
they will attack via Laing's Mex and
other passes of that boundary, for the
simple reason that these points are so
openly talked about as their probable
points of aggression, keeneSt observers
believing it to be more likely that
the Beers will operate through Zulu
land, thus creating a diversion Of the
l5,OU0 British troops, now chiefly massed
at Ladysmith or in its neighborhood.
In the meanwhile, or, perhaps, pre-
vious to this, a British army corps con-
sisting of 10000 men or more will be
sent out. Parliament will be summoned
and no doubt the necessary supplies
will be granted, though there win be
some hot debating
Regarding the plans of camp ign of
the respective armies. there is no reli-
able Information, though it is the gen
eral assumption that the main object
of the British will be the capture oc
Pretoria. The duration of the conflict
is matter of the widest surnise.
though the continental papers do nor
express the faintest doubt that it will
| result in the defeat of the Beers and
| the addition of their country to Great
Britain's colonies.
Were peace or war dependent merely
upon matters of suzerainty or the
franchise, there might be some hope
that hostilities may be averted at the
last moment But the Associated Press
learns that, apparently, there is truth
| in what the peace party papers have
| underlying motive accuating the British
government throughout the negotia-
lions mas been the suppression of what
they have reason to believe was q far
reaching conspiracy for establishment
| Of Dutch federation, from the Fan
best to the Cape. The authority for this
statement Is Mr.. Chamberlain himself.
| In conversation, so a representative of
| the Associated Press was reliably in
formed, the secretary of state for the
| colonies said that one great factor of
/ the situation which could not be
/ brought before the public, for fear that
the governments objects might be mis-
| interpreted, was the cabinets Wen-de-
| fined understanding that for months
a carefully fostered plot had been in
| progress to form a Dutch federation
He also referred to the action of the
| Orange Free State and to that of the
| AfrlkanGer members of the Cape legis-
lature, which somewhat confirms Nj,
Chan1berialn,s view, for it is impossible
! to believe that such important, steps
would result from mere spontaneity OF
sentiment on a current dispute.
The Speaker, a peace advocate, adj
| mtts. regretfully, that the war party
| is in the ascendant in Great Britain
and every London daily, except the
| Chronicle, supports Mr.. Chamberlain
| with every afternoon paper, except thu
/ Westminster Gazette, the Star and the
| Echo. Among the country papers, how.
yer, some of the most influential bit
! terly oppose war. Their feelings are
wen voiceo by the Speaker, saying
we seem fated to be plunged into q
war. for which the historian will br
unable to find adequate justification
or even q plausible excuse
Next to the Transvaal, Admiral
Dewey's reception at New York cap.
lures public interest. Long comments
! on the festivities continue to appear
The only discordant note is struck e,sSs as
usual, by the Saturday Review. which
ridicgles the victory and enthusiasm.
France after a period of intense ex.
element, seems quiescent; but SPAR
and Austria are in the throes Of a DOLL.
teal upheaval. The ecclesiastics ana
| mIlitarists threaten any new cabinet
which Spain may form, and the new
Austrian cabinet will probably base its
/ hopes of existence on a colorless policy
But, 1t is believed, it will have its hand;
full of trouble A curious rumor is cur.
rent that each member of the new min
istry had TO declare fidelity to the triple
alliance.
! The Westminster Gazette saws that
the Marquis Of Salisbury's appointment
OF Gerard Lowther as secretary of the
British embassy at Washington has
excited much resentment in diplomatic
circles, where it is warmly denounceG
as a tscandalous job" The paper adds
that the Lowthers have always beer
"uncommonly well looked after when.
ever the tories have baen in r,o,.,a,. /,