The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-08-13
The Transvaa| Yet Likely to Cause
Much Trouble.
The Trouble Will Probably Be Brought to
an Issue Very Soon.
Kruger Must Submit to Great
Britain's Demands OF Accept the
Consequences-The British Min
istry Determined to Force the
Issue to Success.

copyrighted, 1899, by Associated Press)
LONDON, August Pit is but a
short step from the momentous refer
ence to the Transvaal in the Queens
speech at the propagation of parliament
and the final statement in the House OF
Commons of the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, Joseph chamberlain, the
last Governmental utterance of the SEES
sion, to a declaration of war; ana II
cannot now be long before the issue is
known.
When a united Cabinet, speaking
through the mouth of the sovereign, de-
clares that the position of the Queens
subjects in the South African republic
lis inconsistent with the promise OF
equal treatment wherein my grant or
internal independence to that republic
was founded, and the unrest caused
thereby is a constant source of danger
to the peace and prosperity of my do
minions in South Africa" it needs no
soothsayer to explain that the Ministers
therein explicitly declared that the
Transvaal must submit to the demands
made in the Queens name or accept
the consequences. 1t is impossible TO
accept the suggestion of Mlchaei
Davitt and T. P. O'Connor, Irish Ma
tionalist members of Parliament, and
others, that the Ministers are merely
conducting a great game of bluff and 1t
may be taken for granted that, falling
the acquiescence of President Kruger
to the British demands, they mean to
compel acquiescence at the point OF
the sword.
A high official of the Colonial office,
speaking to a representative of the AS
ISOLATED Press said: Surely the Amer
leans realize that their sympathies and
interests are with Great Britain over
the Boer question. There are large
numbers among the Uitlanders, and it
is to their interest as well as to the
Britishers that these reforms should
be carried out The case of John Hays
Hammond (the American engineer who
was imprisoned in the TransvaaD ought
to have brought the situation home TO
the Americans"
The engagement of Lady Randolph
Churchill to young Lieutenant L. G. M.
Cornwallis-W brother of the Prin-
cess of Pless, is meeting with the most
violent opposition. The Marlborough
family is quite furious at her, While
Lieutenant Vests family is
denying the engagement everywhere,
and has cut Lady Randolph Churchill
dead All influence is being brought to
bear in the matter.
The Prince of Wales even went to see
the Corvallis Vests, especially to talk
it over and he also spoke to Lady Ran
dolph Churchill on the subject. But,
nevertheless, the engagement has not
yet been broken off.
A letter received here from ST. Peters
burg discloses the fact that the Grand
Duke George, who died suddenly at
Abass Liam, in the Caucasus, July 10th,
had four sons by a Morganatic mar
riage with woman who had been eni-
ployed as telegraph clerk, though she
was the descendant of a royal Caucas-
sian family According to the letter,
Car Alexander Ill. father of the
Grand Duke George, hearing of the
marriage, said: "One must not deny
dying man anything"
Even then it was thought the disease
from which the Czarowitch was suffer
ing was incurable. In conclusion, the
letter says that possibly the Car will
make his Morganatic nephews Counts.
Rudyard Kipling has taken his family
to Scotland. His residence overlooks
Andrew Carnegies estate at Skibo, so
Kipling will secure a desired seclu-
sion.
Commenting on the visit of President
Roca of the Argentine Republic to Bra
iii as an event of quite peculiar signi-
ficance. the Saturday Review" with
it's customary anti-American view, does
not see anything improbable in the sug-
gestion that an anti-North American
alliance is contemplated. 1t says the
United States has absorbed Cuba and
Porto Rico, is hungering for Santo Do
mingo and hopes shortly to see the
English excluded from the Orinoco and
their own client, Venezuela, at Barlma
Point; Nicaragua is threatened and
there is every ground for the larger
South American States to be fore
armed The Americans, though they
pose as the protectors, are far from
popular among their Latin proteges.
and they have not yet in any sense alb
sorbed the Texans.
The Genoese papers announce that
Spain has signed contracts with sew
eral Italian shipbuilders to reconstruct
a powerful fleet for her.