Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-21
COUNCIL 70 DISCUSS WAR.
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\ force ordered to Africa too small Tor the
! emergency 1t will not exceed 10000
/ men, exclusive of the.local levies and
mounted police, when' the last battal-
! ions are on shore. 1t is probable that
a brigade of guards and reinforcements
I to the extent of 10000 men will be sent
4 out at an early day. but that there will
/ be no fighting before the end of Octo-
1 Der unless Kruger orders an advance
| upon Laings Mex.
/ NEW YORK, September 20.-The
! Holland Society will be the nucleus
1 around which the sentiment of the citi-
zens of New York for the Boer republic
will gather at public meeting, which
will be held in all probability after the
Dewey observances. Secretary Banta,
of the societies, said: "Our sympathies
Mare with the Beers. Judge Van Hoe
\ sen, one of'our leading members, is out
/ spoken for them. l received few days
| ago a,cablegram from the general Dutch
alliance of Dordrecht, Holland, to this
effect: We would immensely appreci
ate\a public meeting in New York with
acknowledgement of the support of the
Just cause of the Beers. !"
TORONTO, Ont, September 20.-Col.
HughesS OF Lindsay, has undertaken to
raise a regimen of Canadians for SER
vice in the Transvaal, should war break
out. The Twelfth York Rangers, rails
ed in the neighborhood of Toronto,
have asked to be sent to South Africa
LONDON, September 20.-Despite all
outward show ,of calm, Great Britain
is in practically the same condition to-
day as was the United States a few
weeks before the opening of the war
with Spain Beneath the crust of diplo-
matte reserve, the military officials are
working night and day preparing for
the signal to begin hostilities, whether
that comes or not
England is not going to be caught
mapping any more than theaTransvaal.
While Lord Salisbury is quietly at
home in Hatfield House, Mr.. Chamber
lain is buried in work al the colonial
office, and double forces at the royal
arsenal and dock yards are straining
every nerve to equip and transport
troops to the Cape.
1t may be set down for certain that
Great Britain will do nothing to pre-
cipitate matters, and the colonial Office
is far from admitting that the case is
hopeless. The report that Great Brit
ain demanded the dismantkement of the
forts at Johannesburg. together with a
material reduction in the armament of
the burghers, the colonial office to-day
would neither confirm nor deny, al
though it is much doubted.
Meanwhile the Marquis of Lans
downe, Secretary of State for War, who
returned this morning from Dublin,
has held long conferences with General
Lord Garnet Wolsely. field marshal,
and Gen. Sir Evelyn Wood, adjutant
general to the forces, and the activity
at headquarters is reflected in the con-
tract, supply and transport depart
ments
The departure of the British trans
port Jelunga for the Mediterranean to-
day with LOO troops was witnessed by
large and enthusiastic crowd. At
Woolwich activity increases daily, es-
pecially in the ordnance department,
where maxim guns, Lyddite shells, bal
loon equipments, gas reservoirs, wag-
ons for lime-light apparatus, water
carts, ambulances, army wagons and
other paraphernalia of modern warfare
are being hurried forward.
While rumors of the reassembling OF
parliament are current, the fact is re-
called that in the Afghan war in 1878.
Great Britain declared war first and
then assembled parliament.
This evening the Marquis of Lans-
downe issued a strict order to the staff
OF the war Office, warning all subordi-
mates to refrain from giving the press
any information without the authority
of their sllperiors and calling attention
| to previous breaches of duty in this
I respect, which the order says. will
be no longer tolerated"
| Adviees from Cape Town this after
noon are to the effect that the Afrikan-
! ders declare that the Transvaal will
not yield further, and that if the i'm
/ perial government does not recede from
Its present position war is inevitable.
The South African News supports the
| contention of the Transvaal that the
convention of 1884 abolished the suzer-
ainty.
According to other advices the burg
ers are rapidly going into Lager, while
the exodus from johannesburg yester-
day reached 1000 persons. The stock
| exchange at johannesburg has resolved
| to close the moment martial law is pro-
claimed, but all current contracts will
be carried ont until the proclamation
suspending all business In the mean
time the merchants are erecting barri-
| cades in front of their shop windows
! At Pretoria the interest seems 70 be