The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-10-17
THE FREE STATE ACTIVE
President Steyn's Soldiers Threaten
0olesberg and Aliwal North.
CAPE ooLoNY's DUTCH FARMERS.


Among Them, IL Is Not Believed
They VIII Engage In an UPRISING
Cape Colony Volunteers Called out.
London, Oct. 7.-Dispatches from
the Cape are very meager. but they |
include an important message from |
the Glencoe camp, dated 3;35 yesterday
afternoon, announcing that the Boer
commanders which invaded Natal
through Laings Mex and after occupy
ing Newcastle advanced to oPannhauser
retired on Ingagans Sunday evening,
their transport service being reported
defective This will delay indefinitely
the anticipated and hoped for assault
on the strong British position at Glen
cos.
Another dispatch reports activity on
the part Of the Free State commands,
in the neighborhood of Aliwal North,
on the southern frontier. The Beers
advance patrol, the dispatch says, go
to the frontier bridge nightly to keep
watch, firing shots at intervals as sig
nails 1t is believed the enemy in
tends shortly to try to rush the rail-
way station, with the help of artillery
posted on a ridge commanding the
town.
There are rumors that the Beers
have been repulsed at Mafeking and
are attacking Vryburg.
A Cape Town paper has a dispatch
from the Orange river stating that the
telegraph wires have been cut between
Vryburg and Kimberley, and it Is be-
lieved that the Beers are taking ad-
vantage OF the presence of large
,f 20 0k
burg celebrating nachtmaal to attack
the town, hoping that the farmers will
assist them against the British.
The same dispatch says that the
British force at Kimberley is confident
of it's ability to hold out. but urges
the immediate dispatch of a relief
force.
This question of a possible rising of
the Dutch farmers in the northern por-
tions of Cape Colony is very import
ant. The Daily Mails correspondent
at Coesburg has been inquiring re-
garding the matter, and on the whole
thinks the chances are against a ris-
ing. He bases his opinion on the pros
pect of good crops after four lean
years, which he believes will predis-
pose the farmers to peace Neverthe-
much anti-British agitation in these
districts, while the Free State Beers
threaten an immediate invasion of
! Colesberg and Aliwal North.
The Daily Mails correspondent as
serts that Sir Alfred Miner is worked
to death and that Cape Town Is surg
| ing with bitter resentment at what is
called the Schreiner cabinets betrayal
| ne Ixri re cfan MT IN
send a volunteer force to it's relief.
Many residents of Cape Town have
relatives at Vryburg, and they are fu-
rious with Messrs. Merriam and Sauer
respectively colonial treasurer and
commissioner of public works, and the
ministers are mobbed whenever they
appear in public. Mr.. Hoffmeyr, the
Afrikander leader. has gone to the
| country in order to escape the out
bursts of indignation.
On Sunday night the streets were
filled with angry citizens, and 1t was
feared that rioting would occur. This
combined with the pressure of the i'm
perial government, brought the
Schreiner government to a sense OF
its peril as well as of its duty and
moved it to decide to call out the vol
| uul6SIS. H6 Lulul5lSlldl party tlSO
worked its hardest to prevent the ova
| tion to Conyngham Greene on his ar
rival from Pretoria, but failed.
The Natal invasion was made In
three columns at dawn ON Oct IL
through Bothas Pass, Laing's Mex and
from Wakkerstroom, the objective
point of the invaders being Newcastle
The Beers utilized several thousand
natives who were tramping from the
rand to drive their heavy guns VI
Laing's Mex
Precautions are being taken for the
defense of Pietermaritzburg and Dur
ban, in the remote contingency that
the enemy may elude the vigilance oi
the British at the Ladysmith ant
Glencoe camps.
A dispatch from the latter place says
that the partial closing down of the
Natal coal mines will not interrupt
the supplies for the imperial trans
ports at Durham, as was imagined by
the Beers, large quantities of coal be.
ing already on the water from India
Regular shipments will arrive from
India until the Natal mines open again