Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-08

meet on October IL and authorizing the
calling out of the reserves was signed
this morning.
The Gazette announces that sum-
monses will be issued to-day for the
number of reserves necessary to bring
every battalion ordered to South Africa
to its full strength Of 1000 men, and
the men must present themselves be-
fore October II.
This forward movement here is fully
eounterbalanced by stories OF military
preparations in the Transvaal and the
Orange Free State.
The war Office announces that under
the proclamation calling out the re-
serves, $4,000 men will be summoned.
It is rumored at Portsmouth that the
admiralty will organize flying squad
ron for the Cape.
So far as the facts go the commence
ment of actual hostilities between
Great Britain and the Transvaal seems
no nearer, although it must be admit
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arisen in the evaporation caused
throughout the British colonies in
South Africa by the stories Of brutal
treatment of refugees by Beers. Wheth-
er these reports are correct or not the
accounts of outrages upon women aHd
children are having their effect, and are
being accepted by many quarters hith-
erto credulouS as confirming the antlc-
ipations of the savagery that will mark
the progress of the war.
The dispatches from the front are
mostly concerned with the movements
of troops. There are several reports
that the Beers are increasingly rest
less under restraint and because of the
imperfect provision made for their well
fare. 1t is said that they have threat
ened either to raid or to return to their
homes.
President Kruger, however, appears
to have reiterated his orders COM
manding the exercise of restraint.
The British and Beers are so close
together along the western frontier OF
the Transvaal that their patrols meet
nightly.
From Cape Town comes the curious
statement that many officials OF the
Transvaal and the range Free State
have sent their families into British
territory for protection. f. w. Reltz,
Transvaal secretary of state, has sent
his family to Natal, and the family OF
President Steyn, of the range Free
State, have gone to Cape Colony.
The exodus of Cape Dutchmen to-
ward the Transvaal continues. All
seem to be smuggling arms across the
frontier. The report of Harry Es-
cQmbess mission of peace to Pretoria is
apparently incorrect. The Natal
statesman went instead to New Castle
with view to quieting the alarm of his
friends. Rumors are current there that
Commandment General Jouberts return
to Pretoria was occasioned by petit
ton of the Beers to have Commandant
Viljoen made commander in chief.
The dispatches say Pretoria presents
a most deserted appearance. The gov
eminent has ordered all the saloons
closed throughout the republic.
Gen. Cronjes forces, near Mafeking,
moved closer to the border yesterday.
A green book issued yesterday con-
tains President Krugers reply to Mr..
ChamIberlains dispatch referring to the
petition of the Outlanders to the queen.
Her majesty, in privy council at Bal
moral this morning, assented TO the
calling Of Parliament, the mobilization
of the reserves and the continuance in
the army of all soldiers now serving
who in ordinary circumstances would
be entitled to discharge or transfer to
the reserve.
LONDON, October THE Transvaal
objects to Great Britain's interference
In it's internal affairs and explains that
if the Outlanders had first addressed
the Transvaal instead of the British
government their complaints would
have been Immediately needed. 1t
also alleges that those complaints EN-,
anated wholly from a small body OF
British who are breeding race hatred
and a Revolutionary movement, and
whose membership and newspapers
openly boast of the influence exercised
by them upon the policy of the imperial
government"
The reply adds:
1.-THE Transvaal is bound to credit
these boasts when it sees blue books
issued consisting of documents drawn
up by these revolutionary members OF
the South African League and of lying
articles and reports from newspapers
which are organs of the league. If the
real character of the league could be
known it would soon lose its influence
and the tension between the two gov
ernments would speedily disappear"
The reply concludes as follows:
THE Afrikanders would then no
longer fear that the interests of the
British empire necessarily implied the
destruction of the two republics ana
the enslavement of the Afrikander pop
ulation; and the white races in South
Africa would return to the brotherly
harmony that had set in until a treacn-
erous complot at the end of 1926 revived
passion on both Sides"
This despatch was handed to Conyng-
ham Greene on September &c.
The Evening News publishes the fol-
lowing dispatch from Cape Town:
The reports of the barbaric excuses
committed by the Beers on refugees
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