Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-09-28
AGAINST ALL WHITES
Orange Free State Says That War
on the Transvaal Will Be, War
on All Dutch Tribes.
WILL HELP THE TRANSVAAL
Come What Will Orange Free State Will
Live Or Die In An Alliance With
the Beers If the British
Make War.

London, Sept. 2S.-The decision of
! the volksraad of Orange Free State to
| join with the Transvaal in the event of
hostlities is the leading news today and
| will naturally stiffen the Beers inde-
pendent attitude. The voksraad's reso-
luton has made a brotherhood of arms
between the Transvaal and Orange Free
State an absolute certainty and the
| British will have to face the situation.
The volksraad resolution reads: 'Con-
sidering the Transvaal government dur
ing negotiations with the imperial gov
ernment during the past several months
has made every endeavor to arrive at a
peaceful solution of differences raised
by aliens of the Transvaal and taken up
by the imperial government as It's own
cause, which endeavors have unfOrtun-
ately had only this result that British
troops are concentrated on the border
of Transvaal and are still being strength
ened, be it
Resolved, That we instruct the gov
ernment to still use every means to
maintain and insure peace and in a
peaceful manner contribute towards a
solution of existing difficulties, provided
it be deemed not violating the honor
principles of the Free State and the
Transvaal, and wishes the ministry to
make known its opinion that there ex-
lists no cause for war, and war against
Transvaal as now undertaken or occa-
stoned by the imperial government will
morally be war against the whole white
population of Africa, and in its conse-
quences criminal, for come what may
the Free State will honestly and faith
fully fulfill the obligations towards the
Transvaal by virtue of political al
lance between the two republics.
Intense excitement continues to pre-
vail at Pretoria, where apparently it is
believed there is no escape from war
The field comets of Pretoria are again
serving out rifles communicating and
actively proceeding and Ill preparations
are being made to take the field
Burghers are getting uneasy at the
concentration of British troops between
Ladysmith and Laing's Neck especially
at Glencoe and Dundee. The nominal
reason for concentration is the protec-
tion of the Dundee coal fields, but the
burghers shrewdly suspect the real rea-
sons are the formation OF force which
will advance across the Transvaal
frontier at Vryheid as soon as war is
declared.
The Beers do not intend to be caught
mapping and are massing around Vry-
held to be prepared to make a dash in
force through a portion of Zululand
crossing the Buffalo river at point be-
low Rorke's Drift ana then sezing the
railroads to cut off the British garrison
at Dundee and Ladysmith from the
south, which would not only interrupt
the British lines of communication, but
would seriously interfere with forward
movement. In order to watch this por-
tion of the railroad exposed to Boer
incursion a British post will be estab
lished IN Yorke's Drift. From Cape
Town comes news of meeting of minis
terialists there. 1t was unanimously
resolved to petition Queen Victoria de-
precating the idea Of war and urging
joint inquiry into the effect of the Trans
vaal franchise act as proposed by the
imperial government and accepted by
President Kruger.
A cable dispatch to the Times from
Cape Town says: Several responsible
people here who have long cung to a
belief in an ultimate peaceful settlement
now regard war as inevitable.
The Birmingham Post says: Two
cargoes of arms and ammunition leave
Hamburg or Rotterdam Friday for the
Transvaal, comprising $4,000 Mausers
and 100000 cartridges and several NOR
tars for dynamite charges,