Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-29

southwest of the Orange Free State,
and an important railroad junction.
Extensive Notifications will be thrown
up there and the town will be made
the base of operations from that side
against the Orange Free State or the
Transvaal. More troops will shortly
arrive at De Aar.
From Cape Town comes the news
that at meeting of the ministerialists
there to-day it was unanimously re-
solved to petition Queen Victoria de-
precating the idea of war and urging
joint inquiry into the effect of the
Transvaal franchise act as proposed by
the imperial government August 2, and
accepted by President Kruger"
A cable dispatch to the Times from
Capt Town says: The Beers would
have taken the initiative by now but
for the scarcity of water, the rains not
yet being sufficient. Probably there
will be great difficulties in providing
food supplies for the people remain
ing at johannesburg after hostilities
have commenced. Several responsible
people here who have long chung to
the belief in an ultimate peaceful set
tlement, now regard war as inevita-
Bile.
The Birmingham Post says two car
goes of arms and ammunition leave
Hamburg or Rotterdam Friday for the
Transvaal, comprising $4,000 improved
Mausers, 100000 cartridges and several
mortars for dynamite charges.
AS the Second battalion of Grenadiers
embarked on transport at Gibraltar
for London this afternoon they receiv-
ed hurry call" ordering them to
proceed to the Cape, for which place
they start tomorrow. The secretary
of state for the colonies, Joseph Cham
berlain, arrived at the foreign Office
this afternoon.
The cabinet council will meet at p.
III. tomorrow.
The speaker of the House of Com
mons, William Court Gully, is return
ing to London, and Sir Henry Camp
bell-Bannerman, the Liberal leader in
the House, and Herbert Gladstone, the
chief Liberal whip, will arrive here
Monday.
The press association issues the fol-
lowing statement this evening:
1--WE learn that the centers of inter-
ests in the Transvaal crisis are in re-
ality at Lisbon and Berlin, and this
consideration. it is thought in some
quarters, may cause further adjourn
ment of the cabinet.
THE future administration and fin
ancial control of the Portuguese pos
session of South Africa are held to be
an integral factor in the present diff
Guilty. The friends of President Krl-
ger urge that it would be manifestly
unfair to insist upon partial reduc-
ton of the forts at Pretoria and johann
nesburg so long as Lorenzo Marques
remains under the Portuguese govern
ment, and it is possible that negotia-
lions between London, Lisbon and Ber-
lin may not be concluded until after
the cabinet council
The Daily News which appeals to the
government to await President Kru-
gers reply before sending a second de-
spatch, says:
IF, as has been asserted on behalf
of the Transvaal, all trouble would
have been avoided had Mr. Chamber
lain's despatch last Friday said Con-
vention' instead of Conventions we
do not believe a British cabinet would
decline to clear the matter up. 1t is
for President Kruger to speak, if it is
indeed only matter Of a consonant.
for we are convinced that 1t is in his
power to get the consonant cut off"
The Odessa correspondent OF the
Standard telegraphs runor that Ger
many recently suggested to Russia the
ACCESSIBILITY of mediation between
Great Britain and the Transvaal and
that Russia declined to have anything
| to do with the matter.