The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1899-10-06
THE ARTILLERY MOVING.
Orange Free State is Making
Preparations for Fighting
on the Frontier.
BRITISH FLAG IS DOWN.
Believed That the Free State Forces
Will Cross the Frontier and
Capture Kimberly.

Rumors of Fight and n Conflict
is Expected at Any Minute Unless
England Backs Down-Capture OF
the Diamond Mines Imminent and
English Panic Stricken.
London, Oct 5..-A telegram from
Paris announces that NJ. Arnaud, preSi-
dent of the International Arbitration
and Peace League, has sent an appeal
to Lord Salisbury enueating him to
choose Power to act with Il Power
chosen by the Transvaal, with the OBJ
ject of averting war
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail telegraphS that Mr.. Hof-
meyr, the Afrikander leader, will go to
Pretoria to make a last effort for the
maintenance of peace.
Arrangements for the dispatch Of
war stores and men continue. A guam
tity Of balloon material has been sent
to South Africa, the War Office con-
sidering that military ballooning will
prove of the greatest value in the kind
of warfare expected there. The char
tering of transports still continues
Five vessels of the Cunard line now
are engaged.
Cape Town, Oct 5.-Detachments Of
Orange Free State artillery are NOV
ing in the direction of Kimberly, which
is almost on the Free State frontier.
Residents of Colony frontier towns
from Kimberly to Mafeking are panic
stricken. 1t Is believed the Free State
forces will cross the frontier seize
Kimberly and attempt to hold the Brit
iSh re-inforcements from the South In
check. II they are successful. the Boer
raiders from the north can operate
with q free hand.
Prime Minister Schreiner Of Cape
Colony is anxious TO resign, but his
colleagues have prevailed upon him not
to do so. The Indian troops from Sim
Ia have arrived at Durham.
Johannesburg, Oct. 5.-The Mining
Commissioner issued an official procla-
nation on Sept 30. stating that in the
event of war the mines would be
worked and the miners would be pro-
tected. This assurance has now been
withdrawn, and the commissioners adj
wise all British subjects to leave the
Transvaal rs soon as possible.
London, Oct. 5.-The Beers will open
war with Great Britain at once. All
the reliable information about the stu
alton convergeS about this conclusion.
In the last twenty-four hours there
has been an ominous absence of direct
messages from the Transvaal. The
Boer Government has established the
strictest censorship over the telegraph
The British diplomatic agent, Conyn-
ham Green. was to leave Pretoria by a
special train. The British flag, it
Is believed, has already been hauled
down from the legation building.
Cape Town is greatly wrought up
over report that the Beers have al
ready occupied Laing's Mex, within the
Natal territory, dislodging the single
british regiment which was stationed
there There was an entire absence of
detail in the first story of this alleged
movement, and it Is therefore pretty
generally suspected.
If it is true it is doubtless the cause
of the report received yesterday. and
afterward disprovcd, that Dundee had
fallen to the Beers.
A part of the London press is bitter.
~ assailing the Government for its eyi-
dent lack of military preparations for
the present emergency. The situation
Of the British troops on the Natal Dor
der is openly described as most critical
and the War Office Is accused of gross
miSmanagement. 1t is declared that
there is overt treason in Cape Town.
with the implication that an uprising
If Beers and Boer sympathizers might
easily overcome the two British bat
taliOnS on guard there.
symptoms suggestive of panic are
observed in various public uttcrances
1t is apparent that many leading men
in Englad fear a great disaster to Brit
ish arms in South Africa.
The Government is urged to send I'm
perial Commissioners to treat with Pres
ident Kruger. This in face of the
stubborn attitude of the Beers. is al
most candid confession of weak
ness, whether physical or moral. or
both
A letter from Johannesburg saws: IF
1t comes to fight | believe the Beers
will make a massacre of it. blow .To.
hannesburg to bits and shoot us on
sight In fact have been told SO by
ono in oAioa