The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-09-27
Beers Alleged to Have Begun LOOting
Houses of British Subjects ON
the T~ransvaal Border.
QUESTION OF SUZERAINTY
NOT TO BE USED BY THE SALISBURY
MINISTRY TO FORCE An ISSUE.
Redress of Uitlandcrs' Grievances,
However, I'll Be Insisted On-Sfr
william Vernon HarcOurt Again.

LONDON, sept. Zi-lne 1TdIsNddi STU
alton presents very few new features. 1t is
increasingly probable that Parliament will
meet about the middle of October. and it Is
again asserted that Gen. Sir Redvers Butler,
who is to have supreme command of the
British forces in South Africa in the event
Of hostilities. will start for the Cape on
Oct. z. Nothing. however. has been off,
cially made known on either point.
The Transvaal government was IN con-
slant telegraphic communication with
Bloemfontein yesterday on the reply to Mr..
Chamberlain's dispatch. 1t is believed the
reply will protest against the continued
dispatch of British troops as a menace to
the Transvaal.
The Pretoria Volkstein, the official organ
of the Transvaal government, declares that
the Transvaal executive ought to give
Great Britain at the most forty-eight hours
to reply to the Transvaal's demand that no
further troops be landed, pending the re-
ceipt of the British proposals.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from Pieter-
maritzburg, Natal, says the colored mule
teers at Lady Smith mutinied and declined
to go to the front with the artillery.
The Cape Town correspondent Of the
| Daily News says: 1.-THE Beers have begun
footing on the western border Of the Trans
vaal. A house at Lichtenburg belonging
to a British subject was looted and every
thing portable carried of"
The Times has a dispatch from Pieter-
! maritzburg, Natal. reporting that a meet
ing, which has aroused a strong feeling
among the loyalists, was held by the
| Afrlkanders. A strongly-worded resolution
was passed asking the government to recall
the colonial forces on the border, as their
| presence there is inimical to peace and Is
| calculated to cause trouble with their fel-
| low-Afrikanders. A telegram from Premier
Schreiner was read, saying the government
was working for peace. The meeting, not
| withstanding, passed the resolution. which
was supported py two justices Of the peace.
The indications at the agency of the
| Transvaal government in London point to
| the belief that war is inevitable. Prepare
tons are being made for receiving the furn-
iture from the headquarters and the gloom
lest impression in regard to the outcome OK
the crisis appears to prevail.
Mr.. Montague White. the consul general OF
the South African Republic in London.
wished to return to Pretoria, but was in
formed by his government that in the event
of war he would be more useful at Brussels.
A dispatch from Cape Town says: The
South African News prints a dispatch from
Pretoria saying the alleged change in Brit
ish public opinion and the absence Of alarm
ing reports subsequent to the meeting Of the
council are considered hopeful signs. There
Is no official news from Bloemfontein, but
there is not the slightest doubt about the
attitude of the Orange Free State. AT a
meeting of Scandinavians there 1t was
unanimously decided to support the govern
ment. Only twenty members of the first
Raad are in town and it is expected that the
Legislature will dissolve at any moment.
The Jews, at a meeting, have resolved to
support the government and have agreed to
equip and provision a police corps of two
hundred men. p. T. Kruger. grandson Of
the President of the Transvaal, in a letter
to the Volksvein, asks If 1t is the govern
ment's duty to inform the imperial govern
ment that any further landing of troops
would be considered a casus belli. There Is
a feverish activity in ell the departments
and the carrying of instructions to towns re-
moved from the telegraph lines Is con-
%tinuous.' Another cablegram from Cape
Town says: Quantities of stores and am
munition are leaving here daily. The move
ment of troops to Natal is merely a pre-
cautionary measure to secure the coal mines
and is nowise in the nature Of a menace.
There are no imperial troops on the imme-
date border. Rumors Of collisions should
be received with caution"
A dispatch from Pretoria says that a
Mauser rifle in the hands Of a burgher, who
was practicing with 1t, burst, recently, and
nearly killed him. with the result that a
great number Of burghers are gravely con-
cerned at the apparent insecurity of the
new weapon. They assert that the cart
ridges are worthless and are appealing to
the government to revert to the Martini, or
investigate and remedy the grievances.
The Times has a dispatch from Johannes
burg which asserts that the delay is Great
ing the worst possible impression In the
minds Of the burghers. who tauntingly
boast that while Great Britain deprecates
delay on the part of the Beers. she inten-
tionally and unnecessarily prolongs the con-
t~roversy because she is afraid TO follow up
her own game Of bluff with the arguments
of force. Reports are heard on all sides Of
the eagerness of the Beers to start HOSTILE
ties and their postponement is said to be
solely due to the restraining influence Of
General Jouhert. 1t is added that it is be-
lieved this influence cannot be exercised
much longer. There is a circumstantial
rumor that General Joubert has received
imperative orders from the armed burghers
that unless he is prepared to take the ini-
tiative within a brief period he must relin-
quish his of the army. This is
looked upon as instructive indication Of
Boer feeling.
Another johannesburg dispatch says: "A
manifesto has been issued here by a num-
Der Of Irishmen. urging the Irish to strike