The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-29
AS URGED BY GERMANY TO JOIN
IN SECURING MEDIATION
FOR DOM PAUL
BRITISH DELAY Is EXPLAINED
@OSSEBILITY OF INTERFERENCE
BY GERMANY OFFERED n
GRAVE PROBLEM
BoERs PREPARING TO FIGHT

TrnnsvaaI Troops Are Marching to
Meet Those of the Orange Free
state-Busy Scenes ia the Vicinity
of the Natal Border and Near
Laings Nek-British Government
Urged to Give Kruger More Time.
LONDON, Sept. 29.-The Odessa corre-
spondent of the Standard telegraphs a
rumor that Germany recently suggested
to Russia the advisability of mediation
between Great Britain and the Transvaal,
and that Russia declined to have any
thing to do with the matter.
The Pretoria correspondent Of the Daily
Telegraph says:
The Transvaal residents are occupied
In war preparations. Many Beers are op-
posed to fighting on religious grounds.
There have been local rains and thunder
storms at Johannesburg and various parts
of the Orange Free State"
The Daily News, which appeals to the
government to await President Kruger's
reply before sending a second dispatch,
says:
the Transvaal, all the trouble could have
been avoided had Mr.. Chamberlains dis
patch last Friday said convention in
stead of conventions we do not believe
a British cabinet would decline to clear
the matter up. 1t is for President Kruger
to sIeak, if it is, indeed, only a matter
of IL consonant, for we are convinced that
1t is in his power to get the consonant
cut off,
DISTRUST MR.. CHAMBERLAIN.
The Daily Chronicle says:
1--WE understand on the best authority
that the delay attendant upon the Boer
reply is due to hopes still entertained by
the Transvaal of a peaceful settlement
The Boers distrust Mr.. Chamberlain
They fear that if they make concessions
he will only increase his demands. There
fore, they have been trying to approach
Lord Salisbury directly. They trust the
premier as much as they distrust the col
Onial secretary, and if Lord Salisbury
Nwcuid give a pledge that the British pro-
posaIs were in earnest thsy would give in.
They claim that every promise has been
broken by Mr.. Chamberlain
The press association issues the follow
ing statement this evening:
I'VE learn that the centers of interest
In The Transvaal crisis are in reality at
Lisbon and Berlin, and this considera-
ton, it is thought in some quarters, may
cause a further adjournment of the cab
met. The future administration and
financial control of the Portuguese pos
sessions in South Africa are held to be
an important factor in the present diff
flculty. The friends of President Kruger
urge that 1t would be manifestly unfair
to insist upon a partial reduction of the
forts a Pretoria and Johannesburg so
long as Lorenzo Marques remains under
the Portuguese government, and it is
probable that the negotiations between
London, Berlin and Lisbon may not be
concluded until after the cabinet coun-
Gil
BOERS ARE MARCHING.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Charles Town says:
Communicating is proceeding in the
Wakkerstrom district and probably
throughout the Transvaal. Two t-ou-
sand burghers are assembled at Walker
strom, which is eight miles from the
Natal border and eleven from Laing's
Mex. Twelve hundred have been ord ared
to Sandspait, twelve miles west of the
Natal border, where they will meet
Orange Free State artillery"
LOYAL SUBJECTS.
WELLINGTON, N. T., Sept 2S-The
government of this colony decided to lay
to equip and send a force of 200 men 70
the Transvaal The house sang the ma
uonal anthem when this step was decided
upon.