The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-09-21
|IRANSVAAL DISPUTE
be Orange Free State Asks Amer
loan Intervention.
IsANIMITY AMONG THE BoERR

he Transvaal State Secretary Denies
reports OF Internal Dissensions, and
says tho Transvaal and Orange Free
state Are Acting In Conjunction.
London. Sept. 19.-The Cape Town
Orrespondent Of the Daily Mail says:
Fhe United States consul In Cape
fown has gone to Bloemfontein at the
equest OF the government Of the
orange Free State. to confer regard
ng the crisis. The Orange Free State
aecutive is anxious to secure Ameri-
an Intervention.
Boer spies infest all the border
,owns. Two thousand troops will be
dispatched to Kimberley within a
seek. Five hundred started last night
md others will go forward tomorrow.
There has been a lively interchange
b dispatches between the foreign. war
and colonial Offices. but no summons
has yet been issued for a cabinet coun-
sil.
Long dispatches were sent last even
Ing to the viceroy Of India. Lord Cur
ton, and to the British high commits
Stoner in South Africa. Sir Alfred Mil
General Lord Garnet Wolseley, field
marshal and commander -in-chief, re-
mrned to London yesterday and i'm
1shere he remained busily employed
The greater part Of the day.
The special dispatches from South
Africa confirm the report telegraphed
yesterday that the Beers are massing
artillery in positions commanding
Laings Mex. Small Boer detachments
occupy positions above Buffalo river.
The members of the Afrikander bund
In Cape Town intend to convene the
bund in congress to consider the sit
uation.
Bloemfontein paper reports the
dismissal of several Englishmen from
the BlOmfontein police force because
Of their refusal to serve on the Com
mando.
a Pretoria dispatch says: The
Transvaal state secretary. F. w. Reitz,
10 the course of an interview today de-
clared that the government. the volks-
rad and the people were unanimous
regarding the attitude which the
Transvaal had assumed, and that there
was no foundation whatever for the
reports Of differences. Mr.. Rsitz also
asserted that the Transvaal's decision
was arrived at In conjunction with the
Orange Free State.
The Transvaal volksraad yesterday
re-adopted the mining article in the
gold law. eliminated last year. en-
powering the government to confiscate
the claims and mines belonging to
people convicted of treason or con-
spiracy against the state. and empow-
ering the government to order that the
mines be worked. and II this instruc-
Non is disregarded. to work, them
\ hrough ite own agents. The re-
dopted article comes into force i'm
nediately.
The Daily Telegraph publishes q
pmmunication from a military corre-
spondent who, discussing the effect
Of the Free State throwing its lot in
With the Transvaal. says:
I'm the event Of war this will great
y increase our difficulties and will
lengthen the duration of the campaign,
but the work will be accomplished and
the Union Jack will float over consol-
dated South Africa between the Fam
best and the Cape.
The principal danger which besets
the British position is q sudden out
break Of hostilities. enabling the Beers
to score few minor successes, which
would bring down upon US every
Dutchman in South Africa, and prob
ably the statement that the Beers are
sending compressed forage to the
Natal border seems to signify that they
will not wait for new grass. but are
preparing an immediate advance"