Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-10-10

5000 men will be summoned.
The Gazette announces that orders
have been issued to bring every battalion
ordered to South Africa to its full
strength of 1000 men, and they must
present themselves before October 10.
This forward movement here Is fully
cOuntCrbalancod by stories of military
preparations in the Transvaal and the
Orange Free State.
y royal proclamation summoning Par
lament to meet on October II, and au-
thorizing the calling out of the reserves,
was signed this morning.
London, Oct THE commencement
Of actual hostiities between Great Brit
ain and the Transvaal seems no nearer,
although it must be admitted that q new
element of danger has arisen in the eX-
ASPIRATION caused throughout the British
colonies in South Africa by the stories of
brutal treatment of refugees by the
Beers. Whether these reports are cor
rect or not, the reported outrageS on
women and children are having the effect
and are being accepted i'll many quarters
hitherto incredulous as confirming the
antlcipatlOns Of the >Gvagery that will
mark the progress Of the war.
The dispatches from the front are most
ly concerned with the movements of
troops. There are several reports that
the Beers are increasingly restless under
restraint and because of the imperfect
provision made for their welfare. 1t is
said that they have threatened either to
raid or to return to their homes.
President Kruger. however, appears to
have reiterated his orders commanding
tx exercise of restraint. The British
and Beers are so close together along
the western frontier of the TranSvaal
that their patrols meet nightly.
To a Place of Safety.
From Cape Town comes the curious
statement that many officials OF the
Transvaal and the Orange Free State
have sent their families into British ter
ritory for protection. f. w. Reitz, the
Iransvaal secretary of state. has sent
his family to Natal, and the family Of
President Steyn Of the Orange Free
State have gone to Cape Colony
Other Cape Town dispatches describe
the Indignation caused by insults heaped
upon refugees trayersing the Transyaal
and the Orange Free State and the suf-
ferlngS caused to passengers travelling in
exposed trucks by the jeers and insults
of gangs of armed burghers, who have
prevented furnishing travellers from OBJ
tanning food, Understanding" by them
and striking the women. The appear
ance of many of the sufferers is said to
be deplOrable.
Fhe exodus Of Cape Dutchmen towards
the Iransyaal continues. All seem to be
smuggling arms across the frontier The
report OF Harry Escombe's mission of
peace 10 Pretoria is apparently incorrect
The Natal statesman went instead to
Newcastle with a view of quieting the
alarm of his friends Rumors are cur
rent that the commandant-gener Jon
bert's return to Pretoria was occasioned
by petition of the Beers to have Com
mandant Vatican made commander-in-
chief
Advices from Pretoria say that the
Iransvaal government has received a
dispatcl. from the United States secre-
tary of state, John Hay, to the effect
that as Gen. James r. Obeirne, recently
designated by President Kruger to repre-
sent the Transvaal in the United States
is an American, he cannot hold diplo-
matte appointment from the South AT
rIcan Republic in the United States.
State Secretary Reitz, therefore. has
asked Mr.. Bosnian to remain and full
powers will be given him to act on be-
half OF the Transvaal in the interest of
peace.
Green Book Issued.
green book issued yesterday contains
President Kruger's reply to Mr.. Cham
berlalns dispatch referring to the petit
ton of the Outlanders to the Oueen Her
majesty, III privy council at Balmoral.
this morning, assented to the calling of
Parliament, the mobilization of the re-
serves, and the continuance in the army
OF all soldiers now serving who, in or
binary circumstances, would be entitled
to discharge or transfer to the reserve.
The reply adds:
The Transvaal is bound to credit these
boasts when it sees blue books issued con
SlSting Of documents drawn up by these
revolutionary members of the South African
league and Of lying articles and reports
from newspapers which are organs of the
league If the real character of the league
could be known it would soon lose its in
iuence, and the tension between the two
The Afrikanders would then no longer
fear that the interests of the British en-
pire necessarily implied the destruction of
the two republics and the enslayement of
races in South Africa would return to the
u treacherous complot, at The end of 1895,
revived passion on both sides
Complaints of Mischief Makers.
The Transvaal objects to Great Brit
tain's interference in internal affairs and
explains that if the Outlanders had first
addressed the Transvaal. instead of the
British government, their complaints
would have been Immediately needed.
1t also alleges that those complaints
emanated wholly from 4 small body of
British who are breeding race hatred
and 4 revolutionary movement, and
whose membership and newspapers
openly boast of the influence exercised
governments.
No Right to Interfere.
New York, Oct. "A special to the
Herald from Washington says: Opinion
among leading men in Washington is de-
cidedly against the United States offer
ing mediation between Great Britain and
the South African Republic The Trans
vaal has no foreign relations except
through Great Britain and technically an
offer from the United States to mediate
might be regarded as interference in the
internal affairs of the British empire, in
much the same way that an offer from q
European power to mediate between the
United States and AgunaldO might be
considered an interference in the internal
affairs of the United States.
Laing's Mex Not Occupied.
London, Oct. There is no doubt
now that the correspondent of the Tele-
graph was misled in his statement that
the Beers were occupying Laings Mex.
1t is probable that some Boer patrols
who advanced on Laing's Mex during
the night and retired at daybreak We're