The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-08
England to Summon 100000 Men
for Military Service.
MOBILIZATION BEGINS MONDAY
OF the Field Force in South Africa.
Advices From Cape Town Give Ac-
counts Of Barbaric ENcesses
Committed by the Beers on
Refugees - Herdcd i'm
Cars Like Cattle.

LONDON. oct. News comes from the
Transvaal tonight. which, il true, prob
ably indicates that the South Africa Re
public is about to yield, or in any case
that the Beers have abandoned all idea
of invading Natal
The news is comprised in a cablesram
from Newcastle. Natal. which says that
! farmers who arrived there to-day from
the Buffalo river. state that the Beers are
returning To their homes, leaving patrols
along the river. The commanders still
remain on the Free State border The DIS
patch also says that the feeling at New
castle now is that the Beers do not intend
to attack that place and that the eyacua-
tion of the town was premature.
4 dispatch from Durham also states tnat
the excitement there has abated- Inc
Beers going back from the frontier.
The retirement Of the Eoers IS What the
WAR Office have expected, as their deiec-
tive commissariat would prevent theh
from long remaining massed along the
border.
Teleprams received here recently have
made rreouent reference TO the scarcity
of forage and supplies in the Boer
I,aagers and have stated that many OF
those I'm the camps were inciinea 10
strike out for their homes unless actlNe
ope~qfiors wore undertaken Immediately.
The dispatch from Newcastle looks as
though they had done as they threatened
and had abandoned the idea Of fehting.
ENGLAND KEEPS RIGHT on.
Meanwhile further transports from IN
dia. with two field hospitals and hussars'
have arrived at Durham. and the men
and material were forwarded to lady
smith instantly.
royal proclamation, summOning Par
lament 10 meet October 18th, and au-
thorzng the calling out Of the reserves
was signed this morning.
Her Majesty IN Privy Council at Bal
moral. this morning, assented 10 the call
ing Of Parliament, the mobilization OF
the reserves. and the continuance in the
army Of all soldiers now serving who.
under ordinary conditions, would be en-
titled To- discharge TO the reserves.
The War Office announces that under
the proclamation calling out the reserves,
2iN.Cp men will be summoned. The field
force for service in South Africa, the War
Office announces, will commence moblii-
zation next Monday.
BOERS' BRUETALITY
The Evening News publishes the follow
Ing dispatch from Cape Town: The re-
ports of the barbaric eXcesses committed
by the Beers on refugees have caused a
thrill of horror here. I'm one instance
seventy women and children We're packed
I'm a cattle truck so tightly that they were
unable 10 sit and We're thus kent side
tracked for thirty hours without food or
water. When they attempted 70 leave
the truck they We're driven back with
blows.
Every train load n refugees brings
narrowing accounts Of the barbarities of
the Beers OF the Orange Free State.
"a train arrived here to-day that had
been ninety-six hours en- route. The sut-
ferings of the women We're dreafuL Sew
eral births occurred ON the way. one IN
cattle truck containing twenty 1eu.'
THE POPE WANTS PEACE.
ROME. October THE Italia. the Are
ma. and other papers state that the Pope
has again written TO Queen Victoria at-
pealing 10 her Najestys humanitarian
sent ments and desiring her 70 use her
influence with her ministers in the d'rec-
ton OF peace. The Queen, it IS said, re-
pied c0urteously 10 the message. giving
His Holiness 10 understand that II was
beyond her power 10 interfere with the
perogatiyes of the ministry