The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-09-26
THE SPEAKERS lNSULTED
POLICE FINALLY FORCED TO
DISPENSE THE CROWD.
CHAMBERLAlN's NOTE TO THE Beers
It's Read in the VoIksraad, and President Kruger
Announces that the RepIysWill be
Presented to the Volks-
raad To- Day.

London, Sept. 24.-An attempt to hold
a pro- Boer, anti-war demonstration IN
Trafalgar square. in London, this after
noon, resulted in failure and almost in
riot.
Thousands assembled, but not to sup
port the speakers. On the contrary the
crowd waved union jacks and sans the
national anthem and ''Rdie Britannia,
like mighty invocations.
The speakers were received with
groans, decayed apples, eggs and other
missiles There We're cheers for Joseph
Chamberlain and Kisses Tor President
Kruger.
Finally the mounted police We're tele-
IJhoned for to clear the square. BatonS
We're freely used, several persons Were
trodden upon by horses and 30 arrests
We're made.
Dispatches from Johannesburg report
a complete breaking UP of the Rand MIN
ing industry. The exodus continues:
The Bloeamfontein correspondent of the
Manchester Guardian, a pro-Boer organ,
says: Both President Steyn and Mr..
Fischer, of the Orange Free State exec
utive council state that the Volksraad
is absolutely unanimous that the two
Republics should stand or fall together.
President Steyn said: Suppose we re-
MANNED neutral and the Transvaal We're
conquered lit is not aikely that We
would be long permitted to stand outside
British control. Let a rich gold field be
discovered and what would become Of
us
The correspondent of the Daily Tele
graph at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, says:
mo rain mas fallen and it as doubtful
whether the Beers can commence hosti!i-
ties before the end of October
MR.. CHAMBERLATN'S NOTE.
London, Sept 2J.-Officials of the
Foreign Office this evening gave out
the text of the letter of the Secretary
of State for the Colonies, Mr.. Cham
berlain, to the British High Commits
ssioner in South Africa, Sir Alfred Mill
ner, dated September 22d. The Brit
ish reply expresses regret that Her
Majesty's offer of September Sth, had
been refused and says:
1.-The object Her Majesty's Govern
nent had in view in the recent negotia-
fions has been stated in a manner
which cannot admit of misrepresentation,
viz: to obtain such substantial and inn
mediate representation for the Out
landers as will enable them to secure
for themselves that fair and just treat
ment which was formally promised
them in 1881. and which Her Majesty
intended to secure for them when she
granted privileges of seln-governmenr
to the Transvaal. No conditions less
comprehensive than those contained in
the telegram Of September Sth can be
relied on to effect this object The
refusal Of the South African Govern
ment to entertain the offer thus made,
coming as ii does after four months
of prctracted negotiations, themselves
the climax of five years of extended
agitation. makes it useless to further
pursue the discussion on the lines hith-
erto followed and the imperial Govern
ment is now compelled to consider the
situation afresh and formulate its own
proposals for final settlement of the
issues which have been created in
South Africa by the policy constantly
followed for many years by the Govern