Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-09-26
Beers KEEP ON
GETTING READY
last British Note Does Not Scare
Them a Bit.
WILL MAKE REPLY SOON.


London. Sept 25-A Pretoria dispatch
says: "rhC imperial Dispatch was read
today In the Volkaraad. President
Kruger announced that the reply OF the
government Of the South African r0pub.
Tie would De- presented 10 the Voiksrnad
tomorrow.
ut 10 reported that the members ~
the NolkHuad. believing that the Brit.
th NOTES are Intended to gain time FOR
tho concentration Of troops. urge the
government TO adjourn the Raal Inn
mcdlatcly and 10 reud Great Britain a
note dcclarlUg that further mobulzn-
ton Will BE- regarded aH un unffiyndly
act Trenches. pnrthworils ana sand
bag dcfcuHoH are being erected Ia all
the available approaches 90 the capital.
Communication. Pet Joubcrt now
rcckorl on 1900 TrausvuM troops. lC..
O1l from the Orange Free State. 5000
from Cape Colony 1000 from Natal.
and 1000 HoIlandora. German ana other
volunteers"
In the communication dated septcm.
Der 22ud, the British imperial govern
mont takes w tho charge ~ breach Of
faith Infatuated by Secretary OF state
lkCitz September 10Th. which We can-
not pass over M silence
Mt. Chamberlain then says. This
proposaA made BY the South African
ppulhc IN iH letters % August 18Th
and 10th wcrv not included by auFlrr.
tlons given BY the British agent from
the state attorney, uH claimed. ON the
cuntmry, the state attorney sounded
the British agent both in writing aud
IN conversation as 90 the conditions on
which the imperial government would
waive the Invitation 20 "a Joint Inquiry
and the result OF these communications
was the proposals made By tho South
African government IN these letters.
1t l. impossible that the South Ami.
can government could have had any
doubt ~ TO tho imperial governments
my reply was actually the same ms the
British agent had forcshnd1Wed the
state attorney. and which. therefore,
the South African government must
have anticipated In making the pro-
posils
''Thc imperial government also de-
niles that itH telegram Of September 9TH
substituted an entirely new proposal
for the invitation 10 the Joint commits
sion Of Inquiry"
The imperial government then quotes
the dispatch from South Africa ~
aNANAHA ANhAAH ANAAhaAAAAAN va NANhfI IiNANNf
proposal Identical with that which the
imperial government IL said 90 nave
substituted, and the communication
then proceeds aH follows:
Tho imperial government secs no
ground for minnppruhcnaion on the part
Of the South African Republic NJ 20
IL answer regarding non-intcrfercnco
and auzerulnty. aa the Imperial gov
crumcnt had already stated that 70
would not press FOR the appointment
q n joint commission % inquiry. IN
view Of the fact that such an inquiry
would IN the opinion u the govern
mont NJ the South African Republic.
prejudice the right ~ full indopcnd-
ence repeatedly recognized by the I'M
pefinl government.
AS 40 the use Of thu English language
In the NolkHrnad. the imperial govern
mcnt regards this o. reasonable, and
T. nstnnlshCd that the government ~
the South African Republic should
deem Il unnecessary aud make a point
Of denying that the government % the
South African Republic ever proposed
the same to the British agent"