Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-09-20


OF TROOPS TO SOUTH AFRICA
CONTINUES.
LONDON, September 19.-sum-
monses were issued late this afternoon
for a cabinet council. which it is UNI
derstood, will be held Friday. This is
regarded as the result of the visit of the
premier, Lord Salisbury, to London,
whittier he came this afternoon, remain
ing at the foreign Office from 4:30 TO
$50 p N. Joseph Chamberlain, the
Secretary of State for the Colonies,
was present in the building at the same
time, and as a private doorway con-
meets the Offices it was presumed that
the summonses was the result Of their
joint deliberation.
The lack Of all excitement in official
circles bears evidence to the deliberate
manner in which the highest officials
are handling the crisis. Nor is it by any
means certain that the cabinet council
will adopt extreme measures, in spite
of the uneompromising nature of The
Boer reply. This deliberation on the
part of the government is interpreted,
not only in London, but in other Eu
ropean capitals as a desire on the part
of Great Britain to gain time while the
transports are hurrying to Cape Col
ony.
The Berliner Neustenachrichten
commenting on this to-day, says:
THE present calm is only meant to
deceive the Beers. When England
feels equal to the task of facing the
Beers, this peaceful tone will give way
to a blatant cry for war;
Even rumors of a movement of the
Beers across the Natal border appar-
entity fail to excite the military author
tiles here who profess at least not to
fear such a contingency for the pres
ent.
In the meantime the movement Of
troops proceeds. The Royal West Sus-
sex regiment left to-day for Malta,
where it will replace the First Border
regiment, which goes by the same
steamer to Natal.
1t is announced this evening that the
British first-class protected cruisers
Terrible and Powerful have both been
ordered to the Cape. They have reliefs
on board capable of forming a naval
brigade of thousand men.
The steamer Jelunga will take five
hundred troops bound for Natal to-
morrow and she will embark a rife
brigade at the Island of Crete for the
Cape.
According to a despatch from Dur
ban, Natal, the premier OF the colony
says that the alarm of the people of
Natal at the unprotected conditions Of
the border towns is quite unwarranted,
and that all efforts to incite the Zulus
have failed
PRETORIA. September 19-The re-
ply of the government to the latest
British note is variously commented
upon, but the Pretoria Press printed in
English and Dutch, and other papers,
profess to believe that joint commits
sion will yet be held, and that there is
still a possibility of an understanding
being reached.
The Volkstein declares that in the
event of war Holland viii send an
ambulance corps to the Transvaal.
The Volksraad, as matter Of
urgency, to-day referred the new draft
law, providing for the confscation of
the property of persons found guilty
of treason and les majestic, to special
committee for consideration and report.
At the request of President Kruger,
the chamber then went into secret ses-
sion.
LONDON, September 20.-According
to a special dispatch from Rome, Presi-
dent Kruger has wired King Humbert,
invoking the Intervention Of Italy.