Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-10-18
BRI1AlN'S BIG ARMY
Will Call Out the Reserves to Show
What Can Be Done to Euro
pesn Powers.
BLACKS In AFRICA RISING
The Beers Appear to Have Won in Various
Battles in the British Territory Of
Natal-The Business Of
Parliament.

Pretoria, Oct 16.--Delayed in trans
mission.-General Cronje, after warning
the women and children to leave Mafe-
king, opened fire upon the town with
cannon this afternoon. No response
was made. The report current at Della
goa Bay that 5000 Beers have been re-
pulsed at New Castle is false.
Pretoria, Oct. 18.-Commandant Gen
eral Joubert> has arrived at New Castle,
Natal. He found only hundred men
there When he entered the town.
London, Oct. 19.-In the house of
commons today the first lord of the
treasury and the government leader,
Arthur ]. Balfour, brought in the fol-
lowing message from the queen: ''The
state of affairs in Africa having consti-
tuted in the opinion of her majesty a
case of emergency within the meaning of
the act Of parliament her ajesty deems
it proper to provide additional means for
military service. She therefore thought
it right to communicate to the house that
her majesty is by proclamation about to
order the embodiment of the militia and
call ont the militia reserve force or such
part thereof as her majesty may think
necessary for permanent service
1t is not believed the militia will be
sent to South Africa. Presumably they
will replenish the denuded British gar
rison towns and thus permit the govern
ment to send to the Cape all regulars
rendered necessary by the developments
in South Africa.
The house agreed to consider the roy
al tn- A INV
Balfour, appropriating the entire spe-
cial session for government business
was carried by 279 to 4S.
Philip James Stanhope, Liberal
moved an amendment strongly disap-
proving the conduct of the negotiations
with the Transvaal. He declared the
secretary of state for the colonies and
the British high commissioner Of South
Africa have for the last two years been
fully determined that war and war only
should end this crisis.
Old stories of preparations against
continental combinations are revived.
It is freely rumored that the govern
ment is determined to demonstrate to
Europe that the British army is not a
negligible army Both the attitude of
Europe and that OF natives of South
Africa have something TO do with this
attitude and the lavish display of force
is intended doubtless to not only check
the III will apparent on both sides of the
Rhine and beyond Vistula, but also to
guard against the "black peril" The
militia, including the permanent staff
and the militia reserve, numbers 1885,
493.
London, October 18-The war office
has issued the following statement:
News has been received from General
Sir George Stewart White, the general
commanding In Natal, that the antici-
pated movement of the Boer forces
across the Drakensberg, as already re-
ported from several quarters, was like
ly to be continued October II, in which
case some of them might be expected to
be on the bank that night and probably
come in contact with our cavalry be-
tween Ladysmith and the passes of the
Drakensberg. On the north the Boer
forces from Ingagane are advancing,
accompanied by few batteries of ar
tillery On Buffalo river the Beers from
vryheid are moving toward Wants and
Rorkes drifts. Our cavalry remains In