The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-03
WAR
Movements Of the Beers Towards tbs
Natal Border.

Natal Border
LONDON, Oct. IA dispatch from Dur
ban, Natal, timed 1915 o'clock this morn
ing. reports that all trains from the Trans
wall are arriving twenty-four hours late,
having been obliged TO give place to the
Boer military trains. 1t is added that the
trains which arrived last evening were
packed and that the station was besieged
by friends of the passengers. The latter
said they had endured great hardships and
had been subjected to insults by the Beers.
The dispatch. continuing. says that excite
ment is increasing at Durham. The streets
are thronged with animated crowds and the
impression prevails that the Beers may
hostilities at once. Altogether.
over 1900 Natal volunteers have gone to the
front. Trains from Lourenzo Marquee, Del
agoa bay. are bringing enormous crowds,
principally miners. A Boer omman has
arrived at the border town Of Comantipoort.
a dispatch received at Cape Town to-day
from Charlestown, Natal, announces that
eighty members Of the Orange Free State
Artillery, with six guns, have arrived at
Volksrust, a point in the Transvaal close 10
the Natal border, and that a marquee has
been erected by the hospital authorities.
The officials at Charlestown have received
a telegram frcm the colonial secretary In
answer TO an inquiry instructing them TO
remain absolutely still and offer no re-
sistance. No women have been left In
Volksrust and the natives are leaving
Charlestown. The officials still remain.
but are ready to leave at a moments notice.
General Joubert, the Vice President of the
South African Republic and COMMANDMENTS
chief of the Transvaal forces. has arrived
at Volksrust, and his presence there will
probably ave a calming effect.
The advices from johannesburg say no
communicating took place there Saturday.
They add that many of the Beers are anx-
ious to leave and that many of the young
men are forming corps of civilian police and
are acting in conjunction with the Mer-
chants Association. The town is quiet. The
merchants committee announces that
British subjects under a permit will be al
lowed to remain, and that consular letters
and passports will be accepted II the per-
sons presenting them are of good character.
Advices from L~adysmith, Natal. to-day
say that 600 burghers have assembled at
Albertina, in the Orange Free State, with
the object of proceeding in the direction OF
the border, and that it is feared that a raid
On Ladysmith is meditated.
A prominent EuSllSIHldn, IT. WisOh, hdo
been Communicated at Harrismith by the
Orange Free State.
The Natal Field Artillery, Carbineers and
other military commands are encamped AT
Show Ground, on the road leading TO the
Orange Free State.
Reports from Cape Town deelare s~sf
immediate rupture of the diplomatic rela-
tions between Great Britain and the Trans
vaal is expected. The South African News
says that the formal hauling down of the
British flag on the agency building at Pre-
toria is imminent.
The correspondent Of the Associated Press
at Cape Town has secured an official denial
of the statement that a train has been dis
patched to fetch Conyngham Greene from
Pretoria. No instructions have yet been is
sued to Mr.. Greene. All is quiet at Pre-
toria.
Great excitement prevails at Cape Town.
where it is reported that the Beers have oc-
cupied Laing's Mex. This rumor lacks con-
firmation.
A special dispatch from johannesburg,
dated Sept. %, gives the report of the arri-
val of the notorious lyman"
1t is calculated that the Orange Free State
already has 1000 men on the border.
Cable company officials at the Cape say
1t is impossible to reach Pretoria over the
Durham line. The Cape Town to Pretoria
line is still working, but it is glutted with
official messages.