The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1901-01-09
TO PROTECT THE MINES.
Kitchener Calls for 5000 Volun-
teers to Repel Boer Invasion.
CAPE TOWN IN A PANIC
Active Preparations to Resist Siege
Troops on Duty in Transvaal
Cannot be Spared.

Cape Town, Jan. 5.-Commandant Vii
joen is conducting a campaign of mine
destruction in the north. During the
past week he has destroyed with dyna-
mite British property valued at $250,O0O
London, Jan. 5.-Lord Kitchener re
ports to the war office under date OF
Pretoria, January 4, as follows:
1.-The Beers have reappeared along the
railway in the neighborhood of Rheinos
ter, but it is doubtful if Dewet is with
them. With regard to the situation in
Cape Colony, the western command
seems to be making towards Calvin and
tn eastern party appears to have brok-
en- up into small parties. Another small
body crossed the Orange river west of
Aliwal North yesterday"
London, Jan. 5.-The widely extended
formation of the Beers continues tC
sweep across Cape Colony, as yet unac
quainted with serious British resistance
Their scattered commands are stretched
out in manner not unlike the farhune
front with which Lord Roberts advanced
from Bloemfontein to Pretoria. They
hurry the imperial forces east, west and
north. keeping the invaded region in a
condition of growing terrorism. 1t is
gradually becoming more and more evil
dent that Cape Colony must find the
means Of its own salvation.
" ord comes that Lord Kitchener has
called for 5000 Cape volunteers to pro-
tect the Rand gold mines, thus indicating
that no troops can be spared from police
duty in the Transvaal, to say nothing
Of the military operations south Of the
Orange river.
Excitement in Cape Town.
Cape Town lives in a state of mind
bordering on panic. Active preparations
are ON foot to resist siege, including
the landing OF several naval guns and
several companies of marines. 1t is hoped
that the invaders lowering around Fra
serburg in West Graaf Reinet, in the
center of the colony, and Maraisberg, i'll
the cast, will be brought to a stand at
the Hex river. Their progress into the
fertile country to the south has been eff
fectively checked
While the defensive scheme material
ICES the movements of the burghers in
the northwest are watched with great
anxiety. The Bechuanaland Beers. aug
mented by many residents, threaten to
invest Grlquatown and thurman.
London Shows Serious Alarm.
There is q complete absence of official
enlightenment about the entire South AT
rican situation. which serves only to mag
Nifty the local alarm. Tidings OF Boer ac-
tivity in the Transvaal and Orange River
colony are hourly looked, for. The com
mander-ln-chlef's general amnesty proc
lamation. granting immunity to the
burgher leaders, rank and file alike is re-
garded in London as the manifestation of
a conciliatory policy forced by 1.-The peace
party in Lord Salisbury's cabinet. No
one seriously allows himself to hope that
the Beers will generally accept the prop
of fIop nd e.;,
Lord Roberts put in full day at the
war office, keeping the cables hot with
his instructions to Cape Town. Last
night he issued letter thanking the pub
lie for his enthusiastic reception and
pleading for the continuance of the relief
fund generosity.
Colonial Office Appointments.
Sir Alfred Miners appointment as
governor Oh the Transvaal and Orange
River Colony is officially gazetted He
retains the title of high commissioner of
South Africa, Sir Walter Hely Hutchin-
son, governor of Natal, becoming govern
lum, governor of Newfoundland, be-
comes the new governor Of Natal.
Beers Cross the Orange.
Cape Town, Jan. Sit is announced
that POO Beers have recrossed the Orange
river. going north. 1t is reported that
the Russian commandments, Petrowsk and
Duplooy, were killed in the fighting at
Utrecht on December %.
A quantity of ammunition has been cap
tured from sympathiZers with the Boer
invaders, in the neighborhood of Paal
Colonial Secretary Graham confirms
the report of a seizure of dynamite in the
Fraserburg district. but says there was
nothing illegal in the shipment of the ex-
plosive to that place.
The Times expresses satisfaction with
response in Cape Town to the government
call to arms. 1t says it trusts the govern
ment will anticipate all troublesome pos
sibilities by a further and immediate ex-
tension of martial law, if not to Cape
Town itself, at least to the gates of the
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