Show ITHE WAR CLOUD I I GROWS 8LACK Englands Premier to cOne j Today With Chamberlain 4 CABINET COUNCIL IS 4 SUMMONED FOR FRIDAY Messages Sent to i A Ministers to I j Come to London b + t i I Greatest Activity at the Admiralty I and War Offices Ultimatum toSe Sent to President Kruger Officers of Regiments Ordered to Hold Their Troops I Readiness w Feared That the Boer Will Inaugurate L augurate Hostilities I 4 X London Sept 6T premier the Marquis ofT Salisbury will come toLon don today Wednesday from to confer with the secretary ot state 1 for the colonies Joseph Chamberlain rand I r-and a cabinet council has been summoned sum-moned for Friday urgent messages J I having been sent to all the ministers requesting their attendance There Is great activity at the admiralty and war office Numerous telegrams fromSouth Africa arrived at the coloniaL office yesterday yes-terday but their contents have not i been made public 4 General Lord Wolseley field marshal and commanderinchief is dally In 1 communication with > the a office a i are also General Sir Evelyn Wood adjutant ad-jutant general to the forces and Colonel Col-onel Hector Archibald MacDonald aidedecamp to the queen The press association asserts that the I officers of the Highland light Infantry 1 at Devonport notified their men last evening to prepare for departure probably prob-ably on Thursday The Daily Mail expresses the opinion J that the next move will be a ultimatum ulti-matum unless President ICruger yields j I declares that 15000 men Is the outside I oUt-side number that the Transvaal government 4 I gov-ernment ca put into the field The Berlin Sa13 correspondent of the DiY Mail 4 i Fear Boers Will Strike 4 I lean from Boer sources that reliable re-liable news has been received at Pretoria to Pre-toria to the effect that President Krug er > will not glx Mr Chamberlain a chance to set a ultimatum bufe wlll I take advantage of the frt suspicious 1 j movement otthe Bcltishr troops on the I border assume the offensive The Morning Posthas the following f rom its Johannesbui correspondent who nov a Pletermarltzburs capital capi-tal of Natal i I inspected the country carefully on the way from Johannesburg The 1 veldt i not yet In condition for war operations The town of Newcastle is utterly unprotected To seize would assure the Boers possession ot Laings Neck and compel the British t do twenty miles of fighting over rough j country peculiarly situated to Boer tactics before they could begin the first ing real action The war office wants wale t up The Johannesburg correspondent of the Standard says There seems to 5 be some ground for supposing that the 1 peace party at Pretoria has gained a temporary advantage as the result of J the influence of Mr Fisher the special 4 representative State or the Orange Free > f StateMUST |