Show IW WIt1i1N T IN SiT liE FWAR Transvaal Situation Continues to Grow More SerIous I Si BOTH SIDES DETERMINED I ENGLAND PREPARING HERS tFOBCES nr SOUTH ARICA Only 30000 British Soldiers There to 60000 Fightng DoePresident Kgers Fir Stand Has Caused S the Utmost Alarm In London Fleeing From the Transvaal I + London Aug 29ommetlng on the declaration of President Kruger of the Transvaal government to the effect that the South African government adhered ad-hered to Its latest offer and would not make any further concessions the afternoon af-ternoon papers here unanimously draw attention to the Increased seriousness of the Transvaal situation but at the same time ther express uncertainty regarding the nature of the concessions beyond which President Kruger says he will not go No official announcement announce-ment has been made of these though I they are generally understood to be a fiveyear franchise and Increased Outlander Out-lander representation I this Is correct the Globe says silt cannot be long before diplomacy has to1stand aside a of no further service The Pal Mall Gazette says Pfesl dent Krugers adherence to these would mean adherence to Impssble condi tons and If so le situation has come to aJ ugly head The Westminster Gazette while la meting the immoderatIon whIch It cays led to the present crIsis admits that the country Is wIthIn sight of war which may shortly be as unayoldable as on the merit of the question It would be Inex usable No Weakkeed Adversary To whatever dispatch or conditions President Krugers remark referred I has brought home sharply the keen possibility of an Impeding war against no weakkneed adversary I Is sid that with recruits from over the borers bor-ers the Transvaal would have about iOOO men at Its disposal whereas the most the British could now throw on the frontier would be 30000 though of course this number would be materially ly Increased within a month I The Brtsh public Is taking Intense Interest In the preparation of their own forces already In South Africa Indignation In-dignation against the Hon W P Schreiner premier of Cap Colony who In the Cape house of assembly yesterday yester-day declared that under the customs convention the Orange Free State was justified In Importing arms througb Cape Colony Is fairly general though that section which believes that a Boer war would be a crIme are making b editorials polUclans etc what they appear to think Is the last effort to Idvert hostilities |