Show RINDERPEST Its Prevalence Creates Mnch Excitement Excite-ment Among the Boers LONDON April 20A dispatch from Mafeking to the Times dated Saturday Satur-day says There has been a meeting here of representatives rep-resentatives of Cape Colony Natal the Transvaal Orange Free State and the Chartered South African company by whom the whole of Bechuanal va declared de-clared to be infected with the rinder pest I was resolved that there was necessity for combined action A large force of Boers estimated at 500 I is massed twentyfive miles from 11afeI king which is on the border of the Transvaal with a machine gun Their purpose ostensibly is to prevent the spread of the rinderpest but they are really there because another raid is feared owing to the massing of the I l British troops here to be forwarded to Buluwayo Dr Jamesons raid started into the Transvaal from Mafe king kinDr Dr Duncan has telegraphed to Earl Gray from Buluwayo that the chief fear there is from the treachery of the natives inside the town He adds that natves owing to the employment of dynamite and barbed wire and the addition of new forts the laager is now considered Impregnable |