| Show t WELL ORGANIZED tONG CONSPIRACY Evidence Secured Against Cecil Rhodes and Chartered Company TO SEIZE TRANS iL A PLOT TO KJSIIABrLTTATE THE FL OE OP COMPANY If Jroveiit the Trial o Cecil Rhodes jUnst Prove the Most Momentous Since the Famous Trial of War roii HaslinRS Ambassador Bny iird Tender Thank to Great Britain For Kind Offlces Cham iierlain aicets IVIth an Ovation LONDON Jan 16A cablegram cop rlghted by the Press Publishing company to the New York World sasrs The telegram from High Commissioner Commis-sioner Sir Hercules Tloolnson today is the first official confirmation of the rumors rife In London for the past week that President Kruger had secured se-cured evidence on the field of the Krugersdorp battle and elsewhere fully ful-ly proving the complicity of Cecil Rode and other officials of the chartered char-tered comnanv In a well and long cr rranlzed conspiracy to seize the Transvaal Trans-vaal republic Sir Hercules cables from Cape Town today todayI i alleged that the government has documentary evidence of widespread wide-spread conspiracy to seize upon the government and make use of the wealth of the country to rehabilitate British South the finances of the Brish Africa companv I this Is true and If Colonial Secretary Sec-retary Chamberlain makes good his fine protestations the trial of Cecil Rhode and his associates must prove the most momentous t England since Warren Hastlncs was arraigned in Westminster The mystery of i is however if teat te-at Is fair and the conspiracy Is proved against Rhodes and Jam son PTOe agnst how Sir Hercules can excuse his own astonishing Ignorance of how the preparations pre-parations on the Transvaal border were carried for months under the certain knowledge of his subordinates 1n Pechuanaland Bayard Tender Thanks LONDON Jan 16The foreign office of-fice has received a note from United States Ambassador Bayard saying he has been instructed by his government govern-ment to tender thanks to Great Britain Brit-ain for the kind offices of the latter toward Americans in the TransvaaL Trial of Transvaal Prisoners LONDON Jan 16The secretary of Gtatfa for the colonies Mr Joseph Chamberlain today received a reply to his disoatch to the governor of Cape Colony Sir Hercules Robinson requesting details concerning the ar resi of British subjects and others in 1 hE Transvaal as a result of the recent u u Tvt = governor cabled Kr vtnff to your request for details of Jw arr ° st between fifty and sixy hay Keen arrested on the charge of treson i and seeking to subvert the stif Viv inviting the cooperation and entrance of an armed force The pro efl rt s are based I understand on sw > rn information and the trials will occu in the hieh court The accused ar > veil treated awl will bp defended Vv nrle oour5el I is alleged that the pxn < rnmr > nt has documentary evidence of a widespread conspiracy to seize tiri1 tbo tjovemrrpnt and use the wealth of the country to rehabilitate th < Tnrnoe of the hartered company I 7rjred upon Preidnt Kruger mod fration so at not to alienate the sym Tathv which he now enjoys The question ques-tion pf hail is a matter entirely In the hard rf the attornevgencral Theo The-o pnment sterns to bp acting within its 1er1 r5srht = l ohambolain stated that counsel wojl1 he employed to watch the trials of the prisoners on behalf of the British government and counsel would rte > rd the interests of the British American and Belgium prisoners Receives an Ovation LONDON Jan 16Rt Hon Joseph Chamberlain secretary of state forte for-te colonies received an ovation upon arriving at the Birmingham railroad station tonight In expressing his thinks for his reception he said he oxul1 not pak of his recent work be cdU it was still incomplete He con pratulat his hearers that good had mp out of evil and that proof had been afforded that In times of national difficulty party distinctions vanished and that the old spirit of Englishmen was not dead He was happy to be able to say the resources of the empire em-pire were never better prepared for any contingency In Xo Danger NSW YORK Jan 17The World this morning publishes a dispatch from the Boer government Information de par ment which says among other things Americans are in no danger whatever They have no need of protection pro-tection but are able to take care of themselves Will Be Handed Over LONDON Jan 16A dispatch tote the Times from Cape Town says Gov te ernor Sir Hercules Robinson who Is at Pretoria has telegraphed to Sir J Gordon Gor-don Sprigg the premier of Cape Colony Col-ony that Dr Jam son and his officers will be handed over on the terms approved ap-proved by the British government AH of the rank and file not domi cled in South Africa will be discharged discharg-ed and sent to their homes Uiilnndcrs Arrested LONDON Jan 16The Daily Tele iaph has a dispatch from Cape Town which says The Uitlanders who have been arrested will probably be fined 2000 each The leaders will be sentenced sen-tenced to five years in prison but it is likely that when the excitement has ebated President Krueger will liberate liber-ate and banish them |
