| Show CRISIS IN THE TRANSVAAL a peaceful solution of the matter is improbable boers may declare war at 48 hours notice I 1 11 i raid will be made on natal before british troops arrive it is said the orange free state will I 1 I 1 join the boer government fifty thousand f men it is said will take the field I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 i million london sept E S the ali johannesburg I 1 ot of the standard says I 1 1 I icare from rom art an official clat who has been larne amest I 1 y striving tor for peace that the ratter batter Is now hopeless the boers will r declare nar at tony forty eight boura notice and will try to raid natal before the british troops arrive I 1 believe e the orange fr free state wilt will join the transvaal but that the boers in I 1 abal and cape colony mill female quiet at the outset unless irritated by the dismissal of t the he cape colony babl ik int the ile boers boera hate bare the fullest conal de venct n ce 1 JD a belr maga magar magarone 7 ire lne rifle an and d their akui kill in marksmanship state attori fity lit smuts Is 18 chief inciter ot of tho the war party thirty thousand nica men in the I 1 i and 2000 in the orange oranee I 1 free state slate will t take ak tho the held field 1 DISTRESS AMO ASIONG NO tilt the times prints a letter from the iho bl eboli of 0 pretoria IT for if funds to relieve the terrible distress ud u d by the protracted tension and the fears of ak nar ar A dispatch to the tha dally daily stall fall from D iaela bay says bays the refugees from barberton Har Bar benton declare that they ac re or o amed r bcd to leave as the vioers anten intended d ed to cordon or on the h e district there ire are numerous other dispatches giving rumors as to war plans and preparations the probable attitude of the natives and possible develop mi nta TALK OF 01 A conference A dispatch from johannesburg Johannes buri to neuters agency definitely announces announce a that the reply of the tran a I 1 lieb public to the british comrada communication n withdraws the he franchise proposal anil and lit in principle to a conference at I 1 Cape capetown tonn A pretoria dispatch dla patch says sayi the reply of the transvaal republic to tho the demands I 1 of great britain increases me TK I 1 terms of years residence necessary to obtain the franchise I 1 I 1 the afternoon after poon raper papers take the lew few that it if the ng dispatch Is correct president pres ddn t brugers Kru gers reply Is arnin ominous 0 up as it was palpal bly made to rain gain time conflicting TELEGRAMS Is I 1 among the crowd of 0 c g dispatches fc rolo rr from south africa 1 r rd ui tile 1 I rans raal I 1 oil it Is 14 still impossible to say gay exactly n flat lias has ile happened it seems seema evident evler nt bo banever hOMe never vcr I 1 that president present kruger has the th five year fi anchise alch was d dependent lell on great britaina Brit ains acceptance of impossible renditions conditions le garding suzerainty and has made some sort of oc tempos counter suggestions regaining a SECRET SESSION the standard and neils ne 9 91 alca es ahat purports to bp be a report of tho the bochet session of oc thi the ou oil saturday according to 10 this account tile the road mad not ordy determined to lejat the live year proposal pro rosal but bui also alo opposed kruger visiting capetown Cape toun and resolved to make a stand for the abrogation of Ur glanda glands claim to suzerainty the boer bigan 01 ran then asset ts tile tho gov Pirn ment both the raabs and tile the Burg burghers hors feel that tha they have offered all they intended to offer and are now nour cd to stand or fall by this decision baer statement of this kind coupled u with ith the arrests at al johannesburg speak louder than the wriggling pretenses of Pr pretoria etorla about arriving at nn in understanding certainly mr I 1 r I 1 1 I 1 bonev p enny and the other her refugees mill 11 not t bo be in ili a hurry to edurn to Johannes johannesburg bur on il account u of alio le fine assurances or of tile tha state attorney Allor ncy |
