Show INCITING THE BASUTOS Free Staters Sowing Disaffection Among the Blacks London Jan S1hc Times publishes the following dispatch from ourcnco 1 Marques I learn on unimpeachable authority that ihe Frec Slaters arc actively ac-tively sowLag disaffection among the sowlr nmonC tel J3asttos I if f believed that some of tie minor chiefs have received their advances no unfavorably A Basuto Interpreter to the Free Stale but recently re-cently took the son of u Basulo chief to PnMorla to show him the British prisoners there as proof of the Boer victories It Is I believed however that with Chiefs Jonathan and Lorolhodl Kyal and even desirous of attacking the Boers those Intrigues will not result seriously Although the Boor agents and their foreign satellites have done considerAble consider-able during the past week In securing supplies for the Tnimnaal they are still wry active the center of the whole machinery being Consul Pott who besides be-sides holding the agencies of various Steamship lines Is the manager of tho impress Afrlcana Landing company which Is the lending landing agency hero lie Is therefore able to facilitate facili-tate the discharge of cargoes Intended ior the Transvaal There Is reason to believe that t the controlling Interest In I the Empress Afrlcana Landing company com-pany Is I held l by the Donald CurIe Co Stein Morrison and Charles Hutching of Natal Similarly the local agency of the Sheba gold mine Is in the hands of L German firm notorious for persistent efforts to render services to the Transvaal Some local British banks also assist this business of forwarding agents by the acceptance of Boor drafts for collection col-lection and by 1 issuing the recently minted Transvaal coinage This Is important im-portant presumptive evidence that the Boers are securing an important quid pro quo Already wool to the value of some 15000 hat been exported by the Boer republics by way of Delagoa bay A dispatch to the Dally Mail dated January Gth from Durban says IT M S Widgeon brings from Delagoa hay u number of British ambulance men who were captured at Dundee and subsequently released They accuse the Boers of harshly treating prisoners taon from the British Irregular corps Several Americans among the civilians civil-ians complain bitterly that their Consul Con-sul at Pretoria Ignored their representation represen-tation although no charge had been preferred against them |