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Show BOER WAR CLOUD. BRITISH CABINET COUNCIL SUMMONED. SUM-MONED. People at Johannesbure are Leaving for Places of Safety Transvaal May Begin Be-gin Hostilities at Any Time. London, Sept. 7. Affairs are approaching ap-proaching a crisis in the dispute with the Transvaal and the next few hours may witness the dispatch of an ultimatum ulti-matum which may decide between peace and war. Urgent messages have been sent to all the ministers requesting request-ing their attendance at a cabinet council coun-cil tomorrow. There is great activity at the admiralty and war office. Numerous Nu-merous telegrams are arriving from South Africa. General Lord Wolsley, field marshal and commander in chief, is in communication commu-nication with the war office, as are also Geeral Sir Evelyn Wood, adjutant-general, adjutant-general, and Colonel Hector Archibald MacDonald, aide-de-camp to the queen. It is -asse rted that the Highland light infantry at Devonport has been notified to prepare for departure. The Daily Mail expresses the opinion opin-ion that the "uext move will be au ultimatum ul-timatum unless President Kruger yields." It declares that 15,000 men is the outside number that the Transvaal government can put into the field. The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says: "I learn from Boer sources that reliable re-liable news has been received at Pretoria Pre-toria to the effect that President Kru" ger will not give Mr. Chamberlain a chance to send an ultimatum, but wil1 take advantage of the first suspicions movement of the British troops on the border to assume the offensive." Exodus From Johuencsbuvu. Johannesburg, Sept. 7. Public anxiety anx-iety shows no abatement and the exo-Jus exo-Jus of the population continues. The staffs of several large financial house3 have departed with their books for Cape Town. A party of 150 left yes. terday, and during the past week several sev-eral hundred have departed. Many more are preparing to go. On a declaration decla-ration of war the natives will be transported on ears that are now in waiting. Families have been grouped and superintendents for each group appointed in order to facilitate their removal, and before hostilities can begin the district will be pretty well cleared. |