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Show , Ccrribic Slaughter of Beers in Cransuaal! f ' . . ' l 1 . London, Oct. 20. The Daily Mail's j ( Cape Town correspondent says that aj '' i icfugoe who has reached Grahamstown f ; fri-m the Rand, slates that a train ar- ; lived at Johannesburg on Monday from KIcrk.dorp. with o00 wounded burghers. I j Every available conveyance, the refu- l ' p. c says5, was called into requisition to f : take the wounded men to the hospital. I The- Daily Mail suggests that these I v,-"tinded were (ram Mafeking. f ;y U is reported from Delagoa bay that J hc Swazi king, Funu, is collecting his! : l.u ies. with the object presumably of . attacking the Boers. It is stated that! F 1, the Portuguese forces at Delagoa will ! l-t ! raised to war strength. j ; It is announced from Pietermaritz- I j 1 burg that an eccentric person known au I i t n.inm Deginsberg, has been court maT- ; tiai.-d and shot as a spy. Plans of the f j.n-al forts were found in his possession. The Doers are boasting that they will f in 'Id fancy dress balls and masquerade I i,i Hritish uniforms at Care Town, and mi ban by the end of October. Another .JJ.OUO of Transvaal gold j has been seized aboard the Avondale I I'astue, at Delagoa bay. j The Ladysmith correspondent of the ! the reply. increupon wit; ,iircMo.-s -eased, and since the line has been Dlocked. Presumably the station raas-i raas-i cr escaped." EXCITING DAY AT WAR OFFICE. Crowds of People Flock There to Secure Se-cure the Latest News. j London. Oct. 20. Yesterday was one ! of the most exciting days known at the j vur office since the crowd attended j liu re to learn the result of the relief expedition to Gordon at Khartoum. ' The news thai, the Fifth Lanciers hod i ben engaged brought many laoies and other Iri'-nds of the regiment to inquire j lor news. The gi-av(.t intelligence today seems lo be the report of the capture of a train with officers at Elands Laagto be-e-iuse it was understood that the whole cross-country line was reularly pati oiled. As no correspondents are allowed at the front, it is impossible to gain le:inite informal ion. though it is known I that General Sir tJc-nrge Stewart White has been making some extensive move- j meiits of the troops in that neighbor- j lx.od and developments are hourly expected, ex-pected, j It is rumored that Commandant Gen- j oral Joubert's northern column, with twelve guns, is now at Dannhau:.'er. j Althoueh the Boers have shown con- ! siderable activity in Natal, there is j nothing to indicate that they are yet pre pared for a serious combined attack, at-tack, and the general belief here is that unless something unexrected happens hap-pens General Sir Georse Stewart White ; will maintain the defensive. The surrender of Yryburg is not ef great importance? but it will be regarded re-garded throughout Boerdom as a splendid triumph over the British. The la lest advices received here say that the Natal carbineers, who were ' engasel with the enemy at Bester's station, had six men wounded. An armored train has been, sent from Ladysmith to bring in the wounded. 1 CHAMBERLAIN'S ACCUSED. T. Stead Charges Him With Complicity Com-plicity In Jameson Raid. New York, Oct. 19. A dispatch to the World from London says: The calling out of the militia indicates plainly that the British government considers it necessary to take timely precautions against some foreign complications which threatens to supervene on the Transvaal trouble. In the first instance, in-stance, the militia is only to be employed em-ployed to take the place in home garrisons gar-risons of the line regiments that are j BX'iiig to South Africa. J The government has not thought it advisable, in view of the hostile feeling. I ?.vCv 11I,Veland b' the attack on the ! ty eeM?t'f ' l ieduce th I1sh mill! f o1?1 beloxv its 0Iial led To 'i 40,000 mon- is intend-BtaiinnH intend-BtaiinnH i ?e ,lhe reeuar regiments stationed in Ireland for war irvee bv fnhe'lr! K,1SHSh -iiarbiuaiions belni nr r ffason. the Irish militia being sent for duty to England. iservi?o i !hVa Can be senl on foreign semee, but such a measure is nver contemplated except in time of ex-"a4t,onal ex-"a4t,onal Pei". when the home de-tense de-tense is to be committed to the volun-i,V. volun-i,V. ' il ls aIli"S out of the militia has added aipreciably to the general estimate of the gravity of the situation. vv i stead has issued a pamphlet on the Boer war, entitled: "Are We in the Right? An Appeal to All Honest -Men. It is a powerful indictment of Chamberlain's diplomacy, bringing in the strongest relief the persistent provocative prov-ocative course followed by the colonial secretary throughout the negotiations with the patent object of forcing war on the Transvaal. The most sensational part of the pamphlet pam-phlet is Mr. Stead's solemn declaration that Cecil Rhodes informed him that Mr. "Chamberlain was privy to the Jameson raid, and that the parliamentary parliamen-tary inquiry into the origin of that conspiracy was hushed up because a point had been reached in the investigation investi-gation which, if exceeded, would implicate impli-cate the colonial secretary directly in the plot. London, Oct. 20. The Daily News' Cape Town correspondent says: It is rumored that news has reached Deax Junction that the Boers attacked Iilaf eking in force, but were repulsed. The de- -f fenders, seeing the enemy retreating, pursued them for some dis- i tance. Then a feint was made and they commenced to retire on the -f town, allowing themselves to be driven in by the Boers, who, eager to retrieve their position, again advanced to the attack and were I drawn over mines laid for the defense of the town. It is rumored that 1,500 Boers were killed by the explosions. London, Oct. 19. The Cape Town correspondent of the Daily Mail, telegraphing at 10 o'clock tonight, says: Vryburg surren- i dered Sunday. Tonight's dispatches from Kuruman, ten miles -- east by south of Vryburg, state that the police have withdrawn - from Vryburg. The town surrendered to the Boers, the inhabit- ants fleeing in all directions, mostly toward Kuruman. When the police withdrew the Cape Boers notified, the fact, to . . -- the enemy, thus inviting them to take possession. There was a fearful panic. The British are wildly indignant at this scuttling, -f V Times, under date of "Wednesday even- ing says: fp The situation on the east border is de- I vcloping a more serious aspect. The Vryheid and Utrecht commando, after t looting in the Zululand border, are re- I ported to be in the I'msinga district, j threatening communication between I here and Dundee. The situation at the i' front is reported to be growing more acute. DOER SHOWING "WAS BAD. The Piotcrmaritzburg correspondent cf the Daily Mail, in a dispatch dated Thursday, says: The brunt of the fighting at Hester'; I station yesterday was sustained by the I volunteer patrols. The fighting was I brisk. The Boers numbered i.OOO. The j 1 olunteers at one moment were in grat peril, being nearly cut off. but the olli- I cers handled their men splendidly and the Maxims effectively stopped the Boer J rushes. "The Boer showing was wretched. I The volunteers lost their kit. and alto- j gc-ther the tight was a pretty trying I. onp. The men were in the saddle j three days and two nights, with hardly I a rwst. Basulo natives were fighting I -.ith the Boers. It is reported that I sixteen Boers were killed. "Lieutenant Gallemy, who is reported x missing, is the eldest son of P:r M. H. dallomy. chief justice of Natal. He is supposed to be in hiding, and searching parties have been sent out to try to find him. The cavalry are still bivouac-nvg bivouac-nvg out, and slight skirmishes are fre- I client. ! "I learn officially that Commandant I General Jcnibert has moved his head- quarters to Dannhauser." j BRITISH SOLDIERS CAPTURED. ! The Ladysmith correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, under date of Oct. 19. ! afternoon, says: "The Boers captured a train which left Ladysmith at 12:30, near Elands Laagto. It contained Severn Sev-ern 1 officers and a few men, besides civilians, ci-vilians, all going to Glencoe or Dundee. Fortunately the 10:20 up train, which eontained one of your correspondents, got through. The enemy cut the wire, t severing communication with Glen-" CllC. "The news was first received from the station master at Elands Laagto, who wired: 'I see Botrs near the line. What shall I do?' Ladysmith said: 'Let the train run ahead at lull speed.' "It did so, making for the north of j Elands Laagto. The official said: 'The j Boers are mue-tering and tiring to stop the train. They have stopped it. "What j shall I do? Must I go?' -Yes. go, was , I Dr. Rutherford .Harris, the secretary of the British South Africa company, Stead says,' was Rhodes' intermediary with Chamberlain, and the latter, after some hesitation, was finally roped into the conspiracy by a cablegram from Rhodes, stating that unless facilities were given for the original of Jameson's force, England would lose South Africa, In his pamphlet. Mr. Stead says: "Before the prime minister of the Cape went very far in the conspiracy he found it necessary to enlist the support sup-port ef the colonial office in his designs. de-signs. He sent over to London his Fi-dus Fi-dus Achates. Dr. Rutherford Harris, with instructions to inform Mr. Chamberlain Cham-berlain of what was brewing. Mr. Harris executed his mission and cabled to Rhodes the result of the interview. "At first Chamberlain refused, but subsequently, after Harris had spoken openly to Mr. Fairfield of the colonial office, and had communicated to Chamberlain Cham-berlain the contents of a cablegram from Rhodes, warning him that if he-thwarted he-thwarted the conspiracy England would lose South Africa. Chamberlain gave way on the convenient pretext of necessity for protecting the builders of the Beehuanaland railway from nonexistent non-existent savage tribes. " "Further. Kruger has heard that communications between the eonspira-tors, eonspira-tors, emissaries and the colonial office were close and constant communication and that -during the whole month of November cablegrams were constantly passing and repassing betAveen the chief conspirators at Cape Town and hia trusted emissaries and friend in London, Lon-don, who were -on his behalf keeping the eofonial office in touch with the movement. He knows also that on Nov. 4 Mr. Fairfield advin?d the removal re-moval of the imperial troops before the ugly row began in which the leading role was to be played by the forces of the -chartered company. This letter is one of the few documents that are in evidence. "He has heard alsr that, so far from Mr. Chamberlain, knowing- nothing of t he com plot, he took sen keen and cjose an interest in its development that he insisted that Jameson's men should go in under the Union Jack and that the next governor of the Transvaal should be appointed by the colonial office. Further, Fur-ther, he knows that just before the raid took place a cablegram was received at Cape Town from a trusted friend of Rhodes in London who immediately after af-ter a long interview with Chamberlain, telegraphed to hurry up. "President Kruger also knows that when Rhodes went home to face the music after the raid, his first sin was to send Mr. Hawksley to tell Mr. Fairfield Fair-field of the existence of cablegrams ! which had pas'-ed between Cape Town j and London, which established the eom-j eom-j plicity of the colonial office in the con-j con-j spiracy." |