Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1899 — BOERS DEFY BRITAIN. [ARTICLE]

BOERS DEFY BRITAIN.

Military la to Rule Johannesburg in the Case of Hostilities. Pretoria advices say that the volks.raad, by a vote of 18 to 9, adopted the report of the majority of the dynamite commission continuing the monopoly. Commandant General P. J. Joubert issued a circular to all field cornets cautioning them against any act tending to bring on a conflict with another power. He declares that not a single stranger who does not volunteer is to be coerced into bearing arms. Commandant Viljoen has given notice in the volksraad that he will ask the Government if in case of war it is prepared to confiscate the property of inhabitants who take up arms against the Government. In the course of an interview after the session Commandant Viljoen said that if war broke out military government would be established at Johannesburg and all British subjects would be compelled to leave.