Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1899 — REST ON THEIR ARMS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

REST ON THEIR ARMS.

* 7ldit » M *** *««**«■ BRITISH ANR «OHI •«r v f WJUHr row w ;cf . / : > alocyaj idt r-M« at*,, snn%l»Tt.-K» V -1» \i; lo -/ft' ii FV I .cr<? ftor i(A, altow 1 Complete Cktottohrifi' lHte Between \ l . 'TrZmmf. Renbrted-No One Abie to Kxpleln ■-^rairafffrfiijiiis f ■ V. ' A Idcrlip 4topu tc.ix- **aj’-s jt_ is,-a,p4p*istfto(b-there that before the beginning of hosiilitfes t'Ke“iTansvaal Great Hr itto war tvith the Boers. Dispatches from say that a compli beplan of <|tmpaigfi nas been arrange JIAtA-helPotltdj Ti-aniJial and the Oran ; Fflea the British and I 0 rt|rdp» grerej bt'liered to be about thii ; ibHci ypart.| Preyirations far war aijj ?aiqg prt |ery| r*pidß(fcat the time this |s but; without any say ftiSt the Transvaal wul have nine geneivi|i| in command Of columns. Gen. Jan Et{j.<-k is to command on the Natal Cronje on the southburg. -M&ver all press telegrams the .Hoer is tnalntakiing *a sevrtwtoeitfJ

excitement prevailed Ttiesitiay atUnpe Town, where it was reported thl@the Boers had occupied Laing’s Nhk. tm is nothing to soften the wan spirit (0 recent dispatches. Neither liy-le flftvthing to show that the auth® ‘ties at-Tretoria have any desire to come to peacefully with Great Britain.p'#T«d rift B^rs : noi ikiteruii«ed.* t« ,-ftsUt Itr :Wt orrr they were not prepared tuf ihoatilitieifliicy would, it is thought, have sent rate pacificatory answer to Great message. It is said that the received an important dispcitch)<j|jom Sir Alfred Milner, British i for South the contents of which, however, were tat made public. tUtplieyLondon Daily Chronicle says that !Snfe.£^viMK« rAj staWuicnt that Dr. JuOCAfivOfi>ir«to« J been soti in Matableland raising a corps ‘\S defied Rhodesia is published without The Post says: “What are we .flnwftinAor? is the question every /vufr-ja, T cannot answer.” je)d 'that Mnn a military point of view the <Boers(4N and must for a long time reyqain /listers of the stiuation.” The says: “The situation is fuliiieL no one will be surprieedMbW; gU. further talk of peace rendered : a collision betsveen 1 he, Boets iaud tke3mpcrial troops, or by some bastyr itiaid a/flwjss the frontier.” .oiKwhv.H - i_ An haver tisement appeared in Ijoniltar "Tiiesd(i§t morntog au*etvtii-mg the formar: tlou o/to corps of rougb. jAdviees from Charlestown, Natal, via Oqpe’Townrsay that memters oT' ofl^'ia^wa«H¥l^stbt9n atyiictions from^ftirMlSfWliny‘l^ IMP t ust, 0 udafe doraf itrattiaOlintamxG&l vtime- 1 uto>tJ»- Gen. Joubert, the vice-presiilelfl* 'of the Sovti) .Afti'Mttrt't'flUjrikemuittqfiHC malider-in-_diief_of._th£. lijmavaal.lQrgfA. ‘tn'rived at Volksrust Monday. " is believed that the following crush-, «ig tJbnitinds :^p : ;l.hC i,ddfd, uiwn at ,tbe Britiah; cabiaet toiW'tjogt: Indemnity to Great the ;m|t of h.<vadt.uA rich i the, Boer forts; eiafy; the equality of the English,-'wad-las&BrabbStoßSßtet The tn ivondon Monday Jfiras that j»fflj}uifgQl(s:tould .present war . rtilX A of IrtoHii) -I- 1

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