Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 22, Petersburg, Pike County, 6 October 1899 — Page 7

“BEHOLD THE SHIPS.” Dr« Talmage Preaches on the Glory of the Nary. S* Appropriate Sermon for Admiral Dewey’s Home Coming — Usefal Lessons from the Lives of Naval Heroes. {Copyright, 1899, by Louis Kiopsch.) Washington, Oct L At a time when the whole nation is stirred with patriotic emotion at the return of Admiral George Dewey and his gallant men on the cruiser Olympia and . the magnificent reception accorded to them, Rev. Dr. T. DeWilt,Talmage, in this sermon, preaching to a vast audience, appropriately recalls for devout and patriotic purposes some of the great naval deeds of olden and more recent times. Text, Jamesiii, 4: “Behold •also the ships.” If this exclamation was appropriate ■about 1S72 years ago, when it was written concerning the crude fishing smacks that sailed Lake Galilee, how much more appropriate in an age which has launched from the drydocks for purposes of peace the Oceanic, of the White •Star line; the Lucania. of the Cunard line; the St. Louis, of the American line; the Kaiser Wilhelm tier Grosse, of the North German Lloyd line; the Augusts Victoria, of the llamburgAmericun line, and in an age which for purposes of war has launched the Oregon, the Brooklyn, the Texas, the Olympia, the4 Iowa, the Massachusetts, the Indiana, the New York, the Marietta of the Iowa, the Massachusetts, the Indiana, the New York, the Marietta of the last war, and the scarred veterans of war shipping, like the Constitution, or the Alliance, or ;tbe Constellation, that have swung into the naval yards to spend their last days, their ’decks now all silent of tfife feet that trod them, ■their rigging all silent of the hands that clung to them, their portholes silent of the brazen throats that once thundered out of them.

If m the first century, when war vessels were dependent on the oar§ that paddled at the side of them for propulsion, my text was suggestive, with how much more emphasis and meaning and overwhelming reminiscence we can cry out ns we see the Kearsalge lay across the bows of the Alabama and sink it, teaching foreign nations they had better keep their hands off our American fight, or as we see the ram Albemarle >of the confederates running out and in the Iloanokeand up and down theeoast, throwing everything into confusion as no other craft ever did, pursued by the Miami, the Ceres, the Southfield, the SasSacuss, the Mattabesett, the Whitehead, the Commodore Hull, the Louisiana,the Minnesota and other armed vessels, all trying in vain to catch her, un- ' til Capt. Cushing, 21 years of age, and his men blew her up, himself and only -one other escaping, and as I see the flagship Hartford, and the Kiehmond, and the Monongaliela, with other gunboatr, sweep past the batteries of Port Hudson, and the Mississippi flows forever free to ail northern and southern craft, and under the fire of, Dewey and his men the Spanish ships' at Manila burn or sink, and the fleet rushing out of San-s tiago harbor are demolished by our guns, and the brave Cervera surrenders, l cry out with a patriotic emotion that ' I cannot suppress if I would, and would not ill could: “Cehold also the ships!” Full justice has been done to the men who at different times fought on the land, but not enough has been said of those who on ship's deck dared and suffered all things. Lord God of the rivers ^and the sea, help me in this sermon! tSo, ye admirals, commanders, ci.ptains,^ pilots, gunners, boatswains, sailmakers, surgeons, stokefs, messmates and seamen of all names, to use your own parlance, we might as, well get under way. and stand out to sea. Let all land- - lubbers go ashore. Full speed now! Four bells! Never since the sea fight of Lepanto, where 300 royal galleys, mannet by 50,OOO warriors, at sunrise Septet.iber 6, 1571, met 250 royal galleys, manned by 125.000 men, and in the four hours of battle 8,000 fell on one side and ?5,000 -cn the other; yea, never since the day when at Actium, 31 years before Christ, Augustus with 260 ships scattered the 220 ships of Mark Antony and gained universal dominion as the prize; yea, since the day when at Salamis the 1,200 galleys of the Persians, manned by 500.000 men, were crushed by Greeks 'with less than a third of that force; yea, never sinee the time of Noah, the first ship captain,has the world seen such a miraculous creation as that of the American navy in 1861.

There were about 200 available seamen in all the naval stations and receiving ships, and here and there an old vessel. Yet orders were given to blockade 3,500 miles of seacoast, greater than the whole coast of Europe; and, besides that, the Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland, Mississippi and other great rivers, covering an extent of 2,000 more miles, were to be patrolled. No wonder the whole civilized world burst into guffaws of laughter at the seeming impossibility. But the work was done, •done almost immediately, done thoroughly and done with a speed and conaummate skill that eclipsed all the history of naval architecture. <. In the cemeteries for federal and ■confederate dead are the bodies of most of those who fell on the land. But -where those are who went down in the ■war vessels \^11 not be known until the sea gives up its dead. The jack tars knew that while loving arms might •carry the men who fell on the laqd and bury them with solemn liturgy and the honors of war, for the bodies of those who dropped from the ratlines into the sea or went down with alLon board under the stroke of a gunboat there retrained the shark and the whale and the endless tossing of the sea which cannot rest. Once a year, in the decoration of the graves, those who fell in tha land ware remembered. But how

about the graves of those who went down at sea? Nothing but the archangers trumpet shall reach their lowly bed. A few of them were gathered into naval cemeteries of the land, and we every year garland the sod that covers them. But who will put flowers on the fallen crew of the exploded Westfield and Shawsheen and the sunken Southfield and the Winfield Scott? Bullets threatening in front, bombs threatenening from above, torpedoes threatening from beneath, and the ocean, with its reputation of 6,000 years for shipwreck, lying all around, am I not right in saying it required a special courage for the navy in 1863 as it required special courage in 1898? * It looks picturesque and beautiful to see a war vessel going out through the Narrows,* sailors in new rig singing; A life on the ocean wave. Vi: A home on the rolling deep, the colors gracefully dipping to passing ships, the decks immaculately clean and the guns at quarantine firing a parting salute. But the poetry is all gone out j of that ship as it comes out of that engagement, its decks red with human blood, wheelhouse gone, the cabins a pile of shattered mirrors and destroyed j furniture, steering • wheel broken, smokestack crushed, a hundred pound whitworth ritle shot having left its mark from port to starboard, the shrouds rent away, ladders splintered I and decks plowed up and smoke blackened and scalded corpses lying among those who are gasping their last gasp far away frqm home and kindred. Oh, men of the American navy returned from Manila and Santiago and Havana, as well as those who are survivors of the naval conflicts of 1SC3 and 1S64, men of the western gulf squadron, of the eastern gulf squadron, of the South Atlantic squadron, of the North Atlantic squadron, of the Mississippi squadron, of the Pacific squadron, of the West India squadron and the Po-tomac-flotUla, hear our thanks! Take the benediction of our churches. Accept the hospitalities of the nation. If we had our way, we would get you not only a pension, but a home and a

princely wardrobe and an equipage and a banquet while you live and after your departure a catafalque and a mausoleum of sculptured marble, with a model of the ship in which you won the day. It is, considered a gallant thing when in a naval tight the flagship with its blue ensign goes ahead up a river or into a bay, its admii^ standing in its shrouds watching and giving orders. But 1 have to tell you, O veterans of the American navy, if you are as loyal to Christ as you were to the government, there is a flagship sailing ahead of you of which Christ is the admiral, and lie watches from the shrouds, and the heavens are the blue ensign, and He leads you toward the harbor, and all the broadsides of earth and hell cannot damage you, and ye whose garments were once red with your own blood shall have a robe washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. Then strike eight bells! High noon in Heaven! While we are heartily greeting and banqueting the sailor patriots just now returned we must not forget the vet-' •erans of the navy now in marine hospitals or spending their old days in their own or their chiidrep’s homesteads. O ye veterans, 1 charge you bear up under the aches and weaknesses that you still carry from the wartimes. You are not as stalwart as you would have been but for that nervous strain and for that terrific ex-, posure. Let every ache and pain, instead of depressing, remind you of your fidelity. You have in nerve and muscle and bone and dimmed eyesight and difficult hearing and shortness of breath many intimations that you are gradually going down. It is the service of many years ago that is telling on you. Be of good cheer. We owe you just as much as though your lifeblood had gurgled through the scuppers of the ship iu the Bed river expedition or as though you had gone down with the Melville off Hatteras. Only keep your flag flying, as did the illustrious Weehawken. Good cheer, my boy! The memory of man is poor, and all that talk about the country never forgetting those who fought for it is an untruth. It does forget. Witness how the veterans sometimes had to turn the hand organs on the street to get their families a living. Witness how ruthlessly some of them were turned out of office that some bloat of a politician might take ttyfir place. Witness the fact that t^ej>€ is not a man or woman now under 45 years of age who has any Ihill appreciation of

tne lour years martyrdom of lslil to 18C5, inclusive. But, while men may forget, God never forgets. He remembers the swinging hammock. He remembers the forecastle. He remembers the frozen ropes of that January tempest. He remembers the amputation without sufficient ether. He remembers the horrors of that deafening night when forts from both sides belched on you'their fury and the heavens glowed with ascending and descending missiles of death and your ship quaked under the recoil of the 100 pounder, while all the gunners, according to commifnd, stood on tiptoe, with mouth 'wide open, lest the concussion shatter hearing or brain. He remembers it all better than you remember it, and in some shape reward will be given. God is,the best of all paymasters, and for those who do their whole duty to him and the world the pension awarded is an everlasting heaven. Sometimes off the coast of England the royal family have inspected the British navy, maneuvered before them for that purpose. In the Baltic sea the czar and czarina have reviewed the Kussian navy. To bring before the American people the debt they owe to the navy I go out with you on the Atlantic ocean, where there is plenty of room, and in imagination review the war shipping of our four great conflicts—1776, 1812, 1865 and 1898. Swing into line all ye frigates, ironclads, fire rafts, gunboata and men of war l There they

come, all sail set and all furnaces la full blast, sheaves of crystal tossing from their cutting prows. ' And now all the squadrons of all departments, from smallest tugboat to mightiest man of war, are in proceasion, decks and rigging filled with men who on the sea fought for the old flag ever since we were a nation. Grandest fleet the world ever saw! Sail on be* fore all ages! Bun up all the colors! Bing all the bells! Yea, open all the portholes! Unlimber the guns and load and fire one great broadside that shall wake the continents in honor of peace and the eternity of the American union! But I lift my hand, and the scene has vanished. Ylany of the ships have dropped under the crystal pavement of the deep, sea monsters swimming in and out the forsaken cabin, and other old craft have swung into the navy yards, and many of the brave spirits who trod thdr decks are gone up to the Eternal fortress, from whose casements and embrasures, may we not hope they look down to-day with joy upon a nation ii, reunited brotherhood? All those of you who were in the naval service during the war of 1865 are now in the afternoon or evening of life. With some of you it is two o’clock, three o’clock, four o’clock, six o’clock, and it will soon be sundown./ If you were of age when the war broke out, you are now at least 60. Many of you have passed into the seventies. While in our Cuban war there were more Christian commanders on sea and land than in any previous conflict, I would revive in your minds the fact that at least two great admirals of the civil war were Christians, Foote and Farragut. Had the Christian religion been a cowardly thing they would have had nothing to do with it. In its faith they lived and died. In Brooklyn navy yard Admiral Foote held prayer meetings and conducted a revival on the receiving ship North Carolina and on Sabbaths, far out at sea, following the chaplain with religious exhortation. In early life, aboard th,e sloop ' of war Natchez, impressed by the words of a

Christian sailor, he gave hii spare time for two weeks to the Bible and at the end of that declared openly: “Henceforth, under all circumstances, I will act for God.“ His last words while dying at the Astor house, New York, were: “l thank God for all His goodness to me. He has been very good to me.” When he entered Heaven, he did not have to run a blockade, for it was amid the cheers of a great welcome. The other Christian admiral will be honored on earth until the day when the fires from above shall lick up the waters from beneath and there shall be no more sea. Oh. while old ocean’s breast Bears a white sail Ar.d'God’s soft stars to rest Guide through the gale, Men will Him ne’er forget, Old heart of oak— Farragut, Farragut— , Thunderbolt stroke! We hail with thanks the new gen gration of naval heroes, those bf the year 1S9S. We are too near their marvelous deeds to fully appreciate theml A century from now poetry and sculpture and painting and history will do them better justice than we can do them now. A defeat at Manila /would have been an infinite disaster. Foreign nations not over-fond of our American institutions would have joined the other side, and the war so many months past would have been raging still, and perhaps a hundred thousand graves would have opened to take down our slain soldiers and sailors. It took this country three years to get over the dis- , aster at Bull Run at the opening of the 1 civil war. How many years it would have required to recover from a defeat at Manila in the opening of the Spanish war I cannot say. God averted the calamity by giving triumph to our navy under Admiral Dewey, whose coming up through the Narrows of New York harbor day before yesterday was greeted by the nation whose welcoming cheers will not cease to resound until to-morrow, and next day in the capital of the nation the jeweled sword voted by congress shall be presented amid booming cannonade and embannered hosts, Especially let the country boys of America join in these greetings to the 1 returned heroes of Manila. It is their work. The chief character in all the scene is the once country lad, George j Dewey. Let the Vermonters come down and find him older, but the same modest, unassuming, almost bashful person that they w ent to school with and with whom they sported on the playground. I The honors of all the world cannot

spoil him. A few weeks ago at a ban- j quet in England some of the titled noblemen were affronted because oui i American minister plenipotentiary as* j sociated the name of Dewey with that of Lord Nelson. As well might we be ! affronted because the name of Nelson is associated with that of our most renowned admiral. The one man in all the coming ages will stand as high as the other. So this day, sympathizing with all the festivities and celebrations of the past week and with all the festivities and celebrations to come this week, let us anew thank God and those heroes of the American navy who have done such great things for our beloved land. Come aboard the old ship Zion, ye sailors and soldiers, whether still in the active service or honorably discharged and at home having resumed citizenship. And ye men of the past, your last battle on the seas fought, take from me, in God's name, salutation and good cheer. For the few remaining fights with sin and death and hell make ready. Strip your vessel for the fray. Hang the sheet chains over the side Send down the topgallant masts. Barricade the wheel. Rig in the dying jik boom. Steer straight for the shining shore, and hear the shout of the great Commander of earth and Heaven at He cries from the shrouds: “'robins that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life which is in the midst of the paradise of God." Hnsann&l Ho sannml

HANNA ONCE MORE. fir RcptUieu Bm Rctarai t« LNk After the PneiMeatial J«l. It is natural that Mark Hanna should be swift to reply to the statements of John It McLean relative to the recent heavy shrinkage of stock values in Wall street, as, indeed, he is to answer any and all assertions of evil results chargeable to trust monopoly of American trade and manufacture. It is Mark Hanna’s first duty to defend the trusts and to see that they maintain the domination made possible by their control of the republican party. It was for this purpose that he went into public life, taking the leadership of the republican party in order to look ' after the interests of the trusts. Hanna had no honest ambition for legitimate distinction in American politics. He is the inevitable product of a political party surrendered to commercialism. The part he plays on the national stage is solely that of the syndicates’ man of business. When Mark Hanna took up Mr. McKinley and elected him to the presidency of the United States he was not intent upon rendering the best service to his party and people. He was serving the trusts, knowing that Mr. McKinley would be subservient to the trusts. When he assumed the management of the republican national organization it was not done for the public good or primarily through party devotion. It was because this leadership placed the party reins in the hands of the trusts. And when Mark Hanna bought his way into the United States senate he did -so, not1 that he was am

PAG AH republicanism: Tk« EleoMati All CmiUw to Boost the Imperialist Atela* latrotloo. Getting their inspiration from the Forakers and Roosevelts, the little organs of the republican party in all parts of the country are joining in givingall the glory to the republican party and its administration in this style: “With a wheat crop of over 500,000,000 bushels, a corn crop of over 2,000,000,000 bushels and other crops in proportion, the tide of prosperity which has set in in this country may be expected to go on rising.” That is the style. The farmer may plant and the rain may water, but McKinley alone giveth the increase—McKinley as the personification and embodiment of the republican party. But we need not wonder that the little organs unite in this absurd ascription of all power and glory to party when the wise men and heroes go about the country giving all the.praise for every good thing and for many things that are not good to the party god. A few days ago Senator Foraker not only attributed all pur prosperity torepublican measures, but declared that even if the chief of those measures was the mother of trusts it was an unspeakable blessing, and that its abandonment even in part would bring upon the country idleness, souphouses, ruin and all sorts of woes and calamities. And a little later Judge Nash, one of the intellectual luminaries of the party in Ohio, said to an audience that was waiting to hear Hero Roosevelt: “Much of the great gain of our country is attributable to the restoration of a tariff

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bitious for senatorial honors or zealous in his constituents’ behalf, but that he knew he could be useful to the trusts on the floor of the senate. Mark Hanna is not a pleasant figure to contemplate in American public life. He stands for all the evil developments in that life brought rfbout by the lowering of political standards constituting so deplorable a phase of recent years. He is the antithesis of the American statesman of this country’s better and purer days. The principle controlling his public service is that of selfish devotion to the almighty dollar. His real constituency is composed of multimillionaires and monopolists desirous of increasing the number of their millions and strengthening the grasp of their monopolies. The common people represent to Mark Hanna cnly the material out of which to squeeze these things desired by the syndicates. This man, however, is serving a good purpose in American politics. He is sickening the people of statesmanship for the benefit of the rich at the expense of the poor. He is causing American gorges to rise at the developments possible to prostituted politcis. He is proving the danger ant! degradation inevitable to a party which subordinates principle to pelf. When Mark Hanna retires from public life he will have builded better than he knew. He will have made it impossible for many years to witness a repetition of Hannaism as thecontrollingfactor in a party to which xhe people had intrusted the management of national affairs for the best interests of the nation.—St. Louis Republic.

PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS. -Ohio republicans are glad to see Hanna back—provided he has brought the greenback.—Albany Argus. ——Mr. Hanna’s assertion that the trusts are natural and beneficial is true. It is always natural for greed to'assert itself, and greed is benefited by monopolizing combinations.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. ——Whenever a democrat insists that something practical be done in the way of regulating the trusts there Is always a republican close by to exclaim that the democrats are trying to make partisan politics out of the agitation.— Kansas City Times. -Mr. Hanna will not be able to persuade the people that he and his party arc the sincere enemies of trusts. The republican party begot the “trust,” and since the offspring has attained its growth it has in turn been the mainstay of the republican party. A falling out between them would-be a strange affair.—Chattanooga News.

law so fashioned as to be beneficial to American interests alone. But much more of it is due to the determination of the American people to maintain inviolate and forever a sound and honest financial policy in this,land.” Because of this republican tariff and of a republican financial policy which has not yet emerged into the perceptible Judge Nash declared: “The unemployed are no longer idle. Those who worked only half time and for half pay are now reaping a full harvest.” When the little organs are told by such great lights that “the unemployed are no longer idle” because McKinley has set them to work somehow without giving them employment it is no wonder that they forget Providence and set up an elliptical josshouse at Canton with McKinley at one focus and a flag at the other and continually burn scraps of paper before these objects of their pagan idolatry.—Chi&go Chronicle. JINGO GABBLE. Spread Kagrle Fervor of Ma«4tia Heretic* Who Defend Imperialism.

Sensible people, whatever may be their private opinions as to the question at issue; unbecoming both weary and indignant over the vulgar and brutal denunciation heaped by orators and organs upon everyone who expresses a doubt as to the wisdom of the administration's Philippine policy. The spectacle is disgraceful and it will react upon the cause in the behalf of which it has been presented. This is a free country yet, we hope, and honest citizens still retain the right to their opinions and their conscientious utterances. The sooner the administration calls off its newspaper and other champions engaged in this abominable business, the better for its standing with the country at large. There is no possible excuse for trumping up spreadeagle fervor or maudlin hysterics. The question i§. one of expediency as to which every citizen may express his views withoulimpropriety. All this talk such as Senator Hanna has been indulging In—to the effect that Europe will “laugh at us” if we abandon our present policy—is feeble nonsense. Europe is not likely to laugh at the United States and nobody would care even if she did. We are not running this country to please Europe, and have no interest or approbation to consult except our own. No amount of such gabble as we refer to can accomplish any result save that of discrediting the gabblers and disgusting decent men.—WOahinotnn

m TREMBLING IK THE BALANCE.' 4a Overt Act JMay l>rcctpit«t« till ties la Ac Traaavaa) Aar M«mrat. London, Oct. 2.—From all . Ute Transvaal, Natal and Capa Colonv, come reports of continued military activity on the frontiers. \VM1« she movement of individual commands as yet do not show concentrated plans it is evident that the narrow, wedge-like strip of Natal whoee apex is crowned with the ominous name of ' Majuba Hill will be the center of the coming storm. Late Saturday the Boers a camp at Scheebpers Neck, nefuyVreyheid, and they wiii mobilize a great force on the Buffalo riverfo-day, which the authorities at Dundee expect wil| move across the border to that spot* probably at once. It is believed: thd) a conflict at this point will certainly occur early in the week. At the sam« time the Boers are collecting a force o| 2,000 men, under the notorious commandant Gronje, in the Mulmamvgoiii fields, near Mafeking, where Col. Ba* den Powell is stationed. Dispatches from Tuli, Rhodesia. announce that another force of Burgh* ers is massed at Petersburg, 50 miles south, and that outlying parties art posted at all the drifts along the Lin* popo river. 1st the meantime Col. Plummer's column is moving 50 miles nearer the Transvaal frontier and has established telephone connections within six miles of Rhodesia drift on the Limpopo. Enthusiastic scenes at all the rail

takway stations have marked the ad vanes of the Natal volunteers. - * • Mg&fc - A dispatch from Mafeking annhnees that commandant Cronje, commander of the Transvaal border police, crossed the border andyisited Chief Baralolgn, apparently wit^the object of inciting him to fight. 'J?he British dtft commissioner ordesfd the chief to i protect the women and chill ing him that he would not be to fight. . The Boers openly threaten to raid Yryburg, in British Bechuan&lanri. as soon as hostilities open, add the Kimberly Advertiser complains of the apathy of the Cape ministry in oot taking steps to prevent this. The Transvaal field cornet^fa ing names of colonial Boers who are willling to cross the border in the eveiite? "vrar. 3 Ready for the Field. Johannesburg, 3 Oct. 2.—The coot mandeering orders are completed and the Burghers are ready for the field. A large body passed through the town Saturday afternoon. Business has virtually ceased. The merchants have finished Ifcigpieading their premises, and the proprietors'bf the drinking saloons expect to receive a notification to close their establish* ments to-day. . * . M Mis#. A party of 200 Germans has be n notified to leave, and the Irish corps, commanded by Blake, an Irish-Aiueri-can, will go early in the . -j The mines are payipg a pound ($5) daily, with food, to men who will to mam. Three- traids filled Burghers for the. Natal last evening reported as leave Braalfontein, owing w|£| block on the line, which has the whole train service. Two thousand passengers left Saturday by the morning and the afternooD trains and nearly 1.000 more by out* going trains Saturday night. The government undertakes to provide for the families of Burghers who go to the front. lwklas t» Ctogjfor Dtreetloa. London, Oct. 2.—Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, archibishop of Westminster, preaching in the Pro-Cathedral yesterday referred to the Transvaal, saying: “War is trembling in the balauee, and a great responsibility rests upon those deputed to .safeguard 'the—welfare of Hie British nation. An unjust or an unnecessary war would be a great national Crime, deserving divine eha&tisament, because it would be an offense against God and mankind. I “Realizing the awfulness of war, the Catholic churches in London are today offering prayers to Almighty God that light and strength and courage be given to those responsible for the inI terests df the nation and that they may be led to do what is right and just.’* A armed were unable to

Civil Froce«lBHi|^®'_ Pretoria, Oct. 2.—While yesterday found Pretoria somewhat quiet as the result of Saturday’s exodus, detachments of Burghers were still moving to the Natal border. ' It is expected that martSa£law will be proclaimed Tuesday or Wednesday Already all civil procedures have been stopped until further orders and another proclamation postpones the sittings of the circuit court. 3^#; The sentiment of the Boers was significantly manifested as the train carrying the Pretoria contingent to the front departed Saturday. Members of the volksraad who were looking on exclaimed: “That is our ultimatum.” MsMIlilac to Defend Xeweaatle. Newcastle, Natal, Oct. 2.—Johannesburg mail train due at midnight, only arrived yesterday morning. It was crowded with refugees, who reported that the train was sidetracked at Stanlerton, Transvaal, to make way foe trains oarrying burghers. ^ -\ Four thousand Boers are at Standsprint and Volksrust, just beyond tlw Natal border. The Natal police are being called in from outlying stations and tbs local troops and carbineer* are mobilizing for the defense of Newv I castle. -_. ■; - * toward Volksrust, the n< leanest station