Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1896 — WHIP THE BRITISH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WHIP THE BRITISH.

VICTORY F,OR BOERS IN THE- - TRANSVAAL BATTLE. ' Dr. Jameson Surrenders—Remnant'of Hi's Forces Now Imprisoned at Johannesburg London Instructions Disregarded—Parallel to Venezuela South Africa Excited.. The invading English army ifn the. Transvaal has been disastrously defeated ■ l>y Hiwßoi r«; A-srpmir mure ha.ve 'beerr killed, many wounded, and Dr. Jameson is a prisoner at Johannesburg. One ««f the most impudent acts of aggression ever, committed even by British arms has thus met with swift retribution. The details are meager of this inglorious finale of what was intended to be a brilliant piece of bravado, which success might justify but which failure would make a crime. Afi that is known is the Government messengers; with dispatches from London ordering Dr. Jameson to retreat to the Chartered Company’-s-terri- | tory, reached Dr. Jameson Wednesday morning. He pocketed tlic Queen’s,orders, told the messenger laconically that he would attend to them, gave the command to fiis troops to saddle, and marched, not on the back track, but on toward Johannesburg. • At 4 o’clock in the afternoon he eneoun-_ tered the. Boers at Ivrugersdorf. There was hard lighting until sundown, and the British troops suffered severely. Tho famous marksmanship of the Boers was no less deadly than in their , gallapt defense against the sunn* enemy fifteen yearsago. Twenty men, including three officers, were killed, and fifty prisoners were taken before Dr. Jameson surrendered. A London dispatch says: The world

"will now be overwbelmeiTwTni disavowals from everybody concerned except Dr; Jameson. X obodv r-ill be louder in protesting their-innocence than the Chartered Company and Cecil Rhodes, but nobody will believe them. Nothing will change the popular conviction that what has happened is simply the overthrow of a bold and reckless plot. The part that failed was the promised uprising of the UWanders in Johannesburg. The revolt there was expected to begin the day before Dr. Jameson crossed the frontier. His justification was to be: “The Boers are mas-

saoreing our countrymen. Blood is thicker than water.' We will march to their rescue.” Eveu that excuse would be sentimental rather than legal, but it would go in South Africa aiul it would probably go in England if‘Germany and other countries did not make too much fuss nbopt it. Hence the wires were cut and Dr. JatneBon, with 700 men, dashed in at the appointed’time to carry out their part of the plan. The faint-hearted foreigners in Johannesburg failed-to begin the rebellion, and Dr. Jameson’s rescue expedition be-

came a horde of lawless freebooters, invading a friendly State. Such is the true aspect of the situation in the eyes of Englishmen. The -British- < loverMUient has already disavowed everything; so has Cecil Rhodes; so has the Chartered Company, through its directors in London. It is by no means certain that the trouble in the Transvaal is at an end. Britain Thursday night was given the interesting spectacle of the British colonial secretary sending a beseeching appeal to President Kruger that the Boers deal leniently with - tJhe wounded and other prisoners. The reason of this is that

great aocial pressure was brought to bear on Mr. Chamberlain to resene a dozen officers of the guards, several noblemen’* sdns a fid' other young bloods' with high connections, who tire included in Dr. Jameson's force of invaders. j Cut|se of the Trouble; There is tio Schomburgk fine in Sonth Africa. There is no other line, says a

correspondent, which the Imperialist pas sion of Great Britain and the greed of British colonists will recognize unless one or the other of the great powers, in its own interests, arbitrarily fixes a line be

Jond which the adwuiec guard of British trade and British rule mqy not go with safety tq the imperial Government. Twenty years ago English dominion in South Africa extended only to latitude 30 degrees south of the equator. To-day the provisional boundary of the British South African Company's protectorate is at latitude 10 degrees south. How this has been accomplished the world knows. Never were irregulars in time of war given freer rein than Rhodes and Jameson and the cape colonists generally have had in the butchery of natives and the seizure of territory. The war on poor old Lobengnla, instigated and directed by this same defeated Jameson, was an unparalleled blot on nineteenth century civilization. -• s' • The issue to which all the nations of the earth are gradually awakening—whether the time has not come to forcibly prevent the extension of British dominion—has been precipitated by the rash act of Jameson, a high-handed adventurer of r type more patiently considered in the hoydey of piracy than in our owfi time. It is inconceivable that the secretary for the colonies should not have been nble to stop the South African (Company’s agent. Private letters prove,that the sortie wai in contemplation a month ago. Mr. Chamfceti&ta's iarortMiriiottS’hre tardy. The predicament of the imperial Government is extremely awkward. On the one hand they have to restrain the lust and pugnacity of high-spirited colonists, wfio"have never feared to speak of the slenderness of the ties by which they are bound to the parent State. Oq the other hand, they face a brave peopip'jlncl the possibility of European 'complications-. Let ho one imagine the Boers will not tight. The English are disposed to discredit their courage, but they showed steadiness and daring at the Drakensberg Pass and on the height of Spitzkop, and in these battles as elsewhere their marvelous riflemen potted the English calmly and jaeehratrly. The feeling of Africa is with them. In their rebellion they had the sympathy of the Orange State, and it would not require much to

revive President Kruger’s-cry of “Africa for the Afrikanders, from Zambesi to Martin’s Bay." Ft -is- a stgufiecant emneidenee tbat- on the day of the appointment of the Venezuelan commission England gave proof of the spirit of greed and oppression that moves her agents everywhere. A carpet tack trust has been formed. We hope Attorney, General Harmon will see the point. The camphor trust has doubled prices. You can’t get so much now for a scent,

SOUTH AFRICAN TERRITORY IN WHICH THE TROUBLE OCCURRED.

DR. C. S. JAMESON, GOVERNONR GENERAL OF MASHONALAND.

THE TYPICAL “LAAGER” (DEFENSIVE POST) USED IN SOUTH AFRICAN WARFARE.

S. E. PAUL KRUGER, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF TRANSVAAL.