Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — EUROPE IS AROUSED. [ARTICLE]

EUROPE IS AROUSED.

England’* Immenae Military Plana Puzzle the Powers.. It is reported that Great Britain’s immense military preparations against two insignificant republics are viewed with considerable curiosity in some of the European capitals, notably Paris and St. Petersburg. Notes have been exchanged on the subject and it is even hinted in inofficial quarters that inquiries will be addressed to the British Government as to the contemplated absorption of the two republics by the British empire. The London Press Association has announced with an air of authority that the Government’s plan is to terminate the war in the speediest manner possible after the forts at Pretoria and Johannesburg have been razed and then to promulgate by order of the Queen in council a new constitution for a group of five federal states —Cape Colony, the Transvaal, Natal, the Orange River Free State and Rhodesia —under the title of the dominion of South Africa, the crown to nominate a governor general and the five states having power to elect its own lieutenant government and to have local legislatures with a dominion parliament to meet at Cape Town. With some modifications, the scheme is based upon lines similar to those of the Canadian Government.