The Transvaal Crisis.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 161, 10 January 1896, Page 2

The Transvaal Crisis.

DR JAMESON TO BE RELEASED. KRUGER DEMANDS RHODESEXPULSION FROM AFRICA. MOVEMENTS OF BRITISH CRUISERS. WORK AT PORTSMOUTH CONTINUES NIGHT AND DAY. (Per Press Association.) Pretoria, January 8. The crisis in the Transvaal has been settled and Dr Jameson is likely to be released without trial by Court martial. Yielding to the representations of Sir Hercules Robinson, Kruger has promised to consider the reforms demanded by the Uitlanders. The Cape Squadron is proceeding to Delagoa. January 9. President Kruger has promised Sir Hercule3 Robinson' to liberate Dr Jameson on the Natal borders. The report of the death of Captain Coventry, one of Jameson's party, was incorrect. Coventry is still alive, and recovering from his wounds. The whole of the Boers in the Trans- | vaal and Orange Free State are under arms. The latter are massed ou the ' Cape frontier. At several public meetings, at which supporters of Mr Cecil Rhodes were predominant, resolutions were passed condemning the betrayal of Jameson by the Uitlanders. The burghers of Pretoria are bitterly opposed to the British, and demand that thero shall be one undisputed rule only in the Transvaal. President Kruger's personal influence checks their ardour. London, January 8. The Lancaster and Leicester regiments have been ordered to the Cape. The relations between England and Germany have not improved. January 9. Reports from Capetown, under date of Tuesday, stato that Kruger demands that Rhodes and Jameson bo exiled from South Africa; that an enormous indemnity be paid by the Chartered Company, and that the Uitlander leaders be surrendered to the Boer authorities. Admiral Dale will command the new flying squadron, which will be commissioned on Tuesday. Captain Howe has been appointed to the command of the Revenge, and Cap tain Watson to the command of the Royal Oak. The cruisers Gibraltar, Thersus, Hermione, and Cbarybdis, under Admiral Rawson, have left the Cape for Delagoa, where the Phoebe, Sappho, and Carossa will also assemble. Urgent enquiries are being made as to mobilising tbe strength of the militia. Work at Portsmouth continues without intermission night and day. Meetings held in the provinces have strongly supported tbe action of the Government. Frequent conflicts have taken place between the English and German workmen in the London docks. St. Petersburg, Jan. 8. The Russian press urges concerted action on the part of the Powers in the Transvaal crisis so as to enable Russia to use the Dutch and Portuguese colonies as naval stations to intercept Indian and Australian vessels.