The Transva il Crisis.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 162, 11 January 1896, Page 2

The Transva il Crisis.

i A MESSAGE FROM THE QUEEN. I (Per Press Association.) j Pretoria, January 10. A Boer oificer narrowly prevented one of his men from shooting Dr Jameson on the march from Kruger's Dorp. The Boers fed starving prisoners on the battlefield, and admit the gallantry displayed by Jameson's party throughout the fight. Mnny of the Uitlanders declare they would wittingly bave fought under the English flag, thougbj they did not desire a second republic. Capetown, Jan. 10. The Chartered Company has requested Government to make enquiry into the circumstances which lead up to Dr Jameson's expedition. The Boers assert they possess written evidence of the existence of a plot to annex Transvaal. London, January 10. The Queen has sent a message to President Kruger, in which she has expressed herself gratified at his decision to set free the prisoners captured at Krugei'rf drop, and hoped that negotiations for a peaceful, settlement would be conducted in a harmonious manner. The Dutch-African Society at Amsterdam bas issued a manifesto appealing to England to respect the autonomy of the weaker nation. Portugal maintains that the neutrality of the Transvaal will not permit of German and military forces to land and traverse Portuguese territory. Six torpedo destroj'ers have been added to the new flying squadron, and six to the Channel fleet. The Times' correspondent wires that the feeling in Johannesberg is that Jameson's approach was untimely, and that he would have been unable to help the Uitlanders owing to the declaration of an armistice pending Sir Hercules Robinson's arrival. The Boers at Kruger's Dorp had an impregnable position behind the rocks, while Jameson's men had to fight from the open plain. It is suspected that the increase to the fleet was not wholly due to the Transvaal, but was an evidence that France and Russia intend to raise the Egyptian and Turkish question Berlin, January 10. The members of the Reichstag loudly cheered Couut Kanitz's laudation of the energetic attitude of the Emperor regarding the Transvaal. Brisbane, This Day In \iew of the threatening aspect of nfinirs iv Europe volunteer officers will u:eet shortly to discuss matters of urgency in connection with the defences.