The Transvaal Trouble.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 187, 11 February 1896, Page 2

The Transvaal Trouble.

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF DR. JAMIESON'S ENGAGEMENT. TREACHERY of the UITLANDERS. (Per Press Association.) Capetown, Feb. 10. President Kruger proposes the establishment of a Municipal Council in Johannesburg, and allow the children of the Uitlanders to be taught the English language, but that instruction in Dutch be compulsory. President Kruger and the leader of the Executive Council will proceed to England to discuss details, provided the Volksraad sanctions it. London, February 10. Tho Times declares Mr Rhodes' aim is to create a British Johannesberg in Rhodesia, which in five years will contain a population equal to the Uitlanders in the Transvaal. The intention is to develope the settlement of squatters in the Uplands on similar lines to settlement in Australia. The paper adds that Mr Rhodes intends to devote the bulk of bis fortune in the scheme. Sydney. This Day. An Australian who spent several years on the South African gokineids has re- j tnrued. He left Johannesbevg just after < the engagement at Kruger's Dorf, and states Dr Jameson's losses were thirty killed and forty wounded. He states the despatches sent by the Uitlanders' Union to Dr Jameson were perused by the Dutch, through the agency of a traitor, before they reached the doctor's hands. It is believed there were several traitors on the committee who gave secret information to the Dutch. It was only in order to save Dr Jameson that the Uitlanders in Johannesberg did not fight when the capture of the party became known. The feeling throughout the country from Capetown to Mashonaland is in favor of the Uuitlanders, who are quite willing to swear allegiance to the Transvaal Republic provided they get what they regard as their birth rights. When 34,000 Uitlanders petitioned Parliament thej r were laughed at and their petition contemptuously rejected. One member told the petitioners if they wanted rights they must fight for them. The general opinion at the time he left was that England would have to step in to secure the Uitlanders their rights, and it was no use relying on the Boers' promises. The crisis has paralysed trade everywhere, and people were flocking out of the country.