THE TRANSVAAL
BRITISH PREPARATIONS. iBSY CORPS UNDER ORDERS. ! ULTIMATUM TO THE BOERS, PRETORIA^ September 6. The stall's of the large financiers tarrying' on business at Johannesburg have started for Capetown with jjjeir office books. CAPETOWN, September G. \ million cartridges have been sent if o pietermaritsburg and Ladismith. Dutch farmers are leaving BechtiBn aland and laagering across the frontier. [It does not appear whether these Dutch farmers are going into £ape Colony or the Transvaal.] LONDON, September 0. British preparations indicate the gravity of the situation. The First Army Corps has been warned that !it will probably be required. EveryI ng . i s in readiness to despatch a Strong force. The First Highland Light" Infantry and the First Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers have been ordered to be in readiness (to embark. "' The Cabinet meets on Friday. An ultimatum to the Transvaal is probable, owing to the unsatisfactory peply regarding a joint inquiry. It ia reported that Transvaal regrets that the five years' franchise Ivas not accepted, and assumes the Wr has lapsed. It denies British suzerainty, and asks for further information regarding the conference.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 212, 7 September 1899, Page 5
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