JOUBERT'S RESIGNATION DEMANDED.

Thames Star, Volume xxx, Issue 9450, 28 September 1899, Page 2

JOUBERT'S RESIGNATION DEMANDED.

THE MAUSER RIFLE,

BOERS DOUBT ITS EFFICIENCY.

SIR A. MILNER PROPOSES DRASTIC MEASURES.

THE BOER FORCE.

JOUBERT ESTIMATES IT AT

50, 000 MEN,

FRENCH NEWSPAPER ADVICE,

(Press Association—Copyright.)

CAPETOWN, Sept, 27

The secret deliberations of the Orange and Transvaal Raads continue.

There is complete unanimity of opinion both at Pretoria and Capetown that war is inevitable.

PRETORIA, Sept. 27.

The burghers are clamoring for General Joubert's resignation, unless he acts.

Many Boers doubt the efficiency o' Mauser rifles, and assert the cart ridges are worthless.

Three battalions of artillery have sailed from Birkenhead for South Africa.

Forty thousand perßons witnessed their embarkation, cheering enthusiastically.

Sir M. White Ridley, speaking at Blackpool, said though the Government had been both conciliatory and patient they would not turn back. The Times states {hat Sir A. Milner has submitted drastic proposals for dealing with, the whole difficulty, and including a memorandum prepared by Mr. J. G. Kotze, late Chief Justice in the Transvaal, recounting his interview with President Kruger in 1895, when the President threatened him with suspension, from, the Bench unless the Judges upheld the resolutions of the Volksraad.

The Daily Telegraph states that Genefal Joubert reckons on 18,000 troops in the Transvaal, and 16,000 from the Orange Free State; 8000 Boers from Capetown; 2000 from Natal, and 6000 Hollanders and German Volunteers; PARIS, Sept. 27. The Temps and Debats advise the Boers to attack before the British are ready.