The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 30, 1900, Page 1

VOLUME LXXXVII—NO. 130. SAN ~FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1900. ONDON, March 29.— L.‘iddin'onal details are at hand to-day in regard to the execution of ex-Sergeant Major Thomas Greener of the Royal Engineers in South Af- rica for desertion to the enemy. He did not desert, as re- ported, at the first opportumity that presented itself after the arrival of his command in South Africa, nor did he desert to the ememy directly. He de- serted from Aldershot in 1894, and for vears a civil warrant, w description, has been in the hands of the constables and police all over Great Britain Greener was concerned in th 4] the and spelter from balloon work. It is now knowon ¢ wung district 0 ¢ Transvaal in 1897. escape arrest some stay m the m thence EX-SERGEANT MAJOR GREENER CAPTURED AND SHOT AS A DESERTER D St S S o e o e . SERGEANT MAJOR GREENER. it ot o o e e i e e ] D R e S Rk I S SRS SRS B S R R e R R SSRAY ¢ wholesale stealing of waste lead s at Aldershot, and fled in 1894 to hat he went to America, and after f California went to Australia and He was employed on the Rand, and on the breaking out of the war took service with the Boers and was made r of engineers. nized and questioned and admitte tenced him to be shot, and he met By many his execution is rega pretation of military | f the Transvaal. strict inte citizen On being captured he was recog- d his identity. A court-martial sen- his death like a soldier. rded as unjustifiable, even under aw. He is said to have become a "PREMIER SCHREINER’S ATTITUDE QUESTIONED the —In the House of of amperdown tions be upon g Pre- the war, Under Secretary of replied that a self- bound to do evel NDON cont h a p ued, can wer with en tovernment had de- It had called the extent Gov- Cape held als respon- t was Min- roops. of led no- not 1 out its forces nteers to wise for the xact the con- Imperial ¥ the Colonial nsible to the ) co-operate to see that paid for it. sovernment wh Mr. 1 thre with pent to EF was Marct Mr. Chamberla Sir Alfred Milner had been guire e particulars of the case and to make the necessary representations It is unjust | through the United States Consul at Pre- toria. o= S RN | BOERS REOCCUPY CAMPBELL. KIMBERLEY, March 28.—Lord Methuen has returned to Kimberley from the Bark- !ley district. The mounted troops under | him are expected to-morrow. They were at Likatlong when they recelved the or- | ders from Lord Roberts to return here. It is reported the Boers have reoccupied Campbell and that theyare in strong force near Warrenton, Barkley West and y | Taungs. o | NEW POST FOR KITCHENER. LONDON, March 29.—It is reported in a well-informed quarter that Lord Kit- chener will be offered the post of com- | mander in chief in India, succeeding the | late Sir Willlam Lockhart, so soon as it e '3 R e e e R .—¢9+Q+Q—0—Q+Q»+®+®+. decisive successes have been obtained in the ansvaal; and that General Sir ald Hunter will ceed him as Lord Roberts’ chief of s The Indian newspapers have been u: appointment. UNCLE SAM JOINS IN THE BIG NAVAL DEMONSTRATION Demands of Russia Regard of War Talk a8 ing Korea Cause a Renewal to the Far East. Bpecial Dispatch to the Call. ALL HEADQUARTERS, WELL- INGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, March 2.—The secret of Rear Ad- miral Watson's action In assembling a large squadron at Yokohama, de from his desire to meet his succes- Rear Admiral Remey, as commander in chief of the Asiatic station, may be in the information recelved by e Department, which has learned he Japanese Government has as- a fieet at Kobe, Japan, where be reviewed by the Emperor. The ing of the Japanese fleet is said have any political 1s believed it will impress the ple, who have been stirred of war with Russia, which the here regard as unfounded. reh 28It is reported that is of Russia for a cession of Korea as a substitute for causing excitement in espectally connected with svers and ch 29.—The Evening News patch from Kobe, Japan, announcing that Russia has demanded Jjeave to land troops near Masanpho. Korea, the dispatch says, wants no out- side interference. The British Government has publishes & not re- oefved any news tending to confirm the | @dvices from Japan as to Russian designs in Korea and is inclined to doubt their sccuracy. The Premier, Lord Salisbury, it is said, apprehends no possibility of an significance, | mobilization of | | immediate rupture between Japan and Russla, and whatever may be done in the future regarding the disturbances around Tientsin, it is learned that no steps have vet been taken looking to concerted ac- tion on the part of the powers, nor is there any Indication that official circles regard the situation in China as serious, | as it 1s made out in the press dispatches. | From all sources of information available | to the British Foreign Office it 1s judged that Japan neither desires nor is in any way near ready to dispute with hostilities Russian action in the Far East. Joseph Walton, who recently returned from a tour in China, Japan and Korea, interviewed on the report of the Russian demand, sald: “A short time ago I pointed out that from interviews I had with Marquis Ito, Count Okuma, Viscount Aoki and other | leading Japanese statesmen I found that | Japan was determined to resist Russian aggression in Korea, even at the cost of war. Japan looks upon Korea as very important for an outlet of her excess of | population. Masanpho is the best port on | the coast of Korea. Up till now Japanese | influence has been predominant there. | Russia and Japan are each on the look- | out for what they consider an opportune | moment for enforcing the élaim of prior right which each thinks it has to Korea."” YOKOHAMA, March 30.—M. Pavloff, | Russian Minister to Korea, is pressing | his demands at Seoul, and the Japanese ]Mlnlm.er to Korea, Hayashi Gonsouke, is discussing the subject with him. HP—+0+H0e 0400000000 PRICE FIVE CENTS. OOM PAUL SAYS HE WILL sent a floral tribute. indecisive fighting at Warrenton, where a large Boer force confronts Lord Methuen, there has been no news of great Importance to-day from the seat of war. Until Lord Rob- erts begins his advance, which, it is !lhough( in a well-informed quarter here, will be early next week, Methuen is not likely to make any attempt to drive back the Boers in front of him. The recall of the British troops rrom the Barkley West district and Griqua- | town, northwest of Kimberley, would | seem to indicate that preparations for a | general advance northward by the British | armies are nearly completed. One thing | which has been delaying Lord Roberts is | a lack of warm clothing for the troops. Dispatches from various points in Cape | Colony, Natal, contain evidences that the | | policy of severe punishment of the Dutch | inhabitants who took up arms against the | | Queen is being strongly pushed. Winston | Churchill appears to be the only corre- | spondent who advocates dealing with the | so-called rebels in a spirit of conciliation. | The others all harp upon the great 1 | justice which will be done loyal colonists unless _those who rebelled are harshly dealt with. Some maintain that a con- | fiscation of property, or imprisonment even or death is the only punishment | commensurate with their offense. Meet- ings are being organized all over the | colony to indorse the policy of complete | extermination of the two republies. | { ONDON, March 30.—Beyond some | | found advisable. There are grounds for suspicion, however, that President Kruger does not intend to destroy prop- erty, but hopes by this means to induce foreign investors to endeavor to force their respective governments to intervene. ——— DESTRUCTION OF MINES NOT DEFINITELY DECIDED Special cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyright, 1500, by fhe Herald Pub- lishing Company. LONDON, March 30.—This dispatch from its special correspondent is published by the Daily Mail: PRETORIA, March 20.—Although It Is true that the State Mining Engineer has made borings in _ the shafts the mines at Johannesburg, am officially informed that it was without the Government's sanction, and e S e o e o o : » o —— e | There seems to be some foundation for -9 +o-e | the reports that many of the shafts on the Rand and buildings in Johannesburg have been mined and explosives placed in | position to blow up the property if it is fipon, as t . D e e S e e S LONDON, March 380.—The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Morning Post, telegraphing on ‘Wednesday, says: “President Kruger boasts his intention to retake Bloemfontein within a week, and it appears probable that the Boers are advancing in force southward.” A dispatch to the Daily Chronicle from Bloemfontein, dated March 28, says: ‘“The Boers are ac- tive north of Glen, about fifteen miles from here. It is reported that they are concentrating in consid- erable force. Reinforcements of all arms are being sent up from Bloemfontein, including the Seventh Division and a portion of General French’s cavalry. PRETORIA, March 29.—General Joubert’s funeral took place here to-day. He will be buried on Friday at Rustfontein in his private mausoleum with military honors. The captured British officers here T 2 T B e S e e o monia, under which a large percentage of them will dle. RETAKE BLOEMFONTEIN Boers Very Active Near the Free State Capital, and Are Advancing in Force Southward. d e e i o o e b R R R R Y ] % + that the question of the destruction of the mines as a last resort has still to be dis- cussed by the Executive Council. 0L G WILD STORY CONCERNING FOREIGNERS WITH BOERS LONDON, March 20.—A London Times correspondent, heretofore considered to be quite in the confidence of Lord Rob- erts, cables that the Bogr forces have been re-equipped, and he says he is fully convinced that 150,000 foreign troops have been landed to aid the republics. From this the Inference might be drawn that the London critics have been pre- mature in prophesying an immediate ad- vance, as at Kimberley and Paardeberg. The best based conjecture is well nigh worthless as to when Lord Roberts con- templates moving. e S S i TRANSPORTATION IN SOUTH AFRICA--Finding the Drift in Flood-Water. The forward movement of Lord Roberts’ army toward the Transvaal border will doubtless stay for some time on the settlement of the question of transportation. The single track railroad running through the Orange Free State, along which he will for the most part advance, will fall far short of the requirements of his force, even If left undisturbed by the Boer guerrillas. The mules and horses, that have been carried by the thousands to South Africa, are not to be depended he fall season s now at hand and they will have to go through a spell of acclimation fever, with a kind of pneu- Those that get through all right will be said to be ‘‘salted, will be as fit for hard service as a “Texas pony.” The third and easiest system of transportation, when it can be provided on sufficiently large scale, is the South African ox team, with its Kaffir drivers. The oxen are slow and the drivers lazy, U put under the stimulus of threat or reward held out by an officer, who keeps them always under his eye, fairly good work can be got out of them. The picture, taken from The Spear, shows a train of ox wagons in the act of crossing a river, which is enough in flood to hide the regular drift, much to the bewilderment of the Kaffir boy In the lead. G+ O +OsO 0 +Oeb e ebededete>e® THIS TRAIN [ e e e e e e g L S O R SRS S ORE@GON [ gfl“‘ " IS BREAKING RECORDS. B e o e e e e e ! ) ! ROUTE OF THE FLYER ACROSS THE CONTINENT. 646000004000t 0040000+t 000 000000484040 +0+00000+0+0 ENVER, March 20.—With a special train rushing across the continent, the Santa Fe is trying to break its Nelly Bly and all other records in order that A. R. Peacock, one of the directors of the Car- negie Steel Company, may arrive at Pittsburg in time to attend the annual meeting of the directors at noon on Saturday. The train left Los Angeles at 10 o’clock on Tuesday night and passed through La Junta at 11:30 last night, making the run of 1256 miles in twenty-four and one-half hours. The special stopped at La Junta just long enough to change engines and made the run to Dodge Oity, Kansas, 203 miles, in 192 minutes, reaching that point at 8:12 this morning. The next spurt was to Newton, a distance of 167 miles, which was made in 163 minutes, reaching that station at 7:15, making over seventy miles an hour in spurts on the run where the conditions favored such a It is estimated from the rate at which the lpwh.l has been run so far that Mr. Peacock will be in Pittsburg Friday night, thereby making one of the best long distance runs that has yet been made across the continent. CHICAGO, March 20.—From Los Angeles, Cal., to Chicago, a distance of 2265 miles, in fifty-elght hours and thirty minutes. This is the record hung up by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe to-night, when the “Peacock special” pulled into the Chicago depot at 10:30 o'clock. Trains have been run faster for short distances, but never before had a train been brought from the Western coast to this city in time beaten by nearly eight hours. ng that made by the special. All records for the run were An hour after the arrival of the train Mr. Peacock, vice president of the Carnegie Steel Company, boarded a Pennsyl- vania train eleven hours earlier than he ex The trip from the coast here cost Mr. Peacock $4000. For the entire distance an average speed of 35.9 miles was main- tained. On several long stages of the run the speed approached a mile a minute and was maintained for distances that are remarkable in view of the dificulties overcome. The train was made up of engine, Pullman car and & combination car and a baggage ca¥ o | bers present, unanimously has returned its de- KRUGER THREATENS T0 HOLD SALISBURY'S SON AS A HOSTAGE —_—— ,0-0+0+Q—0—0+0+0 +o-+Q LORD EDWARD CECIL. B R R R R I R S R forwarded at once. B o e R SR S S e . t f and SHAMROCK FOR THEIR GRAVES. LONDON, March 30.—The Duke of York has accepted from a resident of Cork a thousand packets of shamrock seed, which will be sown upon the graves of Irish sol- diers in South Africa. S R R B S R R = 3 [ et et S SRS R S e ] ONDON, March 29.— President Kruger is re- ported as intimating that Lord Edward Herbert Cecil, son of Lord Salisbury, and brevet major of the Grena- dier Guards, who is now with Colonel Baden-Powell at Mafe- king, will be a sufficient guaran- tee against any harm to himself in the event of his capture. This may be taken to mean that when Lord Cecil is captured he will be held as a hostage until the end of the war and satisfactory settlement of the question of punishment for any offenses on the part of the Boer officials is concerned. To this young mnobleman, more than to any one ‘else, is due the ability of the garrison to hold out as long as it has done. Just before the beginning of the war Lord Cecil, who had been for some time in South Africa, was in Kimberley on his way to Mafeking to assist in preparing for a siege. On inquiry he found that only a certain quantity of provisions had been ordered to be semt up to Mafeking, hardly sufficient for six weeks. He at once sought the contractor, and giving him his personal obligation, amounting to £40,000, for the excess, had the Government order quadrupled and LATEST REPORT FROM LORD ROBERTS LONDON, March 20—The War Office has recelved the following dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated Bloemfontein, March 2: “General Clements occupied Fauresmith to-day without opposition. One nige- pounder and one Martini-Maxim were dis- covered in the prospecting shaft of a mine, where a large quantity. of ammunition was buried. “Arms are being surrendered gradually and the fnhabitants are settling down. “Colonel Piicher visited Ladybrand on March 26. On leaving the town he was attacked by a party of the ememy. and one of his force was wounded and five are missing. “During the skirmish north of the Mod- der River on March 25 five men were wounded. Three are reported to be miss- ing. Captain Sloane Staniey of the Six- teenth Larncers and flve men of that regi- ment were taken prisoners.” et HERBERT GLADSTONE'S VIEWS. LONDON, March 29.—Speaking at the breakfast of the Liberal agents at Not- tingham to-day, Herbert Gladstone, son of the late Willlam E. Gladstone and member of Parlidment for West Leeds, de¢lared that nearly all the Liberals had agreed in regard to the settlement of the South African question that it was the duty of the Government to make recur- rence of the war impossible. and show the world that British power in South Africa was predominant and that the British flag must wave over the whole of South Af- rica. —-— HOLDING SOUTHERN FRONTIER. ALIWAL NORTH, March 29.—General Brabant and his staff have returned from Rouxville and are now actively engaged in holding the southern frontier of the Free State. Detachments are’ being sent to strengthen the positions which have been occupled. It is evident that Com- mandant Olivier, now moving north, is be- ing closely watched by Sir Godfrey Lang- don, the Basutoland Commissioner, who s in communication with General French. NORFOLK’'S SUCCESSOR. LONDON, March 30.—The Standard, which is an excellent source of Govern- ment intelligence, says that the Marquis of Londonderry will be appointed Post- master General, to succeed the Duke of Norfolk, who has gone to South Africa. ERNE, Switzerland, March 29.—Ac- cording to the Delagoa Bay Rall- way award, Portugal is condemned to pay 15,314,000 francs. Following is the text of the de- efsion, which is In six clauses: After deliberation the court decrees as fol- Jows: I The court refects all demands in favor of a final inquiry. Tt deciines also to separate the judgment on the principal object of litiga- tion from that dealing with the indemnity due for the territory in questior. IL On the other hand the court decides to deliver forthwith its definite decrse on the main question and to communicate to the par- tles an authentic copy of its essential points, the complete decree, With a recital of the rea- sons, to follow after a short period. Hereupon the court, consisting of three mem- cree in the following terms: I The Portuguese Government, as the de- fending party, is condemned to pay to the Government of the United States and to Great Britain, the claimants, altogether, in addition to the £25,000 paid on account in 139, the sum of 15,314,000 francs in legal Swiss money, with simple interest on this sum at the rate of § per cent per annum from June 1, 1889, up to date of payment of sald sum. IL This sum, after deducting what is necessary to defray the cost of arbitration falling on the clalmants, and In addition to the balance of £35,000 pald on account in 1890, shall be employed in the payment of bondhold- ers and other creditors, if there is need, of the Delagoa Bay Raflway Company, sccording to their standing. The claimants will draw up & scale of distribution for this purpose. The Por- tuguese Government will have to pay into the hands of the Government of the United States the, sum which, according to sald scale, shall accrue to McMurdo, represented sald Gov- ernment in her quality of bond-holding creditor of the first and second degres. It will pex DECISION IN THE DELAGOA BAY RAILWAY CONFISCATION Hceording to the Award Portugal Must Pay the Unit-d States and Great Britain 15,314,000 Francs. the surplus to the Government of Great Britain for the benefit of ail others having rights, III. The delay of six months fixed by the last line of clause IV of the arbitration com- promise shall run from this day forth. IV. The costs of the arbitration, sccording to a scale to be drawn up In accordance with clause V. of the arbitration compromise, wiil be borne in equal parts by the three parties to the suit, that is to say & third part by each of them. V. The conclusions of the partles in so far as they differ from the above award are set aside. VI An authentic copy of the present award will be delivered through the intermedlary of the Swiss Federal Council to each of the thres parties to the case. The award is unanimous. In 1883 Edward McMurde, an American citizen, obtained a concession from Port- ugal to build a rallroad fifty-seven miles long from Lourenzo Marques to Komati Poort, on the Transvaal border, there to connect ‘with a line to be bullt by the Netherlands Company on to Pretoria, 200 miles farther. McMurdo organized a com- pany in London under the name of the Delagoa Bay Railroad Company for its construction. It was not completed within the time set and was several times extend- ed, and Portugal, declaring the concession forfeited, seized and completed the work. On remonstrance by Great Britain and the United States the matter was referred to M. Joseph Blasi, Vice President of the Swiss Federal Tribunal; M. Charles Sol- dan, president of the Council of State, Canton de Vaud, and M. Andreas Heuss- ler, professor of law at Basle d for arbitration, the Government of Port- ugal having presented a counter-claim. To this the company made a reply and Portugal rejoined, with which both par- ties rested their case.