The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-03-14
TO CRUSH THE BOERS
There Is Evidence That This Is To Be The
/ Policy Of England.
TROOPS WILL Be SENT TO SOUTH AFRICA
a Crack Regiment Will be Sent Out
president Kruger Suspects Eng.
lands Intention md In Prcpnring
approaching Sexngcsimnl Will
be Grandest spccanc1c liz History.
Copyright. 1897 by the Sun Printing
and Publishing ASSnciatinn

Copyright 1897. by the Sun Printing
and Publishing Association.)
| London, March 13.-Public attention
mas been so concentrated for several
weeks on the crisis on the East that no
notice has been taken Of the really criti-
c,li relations now existing between
Great Britain and the Transyaal Repub-
nc There is strong reason for belev-
ing mat the English Government Is
seeking the earliest opportunity or cX-
cuse FOR making an attempt 20 crush
| the lltte republic which many times has
successfully repulsed British invasions
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain is cred
lted with Just such an outrageous policy
| and his attitude on several recent occa-
sions has done much 10 justify the sus-
piclon. He emphasized repeatedly in alis
| examination of Mr. Rhodes before tn.
| south Africa Commission III: convic-
ton that the present regime in the
iransvaal cannot continue, and openly
| lhtlmated tnat the British GOV Vernment
would have given full support to an
ultimatum in the lifts question last
October had it been necessary.
! CHAMBERLAiII'S POLICY.
| MI. Chambcrlain's incest utterancn in
| Parliament in reference to the Trans
vaal has been sarcastic and intolerant
He openly declares that the presenl re-
| iatonS between the two countries are
gravely strained. There has been free
talk within a few days of an ultimatum
TO President Kruger with Lord Wolse-
| ley and 10000 troops in the background
| There is. OF course, every effort to make
lit appear that President Kruger is
taking the offensive. but nobobdy need
| be deceived thereby. The Keen old
statesman Of the Rand knows perfectly
well that England is trying TO pick Il
| quarrel With him and he is slmp MAX
| ing-ready, as he should do. for on !, more
| 1,lfa ST l,A s,r
Iagh!nSt the rapacious greed of gold
wnlshipping Engl!s! men. This week
| he was making speeches in the Orange
Free State, where he has been on a mis-
sion which is pretty well understood to
| include scheme of an offensive, as well
as Il defensive alliance OF the two Afri-
can republics against England lis pc
culiar style Of oratory is not reished in
England. where everybody is ready
to take otfense whether it is
! intended or not. In all oration
he talked cheerfully about the
neat way his kecn-eyed burghers had
shot Eng!ishmen when the foreigners
invaded the Transvaal and the fact that
his assertion perfectly arcCrds with the
facts does not sweeten 1t for British
palates.
"I1EN I<WAI<E NROUW."
In another speech the old man paid
ponderous compliments to Queen Victo-
ria, or at any rate the world has been
given to understand that they were
meant 10 be compliments. Among other
remarks he declared that the Queen was
! 'ecn kwake vrouw," and 4 controversy
| is now raging rs 10 the meaning of
this phrase. Renters Telegram COM
pany, which is the official Boer agency
as far MS South African news is con-
cerncd, translates the remark as "a diff
| cult woman The Central News. which
in South African affairs is ultra British,
| ioo1 two, i,tot l.
gers words were meant to be contemp
| tuOus and that their literal and also
colloQuial meaning is "an angry woman
or shrew." The London Globe, which
may be fairly regarded as the organ OF
| Mr.. Rhodes, says the expression is fre-
| quently used in the Transvaal with ref
crence to bad tempered animals which,
| when annoyed. kick or bite. Thus "een
! kwakc mannctje" is an expression APP
piled TO IL cock ostrich which is an hab-
| !tual and vigorous kicker. Mr.. Kruger,
! 1T is urged, really intended TO describe
Queen Victoria as a vicious woman
| Certainly the valiant old Republican
shows a fine contempt of British sus-
ceptibilitics and stoutly declines to ac-
cept as Il rule Of faith the proposition
that the English are q heaven-sent
race which sooner or later must dom
mate South Africa. Moreover, he We
hcmently declines to allow England TO
! interfere in the domestic concerns OF
his country, but he has done absolutely
nothing to justify the charge that he
would be such fool as to force war.
TROOPS FOR SOUTH AFRICA
1t was announced to-day that q month
! hence the Royal Irish Regiment, one OF
the finest corps Of the British army,
will sail for South Africa, nominally
| to relieve certain troops at Cape Colony
and Natal. but 1t really Is intended as
| 4 reinforcement to q garrison which is
already largely in excess Of normal re-
Quirements. 1t may be added, and the
announcement Is made public for the
first time, that the commanders of sew
eral British regiments now in India
| have been secretly mentioning the fact
that their corps may be required for
active service In South Africa before
the Summer has far advanced
The British War Office will have to
put some 10000 troops In the streets on
June 30, the day when Queen Victoria
proceeds from buckingham Palace to
| st. Pauls Cathedral to offer up thanks
! to God for enabling her to beat the rec.
ord in royal reigns. II the programme
had been adhered to, 10000 men would
have sutficcd, and the War Office could
have managed that on its head, so TO
speak. Now 1t Is nearly off its head at
the prospect Of what is regarded as the
biggest military display since the Cri-
mean war, over forty years go. There
/! are no barrack accommodations In Lon