The age-herald., 1899-10-10
Radicals May Oppose the Gov-
 ernment's Policy.
THE COMING PARLIAMENT SESSION
A Stir Is Caused by the Lourenzo Mar ques Dispatch Relating to Chasing ofthe Steamer Guelph Inter-
 view With Kruger.

London. October e-Lord Vantage, president of the British Red Cross society, will shortly issue appeals for contributions to aid in the Work of the society, which, he says, will provide two hospital railway trains and a hospitai ship. The Duke of Westminster and Lord Vantage have given 1000 pounds each, and Baron Rothschild has raised e11OOO among his friends. Some indication Of the war offices estimate is given by the fact that the authorities have contracted for eagnt months supply of bread and other military acquisitions rendered necessary by the ap- sence of the bulk of the army service corps, whom the war office thus evidently cal culates will be at home again by the be- ginning of May
 It appears that although the war office called upon 25,000 reserves, only the pick of them some 1000, will be retained with the colors. The authorities are much pleased at the application of number or reservists belonging to the unmobdlized classes, who are volunteering for foreign service. The war office announces that wives of reservists will get six pence and each child two pence daily while the hus- bands and fathers are retained with the colors,
 Baron Tweemouth presided at a meeting of the council of London radicals tonight, which, after a speech by Lord Tweemouth deploring the unwise policy of the govern ment, whose policy he declared unconcilia- tory, adopted a resolution in favor of ar bitration and calling upon the government to take steps toward a settlement of the vao1 Ixr arnt tfra fion.
 The Daily Telegraph's Ladysmith core spondent says that a trustworthy colonial farmer asserts that he saw thousand armed Boers on Sunday within the Natal border near Charlestown.
 The absence of news from South Africa appears to be due to heavy block on the telegraph lines which may mean that the lines are occupied by official dispatches and that negotiations are being actively carried on. From Durban it Is said that no code messages will be accepted for any part of South Africa without the produc- tion of the codes. The Transvaal banks have been notified that no more gold will be permitted to leave the country.
 The Daily News this morning publishes the report of an interview with Bertram Milford, the South African novelist, who spent twenty-five years among the Cape Dutch, in which MT. Milford predicts the victory will be attained by the British after a long, bloody and costly war. He says: ''The Boers will fight like devils. The Jameson raid aroused them and ever since they have been preparing for war and practcing shooting and they will resist to the bitter end. I do not believe the natives will be melted against England, though it is impossible to say what the natives will do. Some are loyal to the queen, but it would be bad thing for white supremacy If the Basuitos were to rise and conquer the Free State, yet it would be hardly pos sible to prevent them. The Swazir are equally bitter against the Transvaal and 1t would need little encouragement to lead them to attack the republic I do not think there is any danger from the Zulus, but the Matabels and the Nashonas might try to repeat the horrors of 1S96 All the published estimates of the fighting strength of the Boers are exaggerated. It does not exceed 15,o00 at the outside.'
 Will Call Special Congress
 Capetown, October s.-The Afrikander bund has decided to call a special congress in November. The members of the bund are advised to refrain In the meantime from taking part In local meetings.
 Advices from Pretoria say the Neither lands railway management asserts that more than 800 carriages and trucks be- longing to the Transvaal are now in the British colony. According to these ad- vices the burghers are still amassing, and it is estimated that 13,O00 are now concern trated They are becoming very much dis satisfied because of inactivity and heavy rains, and bitter cold weather render the conditions irving for hOrsac