The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-16
IN THE TRANSVAAL.
British Troops Will Then Pro
coed to Take Possession.
Crowds Of Young Men Throng
Recruiting Office.

process, according to good authorlty,
would be a proclamation by the BiItlsn
high commissioner, Sir Alfred MINER,
stating that the convention OF LohuoA
is annulled and that Queen victoria
has resumed the government OF tHe
country known as the South African
republic The general commanding the
British expeditiOnary forces Woulu
then be instructed to occupy the trans
vaai and hold it until fresh govern
ment is established. When the country
is pacified, a. committee doubtless rep
resenting all classes of the 1nhapltantS
of the Transvaal would be appointed 10
draft a new constitution.
That all this is more easily said than
done is quite palpable, even to the
most enthusiastic Engishmen. t1stl-
mates of the strength of the Beers
widely diverge. Mr.. John Morley re-
ferred to them as able to put an army
of $4,000 men in the field, while the war
office officials seem to think that 29,OUV
is all they could muster. AS matter
of fact their strength entirely depends
upon the assistance they receive from
the Orange Free State and the natives
which is impossible to gauge. The pres
ent atmosphere OF war mas enormously
stimulated army recruiting. Crowds OF
young men surround the offices ana
daily large patches of men take the
Queens shilling.
DREYFUS AFFAIR IN BELGIUM.
In Belgium the Dreyfus excitement
has resulted in the issuing of pictorial
post cards bearing portraits of the
and even reproductions of the hand
writing of Dreyfus and Esterhazy.
The queen has been dragged into the
church fight. She is quoted as saying
to a clergyman, regarding the arch
bishops decision:
Surely if incense is illegal now, it
must have been so fifty years ago.
Why did they not discover it sooner"
This enunciation by the head of the
church delights the ritualists.
Commenting upon the difficulty ex-
perienced in finding a successor as am
bassador to Washington to Lord
Pauncefote a weekly paper says it is
more than likely that Sir Thomas
Henry SandersOn, K c. G., permanent
under secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs since 1884, will receive the ap-
pointment to Washington as a reward
for his long services in the permanent
under secretaryship.
IRISH POLITICS.
T. F. Harvey of Chicago who made
a fortune recently in the chewing gum
combination has been staying in Ire
land, where he was born. A section
of the Irish party has offered him one
of their sure seats at the next election.
Mr.. Harvey will not make a decision
until he returns from his forthcoming
visit to America. He has been on in
innate terms with the leaders of the
various sections while in Ireland and
said to a representative of the AS
ISOLATED Press: Il believe the prospects
are good for a reunion of all the ele-
ments and once more presenting a
practically solid Irish front against
English conservatism.
Mr. William O'Brien's newspaper. the
Irish People. made its first appearance
in Dublin this week. The self-described
organ of reunited Ireland maintains
that all the Irish forces must be re-
cast and recreated to ensure success.
Referring to a Halifax dispatch re
garding the strengthening of the Esqui-
malt garrison, the Globe says it is
gratifying that Esquimalt is beginning
position which it entities lone of those
imperial coigns of vantage which have
suffered from systematic neglect"
The paper also says that. two years
ago a British engineer officer was sent
to Esquimalt to Investigate the place
and adding that it was evident he saw
the futility of strengthening the fOrtih-
cations unless manned by thoroughly
efficient troops.
THE Canadian militia" says the
Globe. lis as useful as such force is for
receive sufficient training in gunnery
are they to be trusted with the custody
of such a valuable strategical position"
WAR CORRESPONDENTS START.
Correspondents of leading London
papers start for South Africa. today,
Including Messrs. Melton Prior, Stew
ems and other well known newspaper
men. General Sir George Stewart
White, V. C., former quartermaster
general whose appointment to the
Natal command was gazetted last
night also sails today with his staff
At the Manchester peace meeting last
night the Right Hon. Henry Courtney,
Liberal, formerly deputy speaker of the
house of commons, read a letter re-
ceiVed from Herbert Spencer protest
ing against the idea that the national
honor would be enhanced by attacking
a weak nation, lamenting that age and
iIl-health prevented him from aiding
the peace movement, declaring it is
Undeniable that the Jameson raid was
an attempt to usurp the Transvaal and
asserting that what the Outlanders'
bullets failed to do then, they will not
hope to do by vote. Continuing the
letter read: 1T is sad to see our gov
policy is expansion, which less politely
expressed, means aggression and for
which there is still a less polite word
which is readily guessed"
While many individual decisions to
boycott the Paris exhibition continue to
be announced, there is no sign of any
official action upon the part of any
country. As the Spectator forcibly
says:
1.-THE trading classes implore the gov
ernments to withdraw from the exhibit
ton, which is impossible. because it i'm
plies interference in the internal af-
fairs of an Independent state and they
also threaten to withdraw their own
exhibits, which is futile, as their COM
petitors Will Immediately accept the
vacant places"
NJ AIeline. the former premier, con-
tinueS his agitation for the cOnVOcatiOn
of the French chambers. He has not
yet ObtaiT.- sufficient adhesionS to eff
feet his ,bject, but the support OBJ
tanned SEEMS to point him out as likely
to head the next government
The treason trial now proceeding in
Servia in which nearly7s thirty members
of the Radical party are accused of con-
spring to assist Knezevich to kill form
er King Milan, is disclosing a terrible