New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-11-15
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ployment of natives against whites and the use
OF dynamite mines were both opposed 10 tne
rules Of war
Colonel Baden Powell replied that the Geneva
Convention did not stipulate as to the numoer
Of Red Cross stations permissible, and that the
Beers were only required to respect the convent
the hospital and the womens laager, all OF
which were beyond the town limits. The BRUSH
commander also pointed out that mines were
recognized adtuncts Of civilized warfare, ana
that the defences Of Pretoria were extensively
mined. Moreover. he reminded General CronJe
that the Boers had fired upon natives ourneo
their kraaIs and raided their cattle. and that
the natives only defended their lives and prop
erty.
BoERs SMELLING HOSPITAL.
DESPITE three warnings from Colonel Baden
Powell. the Beers continued deliberately to sheh
the hospital and the women's laager. The send
ing Of the Boer envoy was regarded, the dis-
patch says, as a mere preteXt Tor peheua'lhs
the British lines at Mafekng According to the
latest reports the town is confident Of its ability
10 hold out until the end of the campaign
So far as Kimberley is concerned. the mental
condition of the British may be judged from
the fact that three weddings have taken place
since the siege began. the last having been
celebrated on November :.
In the absence of fresh news, the morn
ing papers arc driven to discuss Lord sans
burys letter regarding neutrality-suspicious. Oh
his utterances at the Lord Mayors dinner ana
President KrUger's threat to execute British
officers now in his hands unless Nathan Marks
a supposed Boer spy is released by Sir George
Stewart White The Premers deliverance
meets with universal approval. although the ex-
in
.'The Daily Chronicle" no one had supposed
his words would bear the meaning which Boer
sympathizers had been endeavoring to read into
them.
INDIGNANT AT KRUGER.
President Kruger's threat has excited wide
spread indignation. The Daily News demands
that his friends should promptly inform him
that his own neck and that of Mr. Reitz, the
Trsnsvaal State Secretary. will be held re-
sporsible for any such violation Of the ele-
mentary rules Of civilized warfare.
The correspondent Of THE Times" at Toxic
says:
The rumor Of friction between Russia and
Japan Is without foundation No international
question now exists between them. The recent
excitement connected with Japanese purchases
of land over Russias head at Masampo grew out
OF purely private transactions ana IN no way
concerned the japanese Government At pres
ent the atmosphere is clear.
For once the censorship is blamed on account
OF laxity II is asserted that the censor ought
10 have suppressed the story Of Father Matthews
regarding the surrender al Nicholson's Mex.
which, while too vague 10 be considered evil
dence, must cause uneasiness The feeling is
that until the facts can be ascertaned, II would
have been wiser not to circulate mere gossip.
The great delay in South African dispatches.
now amounting practically to five days, and the
lack of any definite news from Ladysmitb give
rise to some apprehension. which is only re-
leved by the fact that no adverse tidings have
come from either British or Boer sources.
RELIEF FOR LADYsM1TH.
Nothing is known as TO the location Of General
Sir Redvers Butler. H. NJ. S. Powerful has
rived at Smon's Bay from Durham and has
begun to coal. The cruiser will return to Dur
ban Immediately with more guns. Lord George
Hamilton Secretary Of State for India an
nounced in speech last evening that relief
force would be Immediately sent TO Ladysmith,
but beyond that nothing is known Of the British
plan Of campaign. and equal secrecy shrouds
the movements Of the Beers.
THE Morning Post" which complains that It
was unwise tactics the part Of the Brit
ish officers TO leave the railway intact in their
retirement to Ladysmth. says:
1t Is another illustration of British contempt
for the Beers that they treated the retirement
es though ii were an advance and preserved the
enenys line of communications as carefully as
II 1t had been our own.
DR.. Jameson, the hero OF the raid. left Cape
Town for England last Thursday. The Cape
authorities have seized a wireless telegraph
plant found on board a vessel destined for Della
goa Bay.