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~uaIhHess Dfoodlng over the camps and
5alllsohs OF the two warning white races,
me Orange Free State is the traditional
Zoe OF Basuto land and those most fami-
ilal win the conditions OF race resent
ment in South Africa have feared from
the outset that Miners agents NAV nor
ne aple 10 mold under restraint this tribe
one an powerful under Chief Mosneish,
Publlc anxiety has been increa sed by
the invasion of Cape Colony at two noints
where the population S entirely Dutch
anu therefore suspects Of disfection. De
Aar junction is thought by timorous MILF
tary writers to be in danger of a sudden
attack. The latest Information ends to
in!lihllze these raids. The keener crit
lets perceive that the Dutch allies are
scattering their forces and by menacing
100 many points on the western border
I the southern frontier and in MAJ AL are
Wasting the advantage derived from their
superior strength.
Englishnen who are irritated Inv +ba
war o1lces contempt for public opinion
may 1alrlN be SAID to be counting the
hours before the arrival of the fire sh Dat
.alions OF the army corps. Ten trans
rorts are scheduled to reach South At
rlca during the next three days.
The rear guard of the English repre-
sentatives of the mining companies of
the rand mas struggled into London by
the last steamship arriving from Cape
town. us leaders give fantastic and
NNoAtilS VI SC6ItS Ill ,IOnHn n
nesburg when the mining camps were
abandoned. The richest gold fields in
the world with the cOstliest mechanism
for chemical treatmen of the sa ndstone
conSlomerate and dep level mining were
le1t unuef charge OF foreign underlings
ana natlVe servants. Palatial residences
were turned over to care takers and their
occupants locked and barred front doors
and drove to the station, convinced that
their furniture and art treasures would
hn 1nnfaI hnfn,, ~ .,,1 - 4
Strange as had been the mushroom
growth Of this English mi,.ing city, it's
sudden desertiOn was a grotesuue marvel
among the vicissituaes Of human fortune.
The tilerance with which these return
ing pilgrims from Johannesburg speak
Of President Kruger ~astonishes their
London friends. He is credited by them
with q clear perception Of the inevitable
outcome of the war which may be the
earliest results of the conflict. Presi-
dent Steyn is described by them as the
evil genius of South Africa as a shrowd,
intelligent, ambitious man. The rear
guard came away from JOHANNESBURG
with the conviction That President Kru-
ger had been dragged into the wal against
his vii and Judgment and that Steyn
had involved the Orange Free State in a
fatal Struggle, in which it had everything
to lose and nothing to gain. and that
he had no other Incentive than a dream
of a powerful Dutch republic.
A representative of one of the largest
mining properties, said after his arrival
from the Transvaal thai many Intelligent
bur@hcrs Were bitterly opposed to the
war. lie quoted Johannes Rissik, who
surveyed the city named after him as
saying that he himself would gladly have
granted to the titlanders all thu they
had asked and these concessions WonId
have been merely equitable. Rissik and
other Boers who shared his view Of what
would have been 4 lust and roaa enable