The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-06-18
.IRANSVAAL AFFAIR.
Still the Absorbing Topic Of SpecuIa.
lion In Britain.
kRUGER'S DEFIANT SPEECH
Believed 10 Have Been Intended Only
for Beers,
RUSSIAN FAMINE WILL CONTINUE.
New Crops Depended On to Relieve Silua-
lion Are Failure.
TO PREVENT THE TRAFFIC IN GIRLS
Conference Has Been called to De-
wise Method for suppress
sion of the Crime.
New Crops Depended On to Relieve Silua-
lion Are Failure.
TO PREVENT THE TRAFFIC IN GIRL,

copyrighted, 1922 by Associated Pressi
London, June i7.-Tho Transvaal situa-
ton is still the all-abscrbing topic OF dis
cussion in Great Britain and even the CON
inent has caught the disease though in
less vrulent form. outwardly the ques-
ton seems to have advanced but little,
though those who are inside think the
cause of the Uitlanders has gone up sew
ersl points, The publication of the Trans
vaal blue book with the emphatic denun-
citation of the Transvaal methods setting
forth in measured paragraphs the alleged
political, financial and judicial incompe-
tencies of the administrations OF President
Kruger and adopting as part of the gov
ernments programme all the grievances of
the Uitlanders, Is considered step OF the
highest Importance. II was an unmistake-
able warning to the Transyaal as well as
an indication to the people OF South Africa
generally that the government mas ar
rived at the fixed decision impossible to
recede from, and there are not lacking in
dications that the hint has not been lost
at Pretoria. Although II is difficult to
separate facts from fiction in the null
tipucity OF the conflicting stories it is
sition TO know that tn concliatOry dis
patch which Dr. Leyds, he representative
in Europe OF the Trans al received June
4, represents the tru situation, while
| President kruger's deiant speech OF the
same day was merely intended for home
consumption The opinion is not growing
that the delay necessitated In awaiting SIR
Alfred Miners full report OF the Bloem-
| fontein conference Will make for a pa
| Hp a C m .,FU al N ba al ga
confidence OF the government declared,
| 1t will give President Kruger tune TO set
his house in order. But unless the talked
| of concessions are speedily inaugurated
! momentous consequences arc predicted
| The position in England OF the secretary
/ VI state for the colonies, Mr., Chamberlain
| however is readily declining and the en-
phatic suggestion is heard In Influential
quarters TO transfer the conduct Of the
negotiations from the colonial commits
sion.
The evening scenes at the fashionable
witnessed at the Waldorf and the Savoy
in New York. Every phase OF American
life is represented. Besides the immense
now of tourists 1t is calculated that more
London financial schemes have been loateC
and that more London branches of Amert
can manufacturing concerns have been es
tablshed than ever before.
~
The influx OF American commercial mel
Is a constant surprise TO Englishmen who
arc just beginning to realize what Ameri
can business rivalry means. Entire sec
tions of streets here are now lined. witt
the signs OF American firms in every lin
Of trade. prominent Manchester irol
man said to a correspondents OF the AS
ISOLATED Press THE main significance o
thus fnpouring Of manufacturing firms i
that the Americans are not only under
selling us here, but they are making thel
agencies oases from which they are grad
ualy reaching out into every continental
market"
{ Church circles have been shocke
by the monopoly for the revised version o
, the Bible secured by the universities o
uxfgld snd Cambridge through a verdic
upholding their copyright just rendered b
the chancery court The evidence show
the university paid the compilers $4,000.
. ~
The shoe trade has been greatly agitate
a by the immense Increase in the America
exports 10 EnElduu NhlNn lhH ihNlthHt
A. per cent during the last ten months
!, The American shoe seems likely to have
walk-ove here as It becomes better known
Tod sloan is likely to have war;
rival In Little Ref. who lately has bee
enthusiastically received by the sport
} loving people Such recognized author
ity as John Corlett, editor OF the sportn
Times, says that looking at Rieffs weigh
skill and self-possession, there must be
: great career for him,
. ~
p, The duke OF York has decided that hi
i son. Edward, will ultimately enter tn
army and join the Tenth Hussars, q
!, which the prince OF Wales Is colonel an
q the late duke OF Clarence an officer rhi
!, decision. It is said has greatly disap
: pointed the navy,
The watchword has gone out tht
neither Tammany' nor Howard Gould wi
have the Lakes Of Killarney, The duh
of Westminster and others OF the Nations
Trust society have actively taken the maj
Ter up and at meeting on Thursday
Is expected the duke VIII announce
plan for saving the lakes TO the nation
Vice President Albert Johnson Of ii
Nassau Electric Street Railway compan
of Brooklyn has been investigating cleo
tric railways here and will return HON
on the Majestic. He SAID 20 repre-
sentative az the Associated Press; Lon
don Is the grandest field In the world ft
future development OF electric snrfat
/. roads. I have made only a prelimiInar
. examination here, but shall return n
few weeks. when I expect TO thorough