El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-30
Sending Large Numbers Of
Recruits To The Boer
Army In Africa.
new YORK PRO-BOER
The City Council Last Night
Passed a Resolution Of
Sympathy For The
Fighting Beers.


cruiting Office here sent away another
batch OF forty-three recruits to Nor
folk last night, where they will sail
Monday for Antwerp to join large ex-
pedition which leaves Amsterdam,
January Is, for South Africa. The
company is in charge of a German of
the name of Hermann, who is to be re-
sponsible for its safe arrival at Boer
headquarters.
The men were all named tosassemble
at given point and as soon as all had
arrived they went in small parties to
the station to avoid creating comment
and exciting suspicion.
NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Dee. 3O.-At meeting
OF the New York city council the
RESOLUTIONS of sympathy with the
6oers, which were offered last Tues
az, were adopted with but one dis
ipting vote.
ENGLAND BUYING SUPPLIES.
CHICAGO, Dec. 3O.-The English gov
ernment has purch ased ZOO, 900 pounds
of canned meat from local packing
houses. One train load consisting OF
twenty-eight cars of the order will
leave tomorrow for shipment On q
steamers sailing from New York Thurs
day.
ANGLO-GERMAN TREATY.
BERLIN, Dec. 3O.-Our cor
respondent learns that an Anglo Ger
man treaty concerning the Portuguese
colonies was formulated eighteen
months ago. 1t is only to be executed,
however, in case of certain events
that have not yet arisen.
CHAMBERLAIN DECEPTION.
PARIS, Dec. Collaborating to the
Figaro, both Queen Victoria aud the
Prince of Wales recently administered
severe snubs to Secretary Chamberlain.
The Queen, It is said, charges Cham
be-lain with purposely misleading the
country and deceiving her every time
she asked for information about South
Africa.
GEN. YULE ARRIVED
SOUTHAMPTON, Dec. 30.-The trans
port Briton arrived here from South
Africa today conveying Major Gen neral
Yule and part of the British wounded
in the battles of Glencoe and Glands
laagte. General W. A. Yule succeed
ed to the command of Glencoe camp,
Natal, after the death of General Sy-
monds Yule's evacuation of Dundee,
where he left a number of wounded,
including General Symonds, in the enc
my's hands, marked the beginning of
the British retrograde movements and
gave England her first intimation of
the inadequacy of her forces in Natal.
A PRIVATE" LETTER.
BRUSSELS, Dec. 3O.-A private let
.er from Pretoria states that the Boer
commission has sent 10, 900 shoes to the
Boer troops at the front, which were
in each case too small for the
wearers. The Beers also need. uni
forms.
The letter says further that papers
have been found at Dundee which
prove that the British scheme was pre-
pared before the war broke out to COB
lie up the Orange Free State.
GERMAN LINER CAPTURED.
LORENZO MARQUEE, Dec. 3O.-The
German liner Bundesrath, from Ham
burg, has been captured by the British
and is being held as war prize.
FATAL soRTIE.
LORENZO MARQUEE, Dec. 30.-A re-
p,rt from Pretoria states that in a
ssrtie from Msfeking, Dec. %, the
British casualties were 100 and the
Beers 9.
GREEK TO MEET BOER.
LONDON, Dec. 30.-Four thousand
f,rmer Grecian soldiers have offer
el their services to Great Britain
against the Beers.