The San Francisco call., 1899-10-10
Great Britain Evidently Ex-
poets a Hard Campaign
in South Africa.
SELECTING RESERVES
Only Five Thousand Chosen Out Of
the Twenty-Five Thousand Re,
Gently Called Upon.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LONDON, Oct. e.-The complete dearth
OF news from the Cape on which all at
tention IS riveted, is partly compensated
for by the mass of minor details pub
hshed concerning the preparations for
the dispatch of the army corps and spec
ulation as TO the length and character Of
the debates when Parliament meets. In
official circles there is said TO be appre-
hension that the radicals Will offer pro-
tracted opposition TO the Governments
policy in South Africa, which viii pos
sibly make prorogation and Christmas
near neighbors.
Lord Salisbury's whip to the Lords, Is
sued tonight says Parliament will deal
with matters of grave moment.
The latest dispatch from Lourenzo
Marques, relating to the chasing of the
steamer Guelph by the cruiser Philomel
caused some stir especially as II was
announced that the Guelph had landed
at Durham 414 cases of ammunition for
the Beers There IS a pretty general
feeling that ammunition ought not to be
allowed to be forwarded. The Pail Mall
Gazette referring TO the matter, says
There Is some hope that the ammunition
will be seized at Durham, as Natal pos
sesses a Ministry whose loyalty is un-
questioned. Had not the Filipinos been
given arms by Americans with which to
fight Spain General Otis would long ago
have been enjoying his ease at home.
Similarly with the Beers. We may have
TO pay heavily in blood for the apathy the
Cape Government has exhibited in this
matter"
Lord Vantage, president of the British
Red Cross Society. will shortly issue an
appeal for contributions to aid in the
work of the society, which he says will
provide two hospital trains and a hospital
ship The Duke OF Westminster and Lord
Vantage have given 1000 pounds sterling
each, and Baron Rothschild has raised
1000 pounds sterling among his friends.
Some indication of the War Office esti-
mate of the duration of the campaign is
given by the fact that the authorities
have contracted for eight months sup
plies of bread and other military requsi-
tions rendered necessary by the absence
OF the army service corps, which the War
Office thus evidently calculates will be at
home again by the beginning of May.
1t appears that although the War Office
called upon %. 900 reservists, only the pick
of them, some 5000, viii be retained with
the colors The authorities are pleased
at the application OF a number of re-
servists belonging to the Union mobilized
classes who are volunteering for foreign
service The War Office announces that
the wives Of reservists will get siXpence
and each child twopence daily while the
husbands and fathers are retained with
the colors
Baron Tweedmouth presided at a meet
ing of the Council Of London Radicals to-
night, which, after a speech by Lord
Tweedmouth deploring the unwise policy
of the Government, whose dispatches he
declared were not cOuched in conciliatory
terms, adopted a resolution in favor of ar
bitratiOn and calling upon the Govern
ment to take steps tending to a settle
ment Of the difficulty with the TransvaaI
by negotiations for arbitration.