The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-21
BULLER's GUNS RECOVERED.

special dispatch from Durham, Natal,
dated Saturday, Dec. Is, says 1t is ru-
mored Gen. Butler called for volunteers
to recover the abandoned guns, and that
party issued from the camp after mid
night and brought in the guns, which
We're uninjured.
Revised lists of the British casualties
ct the battle Of Colenso show that 1877
noncommissioned officers and men were
killed
BRITONS ENLIST GERMANS.
BERLIN, Dec. 2O.-Despite repeated
British denials It seems to be fact that
British agents are busy in many of the
districts of Germany, hiring veterans for
service in South Africa. Several well au-
thenticated &c ses have been reported this
week. but the following incident seems
conclusive. The district court of Ham
burg has just issued an order for the ar
rest of a British agent, named York, for
hiring a number of German peasants IN
the neighborhood for military service.
which, under the imperial laws, is a GRIM
inal offense. There Is nothing, however.
to interfere with Herr Krupp in the man
ufacture Of steel shells for the British
army A local paper announces that g.
600 shells are being made on a rush order,
and the men are working night and day.
TOILANDERS ARE PATRIOTIC.
ex-president of the Holland Society of
Chicago, said today that he knows OF
forty eight men who are gong from this
city to join the Beer forces in the field
and that he expects the movement to
grow until there will be an exodus of
Dutch sympathizers from New York and
other ports to South Africa. He said:
Hollands people are patriotic. 1 know
of men in Chicago who are going to fight
with their countrymen in the Transvaal
and who will pay their own expenses.
The pro-Boer movement IN this country
has some big men behind it-such men as
Mayor Van Wyck and Judge Van Wyck
and Robert B.. Roosevelt, of New York.
SECOND CANADIAN CONTINGENT
OTTAWA, Ont, Dec. 2O-An official
statement was given out tonight by Dr.
Borden, minister Of militia, as to the
strength and composition of the second
Canadian contingent for South Africa,
now being formed. The strength of the
contingent will be 1,044. There will be
three squadrons of mounted rfies, num-
berlng in all 531. One-half of this num-
ber will be taken from the Northwest
mounted police, and the other half re-
cruited from the different cavalry corps
of the country. In addition to tn there
will be three field batteries selected from
the different batteries in Canada. They
will comprise in all 513 officers and men.
A cable dispatch received from Mr.
Chamberlain says that the officers neeJ
not be members of the regularly drilled
forces, but must be good shots and rough
riders
AMERICAN RECRUITS FOR BOERs.
NEW YORK, Dec. 20-The offices of
the Orange Free State consulate are vis-
tied every day by large number Of men
who want to go to the Transvaal and
a r arrl1Xy HXy SIla
/ Pierce, the consul of the Free State, they
are referred to DR.. Hendrix Muller, the
Orange Free State minister at The
Hague, Before starting for Holland, how
ever, many of them visit George w. Van
Sicklen at his office In Broadway. Most
! of the men who apply to Mr.. Pierce, to
judge by appearances, are rough men,
with little or no money, belonging to the
laboring class But there are not few
that are educated and have had some mil
! itary experience. Mr.. Pierce said frankly
that he was referring these men to Dr.
Muller, who, he added saw that they ar
| rived in the Transvaal. When asked how
1t was possible to get the men in the
! Transvaal at this time he said that they
| were taken into the country by way of
| DelagOa bay.
ANOTHER GRAVE DANGER
NEW YORK, C. 2O.-London papers
! Just received dis much anxiety over
! the attitude of Me. TX, emperor of Abys-
| sinia, toward England At present there
! is dispute between this potentate and
Great Britain as to the boundary between
Egypt and Abyssinia, md it is feared
| that Menelik may consider the present an
excellent time to make d demonstration
against the British.
PRAYING FOR PEACE.
NEW YORK, Dec. pa dispatch from
| Antwerp says: Two great prayer meet
ings were herd Tuesday night at Rotter-
dam, by Dutch pastors, gathered from all
! Holland. The Transvaal hymn was sung
and six thousand forms collected for the
Ioer wounded. resolution was passed
to send a circular to all British pastors
asking them TO preach and pray for an
end to the hostilities. Amsterdam and
The Hague ladies are offering their serv-
ices for collecting money, and many
young men of good families IN The Hague
have decided to go to the Transvaal to
join the Beers in the field
BRITISH SEIZE FLOUR.
NEW YORK, Dec 20.-A J. Twomey
of the PENNSYLVANIA Milling and Ex-
port company, sent a protest to Wash
ington today against the seizure by the
British OF flour sent to South Africa by
his firm. He received information today
by cable that the ship Beatrice with a.
cargo. had been seized in Delagoa bay
and sent TO East London, while another
ship, the Maria, had been sent to Fort
Natal A week ago the Atashona. with
1900 sacks Of -four, was stopped and
sent to Cape Town. The flour it was
suspected, was for the use of the Beers.
The captured ships, which were char
tered by the Pennsylvania Milling COM
pany, belonged to Buckneu brothers. Of
London.
GENEROUS CONTRIBUTION.
CHICAGO, Dec 2O-President Scull. Of
the British-American League Of the Chi
cage Board of Trade, today cabled s., 900
to the chairman of the soldiers relief
committee, in London, the money to be
used for the relief of families Of British
soldiers killed in the South African war.