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when weaker than the opposing force.
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when weaker than the opposing force.
Eow the Boers Rei-e Funds.
Pretoria. Dec. 25.-The Transyaal
| government has promulgated a new
gold tax law by which individuals and
| companies working their own mines
are taxed 30 per cent. of the output,
while mines worked 10y the government:
1 VIII pay 30 per cent. Suspended mines
] VIII pay 20 per cent on their probable
output. calculated ON three months
workings. Reducing works will pay
30 per cent. of their net profits. The
l law to retroactive to Oct IL.
General Schalkenburger reports un-
| der date of Dec. 2:} that trains are now
running TO COlenso. Indicating that the
Boers have built connection around
| Ladysmith
General Cronje reports from the
| AIodder river. Dec. "a. that the Beers
| captured two British forts at Kuru-
! man Dec. II.
British must Borrow Money.
London. Dec. 3O.-Henry Grenfell,
| former governor of the Bank of Eng
land. says: "a war loan will be raised.
There is not the slightest apprehension
| among leading English financiers on
/ their power 10 raise whatever loan is
| wanted. Fifty millions is n liberal es-
innate. Fifty millions could be nego-
tiated in half an hour. Four Jews in
Frankfort or nine Jews in Berlin could
furnish il in fifty minutes. Money is
not affected by neutrality or by nation
ality. In the Waterloo year England
raised f4OO. 100000 and during the Ma
poleonic wars E6OO.OOO.O0O. We are
wealthier now than then and at peace
with the European powers"
LADY SARAH WILSON AT aIAFEKING-
She Is Living iH "a BOmb-Proof Which S;,s
Built Herself
London, Dee. 30.-A war office dis
patch from Colonel Baden-Poweil,
dated Dec. IL. after announcing that
Lady Sarah Wilson had arrived safe
and well ut Mafeking. adds that the
bombardment and musketry fire con-
tinue daily on all sides. and that the
health and spirits of the garrison are
very satisfactory. y dispatch dated
MafekinG. Dec. ~. by native runner
says: Lady Sarah Wilson is living in
Il bomb-prOof shelter of her own con
Struction under the private residence
OF Mr.. We'll. There she is enabled to
exist with some degree of comfort
and if she chooses To spend Il part of
The time in the house her shelter is
close enough to enable her 10 take COW
or between the. ring of the warning
bell and the arrival of the projectile.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press in M1feking. to whom she granted
an interview. was struck with the fact.
on entering her bomb-proof refuge.
that she is unqUestionably an old cam
paigner. Even i'll this nOisome. dark
hole. dug under the ground. she man.
ages to make herself comfortable. She
has whisky and soda as well as cigar
cites to offer visitors. Lady Sarahs
adventures were exciting. sometimes
amusing. and often spiced with consid-
cradle danger. II WAS on Il Thursday
hat she left Mafelling. she arrived ar
SetlagOli hotel that night. Before morn !
ing she was aroused by The rattle df |
musketry and the boom Of guns. { I
was Captain \psbitt. Of the MaShon T.
land mounted police. now Il prisoner in |
the hands of the Beers. who was fight
ing desperately. unable TO get back or |
10 go forward. but holding the wrecked |
armored train until the last As soon |
as daylight would allow Lady Sarah |
pluckily rode To the scene of nc ion |
and photographed the wreck.
Finding that her presence at = tia |
goli exposed her To insults the Hoers |
moved her TO MoSuti. where she en- |
joyed The hospitality of n colonial |
farmer. BY means of heavy i,ribes |
she persuaded natives to carry in /
formation to and fro. and extraordin-
lated among the Beers. One was that /
she was the wife of an English gener-
nj. another that she was IL grand /
daughter Of the queen. and had come /
to spy upon the doinGs OF the Beers.
and third that she was the only |
male survivor of AIafeking. having es-
capped in the Suise of a woman.
Lady Sarah visited Nryburg. Sine
was driven there 10y young Bocr who
passed her of as his sister She found
loyaliStS who gave her official dis
patches and news. She stayed in the
hotel all day and stole out by night TO
do shopping. On visiting the hospital
she found that orders had been issued
that no one should leave the town.
The gallant Boer had TO answer some
curious questions out by the landrost
before he could get permission for him
self and his sister" 10 le; re. They
set out at 4 O'Clock in the DrninG. in
fear of being recognized, ar got away
safely.
After the Beers discovered that she |
had been mixed up in dispatch running
she went 10 Commandant Snym1n's
camp with view of getting back 10
but Snyman refused 10 let
her 20 TO MafekinG or even 10 Setla-
goli. He proposed sending her 10
ZeeruSt as Il prisoner of war. or. as an
To release her if Nilijoen
were given by the Britt IL At first she
refused TO ask Colon' Baden-Powell
to do this. hut finally she changed her
mind. Lady Sarah gathered from her
varied experiences among the BOcrs
that they are heartily sick OF the war
Beers Tnreaten British's Watering Parti -.
London. Dec. 3p.-Thc Times pub
fishes the following dispatch from
Chievely camp. dated Dec. II: Par
lies Of Beers approached today within