Daily inter mountain., 1899-11-15
BoerS Are Not Respecting
Red Cross Flag.
IN B0MBARDING TOWNS
Much Indignation in London at the
Threat of President Kruger to Kill
Six British Officers if an Alleged
Spy is Not Released.

i-oiioIl, NOV. 10. f.5U d. n.-l mere Is
| no additional news regarding the pro-
sl ess of hostilities in South Africa this
morning except a dispatch from Mafe-
| king. forwarded by a runner. dated Oct.
! 81, which says that during the afternoon
General Cronje. the Boer commander,
sent an envoy to Colonel Baden Powell
under flag of truce, to declare that he
did not consider the Geneva convention
authorized the flag of the Red Cross So
ciety to fly from several building at once
in the town, and that in his opinion the
employment of natives against whites
and the use of dynamite mines We're both
opposed to the rules of war
Colonel Baden Powell replied that the
Geneva convention did not stipulate as to
the number OF Red Cross stations per-
missible and that the Beers We're only re-
qulred to respect the convent, the hospital
and the woman's laager. all of which
were beyond the town limits The British
commander also pointed out that mines
We're recognized adjuncts OF civilized
warfare and the defenses of Pretoria were
extensively mined. Moreover he remind
ed General Cronje that the Beers had
kraals and released their cattle. and that
the natives only defended their lives and
property.
Despite three warnings from Colonel
Baden-PoWell the Beers continued delib-
erately to shell the hospital and the wo-
man $ laager. The sending of the Boer
envoy was regarded the dispatch saws.
as a mere pretext for penetrating the
British line at Mafeking. According to
the latest reports the town is confident
Of its ability to hold out until the end OF
the campaign.
SO far as Kimberly is concerned the
mental condition of the British there
must be good. from the fact that three
weddings have taken place since the siege
began, the last having been celebrated /
Nov. :.
IN the absence Of fresh news The morn /
ing papers are driven to discuss Lord I
letter regarding misinterpre-
tauOns Of his uttarances at the lord .
mayors banquet and President Kruger's \
threat a. execute British officers now iii n
his hands unless Nathan Marks, a sup
posed Boer spy, is released by Sir George
White. The premier's deliverance meets
with universal approval although the ex-
= anation was in no way necessary as |
outside the Daily Chronicle, no one had |
supposed his words could bear the mean !,
ing which Boar sympa thizers had been |
ehdeaNoring to read into them.
President krugers threat has excited !
widespread indignation. The Daily News
demands that his friends should promptly
INFORM hiIn that his own neck and that
OF DR. Reitz. the Transvaa state secre-
tary, would be held responsible for any
such vain ignoring of the rules of war
fare.
The great delay on South African ca
Dies, now amounting practically to five
days and the lack Of any definite news
from Ladysmith, gave rise to some APP
Prehension, which is only relieved by the
fact that NO adverse tidings have come
from either English or Boer sources
Nothing is known as to the where
abouts of Gen. Redvers Butler Fl. NJ.
sS Powerful has arrived at Smons Bay
from Durham and begun to coal. The
cruiser will return to Durham imme-
diately with more guns. Lord George
Hamilton, secretary of state for India
in a speech last evening that
a relief force Immediately would be sent
to Ladysmith, but beyond that nothing is
known Of the British campaign and
equal secrecy shrouds the movements OF
the Beers.
The Morning Post, which complains
that it is unWse tactics on the part of
the British officers to leave the railway
intact in their retirement to Ladysmi<h,
says: 1T is another illustration of Brit
lsh contempt for the Beers that they
treated the retirement as though it We're
an advance and preserved the enemy's
lines of communication as carefully as
il it had been our own"
Dr. Jameson, he hero of the raid, left
Capetown for England last Thursday.
The authorities have seized a wireless
telegraph plant found on board a vessel
destined for Delagoa bay