The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-11-30
TRANSvAAL WAR ITEMS.

The typhus epidemic at Copenhagen
is assuming serious proportions. Fully
20 new and serious cases were officially
reported on the 2lst.
The United Irish league of Boston
has extended an invitation to Presi-
dent Kruger TO visit that city before
returning home.
Lord Roberts was injured on the
18th by being thrown from his horse
Aside from a few bruises and being
badly shaken up he escaped unhurt.
President Kruger, of the South Afri-
can republic, landed at Marseilles,
France, on the 22d. He cannot help
being elatcd with the reception ten
dered him.
Regarding the case Of Chas. T. w.
Nicely, growing out of the postoffice
frauds in Havana, the attorneys for
the prosecution say that proceedings
will be vigorously pushed.
1t is reported from what seems to be
q reliable source that President Kru-
gers mission to The Hague will be to
seek mediation from Holland. Failing
in this he will Immediately return to
the Transvaal.
Speaking at banquet given in his
honor at London, Eng, on the ED.
Gen. Butler defended the British army
against the charges of ravishing women
and of barbarous treatment of Beers,
declaring that all were false.
In a speech at Marseillcs, France, on
the 22d, President Kruger said: 81 as
sure you that if the Transvaal and the
Orange Free State must lose their in
dependence it will be because all the
Boer people have been destroyed with
their women and children.
A dispatch from Mascru, Basutoland,
dated the Goth, says: Natives report
that Stcyn and Dewitt with 1000 men
traverscd the British lines between
Alexandria and Warringham's store
and attacked British post, subsc-
quently retiring TO Dewctsdorp.
The Pan German association has
taken mp the cause OF several hundred
Germans, who were expelled from the
Transvaal by the British. 1t amour
ces that it will force the government
TO make an energetic demand upon
Great Britain for adequate damages
At a cabinet meeting in London on
the 23d it was decided to recommend
Queen Victoria to make Malice
Lord Kitchener acknowledgement,
so as to enable him TO take over the
supreme command in South Africa
when Lord Roberts leaves that coun-
try.
The London Daily Express Of the
Goth had the following: 1--WE under
stand that Lord Roberts recently re-
qucstcd the government to send 20, 600
regulars to South Africa TO relieve the
same mum Der still in the field. but that
his request was declined on the score
of expense"
Mr. Kruger has become, for n mo.
ment at least, the popular idol of the
French. His triumphal progress north
ward through the country from Mar
settles to Dion has placed this beyond
doubt. lie met with tremendous re-
ception in each town along the route
where the train stopped.
A long dispatch received from Lord
Roberts on the 2lst refers to n mum Der
of minor occurrences. The only incl
dent Of Importance is the surprise of
an outpost Of the "BuiIs," southwest
Of Balmoral Nov. 10. Six Of the
Bluffs" were killed and five wounded
An officer an 30 men were made pris-
oncrs. The post has since been re-
occupied.
Paris papers on tho Goth suggested
various ways Of assisting Mr.. Krugcrs
cause. The lntransigcant contcm-
plates the formation OF an intcrna-
tional conference Of leading Journalists
at the European capitals with n view
of discovering practical ways of help.
ing the Beers. The Republiquc is per
suadcd that if European governments
would remind Great britain that she
signed the llagnc convention good
would follow and that there would be-
no risk in taking such a step.