Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1900-11-29
rRANsvAAL WAR ITEMS.

The typhus epidemic at Copenhagen
is assuming serious proportions. Fully
90 new and serious cases were officially
reported on the 2ist.
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 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 elated with the reception ten
dered him.
Regarding the case of Chas. +. W..
Nicely, growing out of the postoffice
frauds in Havana, the attorneys for
the prosecution say that proceedings
will be vigorously pushed.
IL is reported from what seems to be
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 22d,
Gen. Butler defended the British army
against the charges of ravishing women
and of barbarous treatment of Beers,
Il IL, hot n
In a speech at Marseilles, France, on
the ed, 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 Steyn and Dewitt with 1000 men
traversed the British lines between
Alexandria and Warringham's store
and attacked a British post, subse-
quently retiring to Dewetsdorp
The Pan German association has
taken up the cause OF several hundred
Germans, who were expelled from the
Transvaal by the British. 1t announ-
ces that it will force the government
to make an energetic demand upon
Great Britain for adequate damages.
At cabinet meeting in London on
the 23d il was decided to recommend
Queen Victoria to make Maj. Gen.
Lord Kitchener a 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
stand that Lord Roberts recently re-
quested the government TO send 0,00o
regulars to South Africa to relieve the
same number still in the field, but that
his request was declined on the score
of expense"
Mr.. Kruger has become, for mo
ment at least, the popular idol of the
French. His trinmphal progress north
ward through the country from Mar
settles to Dion has placed this beyond
doubt. He met with a 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 a number
OF minor occurrences. The only Incl.
dent of Importance is the surprise OF
an outpost of the Bluffs" southwest
OF Balmoral, Nov. 10. Six of the
Bluffs" were killed and five wounded.
An officer an 80 men were made pris.
oners. The post has since been re-
occupied.
Paris papers on the Goth suggested
various ways of assisting Mr.. Kruger's
cause. The Intransigeant contem-
plates the formation of an interna-
tional conference of leading journalists
at the European capitals with view
of discovering practical ways of help
ing the Beers. The Republique is per.
suadcd that if European governments
would remind Great Britain that she
signed the Hague convention, good
would follow and that there would be
no risk in taking such step