Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-03-20
WAR NEWS IN BRIEF.
The rainy season has begun in Natal.

The rainy season has begun in Natal.
The Beers have 1880 men in the field.
independence, Kan, is shipping more
mules to England.
Explorer Henry NJ Stanley thinks the
war will end by July.
Chamberlain is now considered as the
next British premier.
One hundred wounded Germans were
found in the hospital at Jacobsdal.
Alfred Miner has declared martial law
in several districts in Cape Colony.
The Queen sent kilograms of congrat-
ulation TO Gems. Butler and White.
Indias subscriptions to the war fund
have reached the sum of $2o0,000.
Many young half-castes are in the New
Zealand contingent in South Africa.
London Standard says Great Britain
Will get port in Portuguese East At
rica.
Timothy Healy urges that diamond
stock brokers be made to pay the war
budget.
Some of the English towns are being
infested 10y fraudulent collectors for the
war fund,
The Beers have dynamited in thirty
places the railroad between Modder river
and Kimberley.
American manufacturers expect many
orders for mining machinery as result
of the Boer war.
Thcre is movement in the Malay
States to send a mounted volunteer corps
to South Africa.
Alarm is felt over leakage of news in
cables from Africa, but England is un
able to locate the parties.
The Inniskilling Fusileers went into
the battle of Peters Hin with y Off
GERS and came out with FIVE.
The English budget will he increased
S35.oo0.00o for current expenditures and
S2TG00e,o00 for war expenses.
The Chinese of New Westminster.
British Columbia, have contributed lib
orally to the Transvaai fund
The London Times correspondent at
Colcnso says that about 400 men remain
of the battalion of Dublin Fusilcers
The Premier of Victoria states that If
necessary the colony viii cheerfuny dis
patch 4 fourth contingent to South Al
riea.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach estimates the
war expenditures at $500, 000.o1n. An
addition to the income tax of shilling
u pound is suggested.
The Canadians were only prevented
from carrying Gen. Cronje's laager ut
the point of the bayonet 10y the inipera-
tive orders TO the contrary.
The jailer in charge Of the prisoners at I
Pretoria, Oppevman by name. was dis
missed after Winston ChurchilI's escape
He went to the front and was killed at
Spion kop.
TO procure a black background against
which the khaki of the British regiments !
viii be thrown into relief. the Beers have |
been burning the grass along the line of /
the British advance.
The conxocation Of Oxford University /
will be asked to pass on decree allow
ing all undergraduates who volunteer for /
service in South Africa TO put off their /
honor schools for year
An officer Of one Of the Highland reSi- /
ments has written home for sleeping 4
bag and also requested that clean shirt |
be sent him once week. as il was i'm I
possible 10 get anything washed.
The Canadian, Australian and New
Zealand contingents now in the field are 1
TO be charged income tax on their pay
Among the stuff in the Boer lager /
near Kimberley. seized by Gen. French. /
twenty cases OF champagne were found. 4
Turpin. the inventor OF melinite is said /
to be with the Beers. The petroleum 1
bombs fired at Kimberley are attributed 4
10 him. Great Britain was the only pow
er that offered him compensation fer his 1
discovery.
A letter from Sydney 10 a Londoner
says, They are war mad in Australia.
Mere than half the white gold miners in
the Trsnsyaal were Australians and were
harshly treated By TIA Rs<ss."