The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-18
CRIBS "PEAC[!!HACE!'
Does John Bull, When There
Is No Peace.
B0ERS' REBELLION FUND
Is of Millions, and the Trans
vaaI Will Bide Its lime.

Copyright, 1900, the Associated Press.)
London, Sept 15.-When clear cut is
sue is again observable in the confusion
surrounding the Chinese difficulties, there
may be re-awakening Of real interest,
but at present China holds quite a sec
ondary place in the public mind in Eng
land. The parliamentary campaign is in
full swing, but Lord Salisbury has not
yet taken the country into his confidence
as to balIoting day; and the consequent
uncertainty gives the stump-speaking
that is getting on in every constituency
an academic tinge. So Great Britain,
lacking more interesting topic, has re-
turned to the consideration of the war in
South Africa ;and the newspapers are
eagerly scanned for signs of the real end
of the campaign, as Great Britain is tired
of carnage.
President Kruger's dramatic retreat has
led the commentators to re-announce the
close of the war, but the long lists Of
casualties and deaths in hospital, aggre-
eating 200 a week, which continue TO fill
up the bulletin boards. belle their state
ments. The claims heretofore made that
the British losses in South Africa have
been small as compared with those of
other campaigns appear to need revision,
Judging from recent calculation made by
a we'll known actuary, who finds that Of
the officers in South Africa, 72.1 per 1850
have been killed or have died from
dc Of fIA Nfno
died from disease, while Of the men 10 per
1000 have been killed or died from
wounds and 31S have died from disease.
These startling statistics not only illus
trate that while the officers and men have
suffered approximately equally from dis
ease, the risks of the officers in action
have been hugely disproportionate and
also that the rate of mortality in South
Africa is much greater than in the
Franco-German war.
Kruger's millions are the subject of dis
respectful paragraphs and long nara
tives of dispraise. The lowest estimate
of his wealth is a1,O0o,OO0, invested
abroad; while some calculators figure his
wealth at e5OeO,0oo. The Transvaal gov
eminent is supposed to have two or three
which will be boarded by the managing
committee. DR.. Leyds says, for a future
rising when England is in other difficult
ties.
All kinds Of rumors are current regard
ing the coming of American enterprise
and capital to relieve London's congested
traffic. That the metropolis Is far behind
every provincial center in many things
that go to make UP a modern city is be-
ginning to be realized by Englishmen as
well as by Americans; and a demand is.
arising for new blood-American or other
wise-capable Of solving transit problems
There is much gossip over the state
ments that Charles T. Yerkes of Chicago
and New York, has secured control of
the stock of the Charing Cross, Euston
and Hampstead underground railroad
His friends openly declare that he has
not only secured this valuable opening
but that his coming to London means
that he will control the electrical traction
system of the metropolis. Nor is London
the only place where American capital
lists are engaged in promoting enterprises.
The next few days will probably see the
of plans for the construction
and consolidation of a system Of 40
miles of suburban lines connecting Man
chester, Liverpool, Bolton and a score of
smaller towns in the most populous dis
trict Of northern England This project
is in the hands Of Messrs. TON" and AL
bert Johnson Of New York. p.
American railroad magazines are also
here. They are confident that American
coal has found permanent place on the
continent if not in England. Every
American consul in Europe has been set
to work to supply statistics as to the
possibility Of finding a market