The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-03-06
GEN, CRONJE'S ARMY
LAYS DOWN ITS ARMS
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An electric plant and dynamo bear
ing the mark of an Ipswich, England
maker, were found in a Boer trench.
The Brussels Daily Mail says the
Afrikander Bund is promoting rebel
lion against England throughout the
colony.
The Lord Mayor of London has ac-
knowledged receiving S1,106 from
British residents in California for re-
lief funds.
First Lord of the Admiralty Goschen
asks for $4,000, 900 for naval expendi-
ture for the year, but decries the mo-
bilization of the fleet.
Professor Thomas Bacon OF the Uni
versity of California says that England
will get off cheaply at any price il
Chamberlain is forced out.
The British are within two miles OF
touch with Ladysmith, but the ground
still to be covered is the hardest part,
and severe fighting Is expected.
Owing to the lessons of the BoeT
war the German cavalry arm will be
increased and mass charges of cavalry
will be eliminated from the tactics.
The departure of Lumsden's Horse
from Calcutta for South Africa was a
brilliant event. Viceroy Curzon and
his American wife babe them farewell
The feeling in official circles at Pre-
toria borders on CONSERVATION. Cen
eral Louis Botha and President Steyn
are both urging President Kruger to
sue for peace.
Amelia Kussner, miniature painter
returned from Kimberley, where she
painted Rhodes picture. She says he
is a type of warrior. and the opposite
of Russla's Gar.
Six of Roberts men were wounded
bv hollow-nosed Mauser bullets. The
nickel cases on striking split with four
Sits. making a projectile Of the most
dangerous nature.
King Menelek is in a peaceful mood
Lying stories that he would take adj
vantage of Britain's difficulties in
South Africa to make a move toward
the Nile are set at rest.
Belief is strong in London that
France will sooner or later be war
ring with England. This feeling Is
strengthened by taunts in French pa
pers of English weakness.
George w. Van Siclen, president OF
the American Boer Council, has for
warded $1,000 for Boer widows and or
phans to the Afrikander committee OF
the Legislature at Cape Colony.
Congressman Wheeler of Kentucky
introduced a resolution in Congress
instructing the Committee on Foreign
Affairs to investigate charges made by
former Consul Macrum. of his mail be-
ing censored by the British authori-
ties at Durham.
Lady Symons, widow of General Sill
William Symons married a subalterr
within six weeks of her husbands
tragic death at Glencoe. She and the
General had been separated. Queer
Victoria is indignant, as she had secur'
ed Lady Symons an extra pension.
The Due d'Orleans has aroused
British sentiment by his congratula'
tions to the artist who made the scan
dalous pictures of the Queen in tht
Paris paper lie Rire. Orleans was wei
treated by royalty in England, but his
insults and filthy words have made hin
despised.
Cecil Rhodes, presiding at meet
ing of the De Beers Company in Kim
berley, made a remarkable speech. Re
marking that the years profits from
the diamond mines had been $4,000,
900, he declared the Beers were tools
of a mercenary gang whose sole ain
was to divide the wealth of the Eng
lish in South Africa, and that tn
Dutch Governments were not republic
out oligarchies.