The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-03
British Government is Deter
mined to Transport Him.
EFFORTS FOR CAPTURE
ROBERTS HELD IN ENGLAND
ABOVE WELLINGTON.
Queer Case of The Purchase of Chill
dren Comes to Light-"Boxer''
Outbreak in China Does Not
Alarm salisbury-Light Thrown
On His Eastern Policy.

! Copyright, 1900, by the Associated Press
London, June 2-On one thii.g the
British government is determined. i. e.,
President Kruger cannot stay in the
Transvaal. IN the event of his can
ture he must be transported. not neces-
sarily in durance, but he must be got
out Of the territory which Lord Sails
bury expects viii shortly be part of the
British empire. Every effort viii be
made 10 capture President Kruger, but
| the government officials are inclined
TO believe he viii manage to get into
| Portuguese territory. where the British
will be unable TO touch him.
Words fail to describe the national
gratefulness to Lord Roberts. Yelling
| ton never was 70 England what Roberts
is today in the eyes of TIE general pub
/ lie. A dukedOm and the Order of the
| Garter, at the queens disposal through
the death of the Duke of Argyll, are
the least rewards that could be be
slowed on him. Already people are talk
ing of the scenes which viii mark his
home coming. Conscientious military
critics occasionally try to bring on Lord
/ Eitchener's name, but their efforts have
small effect on the popular sentiments.
OSC0 W lIG1GSS 461CETdDnYs
/ One evidence of Lord Roberts capa-
bility is the uses to which he puts wire
less biography. While Butler, White
and other generals failed TO develop the
plant sent out TO them and looked ask
ance at the innovation, relying solely
on the Old-time Telegraph, Lord Rob
erts always has with him a body of
+ wireless telegraphists.
Couv,Ia P,,1zo Cb;Id,a,,
One of the most remarkable though
| posthumous exposures of the looseness
Of English life in high places came up
this week when Mrs. Brinkworth sued
the estate of the late William Beckett,
a former member Of parliament, for
I continued support for herself and her
alleged children. It now transpires that
Mrs BTinkwOrth lived as his mistress
for many years and that the couple
( amused themselves by buying children
which they passed off as their own, as
Beckett wished to use the children to
bluff his own family into consenting
to the payment of large sums to his
mistress. She accumulated seven chill
dren so adeptly that the judge re-
marked: You seem to hive bought
children as some people buy puppies. -
Mrs. Brinkworth's case was nonsuited.
Belittle Chinese Troubles.
The Chinese question is attracting
much public interest here. Lord Sails
bury does not believe the latest out
break of the Boxers" will result in
anything serious. That il viii bring
up acutely the question of the parti-
ton of China is a possibility at present
considered too remote for any express
son of opinion.
Yes, perhaps the Chinese policy is
Lord Salisbury's weakest point" said
an official but as a matter of fact,
England cannot have any far-east pol
/ icy. The constant change Of govern
+ ments leaves nothing for the foreign
minister 10 do but become an oppor-
tunist of the extreme type. With
Russia il is different. She is an auto
( cratic power. whose foreign office re-
mains. in power as long as it pleases
the car. During the lifetime of a
ruler a consistent policy can thus be
carried out. In England we have no
such chance"
The feeling among the officials is
that Russia's inroads on Japans pre-
negatives in Korea constitute a much
ErayeT source of LANCER than the
Boxers 4" outbrecI, though Korean
matters have temporarily ceased to
figure prominently in the press dis
patches.