The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-12
CHICAGO MEN SUSPECTED.

The correspondent of the Daily News
| at Lourenzo Marques, telegraphing on
| Wednesday, says:
THE departure of the Chicago anbu-
! lance corps for Pretoria was delayed on
| suspicion of filibustering The mem
. bers left. by a special train this after
| noon accompanied by a motley following.
of French and Germans, 100 in all. The
departure only occurred after many
| stormy interviews with the Portuguese
authorities. The members have no pass
| ports and no credentials beyond a letter
from Miss Clara Barton to the effect that
she knows some of them personally and
believes them to be genuine, but many
! have openly expressed their intention of
hghting. The Beers are paying from e3O,
to 940 per month for such recruits.
'"Thirty-five thousand Beers, with nine
ty guns, are concentrated on the range
of hills between Kroonstad and VIM
burg. The whole line is fortified and is
| almost impregnable."
TO SAVE THE MINES.
The Lourenzo Marques correspondent of
the Times, telegraphing Wednesday, says:
"Epler, an Austrian fnancier, who is
acting as captain Of the Rand mines po-
lice in order to Illustrate the destruction
or the mines, sent remonstrance to Pre-
tor1a against boring, with the result that
State Engineer Munik's order for boring
was Cancelled
CONFUSION AT MAFEKING.
The correspondent of the Times at
Mafeking, under date of March so, COM
ments upon the hopeless confusion and
huctuation Of spirits of the garrison as
to prospects for relief since Tuesdays 8
terrible bombardment, and upon the va
riety of rumors regarding the location of
the relief forces, such rumors involving,
as FAR as the soucG column is concerned,
discrepancies of 100 miles.
GEN. GATACREs RECORD.
The Bloemfonteih correspondent of the
Times, telegraphing Wednesday, says:
1t is announced in general orders that
Gen. Sir Herbert Chermside has been ap-
pointed to the command of the Third di-
vision, vice Gen. Sir William Gatacre, or
dered home to England
Gen Brabants force is confident of
being able to hold out. The Beers, after
showing considerable dash, have wavered
when 1t came to the final issue and have
struck at last the vital point, where they
are greatly handicapped by their proxim-
ity to Basutoland. Owing to the strate-
g1cal concentrations since the enemy's
movements became defined there need be
little anxiety as to the safety of the Cape
border. No organized invasion of Cape
Colony is now possible, except under ex-
treme risk, which Commandant Olivier is
not likely to take. especially as his horses
are reported to be greatly exhausted"
The Durham correspondent OF the Stand
ard, telegraphing Wednesday, says:
"A brigade is being sent from here to
join the main army under Lord Roberts
1t Is under command of Gen. Hunter
BRITISH TOTAL LOSSES.
TIE war Office issued this afternoon a
return of the total British casualties up
to April {. 1t was as follows: Killed in
action, 211 officers and 1850 men; died of
wounds, Is officers and 465 men; missing
and prisoners, 16S officers and 3,722 men;
died of disease, Al officers and 1,4S5 men
accidental deaths, officers and "a men.
repatriated invalids, 2SS officers and 1891
men; total, 1895, exclusive of the sick
and wounded now in hospital
FOREIGNERS TO BE EXPELLED.
DURHAM, Wednesday, April lit is
said that State Secretary Reitz, of the
Transvaal, has asserted that all British
ers and Americans with a large proper
ton of the Germans, will be expelled from
the two republics within a fortnight
Twenty-Five out of seventy arrivals at
Delagoa bay by German steamer have
been refused passports to the Transvaal
at the instance of the British consul, ow-
ing to the fact that ammunition was
found in their possession
BRITONS TO BUY HORSES.
CHICAGO, April 11.-Not less than TO-
600, and perhaps as many as $4,000 horses
for military service in South Africa are
to be purchased in the Chicago stock
market by the British government. An
English officer who has been in Chicago
three weeks making arrangements for
the extraordinary purchase, has left for
New York to meet the government in
spectors who recently arrived from Eng
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