The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-09
CAPTURE OF
PAUL KRUGER.
British Public Looking Forward
to That Event.
Regards theWar as Otherwise at
an End.
WHAT TO DO WITH IT.
Future Disposition of Conquered
Territory Considered.
Colonial Troops Wish to Settle
in the Country.

Copyright. 1900, by Associated Press.)
London June 9.-TO all intents and
purposes the South African war. so far
as the average Britisher is concerned is
over With the exception of the pos
sible capture of President Kruger and
the home coming of Lord Roberts his
calendar of probabilities contains moth
ing of vital interest. Already China is
becoming a keen rival of South Africa
as the burning question of the day.
The capture of 500 members of the I'M
perial yeomanry whicn d few months
ago would have thrown the nation into
a ft of dependency, self analysis and
furious abuse of its own officers, has
passed comparatively unnoticed- The
work Of stamping out the rebellion, for
such, according to the British point Of
view, is the nature of the opposition
now encountered is too prosaic and too
common ia the annals of the British
army to merit the absorbing attention
hitherto bestowed on each detail of the
Banguinary struggle.
TOPIC Of THE HOUR.
what shall we do with it?" is far
more the topic Of the hour than specu-
1ation regarding the expenditure in
lives and money that seems likely to
ensue before the paeihcation of the
Poers is accomplished. Large numbers
of inquiries are daily made in London
anent the prospects of the undeveloped
crown lands of Natal, while the rich
resources of the Transvaal and Orange
river colony form the basis of frequent
articles. Before many months have
passed the steamship companies ply
inG to and from South Africa, the com
of that portion of the globe and others
equally interested and well informed
look for a large and steady emigration
of British agriculturists and others to
fields on which the blood of Briton and
BOer is scarcely dry.
WANT THEIR REWARD.
All the letters from the front indi-
cate an increasing desire on the part
or large proportion of the irregular
and colonial forces to settle down in
this fertile land won with such cost TO
themselves. The British high commits
siuner, Sir Alfred Miner it is learned
Is deNoting his whole attention to evOlV-
ing a scheme Of civil government ap-
picable to the Orange river colony and
the Transvaal and relying to no little
extent upon the influence Of the British
settlers to exercise it. The commits
SiOner is in constant communication
with the secretary of state for the col
onles, Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, who has
also got the forces Of the colonial office
uard at work on the problem, though
the keen-sishted officials believe the
day is still far distant when the mill
tary administrators viii be able to hand
over the reins of government in safety
to the civil authorities.
Providing the progress of the vfctO-
Tious army in the Transvaal is tol-
erably similar to its operations in the
Orange river colony subsequent to the
capture Of BlOemfontein, this apathy
towards military happenings and in
f4fs1,4 mo fr,F
biities is likely to gain such a quick
hold that soon the war Will almost be
forgotten. The contingency of Presi-
dent krugers still undefeated forces
scoring any victory of consequence
over Lord Roberts is generally re-
garded as so remote as to be scarcely
worth mentioning. The occupation of
Pretoria, according to the Man in the
Street settled the whole matter.
LORD ROSsLYN'S BREAK.
in view Of all the premature rejoic-
ings which Lord Rosslyns Incorrect
press dispatches caused last week it
is interesting to note that aristocratic
young journalist is chiefly remembered
in London for his diverting appearance
in Hyde Park at the period when he
had given up the stage to edit Scottish
Life At the height of the season at
the most fashionable hour of the day
he was always to be seen, immediately
dressed ard bejeweled, seated under a
tree ostentatiously correcting a mass OF
proof sheets. As each one was finished
he covered it with four pebbles and
laid ii out beside him until he was sur
rounded for yards around with white
SIPS, which never ceased to be a source
q huse amusement to the passersby
ana apparently Of immense satisfaction
to himself
Yet. when he cabled from Pretoria
every paper in England, including the
Times, believed him implicitly
With the arrival of q senoblanea M
summer the Thames has taken on its
usual gay hues and all the world n NJ
his wife have gone boating on the mic.
turesQue reaches. Yet at its muddN
mouth. miles from where the counties,
pleasure parties hunt and row. ther,
has been reaped from its waters a har
vest of death extraordinarily large eve1
for this stream of tragedies. Within tn
last two days the police report hndin.
no less than seven bodies. One lies a
Greenwich, unidentified; another a
Rotherhithe, that of woman of tn
haWker class. So far only two hav
been identified. The others probabl-
never win be, and this brief, record o
hotsam and jetsam in the greatest cit,
of the world of accident, suicide an
possibly murder causes no comment
but is stuck away in a corner of an af
ternoon paper, headed Mysteries O
the River"
NAVY IN BAD SHAPE.
Those who believe that Great Brit
aims navy would, in case of war, prov
nearly as full of anachronisms and mis-
management as the South African cam
paign proved the army to be have re
fears by reason of severe strictur
passed by the admiralty upon the il
regularities of the target practice an
reports thereon among the fleets no.
in cOmmissiOns The admiralty practiC
ally declares that the percentage ser
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