Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-01-03
EUROPE Is UNEASY.
DELAGoA BAY MAY CAUSE IN.
TERNATtONAL TURMOIL.
Events show the Necessity of En-
Glands Taking Immediate Possession
France and Russia Are Relieved
Allied Against British Purchase.


London correspondents Thursday stat
ed that under the secret stipulation of
the treaty it has been announced that
Germany viii take the Asiatic colonies
under rortugaifs rule and the territory
north of the Zanbesi river, Also Eng
land to take possession Of Belagoa Bay.
The Loka Anzeiger states that Por-
tugal has already agreed to sell Ger
many her entire Asiatic possessions, eoni-
prising 10000 square kilometers and l.
600, 900 inhabitants, and 10 England her
entire African possessions, comprising
2.000,000 square kilometers and l3,0oO,-
600 Inhabitants Germany, however, re-
ceives some land in Africa north of the
Zambesi river, excepting a strip three
miles wide which Cecil Rhodes requires
for his projected railway from the cape
to Cairo. The isokaI Anzeigcr also says
that the treaty secures Delagoa Bay TO
Great Britain against any opposition
from the powers. Germany pays 20
100000 marks to Portugal. The paper
also says that in 1891 Great Britain ac-
quired the right TO Delagoa Bay. 1t is
possible now that President Kruger may
declare war on Portugal and attack Della
goa at once.
There can be no dispute Of the fact
that the possession of Delagoa Bay is go-
ing to be the beginning of interna-
tional turmoil. The London Daily Mail
says: THE Portuguese Government has
for a great many wears owed Us several
million pounds sterling, which, for friend
ly reasons. we never pressed for repay
ment The lease of Deiagoa Bay Mt the
present time, il only for twelve months,
would indicate that they had not. alto
gether lost sight of the fact that one
good turn deserves another. If they have
lost sight of that fact then il is tile we
ceased our benevolent policy in thar quar-
ter
Coupled with the above telegram
from C3pe Town to the Daily Mail says:
Beyond question there is steady and
continuous stream of recruits for the
Transvaal passing through Delagoa Bay
disguised as civilians crews of merchant
vessels, members of continental Red
Cross and other non-combatant corps.
'It is suggested that Great Britain
should seize a temporary port ut Delagoa
Bay and also the railway leading to the
Transvaal. Otherwise the war IS likely
to be indefinitely prolonged"
The Daily Mail prints Il particularly
| hot roast on the Government for che com
| duct of ,he war. Sir Michael Hicks
| Ecach. chancellor of the eNchequer; Lord
LaGdsdowne, the war minister, and Com
mander-in-chief Wolseley, all come in for
a share of the Mails attack. The paper
says: The reason for British failure III
| South Africa is that our men are provid-
| ed with inferior artillery owing to Hicks
| Beach's skinhint policy mules and wag-
ons necessary for the transport of huge
| quantities of stores are not yet on the
| scene; owing to the blundering of either
| Lord Laadsdowne or Lord Wolscley, an
army of foot soldiers have been sent out
to face defending force of mounted
men in a country and a kind of warfare
| in which infantry, unaceompaned by
large bodies of cavalry, have no chance
| whatever. We have enough examples to
fill blue book daily We do not want
to swap horses while crossing stream
but we do want incompetent men emov-
ed from the sphere OF their blunders.
Either Landsdowne or Wolseley should
| go, aud Hicks Beach should make way
for financier able TO manage the huge
money affairs of the war"
| The dispatch of the major part of the
Fifth division with Gen. Warren to Ma
4 tai bears out the statement that Gen.
| Bul,er would continue operations in Ma
| tai Independent of Gen. Roberts, who
will devote himself to the situation in
Cape Colony. The Fifth division nun
| bers 10000 men, and of the eight bat
talions composing it five are now en- route
to Buffers camp. Gen. Warren and staff
| left Pietermaritzburg for the front Dec.
( 26, and have probably already arrived
| at Chieveley camp 1t is believed here
that upon the arrival of the re-enforce-
ments Butler win make another attack
/ on the Beers position. 1t is not con-
1 sidered likely that he viii again attempt
! to force the Beers from the center, but
will rather plan flank operation, to be
| followed by direct assault near the
bridge, aided by the 5000 fresh troops
| of the Fifth division.
Winston Churchill, who has rejoined
/ the British column at Chieveley, sends
/ description of the Beers position,
which is sufficiently discouraging from
the English point of view. He says:
"The position held by the Beers is of ex-
traordinary strength-hgh hills lined
/ with tiers of trenches and galleries ris-
ing from the hank of the almost unford-
! able Tugela river, with a smooth plain
before it, all over which the Beers have
mounted many powerful guns, dominat-
ing all points of attack The river fords
are commanded by conyerging musketry
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