Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-15
s.,l,rd Gives First Attention to
South Africa and Home
! BRITISH WAR LOSS HEAVY
Lama interested In London's
transportation Iiu'lness-in'ro-
duelng American Coal.

,8op Sept. i5.-speclal London ca
|, Liter copyrighted, 1900, the Assocl-
Il "a press When a clear cut issue is
n, Nscernlble In the confusion sur
,slBp the Chinese difficulties, there
|-,y be a re-awakening OF real inter-
IN, Al present China holds a sec
,l,ry place In the public mind In Eng
IA The parliamentary campaign Is
am swing. but Lord salisbury has
81, taken the country into his con-
- as 20 balloting day; and the
| ...,psnt uncertainty gives the stump
IA .sirg that Is going on IN every con-
j .,w,gey AM academic tingc. So, Great
l."aio lacking q more interesting top
sls returned 20 the consideration OF
|, \, mar In South Africa; and the news
-,srs are eagerly scanned for signs or
| y rssl end OF the campaign. as Great
5rnjn Is tired Of carnage.
BRITISH LOSSES HEAVY
President Krugers dramatic retreat
H. the commentators to re-an-
- the close Of the war, but the
iIsg lists Of casualties and deaths IN
4 s9ltsl aggrtgdting 200 a week, which
'MiJnue 10 nm up the bulletin boards
,bs war office. belle their statements.
r,s claims hitherto made that the Brit
H nssss Nm South Africa have been
,r,n Id compared with those Of other
~r-isns gppear 10 need revision,
3elnr from recent calculations made
IN, Wall known aCtuary who finds that
4 mo officers I'm South Africa, 72.1 per
,Aolani have been killed or died from
tolnds 500 per .h1u and Of the oUlcers
|lys disd from disease, while Of the
H. n per thousand have been Killed
jIed from wounds. and 3i.S have died
| Bon disease.
AFTER KRUGERS MILLIONS.
These startling statistics not only H.
|is,nta that while the officers and men
IN. suffered approximately equally
| h. disease. the risks Of the officers IN
,rIsn have been hugely disproportion-
ts and also that the rate OF mortality
IN South Africa Is much greater than In
In Franco-German war.
Eugers millions are the subject OF
|susspectful paragraphs and long mar
|riyes Of dispraise The lowest estimate
A Ms wealth rs El,000 900, invested
Il usi. while some calculators figure
wealth 40 e50Ol0Q0 The Transvaal
fyemmcnt Is supposed 20 have two or
Dr. million pounds IN continental
|ianks which win be boarded by the
Damaging committee. Dr. Leyds says,
d. a future rising. when England Is
y other difficulties
|AMERlCAN ENTERPRISE IN LON
DON.
All kinds of Tumors are current re-
Frdng the coming OF American enter
prs and capital to relieve London's
|trlgested traffic That the metropolis
n Gar behind every provincial center
ID many things that 60 10 make up
modern city Is beginning 90 be real
D. by EngIshmen as well az by Amer
pans and "a demand is arising for new
oo1-Amer.can or otherwise-capable
III solving transit problems. One has
~ 3" ANNHtIIh q JNAl ivy w wv NANf
|bS week 20 realize the costly delays
~ yeNatI0ns 20 which business Is sub
n c'ei under present conditions The
|laIn artery, Trafalgar Square 10 the
talk. Is SO torn up that Il takes cabs
a. buses thirty or forty minutes 20
Fytr Journey Of less than two miles.
HOUSING THE WORKING CLASSES.
connected with an this CONNECTION is
n glyat problem Of housing the work.
IT classes al which the closest stu
nls Of London's social problems are
Asl though they readily perceive
4 ny ne only remedy, as In the case Of
SEEMING the congestion Of the street.
q IN wldespreading the network Of
Fpc transit which. under the county
lnc'l rules, must hereafter be subter-
heah. London, therefore, will gladly