Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-09-16
Copyright. Associated Press).

IJNICN, september 1o.-Wnen
cIear-cut issue sSagain observable in
the confusion surrounding the Chinese
difficulties, there may be a reawaken-
Ing of real interest, but at present Chi
ma holds quite a secondary place in the
public mind in England. The Parlia-
mentary campaign is in full swing. but
Lord Salisbury has not yet taken the
loting day; and the consequent uneer-
lainty gives the stump speaking that is
going on in every constituency an acad-
tmic tinge. So Great Britain, lacking
more interesting topic, has returned
10 a consideration of the war In South
Africa; and the newspapers are eager
" scanned for signs of the real end of
he campaign, as Great Britain is tired
Of carnage. President Kruger's dra-
matte retreat has led the commentators
70 reannounce the close of the war, but
he long lists of casualties and deaths
hospital, aggregating two hundred
veek, which continue to fill up the bull
etin boards at the war Office,
Bette Their Settlements
rhe claims hitherto made that the
British losses in South Africa have
been small as compared with those of
other campaigns appear to need revis-
lon, judging from recent calculations
made by a well known actuary, who
finds that of the officers in South Africa
72.1 per thousand have been killed or
have died from wounds, 306 per thou
sand of the officers have died from dis
ease, while of the men 10 per thousand
have been killed and 31.S have died
from disease. These startling statistics
not only illustrate that while the Off
GERS and men have suffered approxi-
mately equally from disease, the risks
of the officers in action have been huge
ly disproportionate, and also that the
rate of mortality in South Africa is
much greater than it was in the
Franco-German war Kruger's mil
lions are the objects of disrespectful
graphs and long narratives of ia
TO- lowest estimate of his
l GOO, invested abroad;
while Scr llculators figure his
wealth at 5 100000. The Transvaal
government is supposed to have two
sr three million pounds in continental
nanf<G which with ha Nv bn
managing committee, DR.. Leyds says,
Tor future rising when England
Is In Other Difficulties.
All kinds of ramors are current re-
garding the coming of American en-
terprise and capital to relieve Lon
don's congested traffic. That the me-
tropolis is far behind every prcyin-
eial center in many things that go to
make up a modern city is beginning
to be realized by Englishmen as well
as by Americans; and demand is arts
Ing for new oloOd-American or Other
wise-capable of solving transit prob
lens. One had only to attempt a jour
ney TO the city this week to realize
The costly delays, and yexations to
which business is subjected under pres
snt conditions. The main artery, Ira
talgar Square, to the Bank is so torn
Up that it takes cabs and buses thirty
or forty minutes to cover a journey of
less than two miles. Connected with
all this congestion is the great prob
lem of housing the working classes. at
which the closest students OF London's
social problems are aghast, though
they readily perceive that the only
remedy as In the case of lesseniug the
congestion of the street lies in a wide
spreading net work of rapid transit,
which, under the County Council rules.
must hereafter be subterranean. Lon