The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-17
UNHURT BY BOXERS
Volume of Chinese Trade De-
clared to be Unaffected.
HITCH IN SOUTH AFRICA
CAPE POLITICAL CRISIS SAID TO
BE GRAVE.


London, June 16.-The serious condi-
ton of affairs in China is daily becom-
ing the most absorbing topic in Great
Britain.
In view of the general publio's con-
cern and the dispatches from China, it
is rather remarkable to learn that the
Boxers appear to have but little AFFECT
ed the great volume of business be-
tween China and England. The largest
houses in London trading with the Tar
east, corporations, insurance COM
panies, banks and merchants, are fair
ly unanimous in saying their opera
lions are not interfered with.
However. this section of the business
world, and those whose capital they
represent. are naturally awaiting the
outcome of the crisis with anxiety.
They are apparently more disturbed
over the possibility of the powers fall
ing out among themselves after the
Boxers receive their quietus. than over
the amount of damage the Boxers viii
wreak prior to that event
Hitch in 'Paeihoation."
It is dawning on Great Britain that
unless the political crisis at the Cape
is tactfully and successfully carried on,
the pacificatiOn of South Africa may be
indefinitely delayed. The putting down.
of a possible anti-RTitish agitation in
British colony, similar 10 that which
has existed for a century in Ireland,
is recognized as being a far more ser
iOus task than Outhanking and dis
arming the Beers.
A prominent Free Slater, with Brit
ish Sympathies, but with many rela-
tives on the BOer and Bond side, said
to the representative Of the Associated
Press that he believed the Bond party
would break out into armed revolt to-
day were rifles SO easily obtained as
they were before the commencement OF
the war. He has only just come 10
England from the Cape, and though Op-
posed to the Bondites, is respected and
trusted hS them.
The gravity of the issues depending
on a solution of the situation caused by
Mr.. Schreiner's resignation of the pre-
miership of Cape Colony can be better
gagged by this Free Stater's candid
opinion than by any censored state
ment from Cape Town.
The English papers devote many edi-
torials to the question. Those which
are inspired show no desire TO have Sir
John Gordon Sprigg in sole power and
Mr.. Schreiner in the opposition ranks,
for, apart from the fact that it is
doubtful if he can maintain his ma
jority, the opinion prevails at the colo
NAL Office and is expressed by almost
everybody coming from the Cape. re-
CARELESS of political faith, that Sprigg
| is utterly untitled in point of ability
to steer the colony out of the present
| crisis.
Pan-American Congress Soon.
July will witness a Pan-African con-
ference in London, with the object
rights of Great Britain's colored sub
! jects. The idea originated with H. S.
Williams, a native of Trinidad, whose
appeal met with enthusiastic response
and southwest Africa, the West Indies.
Abyssinnia and it is said the United
States, will send representatives with
a view of looking after the general in
terests of the eoIored race. The de-
mands viii include a thorough system
of education and representation and
] peasant proprietOrship. with especial
reference to South Africa and the West
4 Indies.
Regret Mrs. Gladstone's Death.
! on all sides the death of Mrs. Glad
stone has called forth genuine express
sions of sympathy and admiration, such
as would scarcely have been written
about any other woman in the king
+ dom. The trend of them is that she
/ was the ideal wife. Her coffin is exact
/ ly similar to Mr.. Gladstones. Both the
private services at Hawarden and the
public ceremony at Westminster, will
be as simple as possible in accordance
with her own id as and those of the
/ great commoner. though their grand
son comes into .r- sion of HaWarden,
/ it viii remain l of family house,
Herbert Gladstone and his sisters be-
ing as free to come and go as they
were during lie lifetime of their par
/ ents. The young master of HaWaTden,
/ who is not yet of age, is . pleasant,
merry-looking youth. who win leave
EtOn this year and then go to Oxford.
Calls War ''Rummy."
The war, as it is learned, General
Kelly-Kenny said to General Tucker
a few weeks ago, is t'the FUNNIEST L
ever say. If we referring to the di-
vision commander, do things wrong,
we are sent home in disgrace. If we
do them right Roberts gets ali the
credit"
And the war is ''rummier" than ever
General Kelly-Kenny had any idea Of.
The spectacle presented this week Of
a victorious British general, in COM
mand of the greatest army this coun-
try ever put under one man, shut of
from all communication with the outer
world, while units of his forces, of the
zoo men, were annihilated by a sup
posedly paeified enemy whose territory
was annexed, stands almost unique in
military history. While Lord Roberts
is not blamed for these disasters, there
is strong feeling among the leading
South Africans in London that he or
someone Numbered at Pretoria.
Approached by Hardest Side.
Those who know every inch around
the Transvaal capital say Lord Rob-
erts took the most arduous side to ap-
proach il, whereas with easier means
of access he might have gone outward
and shut off all possibility OF General
Botha's retreat.
As it is, the capture Of Pretoria was
practically an empty triumph. except
for its moral effect. What old South
African campaigners are asking Is,
"Why did Roberts not get Botha and
his men and take Pretoria afterwards,
/. instead Of occupying a deserted town
and letting the Beers calmly walk
away under the nose of his Overwhelm-
? ing force?'
Shyest Duke on Record
The death of the third Duke of Well
lingtOn removes one of the shyest ana
least known persons in England. he
was a pronounced valetudinarian and
also suffered from a keen appreciation
! OF his own position. Once, and only
once. he made an attempt to speak in
! public. 1t was on the vagraney ques-
! ton. in which he was greatly inter-
! ested. A profusion of notes lay before
him where he sat in the house OF lords.
! He caught the lord ohaRcelioF's eye
solemnly rose up, arranged his notes,
cleared his throat, and sat down WITH
! o,,t avon uttarfnnr a syllable. He never
! tried again.
Gets Present of Beauties.
A curious story is printed regarding