The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-21
100000 TROOPS.
Great Army of France Passes in
Review
Before the Gar of Russia and
the President.
LOUBET'S ODD WORDS.
He Says the Alliance Is Pledged
to Settlements
Inspired by Sentiments of JUS
tice and Humanity.
Boer War Is Assuming More
Interesting Aspect.
MAY BE ARBITRATION.
England Is About to Issue An
other Loan.
BOer War Is Assuming a More
Interesting Aspect.
MAY BE ARBITRATION.
Is About to Issue An
other Loan.

czarina and President Loubet have
concluded a review of 10000 troops on
the plain of Betheny The march past
lasted from 10:45 a. m. till 1:10 p. m,
terminating in a magnificent charge of
10000 cavalry. The spectacle was very
imposing as the infantry went by $50
files deep with fixed bayonets.
In his speech at the luncheon which
followed the review President Loubet
created somewhat of a sensation by
saying:
THE Franco-Russian alliance is
pledged to settlements inspired by JUS
tice and humanity
Whether rightly or otherwise, some of
his hearers took the remark to refer
to affairs in South Africa
PURELY FOR PEACE
London, Sept. 21.-The Vienna corre-
ticle in the St Petersburg Rossiya
which declares that Russia requires
neither French nor English money.
Her credit, says the article, enables her
to place loans without difficulty on the
international market
Financial operations, the Rossiya. de-
clareS, did not form the basis for the
F'ranco-R Russian alliance, and it was
not founded on political speculation on
the part of either France or Russia.
The alliance was formed because of the
genuine friendship of the two great
nations, who assumed the task of CO.
moral purposes. The two powers would
not refuse the friendship of any coun-
try ready to promote their great aim,
which is to prevent a sanguinary col
lision between the peoples Of the earth.
MAY BE ARBITRATION.
The Hague, Sept. 21.-Baron Won Lyn-
den, the minister of foreign affairs,
has forwarded to the lega tions and
members of the council of the court Of
arbitration a copy of the Boer appeal
for arbitration, with a notification that
he intends to bring up the appeal for
consideration at the first meeting of
the council. The date of the meeting is
not fixed.
WAR IS NOT OVER
New York. Sept 21-Commenting
upon the South African situation, the
London correspondent of the Tribune
says: Anxiety with regard to the stu
tion in South Africa is intensified by
Lord -Kitchener'S latest message an
nouncing the loss of two more British
guns The war is not over and even
some of the Unionist papers are blam-
ing the government for the manner in
which the country has been deluded
the end of their resources. General
Botha has for a week past been medi-
tating a raid into Natal, and no doubt
he is acting in cooperation with other
BOer leaders. Whether he has enough
material at his command to enter upon
a campaign on a large scale in northern
Natal is open to doubt, but at the same
time Lord Kitchener may not have
enough men successfully to oppose the
Roer cOmmandant general, unless he
considerably reduces the number now
employed in chasing raiding com
mandOes throughout the length and
breadth of Cape Colony. Natal is al
most the only portion of South Africa
which is beginning to recover from the
of the last two years, and
it offers tempting prey to the raider,
A fresh invasion of this colony would
be regarded here as a real calamity.
The financial outlook is also far from
satisfactory. On the stock exchange
rumors are current that the chancellor
of the exchequer viii ultimately have
to float another large issue OF consols.
BOERS HELPING THEMSELVES. |
London, Sept 21.-While Mr.. Kruger
and DR.. Leyds are drawing up petitions |
to President Roosevelt and the czar. |
asking them to intervene, the lighting
Beers are helping themselves in South |
Africa by celebrating the expiration OF /
the period in which Lord Kitchener |
proclaimed they must surrender by |
four notable successes, killing 68 officers |
and men, wounding So and capturing |
five guns and 300 men. The situation is /
like the opening Of the war, |
two years ago, the names of the same /
places recurring in the dispatches |
Utrecht, where Major Cough was en-
trapped, was the scene of a similar am /
buScade il months back Acton Homes, [
where the Beers yesterday reappeared |
is is miles southwest of Ladysmith, /
in the early hostilities and |
the Natal colonies are mastering for /
the defense of the Tugela as when Gen. 4
Joubert invaded Natal in 1899.
In Cape Colony fighting is again go
ing on south of Stormberg, in territory !
traversed by raiders and their Dursuers /
half dozen times
The governments publication of these 1
causes an cutburst of exasper-
alton against the conduct of the war, /
not in South Africa. but by the minis
try. The great ministerial journals ac-
-use the government of trying to run /
The war sson the cheap" by not provid-
ng Lord Kitchener with sufficient re-
The Times, while it has no misgivings
as to the final issue, accuses the home Il
authorities Of lack of organized sus-
-ained effort of a disposition to post
oone military for financial cOnsidera-
ions and Of failure to grasp the moral I
md intellectual issues which the pro-
ongation of the struggle infiicts on the
empire. Other ministerial supporters
aver that precious months which should |
nave been spent in preparing for anoth-
T campaign were wasted in electloneer-