The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
WAR STILL GOES ON
SEEMS AS FAR DISTANT
AS EVER
PRAISE FOR LORD METHUEN
Described as One of the Most Active
of the British Commanders at
the FrOnt-The General
Situation.

NEW YORK, July 15.-Returning Brit
ish officers do not speak hopefully of the
situation in South Africa, says the Trib-
! une's London correspondent. They as
sert that the railways are securely held
and that there are small zones around
Bloemfontein, Pretoria and Johannes
burg where it is possible for inhabitants
to settle down and resume their usual
! aYocations without fear of disturbance
but apart from the pacification of these
small spheres of British influence there
are few signs of -progre SIS. The railway
line from johannesburg to Laing's Mex
is still menaced, and the Dutch section
along the South Orange river is ravaged
by guerillas, and broad districts of the
Transvaal and the Orange river colony
are only kept quiet by being emptied
or their population through repeated
marches of strong columns.
In Cape Colony Scheepers is giving to
Gen. French considerable trouble. The
feeling in England is far more bitter
against Mr.. Steyn, who has just narrowly
escaped capture by BroadWood's column
than against Mr.. Kruger, the former pc
ing regarded as interfering in a quarrel
not concerning him, and, apart from the
impression which his being made prisoner
would undoubtedly have made in the Or
ange River colony, his escape will cause
great disappointment. Lord Kitchener q
dispatches, by referring only to Mr..
Steyn's brother as among the captured.
rather indicate that the other prisoners
are Of small Importance.
OF the generals in South Africa Lori
Methuen Is the most highly commended
by the officers serving under him. He ia
described as one of the most energetic
and resourceful officers at the front. In
stead OF complaining of the harsh criti
clsm to which he was subjected. he has
remained In the service and displayed un-
firing industry and gallantry.
In the house of lords yesterday Lord
raglan, under secretary of state for war.
IN the course of an announcement that
MT. Brodrick was selecting a. committee
OF women to visit the concentration
camps in South Africa said the whites
In those cases numbered 1854 men, q. I'll
women and 43.075 children. He said also
that the mortality for the month of June
was 6S men, 1873 women and SIG children.
LORD Raglan deplored the heavy NOR
Iallty In some of the camps in the early
months of their establishment.
In the course of. an address TODAY he
lore the Cape Town vigilance committee.
the premier, Sir John Gordon Sprigg de-
clared himself against the proposition to
suspend the constitution of the COLONY.
he said he was unable to give any def
mite assurances on the subject. but he
hoped the Cape parliament could meet
peIore the second week in October the
date fixed by the constitution.
Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch To tho
war office, confirms the CAPTURE of tha
Wife of the acting president, Schalk-Rur-
ger, and says the prisoner has been
brought into Pretoria.
PROTEST FROM oU1DA.
Mile Louise de la Rance (Ouida) has
long letter in the Daily News nro-
testing against the treatment admins
tered by the British in South Africa 70
Mrs. Cronwrigtht, saying:
1t is, think, entirely true that Nine
Oilve Schrelner has been transported to
strange place and imprisoned within
fence of wire netting, which is nro-
tected by armed sentinels STANDING ar
intervals with orders to fire upon ANYONE
attempting to get through the netting
to escape.
In this place she lives alone with her
dog in one small room, for which she
pays, cooking for herself and compelled
to remain all night without any kind of
nent- Her husband is refused by the
Brltlsn authorities permission to visit
her, although her brother is former
premier Of Cape Colony.
What Is her offense? Merely to have
espoused the cause of the Beers Is it
tolerable that for this alone she should
have been subjected to the indignity of
privatlon and carried away from all she
loves?"
GREET REINET, Cape Colony, July *.
Col. Scobells column surprised and cap
tured Scheeper's lager at Camdeboo July
IA, taking thirty-one prisoners and cap
turing a quantity oe ammunition and
stores. Scheeper, with the bulk of his
commando, escaped. There were no Brit
ish casualties.