The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-08-02
Scouts Employed by the British i'm
south Africa Wnntoniy Put to
Death After surrendering.
COST OF THE PROLONGED WAR
GRANT TO LORD ROBERTS APP
PROVED BY THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Victory for the London Mail-Boxers
Urging Chinese to Again
Rise Against Foreigners.

nus a"
Kitchener, dated from Pretoria to-day.
says: French reports that he has received
a letter from Kritzinger "a Boer command
err announcing his intention 70 shoot all
natives in British employ whether armed
or unarmed. Many cases of cold-blooded
murder of natives in Cape Colony have re-
Gently occurred
Another dispatch from Lord Kitchener
from Pretoria, dated to-day, says: "On
July 2s an officers patrol of twenty yeo-
many and some native scouts followed two
carts and u few Beers fifteen miles from
the railway at Doom river. Orange River
Colony, where they were cut off by two
hundred Beers, and after defending them
selves in a small building they surrendered
when their ammunition was exhausted.
Three yeomen were injured. After the sur
render the Beers made the native scouts
throw their hands up and shot them in
cold blood. They shot a
wounded yeoman. The remainder were re-
leased. The Beers gave as a reason for
shooting the yeoman that they thought
lie was a Cape boy Evidence on oath has
been taken of the murders"
A Boer commando with two guns has en-
ItTCu 1OIlukueSt a.
Guanetz. Five hundred Portuguese troops
are already at Guanetz and artillery left
Lourenzo Marques for that place this morn
ing. Three hundred troops in addition are
in readiness to proceed unless the Beers
surrender.
In the House of to-day Lord
Stanley, the financial secretary of the War
Office. replying to a question. said the cost
of the war in South Africa from April to
July 81 was eS5. 5O.OOo. partly chargeable
against the deficit Of last year. The actual
cost in July was 91.259.00 weekly. The
statement was greeted with ironical Irish
cheers. The chancellor of the exchequer,
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. said If the war
continued at the same cost for the next
three months Ii would neceSsltate spending
the whole of the reserve he had provided
for financing the third quarter. but he had
reason to hope that this would not be
necessary.
The House Of Lords to-day unanimously
voted the grant of e1OO.0 900 for Lord Roberts
recommended by King Edward as a token
of the nations appreciation of the field
marsnals service in South Africa.
Xxx
The president of the Royal College of
Surgeons. Sir William MacCormac. read a
paper to-day before the British Medical
Association, now in session at Cheltenham.
He pointed out that the character of gun
shot wounds had completely changed since
his experience i'm the Franco-Prussian war,
when he was surgeon-in-chief to the Anglo
American ambulance. Not only was the
severity Of the wounds diminished. but they
were also less frequent. So the improve
ments made in weapons did not render the
prosecution of war more difficult, as con-
tended in some quarters. Only . per cent.
of the wounded died. With reference ia
the charges made against the army hos
pital service in South Africa by William
Ashmea NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., the Con
sorVative member of Parliament for West
Observation-Disclosures had no idea. of the
perspective and exaggerated everything.
x
The contest between the War Office and
the Daily Mail has terminated In a vic
tory for the paper. The War Office had no
only cut off the Daily Nails South African
casualty reports and other news. but had
also ordered the various news agencies not
to supply the Daily Mail with any oficia
ton from the War Office. There.
upon the Daily Mail sued the news agencies
under its contracts to compel them to de
back bulletins until near the hour for the
morning papers TO go TO press. This raised
a storm of protest from the provincial
papers and the War Office finally Capitu,
lated and called off the boycott. The ex.
pertinent at press gagging aroused bitter
criticism among all classes of papers at z
time when the government was not toe
popular and could i'll afford 10 aggravatC
popular discomfort MIR. Brodrick's persona
bereavement in the death of his wife pre-.
cludes a journalistic celebration of his de.
feat. but there is much quiet satisfaction
over the result IN Fleet street.
XXX
M Kruger's American tour says the
Brussels correspondent of the Daily Mail
will include visits to New York. Phila-
| delphia, Boston. Washington and Chicago
| Negotiations are about to begin for his
reception by President Mckinley"