The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
WAR STILL GOES ON
PACIFICATION OF SOUTH AFRICA
SEEMS AS FAR DISTANT
AS EVER
PRAISE FOR LORD METHUEN
Described as One of the Most Active
of the British Commanders at
the F>rOnt-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 1t is possible for inhabitants
to settle down and resume their usual
avocationS without fear of disturbance,
but apart from the paciflcation Of these
small spheres Of British influence there
are few signs Of progress. The railway
line from Johannesburg to Laings 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
of 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 Breadwood's column,
than against Mr.. Kruger, the former pe-
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 Lord
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-
t1ring industry and gallantry.
In the house of lords yesterday Lord
Raglan, under secretary of state for war
IN the course of an announcement that
Mr. Brodrick was selecting a committee
Oh women to visit the concentration
camps In South Africa, said the whites
In those cases numbered 14,624 men. 27.71
women and 1905 children. He said also
tnat the mortality for the month of June
was 6S men, 1873 women and 576 children
Lord Raglan deplored the heavy NOR
uaIlty IN some of the camps in the earlv
months Of their establishment.
In the course Of an address today he
fore 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
noped the Cape parliament could meet
before the second week in October. the
date fixed by the constitution
Lord Kitchener, in a dispatch to the
war Office, confirms the capture of bha
Wife of the acting president, SchalkRur-
ger, and says the prisoner has been
brought into Pretoria
PROTEST FROM OurDA.
Mile. Louise de Ia Rance (Ouidal bas
long letter in the Daily News nro-
testing against the treatment admins
tered by the British in South Africa to
Mrs. Cronwrigfht, saying:
1t is, | think, entirely true that Nine
OllVe Schreiner has been TRANSPORTED r.
strange place and imprisoned within
fence OF wire netting which is nro-
tected by armed sentineIs standing at
intervals with orders to fire upon anyone
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
light. Her husband Is refused by the
British authorities permission to visit
her, although her brother is a 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 indigntty of
privatlon and carried away from all she
loves?"
GREEF REINET, Cape Colony, July Is.
Col Scobell's column surprised and cap
tured Seheeper's laager at Camdeboo July
IA, taking thirty-one prisoners and cap
turing a quantity of ammunition and
stores Scheeper, with the bulk Of his
commando, escaped. There were no Brit
ish casualties.