The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-03
GLOOM AT The CAPE
BRITISH COLONIAL PRESS NOT SO
SANGUINE AS THAT OF THE
EMPIRES CAPITAL
BRITISH FORCES TOO SLOW
Lord Kitchener Is Criticised for Not
Catching the Elusive Com
mandOes Now Maintain
ing the Warfare.

LONDON, Sept. Edgar Wallace,
whose dispatches regarding the shooting
of wounded men at Vlakfontein created
a sensation, now publishes aletter in the
Mail, showing that the. optimistic view of
the South African situation which pre-
walls in England is not shared by the
anti-Boer press of Cape Colony. One
journal emphasizes the necessity of rem
dering the British forces as mobile as
the rowing commanders which they are
set to catch and also advocates an in
crease in the number of British troops.
Similarly another South African news
paper criticises the slow movements Of
the British troops and another deplores
the numbered condition of their columns,
but the want of mobility is not the sole
point of the criticisms leveled at Lord
f<itchener's mode OF warfare. 1t Is
pointed out that hitherto he has entirely
failed to inspire the Beers with salutary
fear.
KRAUSE ARRESTED FOR TREASON.
DR.. Krause, former governor of johann
nesburg and a prominent official of the
late Transvaal government, was arrested
in London last night on a-charge of high
treason. He will be arraigned today at
Bow street police court.
For the past four months Dr. Krause
has been living in Great Britain. 1t is
legiance to the British crown he secretly
forwarded information to the Beers.
The warrant was issued some time ago,
but the police were not able to find him
until yesterday, when they ascertained
that he was coming from Inverness with
his sister, Mrs. Dixon, who is said to be
the wife of British officer.
1t was DIR. Krause who handed to Lord
Roberts the keys of Johannesburg on the
occasion of surrender.
AMERICAN CLAIMS.
Maj Gen Sir John Ardnagh, the rep
resentative of the British foreign Office
before the TranSvaal compensation COM
mission, presented to the commission to-
day as part of the case against the
American claimants, the report of Capt.
Carl Reichmann, who was United States
military attache with the Boer army,
from which it appeared that the Irish
American ambulance originally consisted
of fifty-three men. On their arrival at
Pretoria forty-six of them threw away
their red cross badges and took up
Mausers.
Capt. Reichmann was quoted as saying
that the works of the Netherlands rail-
way and the dynamite factory at johann
nesburg were turned into Boer arsenaIs
and consequently the claimants who had
worked therein could not be entitled to
damages for dispossessfon.
TRIALS BY COURT-MARTIAL.
A dispatch from Pretoria says:
ivan Aartsen and Trous two Holland
ers, have been tried by court-martial for
breaking their oaths of neutrality and
spying. The principal evidence against
them was given by accompiices in an ex-
petition to a Boer commando. The
party left Pretoria on Aug.4, stayed four
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Pretoria Aug. 9.
Judgment in the case has not yet been
rendered. This is the first of a series of
important trials. Advocate Lehman,
counsel for the Netherlands railway OF
South Africa, defended the accused.
Many Boer sympathizers are under ar
rest for aiding the burghers.
COL. vANDELEUR's DEATH.
The Pretoria correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph, in a dispatch describing the
blowing up of a train between waterfall
and Hamans Kraal, Saturday, by Beers,
when Lieut.. Col. Vande.eur, of the Irish
guards, was killed, says:
The train carried several passengers.
among them two ladies, with babes and
a nurse. AS it toiled through a cutting
a negro was seen to raise his hand. In
stantly a Boer discharged two MINES, de-
railing the train, while a body of Beers
poured in a heavy rife fire.
Lieut.. Col Vandeleur shouted to the
women to lie down under the. seats, and
ordered his men to return the fire. AS
he was proceeding along the corridor, a
Boer burst into. the carriage and fired,
killing him, after, it is supposed, his re-
fusal to surrender. Another Boer DELHI
erately fired upon and wounded the nurse
Bullets were flying in all directions al
though the Beers were aware that women
and children were there"