Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-12-11
ENGLANUs CONSERVATION.
Beginning OF Third Year Of South African Con.
fllct Finds England In Serious Situation.
ILLUSTRATED Homo Journal.

illustrated Homo Journal.
The ameer's death, Russia's in
trigues in Afghanistan, and the
probability of internal troubles there,
give the continuance of the .little
war" in South Afrios, which has
now entered its third year, an omi-
nous significance for England. The
Beers are as active as ever. Kru-
gers prophecy is being horribly full
filed. Want, sufferings, death, a
long train of terrible disasters, and
England's humiliation are the result
of Mr.. Chamberlain's determination
to drive the Beers into the sea. He
forgot that the Beers loved their
homes, their liberty, their independ-
ence as much as did the English,
and that they declared they would
fight unto death. Now Russia is
advancing in Asia. Formerly Eng
land would Immediately have called
a halt. To-day England finds her.
self in the position of the dog with
the piece of meat. She dare not let
go of the chunk she has bitten off in
South Africa. -
That costly and embarrassing
struggle had humiliating conse-
quences for England during the
Chinese war of 1900, in which she
was compelled to play far more
subordinate part than she would have
taken if her hands had been free.
England has in the neighborhood of
100000 soldiers in South Africa,
which is a large proportion of the en-
pire's entire available fighting force.
Some soldiers probably 10000
or 30,000-have been sent to India
from the Boer region in the past few
months, possibly in anticipation of
the complications which are no.
threatening on account of the ameer's
death, but England cannot spare
more men from that quarter. Sum
mer has begun in South Africa, and
there is greater activity among the
Beers than there was few months
ago. The troubles in Asia will give
the Beers renewed encouragement
to continue their struggle. The war
is costing England about $1,OOO,OO0
a day. 1t has cost her over $4,000
men in deaths from disease, and in
killed, seriously wounded and cap
tured, and the end of the train is not
in sight.
Thus, the beginning of the third
year of the South African conflict
finds England in a serious situation.
For the first time in the history of
the war the government found it
necessary to adopt defensive methods.
Secretary of War Broderick was
obliged to impart information which
has covered England with consterna.
ton. 314,000 men, he said, are
under arms in the battle with the
Beers in South Africa. 100000 are
in the field, 100000 are being drilled
at home. Provisions and ammuni-
tion are always supplied for four
months in advance. 248,00O horses
and mules must be fed, and 10000
fresh animals are added every month
to supplant the losses. Two Incl
dents have added to the general con-
fusion. First Gen. Sir Redyers Bull
Ter, the idolized commander, has con-
fessed in a speech delivered at a
banquet that he advised the capitu-
lation of Ladysmith. Then, Lord
Kitchener mas declared martial law
in Cape Colony, which shows, per-
haps, more plainly than any other
circumstance Engla4d's desperate
situation. Kitchener has caused the
execution of the Boer commanders,
Lotter and Soboemann. which has
famed the embers of hate into wild
flames of fury. The situation is a
desperate one. What price Eng
land is paying for the African gold
fields
And now comes the startling in-
formation that King Edward is o
very sick man, that he is suffering
from a cancer which grows only more
violent after each operation. What q
bitter revelation for naughty Eng
land that both her king and empire
should be suffering from cancer. The
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