Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1901-01-19
CAMPANION IN MISERY.
England and the United States
Afflicted with Dragging Mil
itary Campaigns.

NOhSoidliNA lDE lIt UENiiUeHbQ 0lDiC,
which cannot understand what is going
| on in South Africa, is an occasional dis
patch from America indicating that the
Philippine war is still in progress, and
| that the Two branches of the English
| speaking lace are simultaneously har-
aSsed With the dragging operations of
| apparently endless and protitless cam
| palgnS.
| Gen. Kitchener is 50 reticent that
| pToBoer journals like the Manchester
/ Guardian and alarmist sheets like the
| Daily Mail are convinced that the situa-
| ton is critical and the British army yir-
| tually on the defensive and III need Of
| achievements. Gen. Kitchener takes
/ the situation so coolly that military men
| are disposed to ridicule the idea that any
! descent upon Worcester or CANE Town is
/ possible.
| An officer in touch with the best
/ sources of information says there is no
/ intention on the part OF the war Office of
sending ont large body Of reinforce
] several weeks in small detachments. but
/ the military authorities are not convinced
| that urgent measures are required.
Strength of the Beers.
Veteran officers who have followed the
/ war closely at every stage laugh Mt the
| absurd estimates of the strength of Beers
still i'll the tield-S00O with Botha. 1000
/ Will lPtldTtN. 'Bbtb WITH lyeMNt. .b"Jb iii
/ tiriQualand, 5000 in Cape Colony and
| 5000 scattered here and there.
As there are 1000 Boer prisoners. AMI
! at least 5000 and possibly 10000 have
| died from wounds or disease, these esti-
mates make up an aggregate which is
| utterly irreconcilable with the census.
History fails to furnish Il parallel To
the Boer invasion of Cape Colony. y
| whole month has elapsed since the repub-
licans crossed the Orange river and still
! Great Britain knows next to nothing of
! their numbers, wherca bouts or dOingS.
and still less of the objects of the in
roads. The only thing known with toler-
| able certainty is that they are progress
! ing southwark over some Sparsely-inhah-
| tied tracts where they escape obserya-
| ton.
Overrunning Cape Colony.
Other large bodies are traversing the
very heart of the colony. The only log
| zeal explanation seems to he the largely,
accepted idea that the invasion forms
part of il great, organized scheme of that
) Napoleon of the war. Gen. Dewet. to
strike terror in the British colony. which.
! unqueStlonably, is nearly denuded of
| troops. and trust to the chapter of acct
dents to achieve such success as will en-
able the Beers to almost dictate the
| terms of peace. The hating policy of
the invaders. however seems to threaten
to defeat their aims and has enabled the
| haStlly-enrolled levieS of volunteers to Oc-
cupy vital, strategic points, while there
are some signs that the gathering of
! troops III the rear of the burgherS is he
! ginning to press them southwark into the
arms Ut the British moving from the sea-
| board instead of ATTEMPTING to drive
them back again across the Orange river.
where they might be enabled to reioin
! Gen. bCWet.
Meanwhile dsquieting hints are arriy-
! ing of the ALARMING 1onilitx II
! the British army is wasting away. The
| long lists of dead. wounded and diseased
/ pear out these stories. while there arc
! abundant signs that the troops at the
front are becoming stale and discomfort
| ed, the general evaporation mt home is
becoming more acute and the public is
becoming quite skeptical of the compe-
! tency Of the government to get the coiln-
| Try out OF the wretched tangle.
Duke of Norfolk Condemned.
/ Seldom has there been such a universal
! condemnation of the utterances of n NH
/ nc man as greeted the recent address of
| the Duke Of Norfolk to the pope. eynress-
ing hope of the restoration of the tenn
pofal Independence Of the pontiff. Bitter
as nave been the denunciationS of tha
italan press, the comments of the Lon
| uoh newspapers have been quite as cauS-
~ ~. Nothing could be more contempt
] PIE than the Duke Cf NOrfolk'S bpboy-
ior says the Daily News If the Ital-
ian government had known he was visit
/ ing Rome for the purpose of protesting
against their presence in their own cant
ial they would have been perfectly justi-
ned III stopping him at the frontier. Not
4 content with insulting the King of Italy
and the people of Rome, his despicable
address also condemned the federation of
ltahan frotostantS by the Italian gov
| gThment. would be difficult for an
! English Catholic to sink lower"
! Movements York bnuSa Will,
/ nam indicate that it is the intention of
! the Duke of Orleans to return to Eng
land whence he had been ostracised since
he congrat niated Nillette, the Limner. on
| the carlcatures grossly insulting to
! Queen Victoria, which appeared in Paris
| comic papers. The dukes mother the
| countess of Paris, is said 10 have been in
| communication with the Queen and
| Prince OF Wales in the hope OF patching
up the matter
English Estimate of Mr.. Armour.
The newspapers devote much space 10
the late Philip ID. Armour Columns Of
stories have been printed, mostly apoc-
rryphal; as can be judged from a sample
| from the Daily Chronicle as follows:
Mr.. Armour usually took six weeks
each year for driving in Il coach through
England"
at costs me- the writer quotes him
as saying. Il fraction under - Il day per
head for myself and guests for coach
hire
The writer adds that Mr. Armour was
careful, but hot mean man. and this
low estimate of the cost of the coaching
was due to the fact that Mr. Armour
and the guests he was likely to invite
drank water at their meals
Tht memorial to he used as an inSti-
tutc by the Gordon Highlanders at Amer
deem. which Mrs. Forhes-Leith. former
ly of New York. intends at a cost of
t4tHo. to erect in memory of her son,
Lieu. Percy +. Forbes Leith, one of the
yer recently at Newcastle. Natal. recalls
the fact that Fyvia castle Mrs Forbes
Leith's residence is one of the many
mysterious places in Scotland said to
have curse which invariably falls on
Il eldest son of the house. For many
S.f.Opr1 inns tho YpnpGr.f hos fot ln1 30 4