The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1901-04-26
THE WAR IN
SOUTH AFRICA.

NEW YOuK Aul ia special 90
the world from Washington a1y
Captain John a. ilnssel. who conn
mauded The Americans in the Bocr
army IN the first part of the war but
IL now here, says,
The Boer cause. while 10 cannot be
said to be bright ls brighter that that
OF the British. The Beers have just as
good n chance 90 win now Hs the Ameri-
cans had before the sudden turn OF
good luck which resulted ln the sutrcu-
der OF CORVALLIS.
"Thc winter season has just begun in
South Africa, and from now until Sep
TENDER the British soldiers viii have a
hard time.
1.-THE Beers are making their winter
quarters in the Lydenburg range, where
the English viii not dare tackle them
for they would have 60 cross the low
marshy country 90 get there, and they
have to import every pound OF fodder
FOR their horses. The problem is not
only one of sustain iuE the lives of their
men In the marshy yeidt where chiiIs
and marsh fever wind up In deadly
pneumonia, but it is a problem Of sus-
tanning horse flesh.
81 lived thirteen years In South Afri-
ca and know all the country better than
any Boer did before the war broke out,
my business, thar of an engineer, car
rying me over all of it.
ut is hard for the Beers to get re-
cruts, but in spite Of Englands pre-
cautions recruits, and valuable ones,
are getting in every day. For every
Boer killed by the English nowadays
half a dozen recruits straEEle in from
this country and elsewhere
1.-THE Beers do not propose to fight
any big pitched battle a present. They
will simply worry the enemy every
where they can and about August and
September you may look for a resump-
ton of general action on large scale"
A BAD OUTLOOK.
NEW YORK, April 15.-Military men
do not regard the outlook in South
Africa as entirely satisfactory al
though organized Boer opposition is
practically at an end, says the London
correspondent Of the Tribune. 1t is
felt that SO long as the irreconcilables
persist in their determination to night
to the bitter end the war will drag
YEARLY on, with here and there a little
British success to chronicle and occa-
sionally news of some triGing achieve
ments on the part of the guerillas.
Meanwhile Kitcheners huge army
must be mainta ned and English tax
payers must be content with the knOwl- |
edge that the campaign is costing the !
country nearly, if not quite, e1,5O0,OOO /
every week.
The question of alien immigration is /
again forcing its way into prominence. .
good many people fear that, follow
ing the colonization of South Africa ON I
a large scale by men and women of
Anglo-SaXon blood at the close of the
war, there will be an invasion of this /
country by impoverished middlemen,
peddlers, money lenders and tailors .
from Jewish centres of population on
the continent. The feeling among the
working classes of the east end of Lon /
don with regard to the immigration of /
destitute aliens is very strong. White |
chapel Is largely inhabited by Hebrews .
of the very lowest class whole streets
formerly occupied by Industrious, If not .
struggling Englishmen, being now oc- .
cupieu by an understandable population .
from the ghettos of western Russia,
Germany and Austria. Lord Salisbury
Mi. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain have
at different times insisted on the neces-
sity of preventing destitute aliens from
taking up their abode here, but the
colonization of the country with people
who are undesirable from every point of
view except that of the sweating en-
ploye still goes on. The fact Of the
matter is, the government has dropped
the ellen immigration question because
they are anxious not to lose the polit-
ical support of the Hebrews in the big
cities.
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