Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-03-15
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which were published by the World, and whicl
in measure answered the resolution of tin
house, attracted great attention. Few member
OF congress had any thought tha II 900 mule
and horses, openly bought in the West for th
British army, had been shipped from New Or
leans, and fewer still were aware that mor
than four thousand American boys had eon,
with the transports. Three quarters of then
are still i'll South Africa, and majority o
these are serving in the British army to ge
money to return home
The Associated "reas dispatch from Londor
that he Bi sh war office states "about all th,
mu es anl horses required for South Africa hao
already been secured' is not borne out by dis
patches received here from New Orleans. There
are enough British officers now in this countr,
buying horses and mules TO command full
regiment and, and more than thousand horse.
are beng shipped weekly.
n, ihe the state nor the treasury department
has replied to the house resolution, but it may
be said that the answers will be in line with
the administration policy
Will wink at the shipments.
1t is fully realized, too, that without Ameri
can horses and mules, Kitchener's army would
be at stanGstill in two months time
YANKEES FIGHTING BoERs.
From he Worlds Correspondent
Ii was bitter blow to Mr. Kruger and his
advisers when they first learned that the United
States not only furnished England with horses
mules and timed meat, but with fighting men
as we'll.
When the vanquished Tommes we've rushed
up from the Free State in freight cars, however
and unloaded at Waterfall prison, all doubt
vanished. Among the lot are twenty five wide
awake boys who could easily be d ,tinguished
from their more apathetc comrades, and whose
accent alone stamped them as citizens of "God S
own country" They were a good. natured,
adventuresome and cheerful lot of young fel-
lows, who had been put ashore in South Africa
from the New Orleans steamers with few dol
lars and absolutely no chance of earning their
bread unless they accepted the offer to fight
against the Bocrs.
But this did not explain itself to Dom Paul
just then, and when one batch of prisoners after
another, all claiming protection of the Stars
and Stripes, arrived at the prison pen, he in
quired of Mr.. Hay, the American consul, what
it all meant. The anomaly of his "sster re-
public, " as he was fond of alluding to America,
expressing sympathy for him in various ways,
many of her sons making the long journey to
Boer land that they might help the burghers
retain their frt edom, and then the discovering
of perhaps 1000 good Americans arrayed
against him, was puzzlng in the extreme.
When the commandant at Waterfall prison
reported that the American prisoners numbered
more than 100, Kruger was deeply hurt, though
he gave orders that those particular prisoners
should be we'll reated.
In justice 10 the American boys who fought,
anu are still fighting, against the Beers, l
should hasten to explain that few, if any, were
i cined to espouSe that side. | interviewed
many of them 1T the prison pen, and without
exception, they regretted ever having left
America. So ashamed were they to be found
identified with The British cause that when Mr.
nay Visi'eu the PiisoH, tney were ever Care1u
to remain concealed until he depared
Not so with newspaper correspondent anc
when | arrived inside the barb wire trocha, anc
declared my nationality, the one hundred ant
twenty five Americans fairly swept me from IN,
feet in their mad rush to greet fellow.coun
tryman. Cries of "Hello, old man." Say
| partner" What's the news from hone?" anc
"For Gods sake, can't you get us ou, of this p
bombarded me ironl all sides,