The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-04-24
MAY Be A
LONG WAR
Beers Think Their
Cause Not
Lost.
VIEWS OF AN
AMERICAN
What British Officials Think of
the Prospects, Heavy Cost
Of the War.

NEW YORK, April ia special to
the World from Washington say:
Captain John A. Hassell, who COM
manded the Americans in the Boer
army in the first part of the war, but
is now here, says:
The Boer cause, while it cannot be
said to be bright, is brighter that that
of the British. The Beers have just as
good a chance to win now as the Ameri-
cans had before the sudden turn of
good luck which resulted in the surren-
der of CORVALLIS
THE winter season has just begun in
South Africa, and from now until Sep
TENDER the British soldiers will have a
hard time.
The Beers are making their winter
quarters in the Lydenburg range, where
the English will not dare tackle them,
for they would have to cross the low,
marshy country to get there, and they
have to import every pound of fodder
for their horses. The problem is not
only one of sustaining the lives of their
men in the marshy veldt, where chills
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, that of an engineer, car
rying me over all of it.
1T is hard for the Beers to get re-
cruits, but in spite of England's pre-
cautions recruits, and valuable ones,
are getting in every day. For every
Boer killed by the English nowadays
half a dozen recruits straggle in from
this country and elsewhere.
The Beers do not propose to fight
any big pitched battle at 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 a 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 fight
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 trihing achieve
ments on the part of the guerillas.
~. ,-I.sT arm
must be mainta med, and English tax
payers must be content with the knowl-
edge that the campaign is costing the
country nearly, if not quite, 91,5o0,00C
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
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
Ichapel is largely Inhabited by Hebrews
of the very lowest class, whole streets
formerly occupied by industrious, if not
struggling Englishmen, being now oc-
'cUpied by an understandable population
from the ghettos of western Russia
Germany and Austria. Lord Salisbury
Mr.. 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 sun goes on. The fact of thu
matter is, the government has dropped
the alien immigration question because
they are anxious not to lose the polit
.ical support of the Hebrews in the bis
cities.