Evening star., 1902-01-18
BOER WAR NEAR END
Belief That 1t Will Close After the
Coronation.
KIPLING RAISES 4 STORM
More Money for the War VIII
Have to Be Raised,
LONDON NEWS AND GOSSIP
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
LONDON, January Z, 1902.
p An officer who has Just returned from the
front gives it as his opinion that the war In
South Africa will last only few weeks
after the coronation. The Beers are natu-
rally anxious not to swell the note of glory
on that occasion, and If they choose to
fight carefully there is little doubt they
can hold out until after that date. 1t is
not expected that at any time there Will
be wholesale surrender, but after two OF
three more commandants are caught the
other chief leaders will probably yield II
time be as far advanced as July. The
other elements will smolder in the FAST
nesses, but there will be no more organ
lied fighting.
A correspondent signing himself "a Cape
Loyalist' offers a solution Of the war puz-
Ne to the government. Declare" he says,
"every man still In the field on the Boef
side an outlaw and put H,000 on each
head To each man who surrenders nlmsei
voluntarily pay fl 900. Danish him from tne
| country for all time and bind him :egaily
| to come up for Judgment as civil offender
against the peace if called upon FIRST pro-
claim the old colonies, then the areas re-
| ouired for industry in the new colonies
and afterWard the whole country. lue
| Beers will thus be broken up.
| "They will be constituted into nest OF
spies against one another, for there are
| few of them who could resist the te1nPta-
| ton of getting 100000 in cash by ieaalhs
| twenty Of their fellows into a convenient
| place for our men to round them up. starr
| the ball rolling, if necessary, with Two or
| three plants over the country and ostenta-
| tiously nav the reward" This cape 10y
! alist'' puts the total liability at flo'ooo'uuo'
| and the duration of time, say ten weeks
| against the liability Of the present war
fo. =, a1x-t fy-n
| It is hardly likely that the government
| will accept this pleasing method OF ending
| the war. nor does the plan take into &C
count the undoubted PATRIOTISM ism .p 1i ar. e
| of game the British thought they coulu
play with the American colonies at the be-
ginning of the war of independence.
Kipling Raises a Storm.
Kipling has reused up a storm of ndlg-
| nation over his latest poem, The lslaho-
| ers" He has had the hardihood, not TO cali
it by any severer name. to attack the Nd
tional sports cricket and foot bail. Eng
Ishmen do not mind being called dolts ana
idiots as regards commerce, to have their
military geniuses dubbed fools and thelr
country called Little England Ihey are
| getting used to all this, and take IT calmly.
But to fall foul Of cricket and foot ball they
will not stand this even from Kipling, VINO
, has long been elevated into sort OF ma
; tional hero. Hundreds of letters pour lnte m
the papers about II, most OF winch eAnioi'
an angry temper and SHOW tenoency u
, call Kipling names.
! If he has not taken steamer for South
Africa, Immediately after sending ms re.
| proof Of English lethargy In relation u
| the army to the Times, he would now p'
!, hearing many things to his disadvantage
; 1.-THE islanders strikes a coarser and mor'
| rhetorical note of reproof tnan the famous
| Jubilee "ReceSsional.
= The reference to "Flannelled fools at tn
= | wicket" as one class who are supine OF
the subject of learning to shoot, has rouse'
n | q hornets nest.
h The Times contains column and three
!, | quarters of letters today, most Of then
q criticsing the tone Of the poem.
One man writes that the gentlemen o
- England, though In this golden age the
:, | have in times Of peace more comforts an
g luXuries than are good for them, or any
:, one have shown in the South African IVA wa
=, lying soft and are quick to face danger
, discomfort and death at the summons Q
their country; and no class nor section Q
their fellow countrymen has been benin
y. them in absolute devotion to national homo
- | and imperial greatness.
= Mr. Kiplings verses, therefore, will onl
j. | furnish the unmanly envy and immora
4: calumhies of continental ISLANDERS wit
a fresh material for their insidious and COW
If ardly campaign Of aspersion of Englan
-, and the British empire 1t Is SO easy t
II rage and rhyme just as 1t is to carp an
! gibe.
ID Dozens of cricketers write to point OIL
A., how many famous players have died
lv South Africa fighting for their countr!
20 Foot ball enthusiasts, too, do the same r,
ID garding their heroes. Altogether tn
~ lingo poet has got himself into hot waite
I'd More Money for the War.
O4 It is an accepted fact now that the go
- - ernment must borrow more money to carr
nt on the war. l find that In the city IL
at conviction exists that whatever money IL
be chancellor Of the exchequer requires to bo
ss ss | row will be brought out as Transva
- 70 | loan. Financiers and spectators attas
W great Importance to the loan being Tran
nd | vaal instead Of an imperial loan. VIII
ia particular advantage that may possess
he | is difficult to see. Whatever the loan ma
~ w | be called it will be taken up solely b
atr cause the imperial guarantee lies behind
e. It may he of some advantage when the sc
~ tlement comes to be arranged that a ce
80 | tain quantity of the debt should be SD
~ ~ cifically labeled Transvaal.
"a The sum which the chancellor Of the e
~ chequer expects to recover from the Tran
ne vaal is between f50,O00.000 and EGO 600 OF
.n o vaal would be included in that amount
~ am told that in the city some people q
.an sanguine enough to believe that the Trar
vaal will. even this year. be able to p
,+a | a part OF the interest on the loan There
a1t no doubt that the cost of the civil admin
res tration in the Transvaal will be less tn
,ed was anticipated last year. but it is hare
the interest upon considerable loan.
o- country will be well pleased II within t
+ years after peace is established the Tral
nt vaal Is able to pay the cost Of it's civil a
M | military government.
lily Excitement Over Lord Rosslyn's Pls
Much excitement is being caused just
ICY present by Lord Rosslyn and his syst
he for breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. 7
ess Casino is obtaining a good advertiseme
SO much SO, that it is limited that LIZ
Rosslyn is in the pay OF the administ
e. | ton.
~ Many systems have been tried at Mo-
- Carlo at the roulette and trente ct quaral
aas tables, but as soon as the "administratic
TO discovered that more or less success
ro- | system" was being played the play
cts. | were quietly turned out of the rooms
q. the most polite way possible The Cas-
- Of Monte Carlo, where the play rooms 9
pan as not quite q public institution where Z
Ing one can be admitted by paying at the d
Of or by subscription: 1t Il q "cercle," or ci
hat the management OF which reserves to itl
The the right to refuse admission to undesira