The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1904-07-21
Ex-President of Transyaal
Republic Goes Hence.
A NOTABLE CHARACTER
As Leader of Beers in Their Fruitiess
Contest With England He Won
Patriotic Plaudits of the
World.

Paul Kruger, former president OF the
Transvaal republic, in South Africa,
died at Clarens, Switzerland, Thurs
day morning from pneumonia and su-
pervening heart weakness.
Mr.. Kruger lost consciousness Mon
day. His daughter and son in law
were with. him at the time Of mis-
death. He had been out only once
since his arrival at Clarens at the oe-
ginning of last month.
The ex-president's body was en-
balmed at once and the remains placed
in a vault pending funeral arrange
ments. Application will be made to
the British government for authority
to transport the remains to the Trans
yaaI In the meantime they will te
temporarily inferred at Clarens.
MT. Kruger, who was staying at the
Villa du Roichst, had been gradually
failing for long time, but he was
able to attend to affairs, read the
newspapers and received visits until
Saturday.
A change for the worse set in On
Sunday. He became unconscious Mon
day and remained so until his death.
On several occasions Mr.. Kruger
had expressed desire to be buried
beside his wife, in his own country
The pos. mortem of the body show
edp that Kruger died Of senile inani-
ton. The state Of the ex-president's
health had been kept secret.
Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger,
ex-president of the South African Re-
public, was born in Colesburg, Cape
Colony October 10, 1925. His ances-
tor, Jacob Kruger, went from Berlin
in the Dutch East India Company's
service in 1913, at the time when the
foundations of many Of the leading
Boer families were being laid by immi-
grafton. In 1886 young Paul shared
with his family the hardships Of the
great trek, when the blunders Of the
British colonial administration made
enemies of the leading Beers OF Cape
Colony and drove them to self-im-
posed exile which resulted in the
founding Of new South African Re-
public beyond the Vaal. 49,. ........ -
In preparations for the struggle with
England which he had long regarded
as inevitable Kruger had put the
TransEaal into an excellent defensive
state By the purchase Of large quanti-
ties of arms and ammunition.
The events and results Of the Boer
war are matters Of history.
Aftersthe fall of Pretoria fJune s.,
1900 President Kruger fed into Por-
tuguesesterritory. and On October 18th
sailed from Lourenzo Marques for >Eu-
rope in the hope Of securing foreign
aid or intervention. He was received
with enthusiasm in France. but failed
to obtain an audience with the Ger
man emperor and took up mis- resi-
dence in the Netherlands, making his
home in Utrecht and The Hague. His
efforts to secure foreign intervention
failed, but he continued to exhoSt the
Beers to stand fast to the last.
Causes Sorrow in Paris.
A Paris special says: The death OF,
the president of the Transvaal, Paul
Kruger, at Clarens. Switzerland,
arouses widespread regret, owing to
French sympathy for the Boer cause
and personal admiration for the ex-
president. ....
He avoided reference to the Boer
war, but when it; was. occasionally,
mentioned, he showed no resentment
and expressed the belief that Provi-
dence, would eventually render justice
to the Boer cause. s. -.-
Berlin Eu!osizes Kruger.
The evening papers of Berlin, Ger
many, print warm eulogizes of former
Premier Kruger, studiously avoiding
anti-British expressions.