Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — HOW BOERS ARE ISOLATED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOW BOERS ARE ISOLATED.

Cut Off from the World Except at the Pleasure of the Knglieh. One great disadvantage under which President Kruger and his doughty burghers labor is the fact that they are entirely isolated and cut off from communication with the ontside world, except at the pleasure of their enemy, the English. Not only are the Transvaal and the Or-

ange Free State without a seaport, but they cannot send a word by telegraph outside of their own little territories without the permission of the English Government. The cables which encircle both the east and west coasts of Africa, as shown on the map, are owned by the Eastern and South African Telegraph Company, which is, of coarse, under the control of the British Government.

MAP SHOWING SOUTH AFRICAN CABLES.