Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1899 — Echoes from South Africa. [ARTICLE]

Echoes from South Africa.

War poems are popular in English newspapers. Italy has sent a cruiser to South African waters. President Kruger’s wealth is estimated at $5,000,000. English papers say that many of the Orange Free State Boers oppose the giving of aid to Kruger. The London Mail’s circulation is now over 650,000, having increased because of its attitude towards the war. Bakers are being enlisted to go to South Africa to bake bread Equal rights to negroes are denied by the constitution of the South African republic. Johannesburg street cars are not running, as the horses have been seized by the Boers. Paris newspapers complain because, while there is an Irish and a German