Show BOER R WAR WR HAS HS COST GREAT CRET BRITAIN ALREADY Al EADY OVI OVER New Yock Yo Feb 2 Charles D B Pierce consul general of the Orange Free state stale and trustee ee and aDd treasurer trea for or the Boer Beer relief fund fond today gave gate out a statement t sheet about the liw conditions conations tt vf affairs al s In South Sooth Africa T The 1118 e statement In part follow r low The me pretended peers peace coma I sent to Dewet tar by the e British were spies I an and traitors 0 They interfered with the c One e an Englishman was prop properly properly erly shot cia and tt rt is Known that one other ot r 1 Weasel wa was w a burgher of the Orange Free State and a subject to the laws law of the republic b In which Steyn c to I re xe regarded by Ity the fighting burghers burgher as al chief executive willie while l British sovereignty to is not recognized b by y rh them President Steyn is 15 with Dewet and there Is bute doubt d u 1 that these e burghers were tried under the laws of the Hie Orange Free State Stat and law full fulli executed The noPE Boer forces force in the Soi th African republic and the Orange Free Fred State in including eluding the Invaders of Cape Colony number over EO men I I General Genral Dewet Dowel that greatest ca tl leader of modern m rn tImES time In one onek week k has bas captured in gold and 1 uniforms enough to tu tear the thet army tear years He baa also ateo captured over t horses and M I He and Ma his forces fones alone have hare InfliCted In ted on the Ule ft mea losses lease of over The Boers e are very mobile imbUe and have nave advanced to within two days march or orMO orye MO ye m mUse of 0 Capetown CaK T u total JOS B in killed and dying from wounds wound In m battle have not exceeded eX W The war has hall cost Great Britain SOO 1800 iii twice greeter than the entire value of the republics if sold to the highest bidder and over H CO OC of I her l have been beeD rendered bore born du duea The war is costing coating Great Brit 1 ala ata ea a day The failure of th the British h arms to open the th and mine betI has deprived the st of divi dividend dendo decd on OIl securities listed at a has gold reduced oo the ea and output has baa of or added diamonds diamond S Sto oo and to ta the taxation of Great Greet Britain I 1 |