Show DISEASE KillS TROOPS Some Startling Statistics from the Transvaal I DEATH RATE VERY < HEAVY Of tho Officers in South Africa 721 per Thousand Have Been Killed or Died from Wounds and 306 Have Died from Disease While of the Men 19 per Thousand Havci Been S Killed and 318 Have Died from Disease Mortality Greater Than I 3rnncoGcrinan War S Ji J i i London ScpL 15 Copyright 1000 by the Associated Press When a clearcul Issue is again discernible In the confusion surrounding the Chinese dldlcullies there may be a reawakening 1 reawaken-ing of real Interest but al present I China holds quilc a secondary place hi the public mind In England The Parliamentary Par-liamentary campaign is III full swing but Lord Salisbury has not yet taken I the country Into his confidence as to balloting day and the consequent uncertainly un-certainly gives the stump speaking that is going on in every constituency an academic tinge So Great Britain lacking a moro interesting topic has relurned to the consideration of the war in South Africa and the newspapers newspa-pers arc eagerly scanned for signs 01 the real cnu of the campaign as Great Britain is tired of carnage Prcsidonl Krugers drumalic retreat has led the commentators to rean npunce the dose of tho war but the long l lists of casualties and deaths in hospitals aggregating 200 a week which continue to fill up the bulletin boards at the War olllcc belle their statements < BRITISH LOSS IN WAR The claims hitherto made thai the I British losses in South Africa have been small us compared with those of other campaigns appear to need revi7 sion judging from recent calculations made by a wellknown actuary who finds that of the ofllccrs in Soulh Africa Afri-ca 7JI per thousand have been killed 01 lieU trom wounds OC per thousand of the officers have dbl trom disease while of the men 10 per thousand hao been killed or died from wpumls and 318 have led from dbcuse rhese startling statistics not only I illustrate that while the olliceis and men have Buffered approximately equally from dlscnss the risks of the oiflccrs In action ac-tion have been hugely disproportionate and also Unit the ate oE mortality in South Africa Is much greater than In the FrancoGerman war OOM PAULS MILLIONS Kruger millions are the subject of dlresi > ectful paragraphs and long nay ralives of dispraise Tho lowest opll mate of his wealth Is IlOJOOUO invested abroad while some calculators figure his wealth al 5000000 The Tronsvaal Government Is supposed to have two or three million pounds in continental banks which will be hoarded by the managing con nlttee Dr Leyds says for future rising when England Is in j other difuculllcs NEED AMERICAN CAPITAL All kinds of rumors are cunent regarding re-garding the coming of American enterprise enter-prise and capital 1 to relieve London congested irafilc That the metropolis Is far behind every provincial center In I mryay things that go to make up a I modern city Is beginning to be rcalf d by Englishmen as well as by Americans Ameri-cans and a demand Is arising for new loodAmcrlcan or olherwlse capable loC j l-oC solving transit problems One bad only to attempt a Journey to lie clly this week to realize the costly delays and vexations to which business is subjected under present conditions The main artery Trafalgar square to the bank is so torn up that It takes cabs and busses thirty or forty mlnutus to cover a Journey of loss than two milesLONDON LONDON SOCIAL PROBLEM Conppcled with all this conjcctlon Is the great problem of housing the working work-ing classes al which thc closest students stu-dents of Londons foclal problems l I aro aghast though they readily perceive that the only remedy PS in the case of logsMi 1 Ing the congcslion of thc street ics in a widespread network of rapid transit which under the County Council Coun-cil rules must heroufier be sulilerrn rIcan London therefore will gladly welcome American aid and there Is no lack of indications lhat Americans arc illlively seeking investments in this and oilier directions MARKET FOR AMERICAN COAL S Amcrkan coal and railroad magnates are also busy here Mr Robert PH cairn superintendent of the Plttsbmvr division of tho Pennsylvania ralhoad Is sllli with the Carncgici and President I rent iassail IH i Avatchlm sat s-at one London hotel while the J3altl moro Ohio people have Ihclr headquarters head-quarters at another hostelry r Hot h I parties are confident that American coal has found a permanent place on the continent if nol in England Kvery American Consul I In Europe has been I I vet to vork lo snppb stitIstlcs ad to tho ri s1bility of tlndlng a marknt I |