Show GOSSIP IN LONDON TQWM In connection with time plague Sir Alfred Al-fred Mllner tim British high commissioner commis-sioner has proclaimed that all lie east coast ports of South Africa between the 10th and JOth parallels are Infected If the TCocr tactics are becoming more desperate John Bulls heart IH also hardening hard-ening Tho Ministry triumphantly returned re-turned by the I country could not stand a single day If any concessions were made to Kruger At the Old Bailey London F F Ilodg klnson a former British ViceConsul at Bremerhaven was sentenced lo eighteen months penal servitude for trying to sell a Foreign office code book to an agent of a foreign power Explanations offered by Mr Vessels and other Boer leaders at Marseilles that Mr Kruger la landing In Franco as a peacemaker bent upon averting further bloodshed In South Africa Is Indirectly confirmed by l Lord Roberts The Boers under Brand were defeated November ISlh at BaJerspau with heavy losses the Lancers charging through the Boor line doing dertdl > damage as a number of riderless horses demonstrated Brand himself was wounded Tho British Brit-ish casualties were not serious About ECOO men recently struck in the Ponrhvu Wales quarries because the management refused to Install a dlsmlnsed oven oolme r Lord 1 Pen rhyn afterward closed tho quarries Violence is expected expect-ed and tioops were sent there several days ago |