| Show TilE CAPE COLOMSTSDE = j MAND STERNER MEASURESo The 1 Real Trouble Will Come After the Republican Forces Have Completely Surrendered to Our Arms is the J Significant Utterance or One LoyalistBritish Forgiveness For-giveness of a Conquered Foe is Condemned CaP eoown March 20Yc are just recovering from the delirium consequent conse-quent on the capture of Cronje and hfs army and the relief of Iadysmllh Many hope that such wild celebrations will never be witnessed in Capetown again for one effect has been to stir to its deepest depths tho rancorous hatred of the Bond or Dutch element which Js only kcpL by fear of the consequences con-sequences from openly avowing adherence ad-herence to the Boer cause As soon as tho news of victory had been disseminated dis-seminated people began trooping Into the city in thousands Train after l train disgorged its living freight until r the slreets In the vicinity of the station sta-tion ware Impassable Capetown suddenly sud-denly awoke from Us somber melancholy melan-choly and was ono waving mass of color Illuminated streets care passed up and down the avenues filled with cheering passengers and the Union Jack was everywhere visible At night the cars were gay with varlcolored lights the streets were ablaze with bursting rockets and the booming of guns on the ships In the bay vied with the explosion of firecrackers In the contest for noise In the celebration The main portion of the crowd which flocked Into Capetown concentrated In one of the public squares where the Mayor had organized an Impromptu concert The crowd stretched from the Town house steps to the further end of the square and seen from the balcony of the Town house there was an amazing vision of thousands upon thousands of faces turned toward the stoop where the band of the Cape I garrison artillery was playing a selection selec-tion of appropriate tunes When the band stopped the vast crowd broke In to cheers and sang Rule Britannia and God Save the Queen Someone held aloft a picture of President Kru ger In a framework representing a gallows gal-lows and proceeded to burn the ng ure before the amused crowd At an Interval In the proceedings the Mayor made a brief speech Then the cheerIng cheer-Ing crowd broke up Into sections and paraded In all directions singing the national anthem In the midst of the rejoicing It was suddenly discovered Unit the Union Jack was absent from the building In I which the Cape Parliament meets This omission was immediately credited to the enmity of the Bond government at present la power and a surging mob Immediately swept down on the doors of the Parliamenthouse burst them open and demanded the keys l of the buntingroom I was one of the unwilling un-willing participators in that fierce rush for every one was carried along whether ardent patriot or Innocent spectator A burly Englishman at my side seized by the throat a uniformed attendant who was met at the top of the stairs and half shaking the life out of him demanded the keys of the buntingroom It appears that the I man did not know where the koyo were but the location of the room was shaken out of him by my English friend and a few minutes later a Union Jack about the size of a pocket 1 handkerchief fluttered from the end of I I 1 t 1 J r > t I L f I i 1 f = = = = l r r r J t I I the ingenuity of Capt Percy Scott of H K S Terrible the English soldiers have been enabled to use one of that cruisers powerful 47 guns Cnpt Scott succeeded in inventing a carriage which the I picture shows whereby it could be taken into the interior and its terrific work has led the soldiers to dub it one of 3ercy Scotts babies the big flagpole The crowd outside out-side yelled to have a bigRer one 11111 up and this was done after some delay de-lay Torchlight processions wound up the celebration There was scarcely any demonstration demonstra-tion when Cronje i arrived I With him were his wife what seemed to be a private secretary another youth and a small black boy As the train drew up and the party got out It was received on the platform by a guard of honor of the Cap garrison artillery consisting of fifty rank and file After a general salute had been given Gronje was handed over to a party of bluejackets i r I I < I S IS Cr I l r 1 4 ua ro 1 r 1V r I j tYt w t I I l r r vr f t j > T I l t 2 h cUvitoPD ZL I 1 I JW rR I r i 1 consisting of tcnlyllve men under Lieut Newton of the Doris Thf Cape carts were In waiting and Cronje and party were put In these < < and under the escort of bluejackets and the Cape garrison artillery he was taken down I to the pier and a launch took him to the flagship Lions where they will occupy the quarters of the Admiral Ad-miral Col Heyinan chief staff oilier oili-er of prisoners Joined the train at Salt river There were many people present but everything was done In a quiet way no one being allowed on the platform And still we are not happy The hatred of the loyalists for the Dutch I whom they accuse of being responsible i for nil the shortcomings of this colony betrays itself in bitter resentment of the policy of liberality that Is adopted by the British at the first sign of a breakdown on the part of the enemy I rhe pardoning of rebels the lenient I treatment of those who have wrought such bloody work In the ranks of the colonists and have ho devastated their country and their homes Is not at all to the liking of the loyalists and it seems very probable that there tv111 be trouble of a different kind to that now I occupying the center of the stage unless un-less 1 this tendency to forgive and forget for-get Is succeeded by a stern repression and stamping out of the Inst vestige of Dutch predominance A prominent loyalist said on this point It Is the fashion not that the British plans I have matured to represent the people ot the lrco State as unwilling participators partici-pators In the war as having been I dragged Into the quarrel against their better judgment This Is an entire I misrepresentation of fact and Is simply put forward In the hope of securing Five Slate Independence when the settlement set-tlement comes Nothing could be more fatal to the preservation of peace In I South Africa than the maintenance of a festering sore right in the very heart of the country Doubtlcs portion of the Free State forces Were drawn against their will for the different com jnamlos if this be the case there Is all till mote reason why the repetition repeti-tion of such a slate of affairs should be made Impossible by the establishment establish-ment of UK Queens rule alike In the Free State and In the Transvaal It I must never be forgotten that the first aggressive act of war wan committed by I Fret Stale forces against colonial I territory and property and even at this moment a large portion of this I colony Is known to the republicans I and their allies as a portion of the Free State The real trouble will come after I af-ter the republican forces have corn = potely surrondend to our arms I To the colonists It is amazing to seethe see-the way In which the British military men allow the enemy to hoodwink them into believing that the turning In of an outofdate rifle and the formal submission sub-mission of a Free Staler places the one submitting cntlielv out of the lighting Colonists know well that ns soon as the British patrol is i out of sight lliq nexv modc1 rifle Is brought out of Its hiding place and the submissive Free Stater is off with his bandolier freshfilled 10 llnd the nearest commando The war Is I only Just beginning the colonists think and the cry for sterner measures with the conquered finds numerous SUI > porters port-ers PERCY DKARDI3NT JONES i I II I I Rj t e 5 tw iinal e I rd r tie r r I I i I i i l t ei I A scene at PrnadcrbclS when cl number of i1rs7cre T I suspsotedfarmers mild curiosity at the sl1aggy Boers who have susp been fighting Jl agalllSt wore brought him into Gen Roberts s camp under guardTommy Atkins looks on with II 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