| Show GRAVEST ALARM FOR THE QUEEN Sovereign Seriously A f by bv South African News PANIC lANIO AlONG WAR WAlt Lord tord Summoned to London Sorro In III English lug It is Nu I Parade r de 4 Ornest alarm for tor the Queen New York Tonic Dee Dec IfA dispatch to the Herald from London sa saIt ays It Is stated by a 11 person In a position to kno know that queens qUeen mental gives the gravest alarm lann to the royal rOal household The queen insists on receiving lIng tho mInutest from the war as to the state ot of affairs Yet she he Is completely overcome when hen the ot of each engagement 11 are reo me l Even en when other matters and conducting ordinary correspond once ence the Ibe queen suddenly bursts Into a flood ot of tear and snake makell a pathetic reference to the misery mad hardship entailed upon her soldiers and their nl as vohl as a upon the Doers Doer themselves No matter where here one went last nIght I to the lie theater the club or to the was but ono one topic ot of Ills dia defeat and his losses lONes Later In the evening when hen it II became known that Gen Wauchope and the or of Win cheater were among the killed the ten Ian nun pion WItS was Increased ns a the thought flashed through all salads mInds that the lilt of 01 killed and ond wounded will carr carry grief to 10 many stately as well Tell as to 10 many man lowly homes homM It IL Is not nn an Uon tiun to sn say that almost every handsome mansion In the fashionable est End contains anxious and sleepless men and women this morning morningAn An undertone ot of condemnation vt lb time inactivity ot of the var before lies hOi began which r resulted In the British forces beIng Interior inferior In numbers to the Doers has haB found Its Wit to the surface This feeling was In strong terms at the war nr office where crow crowds s of men and women congregated before the doors or walked through the lobb lobby reading the bulletins nil all through the dRY day and evening When It vas announced after midnight that no mo more news would be given ghen out untIl morning the they slowly Many Inn women were unable to 10 control their emotions A dispatch to the World freon Lon Len Lendon don says The decided cheek to 10 General and the h British losses loues have added to the among the military authorities and the Jingo war experts ira In London It is III noted o as significant that thIs was the drat light on the soil soli ot of a South African Republic As AI a eons quence General Methuen reports report that he heIs heis Is to hold Its 1111 after a two days lIght Thus Ib thiS lImit first step In tb the Jubilee parade to Pretoria the friends ot of the Doers declare another advance In ruger price that will stagger humanity The war now is puh pushed to the extremity ot of its III resources Lord Roberts nobI the chief ot of her br fOrces In Ireland Irelan who long held II a similar position In India was hastily summoned last night Wednesday from Dublin to London lie broke nl am engagement to appear ot at a performance for tor n a charitable war fund and took the first firt train for tor the British metropolis At UI Its extra Parliament was told that would cover cor the expense or of the Will war It Is now said uld by byth bythe th the best besl informed that Ihu will not IJa pay the bill Eight British troops art are In South Africa now and more art are areto to 10 be mobilized or Ire are on the way war while advance orders for tur a sixth dl di dililon lilon Islon or of men rare are Wing executed and 1100 Ih there art are a seventh division hllen ot of the same numb will wll soon lOon be coUret mat at for tor shipment to the Cape |
