| Show ARE MARRYING T AND FIGHTING Soldier Form 3 l large Proportion of Those Off for War I DISCUSSING FLOUR SEiZURE BritaIn Cannot lI rd to 10 Iulo InIe of tho London Dee Dec London Londo Cable Letter Copyrighted by the tit death of tho th duke duk of Westminster combined with wit already prevalent on oc ac the of the war losses left few tew of tho titled families of Great Britain free to celebrate Christmas week reek with the us usual u ual The Grosvenor famil ramifications among lies so 0 manY man number of a ath rd and such a large titled neole have havo recent recently 1 th r tha ono would almost think the thc court cour couras laB as In To ro this condition Is of a 11 I paradox In the society news columns which dally daily announce a long list of InG marriages the bridegrooms In a i majority of the cases being soldiers I It ItIs I I Is a season ot of short and am deaths Momentarily expect expecting Ing orders to sail for Cor South Africa hi officers hoe have apparently the opportunity ot of striking while th thiron t e iron 13 hot and man many a quiet Is noW followed within n a few days by bya b ba farewell at For In a Maxse who ho took por tho recent defeat ot of the re 10 returned In turned to England married Lord flea Dea daughter and Is now on his hh way to the Cave Cape The martial spirit and universal desire to serve the country nt at the front no of abatement The ac the tho of premier duke duk ot of Norfolk who Is In postmaster gen I Ifa oral fa and b by no means a young oung man hI he born In ISm for nc ete was Uc tivo service Is of the which all classeS positIon In the The u c of net II tind nd Ills IUs tremendous business In to 10 sa nothIng of his M as Ma asay a ay henl ot of the Catholic church In viiI probably prevent the lie oc ac e of his offer Th duke of COlln Connaught whose ardent to be allowed to go to South hue lIen been refused Is II mentioned os as melY to succeed Gen Roberts In ot of the British forces in III Ire Irelan lan lant 0 little comment han hns been caused ollices tardy tard recognition ot of b by tIn war the engineers eral and artillery Until Warren ot of the en engineers was sent out oil nil the general officers in the tho field were or infantrymen The coun country country try howled Warrens meat ment and ut at last the lie mOil man who knows South African topography better than any other general received Then followed In Quick aba slon Gen Roberts an artillery man manA nil A fl and engineerS until upu the campaign now bids bide fall fair to be chlell directed b by the hither hitherto to neglected gunners and sappers The Impression continues to gain ground that General Gen ra DUller und um his subordinates sub subordinates ordinates have beEn Instructed to un nfl undertake no movement until the arrival of General antI and Roberts will amalgamate tInt tho guns uns un under der Warren and sUbsequently marching upon ulon tein to capture that place and draw or orthe orthe the Boors from Ladysmith To JlII h this It Is believed that 1 anti and Mafeking may lie be sacrificed Whether General Duller will swill acquiesce In thIs arrangement 1 Is seriously doubt eel et by b man many who know him and they wil ir r rather Inclined to believe lie he attempt to emulate Gen who urIer similar circumstances retrieved his is reverses In India while Sir Churns CharllS Napier WM out to him The seizures ot of cargoes of American flour oft Delagoa Day Bay fall fail to excite much popular Interest In England Itis It is 15 looked upon as n a point of International law Jaw that will vill be bl bly settled So tar far no o offIcial steps In Inthe Inthe the matter have hal been taken owing to the of the necessary papers and from Washington The international law authorities ar are almost In declaring that r t Britain should not declare contraband ot of war The Na 1 nJ Military Record under this head says t full fifty per cent of our food comes from America the th colonies unit un other We have ceased to Lu makl ml effort to be 00 ng condition constItutes a danger danler on only arab ot of our 1 Ir ii strength ot or the British nay navy andIn and andIn ot of oth In the and h c The J 1 mr S t c on to it lilt our larder In hot he loCal am but so e become to our lIu es that We must take no step likely to t 1 ll to on an Interruption of the enormous supply of foodstuffs roods Our enemies o othe on the continent would auld rejoice If wo we InterCePted Inter the nOW passing Into tnt the tho Via Ia Delagoa Da Bay A would thus be U dangerous created which would be used England 1 at the tho first A representative ot of the Associated Press Iress learns that the wireless telegraph Instruments recently r captured the th Hoers Beers and described as Marconis werl not his man manufacture Thc They were by n a well known firm thon hom once employed to discarded with plans ho he afterwards MarconI declares the Instruments cap captured captured workable Some fc lIng not were been blen caused against the young oung tn In by the report the bellet that he had brok broken hIs agree meat ment to supply only the British during the present war Princess Christian of Princess Helena of England for tor the first time In twenty years It Is sitting for tor a portraIt anti and to an Amen Amerl can paInter W n II Funk During the recent visit to Windsor of 01 Greene former British agent Victoria asked him himI at Pretoria Queen I lot of Questions re regarding Mrs Kru Iru KruE E er her housekeeping and personal Mr Greene Gre ne entertained her er majesty with incidents showing the ot of Mrs home life and her personal attention to kitchen duties dilating with special zest upon the excellence of It a certain dessert which drs KrUger makes Rumors recurred this week ot of Lord lIe retirement at the thO end ot of the present parliament and ond the of the duke of Devonshire to the con These seem founded nothing stronger than deduction de op on e and recent be bereavement from his age a From one ot of the Intimates a representatives of the As I sedated Press learns leorns he line has not men any inclination to etire flocked The u usual u I crowd of youngsters to for the annual panto pantomime pantomime mime though In the stalls and the b there ther were many sad little faces arid black TIme other othe theaters have nn good but the better part of the m bous were not so 80 well filled all as usual during holiday week re Few changes have bao been bOSn math Jerome I C play has haB taken well vell atthe at atthe the Duke of Yorks Time The hello ot of New NewYork ew York plays plas for the tho last In Len Ion Lendon don on tonight It will be b b by DI Dc Wolf olf The Th Mystical MI Patti hoo headS the list of prom promInent prominent artists who will sing nt at Covent Feb 22 under the patronage of the ho marchioness of Lansdowne In aid ot of the wives anti familIes ot of ot of killed during the var On the same occasion the dUch duchess s ot of Marl Marlborough Marlborough borough will vIll recite a Patriotic poem The duke and duches or of Marlborough entertained a 0 large Christmas house party ot at Blenheim this week |
