Show cO ov UN Tin San Ban Francisco Chronicle One Ono of o tho ho remarkable changes that has taken place lately In the tho South S uth African situation Is that the th more moro dis disturbed disturbed districts are arc now In Capo Cape Colony and near tho the Natal border Tho Th Trans Transvaal vaal antI and Orange river colonies are practically quiet lute There have hae been no collisions between hoer Boor and Briton re cc reported reported ported in either cither for tor several weeks There Thera arc are said to be nine commandos In Capo Cape Colony Colon mid their aim Is III to combine with the thc view of or attacking Capo Town lown nut Hut such a I movement was said to bo be Incubating several months ago and It Is probably as hopeless a success if It really Intended tJ as no any yet ct made maile by the tho burgher burcher commandos c sun stilt In the Held although Cape Colony Colon Is 19 full rull of ot disaffected Dutch farmers Boston Doston Herald The official report of or the d aU rob rate among the lie occupants ts of concentration camps In South Africa dos we called those similarly collected by the tho Spanish army under Weyler operating In Cuba Iu aIa Is frightful The Thu report outdo made by Dy tho the general commanding to the war last week Is that thai during durin the tho month of ot August the total number of ot these camps WAS and nn that hint during tho same time 2315 prisoners died of whom 1878 1578 were Veto children This Is a aden death th rate of ot li liper per cent for the month or about 20 0 per cent a n year that Is OO In each cacti Ich rate that lint would exterminate the lie whole body In Boston Transcript One Ono of oC the most remarkable things thin i In connection with the South African war Is the steadily sanguine attitude of or Mr Jr This ma mu may of ot course coure be partly attributed to mere policy polk but policy has Its and It Is Im Improbable improbable probable that thaI If It the famous old Boer floer really rea II felt that the tho cause which he lie henas floe nas M so long represented were practical practically Iy ly lost last and that hint British supremacy throughout South Africa were vero now only ml a U question of ot time he lie would con continue on mile to sanction and to stimulate re resistance resistance Chicago Inter Ocean OceanA A declaring that such officers M nit Botha nail DC Do Wet with whom the British government has hns sought to negotiate n a pence are to bo be o treated ah so outlaws unless they the nut sut render will be laughed out of ot court In any nOtion nation In Europe 1 Organized armies under nilo and regularly rel com corn commanders cannot be I e driven from rom tho the field by b proclamations Armies strong enough to invade Unit Brit British ish territory be treated ns as gun rUIns rubs Tho The war must be fought to the tho end under the lie rules of ot war New cw cv York ork Evening Sun The nOel hoer leaders are wise Io In derid deriding log ing not to send Ind a deputation to Wash Washington WashIngton ington to ask Mk for or Intervention The mc President sympathizes as us much as ns his hll predecessor Ull di with a n people rightly rl struggling to bo be free freo reo Hut But there Is III to toI tobe bj be I no nu ow ov policy Iloilo ra vs far Car as All this Is II concerned We Wo shall keep our hands oft now no for or the tho ho same caine reason on that hat we lid before Washington Star rho The now non Presidents personal Cr views view on tile the floor tOOl war are not Known There Chore has tilts been t n little reason why he should houd take tako a 11 pronounced at attitude attitude on the subject lie He knows the limitations of ot the American In lit Inthe the tho premises He lie appreciates the fact that this country can ran but remain neu neutral teal throughout the contest out of ot r tf ef efard rard tan ard for Its own safet and spert I t Ho hias haJI an 1411 Intimate acquaint Lace noe with history and presumably laIr fair undemanding of International law In Although he lit fought n 11 the Ihl war warto warto warto to liberate Cuba he can probably draw the line lino of logical nail nM Just distinction h between n that thaI intervention and the case calie of the African republics republic |