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Show Boers May Retaliate. New York, Oct. 22. The Vienna correspondent corre-spondent of the London Times an the New York Times quotes the fester Lloyds, which says it learns from The Hague that Mr. Kruger, Dr. Leyds and Messrs. Wessels. Wolmarens and Fischer have held a council of war at Villa Car-acasar Car-acasar to consider what answer is to be made by the Boers to the executions in South Africa. There is said to be no doubt among the Boer leaders that diplomatic dip-lomatic protests are inadequate. All present at the meeting except Mr. Kruger. says the report, advised immediate imme-diate reprisals that for every Boer prisoner pris-oner executed a captured British officer be. shot. Mr. Kruger opposed this plan, on the ground that he did not wish to pive the campaign the character of a war between savages, althouph it had already become a war of extermination. |