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Show KliUGER WILL NOW COMMAND THE BOERS Brussels, JJarch 2S. A private dispatch has l.en received here from Pretoria, which says that President Krugr will row take thief command of the Transvaal forces. ! T.onrion, 'March 21 The Pretoria oorre- f.oo-.di-m of the Daily Mail, telegraphing-.' telegraphing-.' ' - yesterday, says : "General Jouhert died ' of twritonitis. Th funeral will take place tiirr.on mv (Thursdav). Tlie government is pii ;uii:.g with the widow to allow a tcmi'O'-nrv interment here, with a state . rutH-raS. Jouliert always expressed a de-fire de-fire 1 1 1 Pe liurled in a mausoleum built on hi farm. "!lis s;n i t"-sor ii the chief command will probably be General Louis Botha, new ( 'erimar;dir.2r in Natal." All the muming papers print singularly kii-d eiit!rials c.-n ei nir.er General Jou- -rt. Thev nraise his military success. r.ohuM his chivalrous conduct and reprt ih.it so strung and moderate a mind should be absent from the lir.al settlement (if 1 he dispute. Although some of the younger commanders com-manders thought tl:e old soldier wanting In dash and enterprise, his raid into the count rv south of the Tugela is considered consid-ered the best piece of Boer leadership e.urinc the who;e war. It is now known that h eroj-sed the Tugela with only 3.(.i0 rit'a men and six puns, but so bold and rapid were bis movements that the Hrit-Ssh Hrit-Ssh commarders thought ln.Cci'J Boers were nii.rchinc on Pietermaritzhunr. For a fi-w days, although in the pres-!( pres-!( of Brent ty sup'-ri'T forces, he isolated iso-lated General Hilyard's brigade at Est-court Est-court and at the s: me time tlireaten.ed neral Barton's c;-,nip at Mui river, j Then, as British reinforcements were I pushed un. Joubert recrossed the Tugela without losing a prisoner, a wagon or a ' I run. General White's estimate of him, pronounced on Tuesday, beiorc he died, s a eentleman and a brave and honorable honor-able ocDnnrnt. strikes tho tone of all British comment. The afternoon newspapers today pub dsn lone biographies of General Jouoert. Generally Gen-erally thev are in a kindly tone. The Tall Mall 'Gazette says: 'Piet Joubert was the one contempo-rarv contempo-rarv Transvaal Boer, except ex-Chief Justice Kotze, whose death could call forth sincere tribute of respect from Englishmen Eng-lishmen of all parties. He was the antipodes antip-odes of the Transvaal world of Beyds. end personslly was honest, straight and clean-handed." cans that while he cannot interfere in Kentucky affairs to the extent of disarming dis-arming the militia of either faction, he is wililnf, so far as he can legitimately do po, to recognize the Bepuolican officials offi-cials of that state aa the de facto officials. of-ficials. He told them that he would give directions di-rections that mail addressed to an official of-ficial by title only as to "the governor" or "the secretary of state" should be delivered to the Republicans holding those offices, and not to the Democrats. |