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Show .SYMPATHY WITH, BOERS. Hfcniy, Wajs In WUicU It Finds Eipres-. Eipres-. ' sioD 1n Kurepe. In Brussels, In Amsterdam, in Paris, in Eerlin; one hears the music of the Transvaal hymn everywhere, says a writer. The. AngloJBoer -war has tous-1 tous-1 ed a tremendous 'sentiment in Europe. In every school 6f Belgium, Holland, Germany, the children have made up collections for the families of the dead Boers. Millions of marks, guldens, francs have thus been sent to the suf-' suf-' ferers of the veiat: In churches, in cafes, in concert hall, at social gatherings; gather-ings; the most popular form of benevolence benevo-lence this winter has been the Boer subscriptions. - If a few friends in Colcgac or The Hague gathered for a game of whist they sent the money played for to the Boers.who never play cards. If a dinner was given at a fashionable fash-ionable hotel the guests remembered the farmers of the veldt, who hardly ever saw a hotel. At one restaurant in Brussels, 1,800 francs were-collected in as evening. Every city and town that has a newspaper has had a subscription subscrip-tion fund. A German rural paper lifted 60,000 marks.' Sentiment in Hol- . land. Belgium, and Germany is practically prac-tically a unit pro-Boer, while in Franc6 at least 9S per cent lean the same way. One quite pathetic form of Boer sym' pathy In Europe was the "Haus-Sammlung." "Haus-Sammlung." or house collection. This was a subscription taken in little boxes by children who called from house to house. |