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Show uu BRITISH FREIGHTER SEIZED BY CRUISER Vic toria. B. C . Oct. 23 The Brit-sh Brit-sh freighter Bankdale, bound from Norfolk for Guaymas. has been seized by the British orulS6T Newcastle and is being brought to Esquimault by a nrlze crew, according to word re-i re-i . ed be -e The Bankdale is expected ex-pected tomorrow. Tho curcumstances connected with her capture are not known, but It is supposed they are similar to those connected with the seizure of the British freighter Ixiwether Range, brought to Esquimault Wednesday from Mexican wafers, under suspiclou of supplying coal to German cruisers. oo WAR BURNS UP MONEY. Every time a birr cnin i9 fired f!00 goes in smoke and a BplaSD, and there J are 372 such guns in the fleet which ; Admiral Callaghan led out of Spithead I recently Toi tedoes cost ten times as I much, but they have the advantage, from the taxpayers' point of view, that they can be picked up again after they have been fired in practice Many of the big ships burn oil fuel as an BUZlllarj to their coal, or at least are fitted for that purpose, but i.here are 127 torpedo craft besides the submarines which burn oil fuel alone. In the aggregate their tanks and double bottoms can accommodate 10,316 tons of fuel for which we have to pay 5 a ton. Coal Is not s expensive, but It does not go as far. If the twenty-seven dreadnoughts now in full commission were sent on an eiht-hours' full-power full-power coal burning run. they would consume 4,320 tons of fuel, running up a bill of some OOOO If a single dreadnought battle squadron of eight ships were ordered to steam at full speed for tweuty-four hours and to fire each gun and each torpedo-tube once, the cost to the nation na-tion would be approximately t'-u,V 000, allowing nothing for the depreciation deprecia-tion of material. Ixmdon Tit-Bits. BOER LEADER OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN" I '"" jj Colonel Solomon G. Maritz (seated at left). Colonel Solomon G. Mantz, the orifrinator of the Boer rebellion in outh Africa, is said to have taken $200,000 from the Union government to equip his irregular corps. Having secured this sum, plus considerable military equipment from Cape Town, as well as the machine gun section from Prince Alfred's guards, he announced his determination to figbt England. Eng-land. Hib little rebellion is being rapidly put down. |