A CRISIS SWINDLE.
FOREIGNERS DUPED BY A LONDONER'S ADVERTISEMENT. ,- - HUNDREDS' OF VOLUNTEERS i'Oil SOUTH AFRICA. .• (Daily Mail Special.) At the present moment, ~ while lh<! fate of the Transvaal hangs in the. balance >,\A men of business are deploring the effe; of the situation", upon Airiqan trade, m(>A"astute persons are quietly rubbing their 1 hands and taking advantage of the crisis. '■ For a war .crisis is a time in the afhrX of men which offers exceptional opportunities for the rapid accumulation of wevth, and the far.-seein-''nian turns a dishonnst penny at ihe exjoense of the crcd iVia world. Mr Gordon- is coining money iat of .■the Transvaal crisis. \ ' '. '■ ) Who- Mr Gordon' was before the ci si 3 began, and what jus address will be *fti)r his ingenious method of money-making iias been publicly described, belongs to the der of things which are "wrop in myst«rv " But there is no doubt that Mr Gordo>i is a bold, original man, and that he has bun carrying on a game which proves that he grasps the full inwardness of the present situation. ' " - . • '■; He" has noticed that a certain section of the British Press decries the martial spirt of the nation and that foreign riewspapeis exult in the imaginary feebleness of ll:e British Army. He ' <
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 22 November 1899, Page 1
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210A CRISIS SWINDLE. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XLIII, Issue 15000, 22 November 1899, Page 1
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