The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-26
BRITISH HOPEFUL.
Burghers Do Not Seem Con-
fdent Of Permanent
Victory.
WORD FROM KITCHENER
General Joubert Is Again at
the Front Cronje Dis
pleases His Men.

(By Cable to The Associated Press)
LONDON, Dec. 26. 1S99.-The latest ca
Bile dispatches from South Africa show
that the situation at the front is prac-
tically unchanged. With the exception
of desultory artillery practice, to which
the Beers do not reply, the British con-
tinue to mark time.
The Beers heavily bombarded Lady
smith for a couple of hours December
16, the day after the Battle of Tugela
River. but little damage was done. They
killed one man and wounded two men
of the garrison.
Advices from Cape Town say the New
zealanders, with General French, at
Naauw Poort, were in a tight corner,
December Is. They were nearly surround
ed by Beers and retired under a hail of
bullets fired at short range but sustained
only little loss.
Among the Beers killed at Stormberg
were many of that locality who had join
ed the Orange Free State forces.
Several newspaper correspondents have
returned to Cape Town from the Modder
River, apparently confirming the belief
that an immediate advance of the British
is projected.
ing despatch from Cape Town, dated De-
cember Is saying
There is no change in the situation at
Modder River General Methuen is well
entrenched and the Beers have not dis
turbed him.
General Gatacre reports that a force of
$50 police have occupied Dordrecht, the
Beers retreating with no loss.
The War Office has received a despatch
from Pietermaritzburg, Natal. dated
Sunday, December "a, announcing that IN
an engagement al Ladysmith, Decenber
22 Major A. c. King, Captains Wathen
and Oakes and LieutenanHs Hulse and
Lieuteant Colonel Fawcett were wounded
and men were killed and ten wounded
This engagement had not been recorded
before this.
1t is announced in a cable despatch
from Cape Town, dated Wednesday, De-
cember 2e that glanders has broken out
among the American mules, of which
there are 1000 at the Stellenbosch Re-
mount Farm. Twenty-six of the mules
have been destroyed and IS have been
isolated.
The Cape Town despatch adds that Sc
members of the Cape Parliament are al
legged 10 be implicated and one of them
is said to have presented O Free State
time expressing the hope that he would
carry it to glory and victory. Another
member Of Parll<nent is said to be re-
cruiting for the Beers. In addition,
wealthy farmers are now aiding the in
vaGers.
Lord Stanley. member of Parliament
for the West Houghton Division of Ian
cashire, has been ordered to join Lord
Roberts Stan forthwith. Lord Stanley
edward George yilliersl is the eldest SON
Of the sixteenth Earl of Derby. He was
born in 1865. He became a Junior Lord
OF the Treasury in 1895, was Lieutenant
in the Grenadier Guards 1SS5-e5, and Aide
de- Camp to his father as Governor Gen.
eral of Canada. 1SS9-9l. He Is a Conserv-
attve and has sat for the West Hough- I
ton Division of Lancashire since 1892
MIR. Lionel Walter Rothschild Unfonlst |
Member Of Parliament for the Aylesbury /
Division of BuckinghamShires eldest son |
of the first Baron RothschI1d and the |
atter's heir. has volunteered for service /
n South Africa. He was born in 1865 and |
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