Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-20
To be Modified For Service
in South Africa.
THE lMPERIALYE0MANRY
Is the Title Under Which the New
Volunteers Will be KnOWn--CenSOr
Allows No News of Tugela River
Battle to Be Sent Out.

London, Dec. 20, 4:55 a. m.-The goveTn-
ment has at last consented to mobilize
a force which General Butler is credited
tial to success in South Africa. namely,
&c, 1000 mounted infantry. This morning
the war office issued an order to the effect
that the government had decided to raise
for South Africa a mounted infantry force
to be called Imperial Yeomanry," and to
be recruited from yeomanry, volunteers
and civilians possessing the requisite
qualifications. Enlistment will be for one
year, or during the continuance Of the
war. The men must be between 20 and
30 years of age and of equal physique to
the ordinary cavalry soldier. Officers
ana men are to to provide their own
horses and to wear neutral tint cloth
shooting Jackets, not necessarily uniform
felt hats, breeches and CATERS. All must
be good riders and marksmen.
The same order invites every volunteer
regiment that is linked with a regular
battalion serving at the front to supply
a full company which will take the place
of the mounted infantry of the regiment.
These arrangements are expected to re-
sui II d COI1SIlGIdDlG IOiCb. Inc enroll
ed strength of the yeomnary forces, which
originated in the troublesome periods of
the French revolution. is now 10, 433. Their
services have never before been called for
in war.
The Lord mayor of London, Alfred
Newton, is raising and equipping a force
of 1000 volunteers among the city corps.
The large city firms are contributing the
necessary expenses.
Colonel Sir Charles Howard Vincent
commandment OF the queens Westminster
volunteers, has also offered to raise a reg
lment of 1000 picked men.
The enthusiasm of volunteer enlist
ments continues and promises to give the
government ample material. Rudyard
kipling addressed a meeting at Rottin
dean last evening called for the purpose
of forming a unit
The queen has announced her intention
of entertaining at Windsor castle Dec. Is
the wives and children of soldiers serving
in South Africa who reside in the neigh
borhood. Tea will be served, her ma
jesty probably presiding in person, and
a Christmas tree 25 feet high win hang
with gifts. - ;.
The British second-clasS cruiser Iris
Will convey General Lord Kitchener from
Egypt to the Cape. She has been ordered
to steam at Is knots.
opeclal reports regarding the lighting
at the Tugela river are still filtering
through, but all the newspapers COM
plain that there are severely censored
and it is still impossible to get any ac-
curate information from them. The
latest accounts, however, show that Cen
eral Butler was in personal command.
A correspondent of the Associated Press
at Chieyeley camp says the Beers excuse
themselves for firing on the stretcher
bearers by asserting that two squads of
the ~Connaught rangers took cover under
civilian bearers of the Red Cross and that
his act drew the Boer fire, three being
killed and several wounded. Much anxi-
ETY. is caused by the fact that the var Of
flee has not yet received a full list of the
casualties at Tugela river.
The Standard hints editorially this
morning tl.at if Portugal continues to al
low supplies Of war material and foreign
volunteers to reach the Transvaal
through Dalagoa bay England will have
something to say in the matter.
Statements are published from Boer
sources in Brussels and Berlin that Pres
ident Kruger is willing to conclude peace
on the basis of the status quo, but tina t
otherwise he will call upon the Beers in
Cape Colony to join in proclaimins the in
dependence of the Cape territories of
Great Britain.