The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-12-23
NEW LEADER CHOSEN.
Lord Roberts Assigned to Command
in South Africa.
Lord Kitchener TO Re Chief az STAFF
Large BODY of RcenfOrcementn
to he Sent to the Front
at Once.

night the following notice was posted
AT the war Office:
acting upon the advice of the military
authorities, her majestys government has
| approved the following measure: All the
remaining portions of the army reserve,
including section d. are called out. The
Seventh division, which IL being mobiliZed,
| VIII proceed to South Africa without de-
| lay. Nine battalions OF militia, In addi-
| ton to two battalions which have already
| volunteered for service al Malta and one
for service in the Channel islands, will
| be allowed to volunteer for service outside
| OF the United Kingdom and an equiva-
| lent number of militia battalions will be
| embodied for service at home.\ A strong
| force OF volunteers. selected from the Yeo-
| many regiments, will be formed for serv-
| ice In South Africa Arrangements are
being made, and will shortly be announced,
| for the employment In South Africa of
| a strong contingent OF carefully-selected
volunteers. The patriotic offers which are
being received from the colonies, WILL so
| far as possible, be accepted. preference be-
ing given to offers of mounted contin-
| gents"
A New Commander.
London, Dec. 1S.--Baron Roberts of
Kandahar and Waterford, commander
of the forces in Ireland, has been APP
pointed to the chief command in South
4 Africa, with Gen. Lord Kitchener, of
\Khaftoum, as his chief of staff.
London, Dec. 1s.-The war Office has
issued the following announcements:
"As the campaign in Natal. in the opin-
lon OF her majesty's government is likely
| to require the presence and undivided at
! tention OF Gen. Sir Redvers Butler, II has
| been decided to send Baron Roberts of
| kandahar and Waterford as commander
IN chief in South Africa, With Lord
| nj tot nf tnff
Lieut.. Roberts Dies.
London, Dec. 1s.-Lieut. Hon. +. II.
S. Roberts, son of Baron Roberts Of
| Kandahar and Waterford, who was
wounded in the engagement at Tu-
gcia river, is dead.
DisrcEarded Flag of Truce.
London. Dec. 1S.-The war Office has
received the following dispatch, dated
December II, from Gen. Forester
Walker at Cape Town:
"Methuen reports that Lieut.. Chandos-
| Pole was taken prisoner last Thursday
| when going to meet flag of truce. He
| was waving his handkerchief in response
and was unarmed. Gatacre has removed
his troops and stores to Sterkstroom from
! Putterskraai. French has established
| headquarters at Arundel. Vandermerwe,
| with Il Is TepOTltu south
| Jacobsda!."
To Send More Troops.
London, Dec. 1S.-Beyond partial
list and summary of the totals of the
casualties in the Tugela river engage
ment posted at about midnight the war
office processes not to have any news
from the seat of war, while the censor
ship evidently blocks other channels of
information. Never within the range
of the longest memory has Great Brit
ain met with three such military re-
verses in single week, and hence ii is
not surprising that notes of anxiety
should be heard amid the general
chorus of press expressions of grim
philosophy and resignation.
| No further news has been received re-
garding the battle at the Tugela river.
The latest accounts regarding the bat
tie at Magersfontein show that the re-
tirement of the British troops was exc
cuted with the greatest GOODNESS and or
der under a heavy Boer artillery fire on
Tuesday.
| Losses Enormous.
1t was high time that something very
energetic was done. The British losses
in killed, wounded, prisoners and miss
ing throughout the campaign now reach
the enormous total Of 1850.
Buffers Losses.
London, Dec. 1S.-Gen. Butler re-
ports to the war office that his losses in
Fridays engagement were: Killed,
50; wounded, 667; missing, 34s. A total
of 1907.
VIII Stay mt Windsor.
London, Dec. 1S.-The court news
men have issued the. following an
nouncement: THE arrangements made
for the queens departure from Windsor
have been postponed until after Christ
mas. as, owing to the present state of
affairs in South Africa, the queen is un-
willing to be at great distance from
| London"
Not for years before has the queen
decided to spend Christmas away from
Osborne. Her decision to remain at
Windsor, in touch with the cabinet, is
measure of the gravity of the crisis
and of the anxiety her majesty feels for
the welfare of the country.
The Foreign Press.
London, Dec. 1S.-The foreign press
regards Great Brtain's crisis as grave,
possibly portending dissolution of the
empire. The Partisan press is gleeful,
Austrian sympathetic and German I'M
usually reserved. There is little talk of
interference or of an attempt to take
advantage of the situation.
| Recaptured.
Lorenzo Marques, Delagoa Bay, Dec.
1s.-It is rumored that Mr. Churchill,
the newspaper correspondent who re-
Gently escaped from Pretoria, has been
captured at Waterfalboven, about half
way between Pretoria and Por. uguese
territory.
A handsome brooch of gold repre-
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