The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-18
BULLER is NOW SUPERSEDED.
BARON ROBERTS WILL HAVE SU-
PREAsE COMMAND.

JOispatcheO AT Once-aueen VIII
Remain at WindsOr-Last Week
Now known In London as "BInclx
WeeI"-TotaI British Losses Now
Number 1850.
London, Dec. T7.-Baron Roberts of Kan
dahar and Waterford, commander of the
forces in Ireland, has been appointed to
the chief command in South Africa with
Gen. Lord Kitchener of Khartoum as his
chief of staff.
Shortly before midnight the following
notice was posted at the war office:
'As the campaign in Natal, in the opin-
ion of Her Majesty's government, is likely
to require the presence and undivided at
tention of Gen. Sir Redvers Butler, it has
been decided to send Baron Roberts of
Kandahar and Waterford as commander
in-chief in South Africa with Lord Kitch-
ener as chlef-of-staff."
More Troops to Go at Once.
The war office to-day issued the follow
ing announcement:
Acting upon the advice of the military
authorities Her Majesty's government has
approved the following measure:
All AAle Remaining BOl ldOilS VI AtlG army
reserve, including Section D, are called
out. The Seventh Division, which is be-
ing modified, will proceed to South At
rica without delay
"The commander n-chief in South At
| RIGA has been authorized to continue to
raise at his discretion local troops, MONT
| ed.
Nine battallons of militia, in addition
| 10, two hat v-b4 al. 4
| unteered for service at Malta, and one
| for service in the Channel Islands, will be
| allowed to volunteer for service outside
of the United Kingdom, and an equva-
lent number Of militia battallons will be
| embodied for service at home.
"A strong force of volunteers, selected
from the yeomanry regiments, will be
formed for service in South Africa.
| Arrangements are being made, and will
shortly be announced, for the employment
| in South Africa of strong contingent
of carefully selected volunteers. The pa
triotic offers which are being received
from the colonies will, SO far as possi-
bic, be accepted, preference being given to
offers of mounted contingents."
Queen to Stay Mt windsor.
London, Dec. 1S.-The court newsmen
have issued the following announcement:
THE arrangement for the Queens de-
parture from Windsor have been post
poned until after Christmas, as, owing
to the present state of affairs in South
Africa the Queen is unwilling to be at
| great distance from London"
| Not for years before has the Queen de-
cided to spend Christmas away from Os-
borne. Her decision to remain at Wind
sor in touch with the cabinet is a meas
ure of the gravity of the crisis and of the
anxiety Her Majesty feels for the welfare
| of the country.
She is, nevertheless, In fair health. Sat
urday morning she took her usual drive,
and just before dinner that evening she
received Lord Wolseley, who, with Maj
Gen. Sir Henry Peter Ewart crown equer-
| ry to the Queen, dined at Windsor
The Queens graceful act In presenting
a flag to the American hospital ship Maine
is highly appreciated by her own people,
as well as by the Americans in London
and the morning papers express the hope
that the incident means something more
than pretty ceremony
Called "Blnck week"
"Black week" as last week is now uni
| versally called has evidently aroused the
government and the war office to a full
| sense of their responsibility and of the
magnitude of the task before them. The
papers unanimously applaud this awaken
| ing, despite the fact that they recognize
that the heroic measures now decided upon
| SAVIOR rather of weakness than of strength.
| RuflOf mas lC t0dL Ine question: OF eX-
pense has really been at the bottom of
The half-hearted measures hitherto adopt
ed, and it is not unlikely that Sir Michael
| Hicks Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and other members of the cabinet will re-
sign.
1t was high time that something very
energetic was done. The British losses, in
killed, wounded prisoners and missing,
throughout the campaign, now reach the
| enormous total of 1890
The tragic circumstances of the appoint
ment of Lord Roberts almost slmultane-
ously with the announcement of the death
| of his promising son excite the deepest
public sympathy.
Lieut.. Roberts and an only son, end
had been his fathers aid-de-camp since
1895 He served in Waziristan and in the
Chitrel and Nile expeditions. Such was
his display of gallantry on Friday in an
attempt TO rescue the guns that he was
recommended for the Victoria Cross.
Grave Danger to the Empire.
London, Dec. 1s-The Times, comment
| ing on the situation, says:
Neither the Crmean war nor the In
| dian mutiny gave rise to greater dangers
| to the empire than that with which we are
! now menaced, nor at either of those crit
| ical periods was Great Britain so isolated
politically or regarded with such dislike
| and suspicion as are now almost every
| where apparent. Unless the calmness
! which impresses the foreign observer pro-
ceeds only from apathy or want of suGi-
cient Imagination to realize the imminent
danger Of the whole fabric of our en-
pire, the great efforts now urgently re-
| quired viii surely be made before II is
| too late to retrieve the situation. We are
| fighting not merely for our supremacy in
| South Africa, but for our position as a
great Power. we know we have miseal-
| culated the strength of our foe ami we
are resolved to make that miscalculatioa
| good" Il
Chandos POIe-GeiI Prisoner.
The war office has received The follow
| ing dispatch, dated Dec. II, from Gen
Forester Walker at Cape Town;
"Methuen reports that Lieut.. Chandos
| Pole-Cell was taken prisoner last Thurs
| day when going TO meet a flag OF truce
He was waving his handkerchief in re-
| sponse, and was unarmed
"Gatacre has removed his troops and
stores TO Sterkstroom from Putterskraal
| French has established headduarf4re af