The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-18

London Dec 1S--4:45 a. m.-Lieuten-
ant General Sir Charles Warren, com
manding the fifth division of the first
army corps, has arrived at Cape Town.
It is understood that he will proceed
to Port Elizabeth.
No further news has been received
regarding the battle at Tugela river
| The latest accounts regarding the bat
| tie at Magersfontein show that the
retirement of the British tr,ops was
| executed with the greatest GOODNESS and
order under a heavy Boer artillery fire
on Tuesday.
Mafeking was safe on Dec. Is and
Colonel BadenPowell, the British COM
mander there, is still actively pushing
| cut his defenses. AT that time the
Beers had offered to exchange Lady
Sarah Wilson, who was captured while
acting as a correspondent for the Lon
don Daily Mail, for General Viljoen,
who was captured at Elandslaagte,
but the offer has been declined
| The other beleagured garrisons and
positions are still holding out. 1t is
said that If the Victoria crosses were
to be granted for every act of conscious
|
troopers it would be necessary to dis
| tribute the. decoration by hundreds.
/ The Court News has issued the fol-
| lowing announcement:
The arrangements made for the
| queens departure from Windsor have
been postponed until after Christmas,
as owing to the present state of affairs
in South Africa, the queen is unwilling
to be at a great distance from Lon
dom
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,
| shows in a measure the gravity of the
crisis and Of the anxiery her majesty
feels for the welfare of the country.
She is, nevertheless, in fair health.
Saturday morning she took her usual
drive and just before dinner that
evening she received Lord Wolseley
who, with Major General Sir Henry
Peter Erwart, crown equerry to the
| queen, dined at Windsor
The queens graceful act in presenting
flag to the American hospital ship
Maine, is highly appreciated by her
own people as well as by the Ameri-
cans in London, and the morning pa
pers express the hope that the incident
means something more than a pretty
ceremony,
BLACK week." as last week is now
| universally called, has aroused the
government and the war Office to full
sense Of their responsibilities and of the
magnitude of the task before them.
The papers unanimously applaud this
awakening. despite the fact that they
recognize that the heroic measures now
decided upon SAVIOR rather of weakness
than of strength.
Rumor has it that the question of
expense has really been at the bottom
nf IN -hna rt1 h
adopted, and it is not unlikely that Sir
Michael Hicks-Beacl, chancellor of the
exchequer, and other members of the
cabinet will resign
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 1890
The tragic circumstances of the ap-
pointment of Lord Roberts almost sim
ultaneously with the announcement of
the death of his promising son excite
the deepest public sympathy. Lieuten-
ant Roberts was an only son and had
been his fathers aide-de-camp since
1895. He served in Waziristan and in
the Chitral and Nile expeditions. Sucn
was his display of the gallantry OF
Friday in an attempt to rescue the
guns that he was recommended for the
Victoria cross.
The liberal organs foreshow a serious
reckoning for the government when the
time comes
The Daily Chronicle hints that Gen.
William Butler was recalled from the
Cape command because of his Boer
sympathies, long ago advised the gov
ernment that prosecution of Mr.. Cham
berlain's policy would make heavy rein
forcement for the Cape very impera-
tive.
The Daily News says: 1.-THE govern
ment's decision is either a council of
panic or the confusion of utter miscal-
culation."