Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-26

Has fecoNsfeu ana returned to the
front today. (
There We're special services syester-
day in different laagers as a thanks
giving for the victories of Colenso,
stormberg and Modder River.
Gibraltar. Dec 26.-C;en. Lord
Kitchener arrived from Egypt to-
day.
London. Dec. Y.-The latest dis
patches from South Africa show that
the situation at the front is practically
unchanged. With the exception of de-
sultory artillery practice, to which the
Beers do not reply, the British continue
TO mark time The Beers heavily
bombarded Ladysmith a couple of
hours December l6, the day after the
battle of Tugela river, but little dam
age was done. They killed one man and
wounded two.
Adyices frcm Cape Town say the
New Zealanders with Gen. French at
Naauwpoort were in a tight corner
December IS. They were nearly sur
rounded by Beers. They retired under
a hail of bullets fired at short range
but sustained only little loss. Among
the Beers killed at Stormberg were
many in that locality who had joined
the Orange Free State forces Several
newspaper correspondents returned to-
Cape Town from Modder river appar-
emily confirming the belief that no inn
mediate advance of the British is
projected.
A dispatch from Cape Town dated
Wednesday, Dec. 20, says: Chambers
have broken out among the mules, of
which there are LOO at Stellerbosch
Remount farm. Twenty mules have
been killed and seventy eight Isolated.
Sedition is spreading in Cape Colony.
Three members of the cape parliament
are said to be implicated and one of
themNs said 10 have presented a Free
State Has to the Boer acommander, at
the same time expressing the hope that
he would carry 1t to glory and victory.
Another member of parliament is said
To be recruiting for the Beers. In ad
dition wealthy farmers are now aiding
the invaders.
The war office has received a dispatch
from PietermaritZburg dated Sunday.
December "a. announcing that IN am
engagement at Ladysmith December
o. Capts. Wathen and Oakes and
Iieuts. Hulse and Fawcett were
wounded and nine nom commissioned
officers and men killed and ten wound
| ed. This engagement mad not previous
! y been recorded.
/. SHELL BOER ENTS.
Buffers Army Pounding Away at
Beers on the lugela.
/ London. Dec. 26.-The most interest
1 ing news this morning comes from
/ Chieveley camp in telegrams dated the
| 18th.
From these 1t is evident that the
British artillery has not been idle since
4 the battle of Colenso.
The Boer intrenchments have been
sheled and the foot bridge across the
4 Tugela. which had been left intact, has
bean destroyed.
Easy communication which hitherto
! existed between the advance party of
! Transv aalers on the south bank and
Ithe main body on the north bank is
therefore interrupted.
The full Boer account of the battle
on the 18th is now at hand. 1t speaks
| of the result of the engagement as a
crushing defeat, nine cannon being
! captured and brought across the river
/ The Boer losses are officially stated
at thirty killed and wounded. bur ma
tive reports put the figures at 80.
Gen. Louis Botha announced the vic
tory to President Kruger as granted
by the God of our forefathers.''
The Times telegram from Peter
maritzburg states that horse sickness
has broken out in Natal. If ii becomes
rife in the Boer lines it will materially
reduce the enormous advantage the
burghers have hitherto derived from
4 their superior mobility.
4 The News correspondent with Gen
Methuen, in mail letter discussing the
/ battle of A1odder river. mentions re.
ports suggesting serious blunders OF
the part of those responsible for the di-
rection of the battle.
There is a strong belief, says a Lou.
renzo Marques telegram. that Winston
Churchill has arrived there incognito
Horses Are Dying.
London, Dec. 26.-up to this hoI1
nothing mas arrived from ooutn <Aiflct
that would indicate any change in thu
military situation there. The war ofiic,
is issuing lists of further deaths anc
wounded. as we'll as accounts of sick
ness.
The most serious report of the las
Il class is that horse sickness has broker
out in both British and Boer camps il
, Natal -Four hundred British cavalr.
, horses, it is said, have already beef
shot, owing to the occurrence of CLAN
ders. The disease is likely to spreat
with much greater rapid!ty among tn
British horses than among the hard.
Boer ponies, and this may mean con
; siderable prolongation of the campaign
dispatch from Chieveley, date,
Tuesday. Dec. 10, says.
THE British naval guns have de
: stroyed the Colenso foot bridge. thu
preventing the Beers from holding an
position of the Tugela river. The en-
emy are taking up fresh positions O.
the eastern side, nearer the Britis
camp.
The British position at Frere is bs