Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-21

Absence Of news from him has led to n
surmise that he Is trying to join Gen.
White by a flank movement.
The appeals for yeOmanry and vol
unteers are being responded to with
the greatest enthusiasm In all parts
OF the country. Lord Wolseley pro-
poses that the force being raised by
the lord mayor OF London be called
the city OF London Imperial Volun.
teers" The government expects the
total Of yeomanry and volunteers to
reach 5000. Baron Gresham viii COM
mand, with Lord Lonsdale as adju-
tant-general
The papers are now generally join
ing In free criticism OF the govern
ment and the war Office, as day by
day fresh proofs Of unpreparedness
come to light. Special stress Is laid
upon the failure TO provide proper
transports, which compels the columns
TO stick tight to railways, and upon the
inferority OF the British artillery.
The Australian colonies are respond
ing eagerly TO the imperial govern
ment's appeals for second ,ontingents.
II is reported that the queen will
abandon her proposed visit to Italy, in
consequence Of the war.
One Of the results OF the coal famine
in the Sheffield district, indirectly aris-
ing out Of the war. Is that several i'm
portant steel firms are not able to get
coal even from their collleries a few
miles distant. They win sue the rail-
way companies for non delivery Of
coal. One Of the big atmor- plate works
has mart tally ghuf dawn
Chicago. Dec. 2O.-"The greatest prob
lem that England will have to face In
South Africa said Or, ], c. Hammett,
who today returned from Mashonaland,
in Rhodesia, northward from the
Transyaal, ''wlll in all probability be
that Of the natives and not Of the Beers.
Even If the Beers are suppressed and
English supremacy established, in n
very short time the natives will still
be left to deal with. They are not
causing any trouble Just yet, but there
are many signs that they will put Eng
land in very difficult position at no
distant day. Traders who come IN from
the north think that now after the diff
ficulties between the whites have been
settled, the conquerors will find big
native problem on their hands, and that
the blacks will have to be conquered
all over again"
Tuel, Monday, Dec II. via Louren2o
MARQUEE, Satu day, Dec l6.-Col Plum
err. with stron,, reconnoitering party Of
horsemen has arrived here after a
weeks expedition into Transvaal terri
L r.anAal r.nfpf HftV miles
from Petersburg, in the South African
Republic, but found no Beers, the coun-
try being seemingly empty OF men.
New York, Dec. PA dispatch to
the Tribune from London says
There Is practically no fresh news
from the seat Of war. Further de.
tails OF the battle Of Colenso continue
TO dribble in, but on the whole they do
not add much information.
The Posts correspondent affirms POSI-
lively that the Beers captured ten
British field guns.
Col Butler, commanding the Devon
regiment, with three officers and forty
men. was surrounded, and all were
taken prisoners by the Beers while
looking for wounded men under a flag
OF truce.
According to the Chronicles cores
pendent, the British mounted infantry
and irregular corps, with two batteries
Of artillery. managed to take the Col
enso road bridge and eventually cross
the river, but the Boer rifle fire prevented
them from pushing on, and the battery
was abandoned. Seemingly the guns