The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-12-29

1 have established market here. where I
can purchase fresh milk and vegetables,
selling to the farmers tea and other arti-
cles which they cannot otherwise purchase.
Heavy rain fell last night Gatacre arr
French report no change in the situation.
Baden-Powell reports all we'll Dec. L.
According to a dispatch a man named
Green, a former sergeant major OF the
British balloon department. is among the
Boer prisoners captured at Magersfontein
Green, who deserted from Aldershot In
1893, admitted that he had been some time
In the service of the Beers and had IN
structed them in trenching. He says there
are twenty-three thousand Beers at Ma
gersfontein, twenty-one thousand OF whom
we're engaged the day Of the battle. The
Boer losses. he also asserts, were very
heavy, the trenches being full of dead.
Green further declares that If the attack
had been pressed the Beers would have
yielded. He says the Boer horses have to
be taken to the Modder river, as water is
so scarce at Magersfontein.
A dispatch from Durham. Natal, dated
Dec. q, says: "a German farmer named
Stucke, and the Rev. Mr.. Hartes. director
been arrested and imprisoned at Estcourt
on the charge Of aiding the Beers. They
both claim the protection Of Germany"
The German officials have promptly
stopped the Beers from recruiting in Da-
MARYLAND. Neither men nor horses are per-
mitted to cross the border.
The British government now evinces a
marked change from it's attitude in the
early stages Of the war and shows dis
position to accept assistance from any
quarter. The Imperial Yeomanry commit
tee has issued a statement to the effect
that the government considers the forma
ton and dispatch of Yeomanry as one of
the most pressing needs OF the situation
and has intimated that it is now prepared
to accept from eight thousand to ten thou
sand Yeomanry, instead OF three thousand,
as originally asked for. 1t is expected that
the first contingent of one thousand will
sail about the middle of January.
The government has announced that it
will accept the services Of battery from
the Honorable Artillery Corps. When the
services were first offered. they were de-
clined on the ground that the corps was
not affiliated with any regiment of regu-
lars 1t will now be attached to the City
Imperial Corps.
Lady Chesham and Lady Georgiana Cur
zon have issued an appeal for public funds
to establish field hospital for the Yeo-
manry. Cape Town dispatches complain of
the inadequacy Of the hospital arrange
ments.
1t is now estimated that the war will
cost at least f6O.oOo.OOO $500 oOO, ,OOO), and it
is suggested that the sinking fund of the
national debt should be suspended for five
or six years in order to defray the cost
An interesting feature Of the days news
is the patriotic offers of service of Indian
princes. The Nizan of Hyderabad, reply
ing to toast proposed by Lord Curzon,
the viceroy. at a banquet in Calcutta, last
evening, said the proudest title he pos
| sessed was that Of being the Queens faith
fui ally, adding that his purse, his army
and his sword We're ever at her disposal.
The Maharajah cf Gwalior has asked per-
mission to se.ye on General Roberts's
stan. and has offered to send troops. horses
and transport to South Africa
The government of France has appointed
Captain De Mango military attache at the
Boer headquarters.
Many Cretans, in Athens, are Offering
their service to the British consul for the
war In South Africa
MI. Henry Spenser Wilkinson, the Morn
ing Posts military expert. in his review
OF the situation to-day, says: 'The time
has apparently arrived for the nation to
insist. IL not on a military dictatorship,
at least upon the admission into the Cab
met of military minister. empowered to
| veto any proposals detrimental to the
| successful prosecution of the war; and also
that the administration of the army should
be placed wholly in the hands of a tried
military administrator"