The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-11-11
COMPLETE SILENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA. /
General Butler Is Apparently Enforcing the Most Rigid Press
Censorship.

LONDON. Nov. II. 40 a. m--Com-
plese silence has again fallen upon affairs
Ia South Africa The British public
must perforce be content with the brief.
stereotyped repor; which the censor al
lows to filter through from Cape Town.
That this condition of affairs Is no longer
due 10 pressure OF work on defective
cables has been amply proved The
Eastern Telegraph Company reckons that
the real delay in transmission Is about
two days II is evident therefore. that
the censorship is responsible for the other
two days OF delay which seems TO befail
all the dispatches.
Moreover. the Daily Telegraph an
nounces that its Appropriated" dispatch
from Ladysmith. dated Monday, which
the war office published on Tuesday. was
not delivered in Fleet street until yester-
day friday morning. 1t is believed
thsA the war Office received further dis
patches last evening. but nothing has
been published.
AT banquet In the city OF London yes
terday the Duke OF Cambridge. speaking
OF the war, said: I'VE ough. never to
have allowed ourselves TO be in the posi-
ton in which the outbreak of war found
US. i could cry over the valuable lives
which might have been spared had we
been better prepared
Will Not start TIL Christmas.
i. Is said that Gen. Butler never ex-
pectcd to commence the campaign before
Christmas. and 1t now looks as though
this would be the case. Certainly no ar
tillcry can reach Durham before Noyem-
yer Il: and without additional guns an
advance from Esseourt would be impos-
sible. No doubt, as Lord Salisbury said
in a recent speech, England will mud
die through IT, and yet another Illus
tration OF muddlinE has become appar-
ent in the fact that gunnery instructors
have only just arrived at woolwich arsenal
for instruction In siege train duties. AL
though hurried preparations are being
made to prepare the siege trains. the
fact that the men are at Devonport and
the trains at Wooiwtch seems to show
that the idea OF the siege train was quite
an after;hought.
TIL. Morning Post says: What will
come OF such muddling IL We ever come
to fighting a fee able to turn 1t TO ad-
vantage? Some radical reforms are still
needed In our mobilization arrange
ments"
The statement from Ladysmith that
the British guns don, reply TO the Boer
artillery because the concrete beds FOR the
guns have not yet hardened. Is interpret
ed ia some quarters to mean simply that
the British ara outstanding their am
munition. as tho Boer fire Is only a trick
to get the British TO waste shells.
Boer. Planting More Gums.
Among the dispatches that have arrived
from the Cape teday Is one saying that the
Beers are planting more guns in the bills
surrounding Ladysmith
All the correspondents In the beleaguered
town are safe. ana anxious to reopen conf
manicatIon.
4 gentleman who visited Nicholsons mex
after the engagement counted twenty-f
killed and seventy wounded.
All Well at Kimberley.
The latest advices from Kimberley. dat
Ell November ?. say that all was we'll there
then. An explosion had been feared and
the superstition was that the Beers had
biewn up the railway culvert south OF
Dronhe,d-
DIR. Leyds Warned.
The Belgian government. IL Is said. has
warned DR.. Leyis. whoze headquarters Is
at Brussels. that Belgium is a neutral
country.
A corps Of engineers from Gibraltar will
accompany the siege train 10 the Cape.
and the men will be used In mounting the
heaviest guns in e,nbrasures Two battal-
ions Of mounted infantry. every man Sc