Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-02-01
Number A.
BRITISH AND BOERS
LATEST MOVEMENTS IN THE
CAMPAIGN.
Full Summary of the Transvaai
War News-Progress Of the Con.
fliet From Day to Day-The British
Encouraged.

Sir Alfred Miner, British High
Commissioner at Cape Town, has is
sued a proclamation announcing that
the British government will not rec
ognize as valid any forfeiture Oh en-.
cumbrance upon property in the
Transvaal or the Free State subse-
quent to October 10, the date when
war was declared.
John Churchill, second son of Lady
Randolph Churchill. who accompanied
her in the Maine to Cape Town. has
received from Lord Roberts his com
mission in the South African Light
Horse.
News from South Africa still con
tinues fragmentary and uncertain.
The following are leading events OF
the week:
The British War Office has sur
prised London by making public DE-
spatch from Gen. Butler, stating that
Gen. Warren had abandoned Spion
kop which he captured in the recen.
night attack in Natal Colony. after
sharp fight with the Boer forces.
The British casualty list. includia;,
many officers, exceeds 200 Much
speculation was indulged in in London
as to the situation of the fugela rivct'
and apprehension has been aroused
about Buffers army and the fate OF
beleagured Ladysmith.
A despatch to the London Times
from Spearman's Camp says: The
Beers are prepared to fight almoss
interminably, having intrenched theic
ridge, which stretches in an almost
unbroken line from the Drakensburg
many miles eastward. We have not
advanced any further, but we threw
up intrenchments during the night,
from behind which the musketry duel
continued"
AT Brussels nearly one hundred
thousand signatures have been ap
pended to the address promoted by
NJ. Lejeune and other members of the
Universal Peace Society, asking Presi.
dent Mckinley to mediate.
A battle has been raging along the
Olivier's Hoek road between the
Beers and 5000 British troops. The
fghting is in full swing at Spion 5
Kop. The Beers under Botha and
Cronje have been sent elsewhere.
From Vienna comes the statement
that the idea of the intervention of
European powers is gaining adher'
ents in influential quarters. The Daily
Mail correspondent regards the signs
as unmistakable, and mentions espe.
cially suggestions printed in the Aus
tro-Hungary Foreign Office journals.
Since the beginning of the war 10
the battle of Colenso the Beers say
they have lost 212 killed and 6S2
wounded, so of whom have recovered,
and 200 prisoners.
The recent fighting near Ladysmith
was clearly not of decisive nature.
The British gained 1000 yards. bEt
Warren is not likely to give the Beers
leisure to prepare vast entrenchments
of the pattern constructed at MagerS'
fontein and Colenso 1t must behre-
membered also that Butler is attempt
ing to carry out a very complex plan
of campaign. Its execution must nee
essarily be slow, not merely becahs
of the extent of ground to be tfav-
ersed and the difficulty of transport
and the arduous character of the c6un'
try, but from the fact that it isll not
one, but many objects that Butfee Is
simultaneously trying to secured
Captain Honley, of the Dublin ,Fusi-
leers, fell mortally wounded While
| leading his men to seize fresh point
of vantage in Warrens attack