The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-02-28
BULLER'S VICTORY.
IRx cable to rhe Accounted Press !

TBy Cable to The Associated Press.1
LONDON, Feb. %, 1900.-The ', ar Office
has received a despatch from General
Butler announcing that Pieter's Hill and
the enemy's main position was magnih-
Gently captured yesterday and sixty pris-
oners taken.
The Queen telegraphed General Butler
as folfows:-
''I have heard with the deepest con-
Germ the heavy losses sustained by my
brave Irish soldiers and I desire to ex-
press my sympathy and admiration of
the splendid igfrtfng' quantities they have
exhibited throughout these trying opera
tions.''
The War Office has received the fol-
lowing despatch from General Buller:-
'sHeadquarters Hlandwani Feb. 2S,
A. M.-F,inding that the passage of Lang
ewacht's Spruit was commanded by strong
intrenchments, reconnoitred for another
passage of the Tugela. One was found for
me below the cataract by Colonel Sand
bach, Royal Engineers, ON February Is.
1--WE commenced making an approach
thereto and ON February 26, finding that
l could make the passage practicable, I
crossed the guns and baggage back to
pontoon bridge on Monday night and re-
layed it at the new site, which is just be-
low the point marked cataract. During
all this time the troops had been scat
tered, crouching under hastily construct
ed small stone shelters and exposed to a
CALLING shell and rifle fire and throughout
they maintained the most excellent spirits.
TUESDAY General Barton with two bat
Il i AZ T.
lin Fusiliers, crept about mile and a
half down the banks of the river and as
cended an almost precipice cliff of about
five hundred feet. assaulted and carried
the top of Pieter's Hill.
This hill, to certain extent, turned the
enemy's left and the Fourth Brigade un-
der Colonel Norcott, and the Eleventh
Brigade, Colonel Kitchener commanding.
tn ewhole under command of General
Warren, assailed the enemy's position,
which was nagnificently carried by the
South Lancashire Regiment about sunset.
1--WE took about sixty prisoners and
scattered the enemy in all directions.
There seems to be still a considerable
body of them left on and under Bulwana
Mountain. Our losses, hope, are not
large. They certainly are much less than
they would have been were it not for the
admirable manner in which the artillery
was served, especially the guns manned
by the Royal Naval force and the Natal
Naval Volunteers"
General Buffers account of the tre-
mendous resistance he is encountering IN
his efforts to reach Ladysmith has
brought public interest, with a sharp turn.
from complacent contemplation of Lord
Roberts victory to a realization of the
serious conditions still existing in Natal.
Though General Buffers leng uiy de-
spatch is construed as victory bravey
won. the commander of the forces in
Natal has so often reported similar vic
tories without achieving his main objec-
tive that the public has learned to con-
tain its jubiliation until Ladysmitn Is ac-
tually relieved, while the long list OF
parent gain by General Butler is always
awaited with dread and anxiety which
temporarily rob his partial success OF Its
However. it is the generally accepted
belief that General Butler is determined
to reach General White this time and
though the Men stages s5e apWsts fhs
news of the relife of those 5000 pesleged
troops.
General Buffers report shows there is
urgent nG6Q OIL llOIQ pCAiS CASt tt1k4
Sery effort to still further draw off the
Beers from Natal to the Free state. That
heawill do so and, quite likely, is already
doing so, by marching upon Bloemfontein,
is regarded as almost certain by the mill
Stary critics here.
With the additional 600 Beers reported
to be prisoners at Kimberley it seems
that the number of men captured by
Lord Roberts nearly reaches 5000.
The afternoon newspapers continue to
comment on the Hero of Kandahar's
great achievement, laying special stress
ON the gallantry of the Canadians, who,
according to Paardeberg special, We're
actually lighting nand to hand in the Bo r
trenches when General Cronje surren-
dered, though this scarcely agrees with
Lord Roberts despatch.
Lord Roberts has folWarded an audition-
al list of the British casualties during the
showing twelve killed, eighty-tWo wound-
ed and four missing and including seven
officers and four Canadian prlxalss
wounded.
A despatch from Arundel SAYS that the
British troops have again occupied Rens-
burg.