Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-01-18
BRITISH AND BOERS
LATEST MOVEMENTS IN THE
CAMPAIGN.
A Full Summary of the Transvaal
War News-Progress of the Con.
fict From Day to Day-The British
Encouraged.

War News-Progress of the Con.
flict From Day to Day-The British
Encouraged.
The silence observed regarding the
advance Of Gen. Buffers army toward
the relief or Ladysmith is regarded in
London as extraordinary. No press
dispatches have been received in Lon
don from the seat of war, and the eX-
planation Is ventured that the War
Office has found it unwise to disclose
the character of Gen. Buffers tele-
grams, if he has sent any.
The Duke of Westminster, who re-
Gently succeeded to one of the greatest
estates in Great Britain, has started
for England from Cape Town. 1t is
his intention, however, to return to
South Africa with the Imperial Yeo
manry.
The reports in London that peace
movement is growing in Great Britain
is received with incredulity in Berlin.
The Lokal Anzeiger says: "It is i'm
possible that the British government
in any event would be Influenced by
such a movement Great Britain's
prestige imperatively demands, since
that she should carry matters to a sue
cessful ISSUE"
The army under command of Gen.
Butler and Clery in Natal Colony has
started a forward movement, looking
to the relief of Ladysmith. Butler re-
ports that he has occupied the south
bank of the Tugela River and is pre-
pairing to cross, although the stream
is at flood. A few miles from the
north bank the Boer forces are
strongly entrenched, and when that
point is reached it is expected that
one of the hardest fought battles of
the war will take place. Probably So,
900 men will be engaged.
In the besieged town of Ladysmith
enteric fever is prevailing to such an
extent that $500 patients are in the
hospital, and deaths are averaging
from eight to ten a day.
The German government has called
upon Krupp & Co. not to furnish war
material either to Great Britain or
the Transvaal Republic during the
progress of the war.
Manufacturers of gunStocks at
Frankfort Ind, have received rush
order from the Transvaal for 125,000
gunstocks, to be shipped via New
York to South Africa.
The officials of the British War Of
flee deny the report that Gen. Me-
thuen has been recalled from South
Africa.
The Queen has summoned an ex-
traordinary session of the British Par
lament on January 80.
The Cunard Line steamer Umbria,
which has been chartered as a trans.
port by the British government, has
sailed from Southampton with 2,200
soldiers for South Africa.
The Queen has notified the King of
Belgium that she is not ready to medi-
ate the war in South Africa.
The Berlin correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says that $4,000
lyddite shells have been turned out
by the Krupp works, which were or
dered some time ago by DR.. Leyds.
the Transvaal agent in Europe.
The great battle at Ladysmith the
other day ragged fiercely for seventeen
hours. Points were captured again
and again by the attacking Beers and
retaken by Gen. Whites forces, who
finally repulsed the burghers. The
situation or the garrison is still, how
ever, regarded as perilous, and, weak.
ened by disease among the troops and
shortness of supplies, White may be
compelled to capitulate. The relief
expected from the army of Gen. Butler
has not been realized, and the latter's
attack on Colenso on the advance
toward Ladysmith appears to have
been little more than a demonstration,
according to London cablegrams. The
British lost fourteen officers killed,
thirty-four wounded and over 800 non
commissioned officers and men killed.
The Boer losses are estimated at be-
tween 1000 and 5000.
A private of the Irish Rifles, who
fought at Stormberg says that when
Gen. Gatacre saw the trap the guide
had led the troops into he shot the
guide dead.