New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1900-02-07
Dispatch from Lad smith Reports
], 100 Killed and 600 Wounded
in Last Weeks Fighting,
SILENT ABOUT MOVEMENTS soF Bull En-.
Mai. Bathurst Believes He Can Get
Through to- Lady ~ With Heayy
sacrifice of Life-B0er Forces at
stormberg Almost ssurrounded-
Need ReenfOrcements.s sSS=s$

EInOSe VINO are III a. pOSIJlOHs 5GozfhAHOWs
confirm his reported recrossing of the
Tugela river and believe he was en-
gagged Friday. The message from
Ladysmith Thursday. saying the Boer
forces were leaving again and that the
/ besieging force was considerably di-
I unfinished, tends to confirm this.
! Thinks Butler Can Get Through.
:, Mai. Bathurst, who was wounded at
the battle Of Colenso, arrived at South
ampton, on board the Servia. He Says
! there are 10000 Beers at Tugela river,
but that Gen. Butler can get through if
he is prepared to sacrifice five or six
/ thousand men. ~ Z 49,, 1& Ell \ .*
! Field Marshal Lord Roberts has no.
| tilted the war office that 40 Highland
| ers who were previously reported
killed at Magersfontein are prisoners lei
at Pretoria. -, :. ". :.
Boer Losses Were Heavy.
An undated dispatch from Lady
| smith says the Boer losses in ,. last
weeks fighting were LOO killed and
600 wounded, among the former being
five field coronets.
Beers Hard Pressed. /
| Sterks Spruit, Jan. 29.-Command-
ant Olivier, of the Orange Free State,
| in a speech to the Beers at Ladygrey,
| said that his men were almost SUR
rounded at Stormberg and unless re-
cruits were Forthcoming he would be
compelled to abandon the position.
Sc +oJ hot ~,
| fight at Ladysmith the Beers lost 1, 100
killed and 600 wounded.
Many colonists who fought at
Stormberg have gone back to their
farms and have refused to return to
active service, though threatened with
| death. Among those are some con-
| spicuous burghers, who originally in
Colony.
Tired Of the War.
| Cape Town, Feb. 5. - It appears be-
yond doubt that the Free State burgh-
| ers are becoming tired of the war,
and it is rumored that some influential
! Free State leaders have entered into
secret negotiation with the military
what terms Great Britain would be
| disposed to offer, should they leave
their Transvaal allies. =
Germany Denies It.
Berlin, Feb. 5.-The German foreign
office denies that DR.. Leyds, the dip
lomatic agent of the Transvaal, is at
tempting to induce Germany to join
in an intervention movement. DR..
Leyds declines to discuss possible in
tervention and denies that he is going
to st. Petersburg. He is under med
zeal treatment. The diplomatic agent
did not desire to emphasize why there
should be a bond of sympathy be-
tween the United States and the
Transvaal, as it might embarrass Mon
tagu White, the former consul general
of the South African republic in Lon
don, who is now in the United States.
The latter, however, is not accredited
to the Washington government. DR.
Leyds has exhibited with much salts
faction specimen of Mauser used
by the Beers and manufactured by
Herr Loewe, of Berlin. The barrel is
almost completely encased in wood,
to obviate heating. 4<- n,@ I'll
=. Heavy Purchase of Coal. II
New York, Feb. 5.-There is a rumor
current to the effect that the British
government has contracted with the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad com
pany for 100000 tons of coal. s<#,
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