The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-01-18
SHBLLlNG THE BODRS
Britons Cross Little Tugela River
to Relieve Ladysmith.
TIE BoERs' SUPERIOR FoRoE.


mics Of Butler and white-Free
State Calls Out All Able Bodied
Men-President Kruser's Charge.
London, Jan. 16.-The Standard
gives prominence to the following dis
patch, dated Saturday. Jan. 13, from
Durham: A man who has just arrived
here from Springfield says that
British column, proceeding to the re-
lief Of Ladysmith, has crossed the Lit
tie Tugela. When he left 1t was facing
the Boer position on the Big Tugela.
and howitzer was shelling the Boer
trenches. He says also that 270 wag-
ons, laden with commissariat stores
for Ladysmith, had left Frere, and 1t
was expected that the column would
join hands with General White Mon
day evening. The traction engines
have been doing excellent work in
hauling heavy wagons out of holes and
swamps. This they accomplish with
4 the greatest ease. British patrols have
discovered parties of Beers in the di-
'rection of Ennersdale, between Frere
and Eastcourt.
General Buffers latest authentic
word as to what he and his 10000 men
are doing was wired from Springfield
after his first forward step. Striving
to think out the unknown, London is
confused by surmise and rumor and
disquiet by suspense. Spencer Wilkin-
son, the lucid military expert Of The
Morning Post, asserts that the Boer
force in northern Natal Is larger than
General Buffers and Sir George
Whites together, so that the Beers
are able to leave force around Lady
smith larger than that within the town
and yet to oppose General Butler with
force superior to his own.
Reports from the Boer camps affirm
that the circle Of investment has been
drawn closer by the occupation of
some hills nearer the town, thus liber-
ating reinforcements to oppose Gen.
eral Butler.
The correspondent of The Times at
Lourenzo Marques, telegraphing last
Saturday, says: The Free State has
! now called out every available man,
including the leading merchants who
had expected to enjoy immunity.
]. B. Robinson, the South African
millionaire, In q signed article in The
Daily News this morning, relates con-
versations he has had with President
Kruger, and describes several inter-
views In which the Jameson raid was
. talked over. On one of these occasions
President Kruger said:
do you mean to tell me that you do
not know that the men who organized
and engineered the raid organized 1t
: for their own benefit? They had de-
cidsd how they would divide the
Transvaal and how each of the par
ties was t. have certain interests in
4 this country. Many reformers who
\ were put In Jail were perfectly inno-
il cent, They we're ignorant Of the
schemes Of the men in the inner circle.
There were only IL men In that inner
circle, and thcy were to divide the
Transvaal among themselves. They
and their companions found the money
for the raid. Do you think we are 80
innocent as not to know that Rhodes,
metaphorically speaking, held pis-
toll at the heads Of certain men in Eng
land and said to them: II you do
not support me l shall denounce you
and your completely in the raid"
French War Material For the Beers.
London, Jan. 16.-The Daily Mail
publishes the following from a special
correspondent at LIE Creuzot, France:
AFTER two days inquiry do not hesi-
tate to assert that the Schneider COM
pany 10 not only working night and
day in the manufacture of guns and
ammunition for the Beers, but that it
has already packed, ready for ship
ment to the Transvaal, six heavy guns
Of large caliber The workmen told
me that ere long 30 additional guns
sas,ld dianotahad IN tho Raora -