The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-01-12
TUESDAYS REPORT


holds out at Ladysmith. or did so GO
hours ago, when the Beers, ousted
from their foothold inside the works,
suspended their assault at nightfall.
England has taken heart. The situa-
ton, however, is worse. The he
leaguered force must have expended
large amounts of ammunition, which
cannot be replenished, and must have
lost number of officers and men,
which is counterbalonccd. so far as
the garrison is concerned by the
greater loss of the Beers. Cen
White still needs relief and the diff
cultics confronting Gen. Butler are as
great as before. The formers I'M
adorned sentences, as read and re-
read, suggest eloquentlv the peril in
which the town was for IA hours,
and how barely able his 1900 men
were to keep from being overcome.
The chief concern for Gen. White is
In respect of ammunition.
England is preparing ornaments,
and % transports will be on the way
TO South Africa during the present
month. According 10 the programme
25,000 additional troops and az guns
will soon be afloat.
Lord Dunraven. in the Times this
morning, returns to his arraignment
of the war department for the in
feriority of British artillery.
WEDNESDAYS REPORT
London, Jan. 1O.-The war Office has
not contributed the least particular
as to what is taking place in Natal
since Sunday. Neither has i allowed
the dispatches of correspondents to
get through. Consequently the facts
of the situation are replaced by con-
lectures and the impatience of the
public pours itself into n discussion
of the conduct of the war and of
what might have been done or ought
TO be done.
The Morning Post demands that
The forces afield, afioat and in prep
aration should be increased by $4,000
men.
Great Britain's loss since the war
began is fast approaching 5000. A
war of Office compilation of casu-
allies, issued last evening, shows a
total of 7,213-1,O 27 killed, q, 675 wound
ed and 2,511 missing These do not in
clude $40 who have succumbed 10 dis
ease nor the casualties at Ladysmith
last Saturday.
The Daily Mail says: with char
acteristic bad manners, the Transvaal
authorities have refused to allow Mr..
Hollis, the American representative
at Pretoria, to care for British inter-
ests. This is an act without prece-
dent in modern diplomatic history"
Addressing a meeting, held in a
suburb of Manchester, Mr.. Balfour
said: "While | am 10th to claim, in
any proud and arrogant speech, that
we are in any special sense the lead
ers of great humanitarian cause,
] deny in the strongest manner that
we are animated by ignoble motives.
No more false or stupid calumny was
ever invented than the accusation
that Great Britain is animated by
a petty desire to add wealthy re-
gions to an already gigantic empire.
No more acquisition of territory
could compensate for a war costing
so much blood and treasure
Rear Admiral Lord Charles Beres-
ford. addressing the London chamber
of commerce yesterday and dealing
with questions of national defense,
said that. now that war prevailed,
more attention would be paid, per-
haps, to those who had warned the
country that il was laboring under
a rotten, false and misleading sNs-
TEN of administration" so far as the
services were concerned.
"While | would deprecate the
adoption of CONSUMPTION" said Lord
Charles, 81 hope the country Will in
sist upon overhauling and reform
ing the naval and military services.
In connection with the war in South
Africa, | contend that our generals
should be held harmless, for they
have been sent to do an impossible
ity."
The Daily Mail says it understands
that the supersession of another gen
eral commanding in South Africa VIII
shortly be announced. This may
have relation to Gen. Buffers hasty
summons from Davenport. 1t Is re-
ported that he came by special train
TO London yesterday and held long
consultation with the headquarters
staff. This seems to indicate that
his advice, which only recently was
in extreme disfavor, is about to be
utilized.
The critics rang up and down the
entire field of war transactions, find
ing fault especially with the lack of
transports for the troops who are
ready to depart, and with the con-
cealment of news, averring that the
censorship in South Africa embraces
ro. Is: that the reports of cor
respondent e being mutilated and
entire letters suppressed
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