The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-19
AMERICANS FIGHT FOR
LIBERTY OF The Beers
Chicago Ambulance Corps AbandOnS Red Cross and
Takes Up Arms at Pretoria.
Consul Hay Reports the Incident to Washington is
to be Recalled

London. April 19.-According TO a
dispatch to the Daily Mail from Lou
renzO Marquee, nearly half the mem
bers of the Chicago ambulance corps,
when offered BIausers on their arrival
at Pretoria, tore off their Red Cross
badges.
J. Adelbert S. Hay, United States con-
sui, notified the TransvaaI government
that he must report the circumstances
to Washington.
Heavy rains impede the movements
of the British columns. The blockade
of Wepener continues, although relief
is near. Large quantities of stores are
being moved southwark from BlOem-
fontein, which is a reversal of the
course Of freight for the last six weeks.
These shipments are made necessary
by the operations in the southwest of
the Free State.
There are 1000 sick in the field hos
pitfalls, most of the cases being of dys-
EMERY and enteric fever. With the
exception of these facts, the embargo
upon war intelligence is almost COM
plete. The special correspondents send
trivialities or statements which OBJ
Scure rather than explain the situation,
in their efforts to prepare matter that
will pass the censor. Here and there
a phrase indicates an expectancy that
large things are about to happen.
Butler and Warren
What is to be done with Sir -Redvers
Butler and Sir Charles Warren Occu-
pies everybody's attention. The papers
continue to comment earnestly upon
Lord Roberts censure of these com
| manders. They ask if more errors are
not likely to occur. together with fruit
less waste of life, in the event that men
who have been declared incompetent
by their superior continue to command
10000 troops. 1t is now generally ac-
| cepted that the government had a pur-
erts' dispatch. and that the recall of
General Butler and General Warren
has probably been decided upon.
According to BOer reports. there is
a steady flow of foreign volunteers to
the Transvaal. Hitherto these adven-
turers have been attached to the va
riOuS commanders. Now il is said they
are to be formed into a special legion,
with continental officers, and there is
| a rumor that the command viii be Civ
| en- 10 a distinguished French soldier,
| lately retired, who is now in the Trans
wall, or is nearing the end Of the jour
ney thither.
Presumably the officer referred to in
this report is General de Hegrier. for
mer member of the French supreme
council Of war, who was removed from
the active list last July by the Mar
quis de Gallifet as a disciplinary meas
ure during the excitement arising from
the DreyfuS cOurtmartial.
The Morning Post has the following
from BlOemfOntein. dated Tuesday: In
view Of the adviSability of a retreat
through Swaziland, emissaTies of the
Beers are now endeavoring tC purchase
secret information concerning caverrs
in the Greystone country, which are
only known to the natives. with the OBJ
ject of accommodating provisions and
ammunition.
Stores for the British.
Large quantities of british forage
| and stores were dispatched to the south
yesterday"
Colonel CrOftOn, who was in cCm-
mand at Spion KOp from tha time Cen
eral WOOdgate was wounded until Gel
Onel ThOrnycroft was appointed To the
position, and whose hellOgrapa mes
SageS to General Warren caused Cen
eral Butler to appoint ThOrnycr0ft to
the command, was placed ON half pay
today.
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