Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-02
Has Swept Over the Entire
British Isles.
IT'S MANY PREPARATIONS
For Sending More Troops to the Front
and Increasing the Armament OF
of Both the Navy and the Army
Roberts Moves.

London, March $50 a. m.-Britons
feel that they are living in the presence
OF momentous events. Tornadoes OF pa
triotic excitement are whirling through
the n Even the dullest soul must
have been stirred by the emotions of yes
terday, and London's 5000, 900 people We're
raised to a high pitch Of patriotic exulta-
ton.
1t was a wonderful sight. Old men
have nothing in memory with which ia
compare the day Some llkeneu II to
others talked of the fall OF Sc
bastopol. 1t was a time Of singular ADAM
don. The usual conventlonalltles OF So
cfety ceased to control. and every one
knew everybody else, all Jolnans III
smiles.
Lord Lansdowne chose the psycholog-
ical moment to announce estimates eA-
ceeding G61. 900, 600, and rather started
the public by unfolding the programme
of the wal office to send out IN aoul.loi,
to the 10000 troops now aIoat, oo,ooo
fresh soldiers. Lord Roberts Will ulta-
nlately nave a IOFce u q auAi3N
million. 81,
An order has reached WoolWlch for
the construction of 224 new guns, from
3-pounders to Pinch guns. Already 90,
600 workmen are employed at the arsenal
and 1000 more will be engaged. lnese
decisions TO send out more troops and TO
increas 81. he home armament meet with
universal approval.
The Beers seem to have gotten quite
away from around Ladysmith without
losing a gun on their baggage. Van Ree-
mans pass lis only about 20 miles from
Ladysmtth. The enemy had artillery IN
action Tuesday and they utilized 6oth
railroads probably in retreatlng, senolns
the heavier pieces to Pretoria and the
lighter ones into the Free State.
DR.. Leyds says that General ooupert IS $
assembling SO, 900 men at Weinberg, 20
miles northeast of Bloemfontein. Colonel
Albrecht, according to- a dispatch from
Paardeberg, afirms that the Beers have
$4,000 men left.
Whether Lord Roberts is at Bloemfon-
tein now or not, he doubtless will be
dating his dispatches there and using the
town as his advanced base.
Lord Kitchener's mission is to combin
the forces under Generals Clement and
Gatacre and to advance along tine line
of the railroad to BloemfOntein. The rail-
way will simplify immensely the per-
plexities of transportation.
The complications at LadySmith, some
of which were explained by Charles Will
liams and abled to the United states,
are NOW better understood, as the mill
tary authorities 10 longer retain their
special information. IL appears that
since the middle of January the horses
have been half starved. and altogether
too weak either to drag guns or to carry
cavalrymen. Hence the iInpOSsibility OF
dashing out to help General Butler at
tack the Beers. These half-starved ami
mails We're carefully saved fer food. The
disposition to find fault, though mildly,
with the passivity CT Sir George White,
disappears as the facts become known.
No one is in the mood now to criticise
anybody, although two OF three of the
morning papers gently refer to the fact
that the war office, at the outset of hos
%tilitles, rejected Lord Dundonald as I'M
fit to be a soldier. whereas it was he who
organized the colonials.
Emperor William, Emperor Francis
Joseph and King Humbert have tele-
graphed congratulations to the queen.