The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-25
f. The Plan of Campaign Has Been Changed.

Topography maps show that SpiOn-
kOp is the highest part Of a rocky pla-
teaU. Eastward for eight miles are
BOer positions along the Tugela. North
westward from SpiOnkop the plateau
runs gradually up to a great spur of the
DTake+Iburg.
General Buffers infantry, to reach
the summit of Spionkop, must cross
a natural glaOis three-quarteTs of a
mile wide and climb 500 feet up a steep
slope
Nobody here seems to know. not even
the war Office, what Lord Roberts has
done with his large reinforcements.
Six thousand troops awaited his arrival
at Cape Town, and since then 5000
others have reached there. Military
critics are all hoping that a good share
Of these 1900 have gone to help Cen
erel Butler, and they argue that a few
days wait may make him strong
enough to overcome the deadlock
There are $4,000 troops at sea, and
this heavy weight on the British side
| is expected 10 destroy the equilibrium
now existing on every field of opera
ton.
Losses Of British.
The British losses I'D to date in
killed, wounded and captured, accord
[ ing to General Buffers last list, totals
/ S,216 men.
/ The Daily Telegraph publishes the
| following dispatch from Spearman's
farm, dated Tuesday, Jan. %, $3.50 o. m:
/ "On Monday Sir Charles Warren s
/ forces canEonaded and fusiTaded the
/ Boer position west of SpiOnkOp. near
/ the Acton Homes road. A lyddite bat
/ terry co-operated with the other batter
/ les and MaXims. Certainly the fire
! was heavy, causing the enemy serious
/ losses.
The Beers, however, chung desper-
I ately to their works. from which they
are only being very slowly driven. To-
day the enemy fired their guns oftener,
using also the captured fifteen-pound-
/ ers with Shrapnel- Our casualties today
( were less than those of yesterday.
Fighting began about in the morn
/ ing and continued until dark. but there
has been nothing like a general en-
gagement. The naval big guns assisted
from Potgieter's Drift in Smelling the
I BOer position
A dispatch to the Times from Spear
mans Camp. dated Tuesday, $50 D. m.
says: The Beers today had more guns
and are preparing to fight almost in
teTminably, having entrenched their
ridges, which stretches in an almost
unbroken line from the Drakensburg
many miles eastward.
Duel Waged All Day.
Firing continued throughout the
day. We have not advanced any fur
Their, but we threw up entrenchments
during the night from behind which
the Inusketry duel continued from ex-
actly the same position as yesterday. -
Ire Cape IOWn correspondent of the
Times, telegnaphing Tuesday. says.
The Bondites are preparing to seize
the first decisive British victory or the
invasion of republican territory as the
signal for violent peace agitation
They VIII accompany their appeal to
magnanimity by covertly limiting that
they are unable to restrain the Dutch
cOlonists from rising"
a dispatch to the Daily Mail from
LourenZo MaTquez. dated Wednesday
says: This morning all passengers
booked fer the Transvaal were stopped
by government order, with the excep.
tion Of the Ruz5ian ambulance CORPS
who proceeded by special train.
Beers Are DISCOURAGED.
A correspondent Of the Times AT Mod.
der river telegTaphing Tuesday. saws
The reports of deserters agree thai
the situation of the E0ers at Mayors
= f0ntein is becoming Unbsarab.e, becaus.
the camp is unsanitary, enteric fever /.