The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-01-13
BULLER'S LATEST MOVE
It Shows an Advance Toward the
Relief Of Ladysmith.
DISEASE AIDS THE BoERs' CAUSE.
The Frightful Unsanitary Condition
Of the Beleaguered Town IL Rapid
Iy Increasing British Death List.
The Roers. Increasad afeen1fh


Iy Increasing British Death List.
The Beers Increased Strength.
London, Jan. 13.-General Buffers
brief dispatch announcing his forward
movement of Thursday Is interpreted
rs meaning that he has passed around
the western end of the Boer lines at
Colenso and is now several miles be-
hind them, and within IA miles Of
General Whites outposts at Lady
smith. The Beers, a few days ago, had
forces with guns at Springfield, where
General Butler dates his dispatch.
These commandos have been obviously
dislodged, either by fighting or by ma
neuvers, the Beers retiring across the
Tugela as General Butler advanced.
From General Buller's dispatch, cou-
pied with tho fact that UNOFFICIAL intel
ligence from the seat of war has vir-
tually ceased since Monday, the deduc-
ton is drawn that important opera
lions are In progress, as he cannot
move far without going against the
Boer entertainments.
General Buffers dispatch, dated
Springfield. Jan. IL, was as follows:
II occupied the south bank of the
Tugela river at Potgieter's Drift this
morning and seized Pont. The river
is in food. The enemy is strongly en-
trenched about four and half miles
to the north"
The death lists from enteric fever
and dysentery at Ladysmith, averag-
ing from s to 10 daily, are considered
more serious than the 420 casualties
of Saturdays fight, as they indicate the
frightful unsanitary condition Of the
beleaguered town. A letter from Lady
smith, dated Dec. 7, says that even
then 80 out of $40 men in the battalion
of which the writer was q member
were sick with dysentery or. enteric
fever, and according to dispatch to
The Daily Chronicle. dated Jan. 8, the
patients and attendants in Tomb
Camp, where the hospital is, then num-
bered $500.
An apparently we'll informed corre-
spondent Of The Morning Post says:
The Boer strength, originally $4,000
men, is now heavily augmented by
Cape Colonists, and the enemy's fight
ing forces may be estimated fairly at
100000 men and 206 guns. The Beers
are not compelled to guard their COM
munications. Their grass is good, the
crops are growing, vegetables, cattle
and sheep are plenty and game is
abundant.
Remarkable scenes of patriotism
were witnessed in London last even
ing after short service held for the
volunteers in st. Paul's cathedral. The
vast audience was slow to dispense.
Ladies stood upon the chairs beckon-
ing and calling to brothers, sons and
friends in the ranks, the latter signal
ing back. A scene of great animation
ensued. The organist introduced few
bars of the national anthem in con-
Guiding the voluntary. The effect of
this was magical. First the volun-
teers, and then the congregation, took
up the strains and the vast cathedral
was filled with enthusiastic song.
These demonstrations were renewed
by immense crowds outside. st. Paul's
churchyard and Ludgate hill were
black with people, and 1t became i'm
possible for the volunteers to march.
Individual members were pulled out of
the ranks by their friends and adj
mirers, who raised them on their
shoulders, and thus carried them down
Fleet street to the temple. Those who
escaped hosting proceeded slowly, sur,
rounded by clinging women. !
Afterward, at the various theaters
where the men were entertained, and
yet later on returning to the barracks,
these scenes were renewed and the
streets were filled until midnight with
cheering people. I
The war Office announces that the
British casualties at Ladysmith Jan.
6, among the rank and file, were 1886
killed and 242 wounded. Among the
wounded who have since died from
their wounds were the Earl of Ava,
son Of the Marquis of Dufferin,
and Lieutenant Colonel William Henry
ick-Cunyingham, v. c., commander
of the second battalion Of the Gordon
Highlanders since 1897.
Lady Methuen has issued an abso-
lutte contradiction Of the rumors that
Lord Methuen is i'll or that he was in,
jured by the falling of his horse at
the battle Of Magersfontein.