The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-02
.SP|ON KOP
is CARRIED
Small Boer Garrison is
Expelled.
ONLY AN OUTPOST TAKEN
New Chinese Emperor Named Rob
erts Excluded from the House
Mote and Comment.

LONDON, Jan. 25.-The War Office
has just issued the following dispatch
from Spearman's Camp, dated January
25, 1910 a. m.:
General Warren's troops last night
occupied Spion Kop, surprising the
small garrison, which fed. It has
been held by us all day, though we
were heavily attacked, especially by a
very annoying shell fire.
Il fear our casualties are consider
able, and | have to inform you with
regret that General Woedgate was dam
gerously wounded.
General Warren is of the opinion
that he has rendered the enemys posi-
tion untenable. The men are splen-
! did"
| [Spion Kop is a hill held as an out
post by the Beers, eight miles east
ward of the main position in attempt
ing to take which Buffers force was
thrice repulsed.l
Mahan Champions Britain.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-Following is
the letter of Captain Alfred T. Mahan,
which has caused discussion in the
British press:
May / suggest to your citizens gen.
orally, and to the Boer sympathizers
especially, the inadvisability of public
meetings on this question. There ara
very MANY among us, myself certainly
one, who feel as strongly in favor Of
Great Britain as others do of her oppo-
nents. Let us all be careful not to pro-
woke one another by immoderate ex-
pressions of opinion, to which public
meetings tend. Those on one side pro-
woke retaliation on the other; nay, they
make it necessary, for in the problems
of the near future good understand
ing with Great Britain is too impor-
tant for us to permit the impression
that We are all against her here, and we
may find ourselves in the unseemly
state of party divisions for and against
foreign states, as in the beginning oi
this century between the French anG
British parties. / avail myself OF this
opportunity to say that in my judg
ment not only is the cause of Greai
Britain just, but to have failed to up
, hold 1t would have been to fail in ma
tional honor"
' 1&OkAOy AAA1tkS 3xA1hASkAJs
LONDON, Jan. 24-John Morley, ad
dressing his constituents at Forfar
. made but little reference to the presen
: aspects of the war in South Africa
confining himself chiefly to renewa
, of his indictment of the policy whicl
4 led to hostilities" He ridiculed 9TH
/ notion that a few Boer successes en-
: title the Transvaal to be described a
a first-class military power" and de
clared that the fact of the Beers send
ing the ultimatum no more dispose'
of all other questions than the def
f ance of the American colonists Il
throwing the tea into Boston harbo
disposed of all the questions OF tn
" war for American independence"
e 1T is quite certain" continued Nor
= ley, that had the Government appre
ciated the temper of the Transvaa
people and foreseen what was comm
q what we all know in these blacl
o gloomy days-there would have bee
: no war. 1t Is dreadful, but true, ths
l. a want of foresight and decent infoI
= nation led the Government to stumbl
II into war in the dark. Lord Salisbury
l. menacing speech Of July 2Sth, if apple
q to a great power, could only hav
J meant war. II was absurd, If the Coy
ernment really believed in a Dutc
u conspiracy, to spend time in negoti;
s tions regarding the franchise. The col
n spiracy was an after-thought OF IL
{ Government, conjured up to make
y hideous and ghastiy blunder."
IS In conclusion, Morley declined
e commit himself as to what would hal
y pen in the future, but he warned h
u hearers not to be duped by the ide
that the Beers, after defeat, would Sc
> tie down quietly. With reference
'e the point at which the conflict wou
; come To an end, Morley observed
Something depends on a chanc
,I which, ! hope, is remote, but is &c
tainly not invisible, of our being call'
of to meet dangers in other quarters
- Victory Inconclusive.
ut NEW YORK, Jan. 25.-(AfteTnoC
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