The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-09

Losses of the Attacking Forces Heavy
GaIIantry of the British Defenders
Gen. Whites Report of the Fighting
EIntion An LOmdon-Gen. Frenoh's
Lost Troops.
London, Jan. 8, 9;43 p. m.-General
White repulsed the Boer attack upon
Ladysmith on Saturday, inf1icting
heavy losses. The war office has just
published the following despatch from
General Butler:
.'Frere camp, Natal, Jan. S.-The fol-
lowing is from White, dated 2 p. M,
yesterday:
AN attack was commenced on my
position, but was chiefly against Caes-
ar's camp and Wagon Hill. The enemy
was in great strength and pushed the
attack with the greatest courage and
energy Some of our intrenchments on
Wagon Hill were three times taken by
the enemy and retaken by us. The at
tack continued until 1880 p. m.
" One point in our position was oc-
cupied by the enemy the whole cay
But at dusk, In a very heavy ram
storm, they We're turned out OF TINS po-
sition at the point of the bayonet, III
most gallant manner, by the DeVons, leu
nv Colonel Park. Colonel Ian Hamilton
commanded on Wagon Hill and rem
dered valuable services. The troops
have had a very trying time and nave
behaved excelently. They are elated at
the service they have rendered the
queen.
The enemy were repulsed every
where with heavy loss, greatly exceed
ing that on my side, which Will pc. re-
ported as soon as the lists are COM
pleted.' "
Until the above despatch from Gen
eral White was given out the people
OF London were in a fever OF apple-
hension. on account of the last words OF
tha heiograph message received yester-
day from him, VERY hard pressed,
and crowds of people visited the war
Office this morning in search OF news
During the early afternoon a rumor
obtained currency that Ladysmith had
surrendered, and the depression IN the
Iobbies had become extreme when an
official appeared and shouted Good
news, anu pOSleQ lbS NiSoPSSN'' $1,000
of the victory for the British troops
Even the brief official announcement
sent by General White seems to entitle
his success to the adjective brilliant
SO often misused during the present
war. Reading between the lines OF the
despatch, it is evident that there was
a desperate fight, the British entrench-
ments being thrice taken and retaken'
and, at dusk, the Devonshire regiment,
at the point of the bayonet, drove OUT
the Beers from another position which
they had occupied all day long.
The news spread with astonishing
rapidity all over London, and caused an
instantaneous change. Smiling faces
were seen everywhere, and even In the
sedate foreign Office and other depart
ments Of the government great elation
was shown. The newspapers were all
jubilant. The conservative Standard, IN
big headlines, announced GLORIOUS
victory at Ladysmith."
The stock exchange received the news
with cheers, and prices Immediately as
cended in all departments
So far as known, this morning, Gen |
eral Buffers demonstration against CO.
1enso had little effect. In spite of the |
heavy artillery fire the Beers did not |
reply, and the only effect of the shrap- |
mel shell reported was that it caused !
Beers and the horses to stam-
pede from the camp between Colenso |
and Groblers Kloof.
General French has now Joined the
other British commanders with the IA
1niliar formula, Il regret to report"
Telegrams from Rensberg say that |
seven officers and thirty men of the
Suffolks were killed, and that about
fifty were captured, in the attack on
Saturday on hill occupied by the
Beers when three-fourths of the COM
mand retreated on an order said to have
ben sounded by the enemy, leaving the
who were overpowered. Cen
eral French's announcement that the
Essex regiment has been sent to replace
the Suffolks is more bitter to the lat
ter's friends than the list of casualties,
as the only inference from this fact is
that the Suffolks disgraced themselves
and their flag by boiling and leaving a
few Of their more stauncb comrades to
fill the Pretoria jails.