The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-02-10


ehe Ugh 90 Mr. Balfou1s announcement
ln the commons that General Buller Is
not press ug biz advance.
Mr Winston Churchill wires that
WAL krantz was mpracucable for the
guns which were needed 20 support q
further advance. His cablegram leaves
General Butler on Tuesday night send
ing a fresh brigade to relieve the tired
holder of Vaal Krantz.
The descriptive writer's with General
Butler were allowed rather a free hand
again in explaining the ugly position
which the British held and the natural
obstacles which had TO be overcome.
SO it ls easy to infer that WIKI Bocr
rinemon and artillery defending them.
,hese hills. ravines and jungles have
mot been overcome and thus the public
is prepared in advance for bad news.
Heliograms from Ladysmith dated on
Monday describe the effect General Bull
ler's canonade had on the worn garri-
SON Hope ran high Ihat the long per-
iod of inactivity and tedium was then
drawing 20 q close The crash OF guns
was almost continuous for ten hours.
and al times it seemed as IL as many
ttH AMtlttF rilFAAo tuAHN llA ~ AiAtAANAs's
The Beers, preparing always for the
possibility of defeaa We're driving herds
and sending long wagon trains towards
the Drakensburg passes. Intense dark
ness and silence followed. broken only
by frogs croaking and the OCCASIONAL
blaze OF star smells, surrounding the
town with a circle OF light TO prevent
the unobserved approach of the enc
my. A series of British mines. laid for
the Beers. exploded accidentally. shak-
ing and alarming the city and camp.
General MacDonalds retirement puz-
zles the military commentators The
theory that finds acceptance is that il
WAS ordered by Lord Roberts and that
was ordered by Lord Roberts and
tnat both General Butler and General
MacDoncld's operations were by the di-
rection OF the commander I'm chief. i'm
order TO occupy the Beers at widely
separated points. 50 they would be un-
able to transfer any portion of their
forces TO oppose the projected central
advance.
Charles Williams a military writer.
who is understood to be i'm confidential
relations with Lord Wolseley, says that
beyond doubt the most authoritative
opinion in London regards IL as prob
able that an endeavor Will be made TO
force the line Of the Orange river be-
fore Wednesday next. possibly by Mon
day
Henry w Lucy says that the health
OF Sir Alfred Miner governor Of Cape
Colony is suffering from the prolonged
strain and his friends fear he will now
break down.
Lord Salisburys son. Lord Edward
Cecil. is responsible for Mafeklng being
as well provisioned At the outbreak
of the war he learned the amount OF ar
my stores about 10 be sent TO Mafekng
and on his own inative pledged his pri-
vate means and had the stores quad
rupled. He Is now IN Mafeking and one
OF its boldets defenders.
A dispatch TO the Times from Kood-
osberg dated February 8. says:
1T is reported that Boer reinforce
ments are arriving from Magersfontein.
Our position is easily tenable, but the
entire force has been ordered to return
TO Aodder River tomorrow,
The Times has the following from
Kimberley, dated February 6;
The Boer big guns sheled us all
day yesterday hut nobody was kill
ed"
The correspondent OF the Times at Lo-
wenzo Marques, under date of Febru-
airy s, says;
Recent visitors 10 Inhambane report
that the Portuguese customs authorities
there seized a quantity Of arms and am
munition Consigned under a false de-
soription"
The first Lord Of the admiralty, Gee
Gosehen, is preparing estimates for n
large increase in the navy. 1t is thought
not improbable that parliament %l
be asked for twenty million pounds for
new ships.
The war office has reduced the mimi
mum standard Of height again--lhis
time 10 5 feet and 3 inches for infantry
and feet and inches for artillery.
DIT Leyds has issued in Brussels a
statement for publication IN England
denying purported interviews in which
he is reported as predicting the inter-
ventiOn Of the powers I'm the event that
the British invade the Free State He
says ne is convinced that the war will
last as long as the two republics have
arms and ammunition. III the Mauser
cartridges give out the Beers. he as
serts, win fan back upon the Marlni-
Henri rifles, for which they have a
supply OF ammunition that is practl-
cally inexhausuble.
a special dispatch from Spearman's
Camp dated Yesterday (Frday) noon,
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