The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-23

The news from South Africa is OH
the verge of being important. The
British General Warren has crossed
the Tugela a long way up with 1000
men and is marching on the north
bank. The Beers are massing for de-
fense and President Kruger has called
out all the burghers. He is believed
to have 100000 men. Since the an
nouncement was made of General War
ren's crossing no news has come from
the front, the censorship being very
strict. The Advertisers news runs to
the late afternoon of January 18th.
Summary for Three Months.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE Standard
summarizes the situation thus: "WelI,
the campaign has lasted three months.
We have something like 10000 troops
in South Africa. With this huge army.
distributed over the country W. are
still powerless to relieve three gaI1i-
sons from investment. We have still
TO see large portions of both colonies
in the hands of the enemy.
I'VE have driven the invaders back
at no single point. We are actually
further from the hostile frontiers than
we were on the day that the ultimatum
was delivered. The work which Min
listers believed could be effectually per-
formed with $4,000 men has not been
done, has not even been begun, by
four or five times that number. Can
any one fail to admit that this is evil
dence of a grave miscalculation of
forces and facts?'
The Times in an editorial criticizing
at great length the Governments con-
duct OF the war, alludes to the stupid
and perverse mistakes that have been
made and demands mat the practice
OF the non-revelation OF facts" be
abandoned. 1t insists strongly upon
knowing "the truth and the whole
truth about the situation" and finds
fault with Balfour's defense piecemeal.
The Losses at Ladysmith.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE Daily Mail
says: 1--WE learn that in the attack
on Ladysmith last Saturday. January
9th, the British losses were fourteen
officers killed, thirty-four wounded and
over 500 non-commissioned officers and
men killed and wounded. The Boer
losses, We hear, are estimated at be-
tween 1000 and 3,OOO."
Although the number OF deaths from
dysentery and enteric fever at Lady
smith has been published by the War
Ohhce since Saturdays fight, nothing
has been given out regarding the losses
IN the engagement. The Wa- Ohice as
serts that It has nothing to give out.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE Standard has
the following dispatch, dated Monday,
from Frere Camp: Our patrols have
searched both flanks OF the Boer posi-
tion. They found a large camp five
miles east OF Colenso, evidently In an
tieipation Of a British attempt at a
turning movement"
Dom Paul's Proclamation. 4
PRETORIA, Thursday, Jan IL (via
Lourenzo Marquez) President Krue-
ger, in the course Of a stirring address
Just Issued to the burghers, afirms
that Providence is on their side, that
their cause is Just, and that they must
Reports from Colesberg represent
the position there as favorable to tne
but the British are con-
centrating for operations on a large
scale. The official list Of the Boer cas-
ualties in what is called the plat-rand
fight, on Saturday, January 9Th, (the
attack upon Ladysmith). shows twen-
ty-six killed and seventy-seven wound
ed These figures are described as the
first return"
The embargo at Delag0a bay upon
Transvaal imports IS the question OF
the hour with the burghers. II this is
not removed II Is asserted that steps