The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-23
III IS uJN CON NFIRMEEDI,. E |
From Any Other Quarter but He Was.
We'll. TO Leftofthe Advance.
NO sREP0R Z q BATTLE MONDAY
But Military Men Assume Tint Fight
ing Must Have Taken Place as
Butler Would Not Likely Give
the Beers Leisure to Add ss
to Their Elaborate En-
trencIlment~

trencllment&
DURHAM, NATAL. jan 22..-The state
me1t comes from a excellent source IN
PietermaritzEurg that Lord Dundonaid
has entered Ladysmith with 1890 men.
This is not confirmed from any other
quarter, but it is known that Lord Dun
dcna1d's flying column has been acting
well to the left Of the line OF advance.
LONDON, Jan. 2Ss.-4:15 A. M.-G;eneral
Butler has reported nothing. Of his opera
tions on Monday and official and press
intelligence leaves the British bivouacked
Sunday night on the ground they had won
after two days fighting.
The War Office turned everybody out
OF the Hobbies at midnight. Apparently
Lord Lansdowne was as much without
news all yesterday as other persons were
Military men assume that fighting must
have taken place and that it was probably
more severe than on the two preceding
days. General Butler would not be likely
to give the Beers leisure to add to rne
elaborate intrenchments, to arrange their
| artillery and to concentrate their forces!
The special correspondents Sunday night,
were allowed to send the announcement
that the battle would be almost certainly
resumed the following day, and hence
official and popular anxiety-f Us at high
tension.
REINFORCEMENTS.
Reinforcements, aggregating 5000 or
| more, have reached Cape Town 4aiurinG
the last three days. It Is uncertain how
these have been disposed, but probably
most of them have been sent to Natal,
| - ~ rnaI1.
| them. 4
i The British in the other districts in
| South Africa continue Inactive. Lord
| Matheun S Il, coo men remain behind their
| works. General French's 1000 at Rens-
burg were aroused on Saturday by gen
eraI larnt that the Beers were attacking,
| but it turned out that therAwas no basis
for this
General Gatacre is quiscent at Coles
| burg.
! The discomfort of the colonial officers
| and their disagreements with the regu-5
| lars are being inquored into by Lord
| Roberts, who asserts that he Will give
the Cape Coloniols equal opportunities.
At Ladysmith the deaths from entrtc
| fever and dysentery average ten a day.
| Some fears are expressed that the gar
| gison may b so weak by private and dis
ease as to be unable to do much In the
way of helping General Butler.
| The War Office has decided not to send
! the Seventeenth Lancers, Eighth %Hussars
and Seventh Dragon Guards to South
| Africa, although mobilized. 1t is under.
stood that Lord Roberts does not see a
| way to get fodder for the English
chargers.
| More than that, the English cavalry
are too heavy for work on the veldt.
and Lord Roberts expects to use Colonial
| cavalry instead.
PRETORIA PERTURBED.
LONDON, Jan. 2ss.-The Times dispa tch
from Lorenzo Marques yesterday, says:
.It is reported that Pretoria Is much
perturbed This is confirmed from differ!
ent sources and to-day it IS even hinted
that. the Beers are about to sue for peace.
This is Improbable unil they have
placed their trump card in the shape of
an appeal for Intervention.
1T is an undoubted fact that they are
bitterly disappointed at the apparent
apathy Of the continental poWe
LONDON, Jan. 23.-The Brussels CORE:
spondent Of the Daily Chronicle asserts
| that he has learned from authentic
sources that the Beers have between
$500 and 9o,00o men in the field.
s BRITISH LOSS.
LONDON, Jan General Butler re-
ports from Spearman's Camp one officer.
-
seventy-fve wounded and eight Mss
ing, as the result of SUNDAYS lighting
| Though there is considerable anxiety
as to the immediate result Of General
i3uIler s dash at Ladysmith, which later
tleYelopments indicate was undertaken
independent of Field Marshal Lord Rob-.
erts,s the War Office has now come to
The conclusion that the relief of Lady
smith is. onlysa a matter of short time.
According to the War Office officials
ideas, a. dash to the relief OF Kimberley
will quickly solloW the relief Of Lady
smith, and then will follow a long spell
of organization and perhaps three OF
four months will e1apse before the COL
umn Of colums will have the transporta-s
ton of service in shape to advance with
the certainty of meeting with no serious
reyerses. The latter conditions are held
BY the atltI1erities to be absolutely essen-s
tial before. any forward movement to-.
wards the invasion of the Tr1nsvaal is
begun, hence there is small probability
TIE widow of General Wuchops, in an
open letter. hctly denies the stories that
the General in any way criticised General
Methuen. szs
q Lord EWorseley has also issued a denial
Of the report that the War Office is in
possession Of letter from General Wau-s
choue NJ rdtten tie night before the bat-
lie Of f.Magprsfontein saying that 1t would
be the last ter 'he would write, as he
3 has been asked to perform an Impossible
task, and he had either to obey orders Or
surrender his sword.
F FKBIBERIIEYtB tBy HeHograph) We'd
gnesday, j an. 77.--Via Modder River Jan.