The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-03
BUTLER AGAIN ADVANCING.
HELIOGRAMs FROM LADYsMITH
SEEN TO PROVE THIS.
Military Critics Regard With Dis
may the Prospects of Renewed
Assault Until the Force mt the
TugeIn Has been Reinforced.

LONDON, Feb. 3, 4:10 a. m.-Helio-
grams flashed from Ladysmith three days
ago say that the Boer investment lines
were thinning, and that the besiegers
were moving in force toward the Tugela,
Indicating that a collision was expected
there. This intelligence bears out other
signs that Gen. Butler proposes another
attack.
Military Critics Dismayed.
The war Office continues to reveal moth
ing of what has happened in Natal. With
out exception, the military critics regard
with dismay the prospect of renewal of
the assaults unless Gen. Butler has been
heavily reinforced; and there is nothing
TO indicate that this is the case.
Kitchener On the Go.
Lord Kitchener has been travelling from
army to army in northern Cape Colony.
and Gen. French. by instruction, Is now
in Cape Town consulting with Lord Rob-
erts. The large engineering construc-
tions are proceeding at Modder river. sug
costing that Lord Methuens fortified
camp has been selected as the base from
which to invade the Free State. Numer-
GUS sidings, platforms and warehouses
are being built. and a permanent railway
bridge is well advanced.
sA'es Views
German strateg1sts assert that the TO-
posraphy OF ,he country would make IN
district northward than from the more
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Reasonable Talk at the Cape.
Gen. Buffers retreat" says the Cape
Town correspondent of the Standard. has
resulted IN recrudescence OF the treason
ao'e taik mere. Inc Ditter ieeine OF the
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believed to have been written by Mr. Mer-
riam. secretary OF the Cape treasury. de-
mandins Sir Alfred Miners recall"
The coming congress OF the Africander
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.an'hs Vi infantry aouihs these 10 the ex-
isuhs .eshhehts
Sensational Rumors Afloat.
Sensational rumors ara c,,rrent that tho
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men ""sn, - auueu. the government
nus proiniseo 10 give hiH' senu'hg ooWV
mihua ana volunteers ana souU reserves
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bilize forthwith II is even asserted today
that the canine. has esneciallv dealt with
,hasa matters r.a r,,,t,,. ha,,o. -.
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NAMES every on'a'i'eu man between 10
ana ~ years haoie 10 service ior hve
years
Churchill Defends Long.
Mr.. Winston Churchill. In n dispatch to
the Morning Post. comes to the defense OF
Col. Long, whose error lost the British
the battle of Colenso. and while admitting
that there was an error of Judgment. con-
tends that there was no error arising eth
err from rashness or incapacity He says
Col. Longs real injuries are very severe.
grave operation was performed on him
January Is. The loss of this officer to the
artillery force is, Mr.. Churchill thinks.
very serious.
Cost of the War.