The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-13
GEN. BULLER EXECUTES A MASTER
MOVE IN CHANGING POSITION
ON TUGELA RIVER
NEARER LADYSMITH OUTPOSTS
RELIEF COLUMN Is NOW SEVEN.
TEEN MILES DISTANT FROM
THE BELEAGUERED
FEvER's DREADED INRoADs

Causing More Anxiety Than
Scenes Stir All London mt Yeo-
manry Reception-Boers Said to
Be Well Supplied.
SPRINGFIELD, Jan. LII occupied the
south bank Of the Tugela river at Pot
gelter's Drift this morning and seized
Pont. The river is in flood The enemy is
strongly intrenched about four and one-
half miles to the north Butler"
LONDON, Jan. 13-Gen. Buffers twen-
ty-eight words announcing his forward
movement Of Thursday is interpreted as
meaning that he has passed around the
western end of the Boer lines at Colenso
and Is now several miles beyond and sew
enteen miles from Gen. Whites outposts
at Ladysmith. The Beers, a few days
ago. had forces with guns at Springfield.
When Butler sent his dispatch these conf
mandos had been obviously dislodged,
either by fighting or by maneuvers, the
Beers retiring across the Tugela as Gen.
Butler advanced.
From Gen. Buffers dispatch coupled
with the fact that official intelligence
from the seat of war has virtually ceased
since Monday, the deduction is drawn
that important operations are In progress,
as he cannot move far without going
against the Boer intrenchments.
The death lists from enteric fever and
dysentery at Ladysmith, averaging about
eighty daily, are considered more serious
ha ha Of Co rdox g FIGHT
ing, as they show the unsantary condi-
ton of the beleaguered town. A letter
from Ladysmith dated Dec. said that
even then ninety men out of the battalion
of which the writer a member were
sick with either dysentery or enteric
fever, and according to a dispatch to the
Daily Chronicle dated Jan. the patients
and attendants in Tombige camp, where
the hospital is, then numbered $500
| PATRIOTIC SCENES.
Remarkable scenes of patriotism We're
witnessed in London last evening after
the attendance of the volunteers at st.
! PauIs cathedral. The vast audience was
slow to disperse. Ladies stood up on the
chairs, beckoning and calling to brothers,
sons and friends in the ranks, the latter
nation ensucd The organist introduced
a few bars of the national anthem in
concluding the voluntary The effect was
magical First the volunteers, end then
the congregation, took up the strains.
and soon the vast cathedral was flied
with enthusiastic song. Mr.. Reginald
Wynn, chief Of the yeomanry recruiting
office, says he has refused many offers
of Americans for service. None but the
queens subjects will be allowed to join,
consequently the statement that many
Americans have enlisted is not true
Many Britishers who have seen service
abroad have enlisted The Duke of Mari
borough's offer for service in the yeo-
manry has been accepted.
Mr. Chamberlain has issued a telegram
from Ceylon showing that the legislative
council of the colony has voted to send
1?5 mounted men 10 South Africa.
BoERs WELL SUPPLIED.
An apparently well informed corrc-
spondent Of the Morning Post says:
''The Boer forces, originally $4,000 men,
are now heavily augmented by Cape Col
o.lists and the enemy's fighting force
may be estimated fairly at 100000 men and
206 guns.
'"The Beers are not compelled to guard
their communications. The grass is good,
crops are growing, vegetables cattle and
sheep are plenty and game is abundant.
EARL OF AVA DEAD.
1t is officially announced that the Earl
of Ava has died of his wounds.
AS the earl never married, Lord Ter
ence BIackWood of the foreign Office.
who married Miss Florence Davis. daugh-
ter OF T. H. Davis Of New York city, be-
comes heir to the marquisate and the es-
tates.
The late earl went out as a war CORE
spondent, although latterly lie had been
on Sir George Whites staff. Lord Basii
Blackwood, the third son of the Marquis
of Dufferin is also in South Africa
HAY AND THE BOERs.
With reference to a Washington rel ort
cabled here that the Beers Will refuse
to receive Adelbert S. Hay, the new
United States consul at Pretoria, now
on his way 10 his post, on acccunt Of the
fact that "he was in constant communl-
cation with the British foreign office
while in London, the Associated Press Is
Informed that Mr. Hays communication
with tho foreign office consisted OF
social call on Lord Salisbury, which ted
only few minutes. and was undertaken
purely because, as q son or the Uniteu
States secretary of state and former
ambassador dL I>Oi4OOii, nc NN1.N - - -
sonally pay his fathers compliments 10
the premier. The Associated Press is OH
cially- Informed that Lord Salisbury and
Mr. Hay did not discuss Transvaal mat
ters.
In reply to a telegram from the Asso-
ciated Press, Dr. Leyds, the diplomatic
representative OF the Transvaal, wires
from Brussels:
81 see no reason why the Transvaal
government should not recognize Mr.. Hay
as representative from the United Ststes
/ am unable to say more, as communica-
ton with MY government is cut en-
LOSSES AT LADYsMITH
The war office announces that the Brit
ish casualties at Ladysmith. Jan. s.
among the rank and tle, were l35 Killed
and 242 wounded.
Lady Methuen has issued an absolute
contradiction OF the rumors that LORD
Methuen is ILL., or that he was injured by
the falling of his horse at the battle or
Magersfontein.
RAIN IN SOUTH AFRICA.
The Daily telegraph has the following
dispatch, dated Jan. 9. from Frere Camp.
"a heavy storm has been raging an
night, and there is every prospect that IT
will continue. The roads are impossible
and the rivers and spruits are full
.~rhere has been no firing at Ladysmith
! or Colenso The trenches must be filed