Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1900-01-13
tIEPAI N AFRICA,
uSEAST FEELING OVER IADYSHITH.


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London. Jan. H.. During the inter
lude Of military inactivity and official
secrecy Lord Roberts and Lord Kitch-
cner have ARRIVED at the seat of war.
II Is assumed that their clear vision,
supported by $4,000 fresh men who
are due to arrive in South Africa
within 30 days, will alter the. stun
tion and that the fourth month of the
cainpe.gn will Witness the beginning
OF Victories for the British arms.
They are not, however, expected to
produce definite results for some
days, but their mere presenue will
restore thu shaken confidence Of the
men mt the front in their generals.
Lord Roberts finds 10000 men on the
defense or watching for an opening.
Lord Methuen's health, according to
tho Daily Mail, has "broken down"
and. the field marshal may relieve him.
Possibly some others. will be relieved
of important commands.
There is IN uneasy suspicion that
when the Laeysmith casualties are
announced they will be disheartening
and win partly destroy the patriotic
glow produced by Gen. Whites "vic-
tory"
Free staters Stick Co Their Position.
London, Jan. 1.-THE Standard has
received the following, dated January
Q, from it's special correspondent at
Trcre Camp: II hear, on good an
thority, that President Kruger sent
word to the Boer headquarters ask.
ing why Ladysmith had not been ut
Tackled and that the reply was I'VE
should lose too many men, His an
swer to this excuse was the sug-
gestion that the Free Staters might be
put in the fore front. This hint was
taken and the attack delivered. Pres
ident Kruger's advice was SO far good
that the Free Staters behaved better
than the Trahsvaalers have done.
At all events they managed to seize
hill. Later in the day the Transvaal-
ers retired before Gen. Whites coun-
ter attack amid the jeers of the
Free Staters, who actually stuck to
their position until they were bay-
onctted in the ditch. After this affair
1t is almost certain that the allies
will quarrel. A heavy gun mounted
on Umbulwana hill has been firing
since daybreak. Evidently the seige
Of Ladysmith 10 still maintained"
The Disaster TO tho SUFFOLK Regiment.
Rensburg. Cape Colony, Jan. H.
It is reported here officially, with
reference to the disaster to the First
battalion OF the Suffolk regiment that
Lieut.. Col. Watson marched the reg
iment In close column to the top OF
the hill at midnight. He assembled
the officers and was addressing them
just ut daybreak when the enemy
ut distance of 30 PAGES.
The colonel, his adjutant and two
other officers were killed. The Suf-
folks, who had scarcely fired u shot,
feel back to the picket about thou
Sand yards away, some one shouting
'sretire." About $50, however, re-
lost heavily and finally sur
rendered.
Iioer Successes Cause Enthusiasm.
London, Jan. 1.-THE Cape Town
of the Daily Mail tel
egraphing Monday, says: "The Boer
successes have been followed by
outburst of enthusiasm
md Boer sympathy in the western
part Of the colony. Reports from
raarl shy the whole district is made
hideous at night by bands of young
men parading in the villages and
singing the Transvaal Volksleid, while
the children nre everywhere practic-
Ing the national songs of the repub-
lies. The following are specimens of
statements believed by the western
Dutch: Butler and Rhodes are pris-
oners,' and two thousand Beers Sc
rretly sailed and captured Cape
Town.
strstchsr- Bearers Start for tho Front.
London, Jan. 1.-THE Durham cor
of the Standard, tele-
Tuesday, says that 1000
started for the front
the previous night and that their de-
parture was regarded in Durham as
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