Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-03-01

WOE IN LADYSMITH.
Besieged Suffer From Bad
Water and Heat.
LOW VITALITY AMONG SOLDIERS.
Would Probably Hold Their own Against
Attack, but Cannot Take Initiative.
Others suffer From Fever Dysentery
and Diarrhosa.

LONDON, March General Buffers
tidings come weighted with his long list
of casualties. His losses in the four as
tempts to get General White out aggre-
gate 1000.
Ladysnith is in desperate straits
Charles Williams, the military expert,
says he learns on very high authority
presumably that of Lord Wellesley LIS
General Whites force is almost 1T lis
last gasp"
This is not SO much, !" says NJ VII
iams, ION account of any lack &
visions or of ammunition, neither q
which is vet exhausted, as because of the
poisonous waters OF the Kip river and
the evil effects of the heat ON the Ter
rain, in which the garrison must reside
Even those who have escaped fever,
dysentery and diarrh9a are in a state Of
low vitality. They can still nun
trenches, and wonld probably hold their
own against last desperate assault, but
they can initiate nothing General
Butler now knows that, as units, tho
regiments will be of no use to him for
months.
1.-THE water of Kip river is not ayaila-
BILE for drinking, and to boil it is impos-
sible, because of the scarcity of fuel. 1t
is thick with putrid animal matter. Tea
made of it has suspended fiber, some
thing like beef tea. 1t is caused by the
sewage from the Boer camp
Mr.. Williams adds that when news
like this passes under the thumb of the
censor it more than offsets whatever
jolly news may be photographed from
Ladysnith.
General Buffers distinct success in
storming Peters hill brings the rescue
of Ladysmith near, but the war office
intimated late last evening that an inn
mediate announcement of relief need
not be expected. The goings to and fro
at midnight of officials and messengers
suggested that important news had been
received. If this were the case, Lord
Lansdowne obviously desired to sleep on
it before taking the public into his con-
fidence.
AS his message reveals, General Bull
ler's successful attack came after the
hard fighting of Friday, and it was inn
provised and its execution begun during
the armistice of Sunday. In proposing
the armistice, the British commander
stipulated that both sides should be free
to move, buf that neither should do any
shooting. He was, therefore, within his
privileges in Immediately beginning to
transfer his troops.
There is no authoritative indication
yet of what Lord Roberts will do next.
1t seems likely that branch railway
will be built across the veldt. to lessen
the difficultiee of transport. Colonel
Girouard, who built the Soudan railway,
is with Lord Roberts. The strain he
Western railway is seen from the tact
that the population of Kimberley two
weeks after the relief, continues ON re-
duced rations. Lord Roberts troops,
thus far, have been only partially fed.
1t is quite clear TO technical heads that
those who talk of an immediate and
rapid advance far into the Free State do
not realize the transport conditions. The
Beers, as it now appears, have built a
railway from Harrismith to Kroomstadt
to facilitate the movement of their
troops between Natal and the Free
State.
Mafeking was holding out on Feb 6.
At that time the Beers were showing
unusual activity and firing infammable
shells
The Beers who hold positions south OF
the Orange river have been weakened.
Lieutenant Barentzen, writing on be-
half of himself and of other Scandiva-
Wan prisoners, affirms that there are no
mercenaries in the Boer army and no
volunteers who receive penny for their
services.