The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-01-31
HEAVY CASUALTY LIST
Promised the British People by OF
ficials of the War Department.
rwo THOUSAND FELL AZ sPIoN KoP.
General BuIler Sends In a Partial
List of the Officers Dropped.
Fall or Ladysmith
Matter of Days.

London, Jan. 29-The war office de-
MES the report that Ladysmith has
surrendered, and announces that very
heavy list of casualties is about to be
issued.
London, Jan. 29.-General Butler
wires from spearsmans Camp. Jan.
20 that the casualties among the OFF,
GERS of the Fifth division and mounted
brigade at Spion Kop, Jan. "a, were:
Killed %, wounded 20, missing 6.
London, Jan. 29.-There is caustic
comment in London on the discrepancy
between the Boer account of the re-
capture of Spion Kop and that sent
by General Butler. The latter says
not word about the Beers scaling the
hill and attacking the British trenches
and capturing $50 men who had
hoisted the white flag, as at Majuba
Hill. Instead he spoke of the main
tenance of the best traditions of the
British army. There is not much
doubt that the Boer account is correct.
It is by no means boastful.
The military critics have given up
hope of saving Ladysmith, which is
undoubtedly short of food and am
munition. The garrison went on short
rations Dec. 2.
The London Daily Mail says: 1.-THE
richest and what was hitherto consid-
cred the most powerful nation in the
world stands in the humiliating posi-
tion of seeing its armies beaten back
with heavy losses at the hands of two
small states. Our ambassadors abroad
suffer ignominy, knowing that DR..
Leyds has during the past week been
received at semi-official entertain
ments, not only in Paris, but in Berlin.
One would have thought that DR..
Leyd's reception by foreign govern
ments was already sufficiently sug-
gestive. One would have thought the
time had come when some attempt
should be made to mobilize the fleet
and the remaining land forces, in order
that the world may know that, while
bearing our sufferings calmly, we have
no intention of subsiding into second
or third rate power by allowing for
eign intervention of any kind"
AS it required month for Butler to
recover from his earlier defeat at Co
lenso, it is not thought he can pull his
disheartened army together now in
time to do anything for Ladysmith.
London waits anxiously for the Beers
to move. They seem to be fighting on
n very definite plan, and it is thought
they may attack Butler or assault
Ladysmith.
Parliament meets Tuesday and the
Radical and Irish members are pre-
pairing for a savage onslaught upon
the government.
The usual airy attempts to minimize
the seriousness of the situation in
South Africa are entirely lacking, and
1t is frankly acknowledged that the
most serious effort of the present war
has dismally failed. There is no sign
of wish on the part of the leaders of
public opinion to disguise the ugly
facts, but on the contrary, there is
every disposition to face the full diff
culties and describe the best way out.
In short, the policy voiced everywhere
is the gathering up of forces for more
effective blows.
All hopes of the speedy relief of
Ladysmith have been abandoned, and
the concensus of expert opinion urges
of war from the rocky kopjes of Natal
to the open veldt of the Free State.
Great anxiety has been removed by
the announcement that Lord Dundon-
AIDS cavalry forces, which 1t was
feared were isolated among the hills
in the neighborhood of Acton Homes,
are safe on the south bank of the Tu-
gela river.