The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-24
ATTACK AT NIGHT
Continued From First Page.

THE French liner Giticond has arrived
here crowded with military-looking pas
sengers bound for the Transvaal These
include fifty Russian ambulance men,
with Germans, Frenchmen, Italians and
Greeks. Herr Potts, the Transvaal con-
sui general here, has arranged for their
conveyance to Pretoria by special
train"
AS TO FOREIGN OFFICERS.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Times telegraphing Monday says:
In view of the exaggerated ideas cur
rent that the Beers have been largely
| helped by foreign military officers, 1t is
| worth while quoting the statement of
German who has just arrived from Della
| goa bay. He says that the Beers are at
| loss to know what to do, and the advice
| rendered them, being based upon opposing
| ideas Of tactics, is valueless and only
| leads, when made to loss of life. 1t ap-
pears that during Gen. Joubert's illness,
| Gen. Schalksberger wired to Dr.. Leyds to
send men able to shoot straight and men
| able to make explosives and work mines,
| but not useless advisers From what I
| saw myself Of the Boer forces at the
| outbreak Of the war I know the Beers
have profound distrust and contempt for
European military methods, and, with the
| exception Of Commandant Albrecht. they
have practically no foreign officers, even
| in the artillery
| WINSTON CHURCHILL'S STORY.
1 Mr.. Winston Churchill, in the columns
| OF correspondence in the Morning Post,
| supplements his cabled narrative of his
| escape from Pretoria. Two other officers
| had planned to escape with him, but they
| thought they had been discovered by the
Beers and returned to prison.
| On the second day out Mr.. Churchill
realizing with lawful force that no exer-
| else of my feeble wit and strength could
save me from my enemies without the as
| sistance of that High Power which inter
| feres more than we are prepared to adj
| nit in the eternal sequences Of cause and
| effect, prayed long and earnestly for help
and guidance. My prayers, as it seems
| to me-" he said, 'were swiftly and won
derfully answered. I cannot now relate
the strange circumstances which followed
and which changed my nearly hopeless
| position to one of superior advantage.
| After the war he says he will tell In
what manner this change was effected.
RUINoUs METHODS.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Pietermaritzburg, dated jar. %, says:
| Lord Dundonald holds the road to
| divers Hook Pass. The latest arri-
walls from johannesburg say that the
Boer methods are working ruin to the
mines. The Beers pick the rich ore,
leaving the cost of further developments
to the shareholders. Stores are being
robbed wholesale. The safe deposit
vaults under the stock exchange have
been broken open, and jewelry and plate
| left by refugees has been distracted.
Grass is growing in the streets and
cattle are grazing on fashionable thor
oughfares There are still about 1000
uitlanders in the Transvaal. letter
received here from Harrismith relates
| that three Britishers were shot In the
market square for refusing to go to the
| front when commandered."
| BULLER'S SILENCE ALARMS.
| There was considerable activity at the
| war office throughout the day, but at
| o'clock p. M, and again at g. it was an
| nounced that no fresh news had been re-
| ceived. At IL o'clock the newspaper men
| attended by appointment, and were ask
| ed to return at o'clock. They did so
| and then found Arthur J. Balfour and
| other prominent men in attendance.
Hopes ran high, and there was a great
| disappointment when 1t was finally given
| out that nothing would be issued until
| Wednesday forenoon.
| Gen Buffers silence is beginning to
| create alarm.
CLOSE CALL FOR BRITONS.
HEAD BOER LAGER, LADYSMITH,
Monday Jan. 22-The quarters Of Gems.
! White ard Hunter were smashed this
| morning by a shot from Long Tom"
| It is not known whether any of the
occupants of the building were killed.
BATTLE IS RAGING.
BoER HEAD LAGER, LADYSMITH,
! Monday, Jan. PA battle has been
raging along divers heck road since
| Saturday, between the Beers, under Pre-
| torious, ard 5000 British. The fighting
is in full swing at Spions Kop. The
| Beers under Botha and, Cronje have
| been sent elsewhere.
IN HONOR OF THE-MAINE
CAPE TOWN, Jan. 2S.-The American
| ladies resident here held a reception at
| the Mount Nelson hotel today. Lady
Randolph Churchill and the staff of the
| hospital ship Maine, Col. Stowe, the
United States consul, and other prom1-
| nent people were present.
NEWS FROM KIMBERLEY.
| GABERONES,. Bechuanaland, Wednes-
day, Jan. II (via Lourenzo Marques, Jan.
| 23).-Natives who have just arrived re-
| port that troops not Beers are patrolling
around Mafeking From this it is thought
| the Beers may have retired from
| that place and that the patrollers are
some Of Col. Baden-Powell's men. There
| is increased activity in the Boer position
| at Crocodile Pools, but. with the eXcep-
| ton Of a couple of Shells Col Plumers
| outposts have not heard from them today.
GEN. JOUBERT'S BIRTHDAY.
HEAD LAGER, LADYsMITH, Natal,
| Saturday, jan 2O.-The sixty-ninth birth
| day Of Gen. Joubert was celebrated by
| Gen. Botha making a reconnaissance in
force towards the Drakensberg mountains
and turning the British advance, after
| short engagement. Gen. Joubert accom-
panied President Steyn to the Free State
laagers, south of Ladysmith. The presi-
| dent was in high spirits. He proposes to
! make a tour of all the laagers. Lady
/ smith sent up many colored rockets last
| night
RUMORS OF BRITISH DEFEAT.
BERLIN, Jan. 23.-There was a rumor
on the boerse today that Gen. Butler has
| suffered defeat.
/ LONDON, Jan. 23.-It was reported on
the stock exchange today that two bat
talions Of British troops have been cap
! tured by the Beers.
BOERS ON BASUTO HILL.
GABERONES. Bechuananaiand. We'd
nesday, JAN II (via Lourenzo Marques,