The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-25

Eastward for eight miles are the Boer
positions along the Tugela. Northwest
ward from Spion Kop the plateau runs
gradually up to a great spur of the
Drakensburg
Gen. Buffers infantry, to reach the
summit of Spion Kop, must cross a
glacier three-quarters of mile wide and
climb 800 feet up a steep slope
Nobody here seems to know, not even
the war office, what Lord Roberts has
done with his large reinforcements. Six
thousand troops awaited his arrival at
Cape Town, and since then 5000 others
have reached there.
Military critics are all hoping that
good share of these $4,000 have gone to
help Gen. Butler, and they argue that a
few days wait may make him strong
enough to overcome the deadlock
There are $4,000 troops at sea, and this
heavy weight on the British
side is expected to destroy the
equilibrium now existing on every field
of operations The British losses up to
date in killed, wounded and captured, ac-
cording to Gen. Buffers last list, totals
S,216 men.
F. W Reitz. the Transvaal state secre-
tary, has written a parody upon Mr.. Kip
lings "Recessional." 1t is entitled Pro
gressional," and 1t is dedicated to Mud
yard Pipling." The first stanza follows:
Goods of the jingo, brass and gold,
Lords of the world, by right divine,
Under whose baneful sway they hold
Dominion over mine and thine
Such lords as these have made them rot
They have forgotten. They have for
gotten"
BoERs ARE "sN1P1NG."
KIMBERLEY, Tuesday, Jan. 2S.-The
bombardments have =. ceased, but the
Beers are perpetuaily engaged in sniping.
Long Cecil Is doing excellent work. and
Cecil Rhodes has personally fired several
shells from the gun.
GOES TO DELAGOA BAY.
BERLIN, Jan. A.-The German bark
Hans Wagner, stopped OH Dec. 10 In
South African waters by the British
gunboat Fearless and ordered to go to
Port Elizabeth to unload, after leaving
the cortraband specified by the British
authorities, has proceeded on her way to
Delagoa bay, being the last of the seized
German vessels to be released.
PLEA FOR MEDIATION. r
BRUSSELS. Jau. "a : Nearly 100000
signatures have been appended to the adj
dress promoted by Charles LIE Jeune and
other members Of the Universal Peace
society," asking President Mckinley to
mediate, which will be forwarded to
Washington in the course Of fortnight.
MR.. MACRUM AGAIN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 24.-The state de-
partment is finding 1t difficult to repudi-
ate Mr.. Macrum. No less than three
authoritative statements have been is
sued to the effect that Mr.. Macrum is not
consul to Pretoria, or In fact in the
United States consular service in any ca
pacity, yet 1t appears that he himself Is
under different impression. The fact
that the United States senate confirmed
a successor to Mr.. Maerum as consul to
Pretoria Is regarded by the department.
as sufficient evidence that he was thereby
ousted, not only from his post at Pre-
toria, but entirely out of the service OF
the United States government. Through
q statute intended to prevent consular
officers from being left in the lurch at q.
distant post, an allowance Is made to pay
travelling expenses back to the United
States, which is technically regarded as
consular pay, in order to fail within the
law, but any claim to place In the con-
sular service based on this allowance, 1t
is said at the department, would be pure
ly technical.
COMMUNICATION CUT OFF.
NEW YORK, Jan. 24.-The Commercial
Cable company this morning sent out the
following notice.:
1--WE are advised that the postmaster
general at Pretoria announces that all
private kilograms for the South African
republic are stopped"