Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-02-02
MOVEMENT CHECKED.
Advance Into the Free State Must
Await Roberts Decision.
Speculation as to Further Operations
for Relief of Lndysmith-Figure
Show Total British Casualties
to lie Enormous.

London, Jan. 3o.-History pauses |
for time in South Africa. 1t is one |
of those unsatisfactory pauses that are
nearly as trying to British nerves as a
sequence of reverses, and apparently
1t will terminate only when Lord Rob-
erts gives the word for the forward
movement into the Free State, which,
according to the most cheerful view,
he will be unable to do for n fortnight.
Whether he will permit Gen. Butler
to make another attempt to relieve
Ladysmith is quite outside the knowl-
edge even of those closely connected
with the war Office. With the troops
| due to arrive next month, he may
| think himself strong enough to try
two large operations. Combining the
forces under Gems. Methuen, French
and Gatacre and adding to them the
arriving troops, Lord Roberts would
have 10000 for the invasion of the
Free State, with 100000 to $4,000 guard
ing communications, and 10000 trying
to rescue Ladysmith. The public
burns with impatience that something
should be done.
More Men Must Go.
The thing on which everybody seems
agreed is that more men must go.
Twenty thousand two hundred and
twenty-five men and 1855 guns are at
sea. Eleven thousand infantry and 5000
cavalry, including 5000 yeomen, are
practically ready to embark. There
fore the government without doing
more, can place at the disposal of Lord
Roberts 10000 additional men and 1855
guns. The further purposes of the war
office officials are supposed to embrace
somewhere in the neighborhood of 50,-
300 more men. AS the indication is that
candidates will be rather scarce, the
war office will issue orders for those re-
servists who were found unfit at the
previous mobilization examinations to
report for further examination. Ap-
plicants for cavalry service are still
freely Offering as yeomanry.
Losses Are Heavy.
Gen. Buffers operations has cost 912
men, so far officially reported within
ten days. Applying 10 the 2O6 Spion
kop casualties reported to-day the
rule of proportion, the losses of Off
GERS indicate is 500 casualties yet to
come. The total casualties of the war
compiled from official reports, dre
9.523, nearly n division. OF these 2,fst
are killed, 4.S11 wounded and the rest
are prisoners.
: The aggregate British home troops
in South Africa number 10000, the
Natalians 7,15s and Cape Colonials 21,
600.
London, Jan. 30.-The delight of for
eigners and the jeers of the continent
al press are reproduced in the British
papers and wound the national pride
= Bombnrdment Continues.
London. Jan. 30.-The Times has tn,
= following heliograph message via Mod
;. der River from Kimberley, dated Jan
uary &c: "The bombardment con
, tinues. 1t is now directed towards thu
: inhabited portions of the town ra.he
than the fortifications. Between mid
;. night and four p. IN. yesterday las {?
e shells were fired. They seem to hav
. been of Transvaal manufacture, no
: bursting widely. One child was kille,
o and four people were injured"
J. Heavy Loss of Officers.
London, Jan. 30.-Gen. Butler wire
d from Spearman's camp, January 2!
It that the casualties among the officer
of the Fifth division and mounts
brigade. at Spion's kop, January q
IS were:
h Killed, 22; wounded, 20; missing, 81,
= Great Anxiety Relieved.
st London, Jan. 80. - Great anxiety ha
Il been removed by the announcement
e, that Lord Dundonald's cavalry forces
Ie which il was feared were isolate
among the hills in the neighborhood c
Acton Homes, are safe on the sout
s bank of the Tugela river.
d DIR. Leyds Talks.
is Berlin, Jan. 30.-To n corresp ponder
is who interviewed him, DIR. Leyds mad
IT the following statement:
n II know nothing about the reported mi
l. sions of either Mr.. Macrum or Mr.. Webst
>" Davis. Nor to the best of my knowledg
10 is either the bearer of message of peac
re There are no movements under way on oil
IT. | part to induce President Mckinley to Il
tervene between Great Britain and Il
III Transvaal. AS do not at present have d
re | rect communication with Pretoria l do n
o. know what Mr. Montagu Whites missit
% is except to establish diplomatic relation
ie with the United States. All this talk abo
IL peace is sadly premature. Great Brta
i'll surely will not succumb now. Neither W
re we. While we are talking here. II may
:. that decisive battle is being fought ther
Is for presume Lord Roberts has Withdraw
IL the troops around Ladysmith and is mas
ne ing them for formidable coup"
it. DR.. Leyds repeated his former de
laration that the Beers when conclu
ing peace would want back part
least of the territories which Englar
"stole from the Beers" He rather e
mt poets also that harbor south of NJ
zambique will go to the Transvaal. ''F
our legitimate extension" he adde
1--WE need free access to the sea-"
a. asserted emphatically that one conc
Vi ton of peace would be the recogr
at tion of the absolute independence
as the Transvaal.
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Ia VIII Withhold Commission.