Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-23
Butler Has Not Reported on
His Operations
Of THE PAST FEW DAYS
Fighting Must Have Taken Place and
There is a RumOr That Gen. Dun
d0nald'S Men Have Entered the
Town of Ladysmith.

London, jar. %, 4:15 a. m.-General
Butler has reported nothing of his opera
lions of Monday and belated dispatches
of Sundays engagement are just coming
in.
The war office turned everybody out of
the lobbies at midnight. Apparently Lord
Lansdowne was as much without news
all yesterday as other persons We're.
Military men assume that fighting
must nave taken place, and that it was
probably more severe than on the W.
preceding days. General Butler would
not he likely to give the Beers leisure TO
add to the elaborate entertainments, to
arrange their military n to concen-
trate their forces. h special cores
pondents Sunday night were allowed to
send the announcement that the battle
would almost certainly be resumed on
the following day and hence official and
popular anxiety Is at a high tension.
'rhe British military experts all share
the homes of their leaders and, as
Spencer Wilkinson points out, they hes
itate to say a word that might be con-
strued as unfavorable. Mr.. Wilkinson
refers to the 'cooler judgment of Ger
man and Austrian critics." which means
that some OI llG UeSI JuO6CS AOOA UPON
General Buffers enterprise as a forlorn
hope, as merely a continual strain OF
fighting which may prove too much for
! the physical energy of the troops engaged.
The Daily Chronicle military expert
says: Even when a battle is won IN
a single day, as a rule pursuit Is only
possible when fresh troops are avail
able. But in this instance it is not a
question of mere pursuit, but Of renew
ing an attack upon entrenched posi-
tions after a days hard fighting and
a night Of lying on the battlefield"
Reinforcements aggregating 5000 or
more AVE reached Capttown during
how these have been disposed Of, but
probably most of them have been sent
to Natal, where it 10 believed General
Butler needs them.
The British in the other districts of
South Africa continue inactive. Lord
Methuen's $4,000 men are behind their
works. General French's 1000 at Rans-
alarm that the Beers were attacking,
but it turned out that there was no
basis for this. General Gatacre was quies-
cent at Colesberg. The discomfort of
the colonial officers and the disagree
ments with the regulars are being in
Quired into by Lord Roberts who as
serts that he will give the Cape Colo
malls equal opportunities.
At Ladysmith the deaths from enterie
fever and dysentry average 10 a day
Some fears are expressed that the gar.
rison nay be so weakened by ~privation
and disease as to be unable to do much
In the way of helping General Butler.
The war office has decided not to send
the seventeenth Lancers, Eighth Hussars
and Seventh Dragon guards to South
Africa, although mobalized. It is under.
stood that Lord Roberts does not see 6
N-11-- S. -,.
chargers. More than that, the English
cavalry are too heavy for work on the
veldt and Lord Roberts expects to ust
~co.onial cavalry instead.
London. Jan. 23.-The Daily Chronicle
has received the following dated Jan. %
Ais p. M, from Spearman's camp:
The Beers admit Fl casualties during
General Lyttleton's skirmish on Saturday
General Warren continues pushing