The sun., 1900-01-25
ENGLAND IS FRANTIC
FOR DEFINITE NEWS
Most Anxious Pause Since the
South African War Began
is Slightly Relieved.
USUAL EXCHANGE RUMOR
Bulls on the Market Start in This
Time and Declare That the
British Under General
Lord Warren Have
Taken SpioR Kop.

Leaden, jan. 24.-The extreme teusis,
causeAby what ssy justly be desiguatet
the nest anxious pause since the war he
gan has net been relieved up te tai,
writing BY anything save the daily Stool
Exchanse runer, which happens to have
been started Wy the bulls, who assert thu,
General Wsrres has captured Spiou kop
AS the aftecasen progressed the ex.
citeBeNt On Pail Mail reached a higL
pitch. But the war oaice oKicials reiter.
aten the oft repeated statement that
nothisg has bceR received frem General
Butler"
The Suspense was iacreased by the be-
ilet That General Butler would never have
published his iRteAtien to attack the
Beers On Spisn KEEP unless satisfied that
the assault would be carried out before
the news ceuld he published, and it was
fully Anticipated that the news OF his
success sr failure would reach London in
few hosrs at the NEST.
The war Office was besieged all day,
and the clubs and ether resorts liable to
receive Rews were crowded with eager
inquirers.
1t is generally recognized that the Boer
position, If ever taken. can only be cap
tufcu al ffelheHUvuS COST.
\ dispatch from Pretoria. dated Tues
day, Jan. %. somewhat amplfies tie dis
patch Of Monday, Jan. 81, from the Boer
head laager. 1t says:
-Four or five times during the day the
British replaced their wearied soldiers by
fresh ones. The BUer casualties to date
are one man killed and two men slightly
wounded Our men are in excellent spir-
its. There has bcCn large slaughter of
British. General Botha is now in sole
command General Cronje having been
sent elsewhere"
British Camp In Confusion.
The same dispatch, apparently refer
ring to the situation at ColenS0, says:
"One of the large Boer MaXims was
temporarily dsordercd, but was soon re-
paired. The British northern camp is in
confusion. People are observed trekking
aimcssly in all directions.
\ heliograph message from Kimberley
to Moddcr river says the Boers vigorous
ly renewed the bombardment.
A Cape Town dispatch says: The
British transport Cymric has been dis
patched to assist the transport Manches-
ter Corporation, reported on Jan. Is in
latitude, ) south aud longitude s west
with two Of her propeller blades lost.
The American hospital ship Alaine'S
reception was largely attended. Many
women were present"
Commenting ON Captain Mahan's at
titude, the st. James Gazette remarks:
His advice is good and needed in
America. While strict neutrality is
in the official world and good
will for England is felt by the better in
formed, it is simply misleading the public
of this country to suggest, rs some corre-
spondents are doing, that antagonism to
is confined to II negligible mi
nority of Americans. The sympathy of
ss a whole, is, as Il matter of
fact, no more with England at this mo-
Snent than was our popular sympathy
with them at the outbreak of the war
with Spain, and the contrast of official
and popular attitudes is NO less marked
in the United States than it is in Ger
many"
The secretary of the British South Af-
RIGA company has given cut curious
denial Of a statemeat that the company
Is purchasing large quantities of rifles
and saddlery for prompt delivery in
South Africa. He aaRsits thespurchases,
says they were made by himself in his
private capacity, but adds that they were
1niy for the equipment of the imperial
There was a growing i'm
preston that the company was concerned
IN the purchase.