The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-16
TO BE USED IN SOUTH AFRICA BY THE
BRITISH ARMY.
SERIOUS BREACH OF FAITH
In What the London Chronicle Charac-
terfzes This Intention-Said To be Only
Temporary Loud Complaints OF
the MaiIs-Reports Of the Casualties
at Observation-Disclosures Plentiful in
That Town-Brftish Agents Mislec.

London. January I2.-Lee-Metford
cartridges i running short in the
British magazines and. according - a
semi-official report, the war office pur-
poses TO fan back temporarily upon
1oo. 100000 Mark '" expanding bull
lets, most OF which are already in s;or-
age in South Africa.
The war Office, however, has issued
a strict order to the volunteers that
the fifty rounds OF Mark "" given
them must be used in practice at home.
none being taken to South Africa
AFTER the public announcement h
no such bullet would be used in this
war. its employment. The Daily Chron-
icle thinks. woul be a serious breach
OF faith. especially as the British COM
manders have complained that the
Beers occasionally use such projectiles.
The newspapers were reconclaed dur
ing the early days of the war to cable
censorship, taking IL for granted that
fun narratives sen by mail would sup
ply all deficiencies For some weeks.
however, even the mail correspondence
that has arrived in London has shown
signs of habituai scissoring by the CEN
sor- Pages are REMEMBERED without
chronological or logical connection,
leaving h happenings described quite
unintelligfbie in many cases. The edi-
tors, acting possibly in concert, are
laying these facts before the public and
insisting that they be permitted to
know and to print the facts
The theory is now advanced that the
seizures of the German mail steamers
Herzog and General, since released,
were made ON purposely misleading
information supplied to British agents.
the design being to embroil Great Brit
ain and Germany in a quarrel.
THE LOSSES AT LADYSMITH.
The Daily Mail says: I'VE learn
that in the attack on Ladysmith last
Saturday, January 9th, the British
losses were IA officers killed, "a wound
ed n over 500 non-commissioned off,
GERS n men killed or wounded The
BOer losses, we hear, are estimated at
between 1000 and 5000.
BELATED NEWS FROM THE
FRONT.
The Cape Town correspondent Of the
Daily Mail, t~elegraphing Monday says:
The vanguard of the Sixth division is
waiting at Table bay until h arrival
Of Lord Roberts. Her majesty's ship
Fearless seized the bark Maria L.,
| WHICH arrived at fOrI SdtQr-
day from Argentine with sulphur"
A dispatch to h Daily Mail from
PeteTmarftZburg, dated January 8th,
says: Private advices from Lady
smith, dated January End say that ra-
! tions of bread and meat are plentiful
| and h garrison had not then touched
the bully beef and biscuit supplies
LuXuriesi are scarce but the hospitals
are we'll supplied with milk, and thf
horses are in good condition"
The Standard has the following dis.
patch, dated Monday, from Frert
camp: Our patrols have searched
both tanks of h Boer position. The.
found a large camp five miles east o
Colenso, evidently in anticipation Of &
British attempt at a turning
ent
STOPPED ON THE BORDER.
Lorenzo, Marques, January 11.-Sev
eral Portuguese who were on their wa.
to join the Beers have been ~intercepte.
by the frontier police. Nobody, in flu
ture, will be allowed TO pass the horde
without a permit from the governor
Inspection of travellers bound to tn
Transvaa1 is revived under an old Law
No one will be allowed to proceed un
less he declares before his consul tina
he has no intention of fighting for tn
i Beers.