The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-01-11
Twelve Hundred Indian Stretcher
Bearers Now with Butler Ready
for the Coming Engagement.
FREE SKATERS SACRIFICED
EVIDENCE THAT KRUGER CARES
LITTLE FOR HIS ALLIES.
Suggested They BE Put mt the Front
Posftfon-Uprisfng of Dutch.

LONDON. Jan. II, a m.-During the In
terlude of apparent military inactivity and
official secrecy Lord Roberts and Lord
Kitchener have arrived at the seat of war.
ported by $4,000 fresh men who are due to
arrive in South Africa within thirty days.
will alter the situation and that the fourth
month of the campaign will witness the be-
ginning of victories for the British arms.
They are not, however. expected to produce
definite results for some days. but their
mere presence will restore the shaken con-
fidence Of the men at the front in their gen.
erals Lord ROBERTS finds 10000 men on the
defensivs or watching for an opening.
Lord Methuen's health. according to the
Daily Mail. has broken down. and the
field marshal may relieve him. Possibly
some others will be relieved of important
commands. There Is certainly plenty of
rank in evidence in South Africa IN addi-
tion to the field marshal. there are two full
generals. four lieutenant generals and
twelve or fourteen major generals
There Is an uneasy suspicion that when
the Ladysmith casualties are announced
they will be disheartening and will partly
destroy the patriotic glow produced by
General Whites victory" The list Of VIC
Tins Of disease issued by the War Office
gives twenty-five deaths from enteric fever
and dysentery in Ladysmith in four days,
revealing the fact that the besieged are ex-
listing amid bad sanitary conditions.
The Standard summarizes the general
situation thus: ''well, the campaign has
lasted three months. We have something
like 10000 troops in South Africa. With
this huge army distributed over the coun-
try we are still powerless to relieve three
garrisons from investment. We have still
to see large portions of both colonies in the
hands of the enemy. We have driven the
invaders back at no single point. We are
actually further from the hostile frontiers
than we were on the day that the ultima
tum was delivered. The work which min
listers believed could be effectually per-
formed with 5000 men has not been done.
has not even been begun by four or five
times that number. Can any one fail to
admit that this is evidence of grave mis-
calculation of forces and facts?"
The War Office has authorized a special
yeomanry corps. Every trooper joining
will pay for his own kit and mount. for
transport and for all other expenses until
his arrival in South Africa, and viii then
give his services to his country and pay for
the privilege into the fund for widows and
orphans the amount he. would receive as a
trooper. Several influential gentlemen have
already enrolled. The authorities have
urged the committee OF the Yeomanry
Hospital fund TO provide for $50 instead of
15o beds. and the committee is appealing
for at least a5o.oOo more.
The Times. In an editorial criticisinc AT
great length the governments conduct Of
the war, alluded to the stupid and per-
verse mistakes that have been made and
demands that the practice of the non-
revelation OF facts be abandoned. 1t In
sists strongly upon knowing ''the truth and
the whole truth about the situation" and
finds fault with Mr.. Balfour's defense
piecemeal