The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1900-02-06
TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF
HOS TILL Tbs.

A8nSW@4 10 4Iy NSW
Move : British a knowledge their De.
e Casualties Heavy AT 6 pion Kop
Largest Fer cent Loss In so ears.
LONDON Jan 3I-I5 is frankly &C
knowledged hat The most 81 serious effort
OF the present var has dismally failed.
There 10 no sign Of a wish on the
part OF the leaders OF public opinion to
disguise the ugly facts, but or the con
tFary, there is every disposition to face
the full difficulties and discover the
best way u In short, the policy
voiced eve ry where is the gathering up
OF forces for more effective blows All
hopes IF the speedy relief OF Lady
smith have been abandoned, and the
conc eneus of expert opinion urges the
Immediate shItGIng of the theatre of
var from the rocky Eopjes of Natal to
the open veldt Of the Free State. Oae
ihngs appears cerGain-RnoCher long
pause Is inevitable, unless the Bot rs as.
sumo the # 1 stv because even in the
event of General Butler further at
tempting to reach Lsdysmith, the
planning of anew move will necessarily
occupy time.
Twenty thousand two hundred and
twenty two men and 155 guns are at
aea. E even thousand infantry and
5000 cavalry, including 5000 yeomen,
are practically ready TO embark
Therefore, the government, without
doug more, Gao Oiece at the disposal
of LORD R rbers 40 900 additional men
and 156 guns. he further purposes
OF the Val Ofice are supposed to en-
brace somewhere in the neighOorhood
Ut 81 600 more men. As the indication
ia that cand, dates will be rather scarce,
the War Office will issue ORDERS # r
those reservIsts who we're found unfit
at the previous mobilization examlns
lions to report for further exsmIna
ton. Applications for cavalry ser
vice are still freely Offering as yeo-
nanry.
General Buffers operations has cost
9l2 me-, so far fiji nally reported with
Ia ten days. Applying to the 2C6 5plon
cop casulties, reported to 0a,, the
rule Of proportion, che losses of officers
indicate PROBABLY 500 c%aeualEles yet to
come
me total casualties of the war. com
piled from fl sal reporGs, are 9 52S
dearly a division. o these 2 486 art
kllled, 4 sI1 wounded aud the Fest pris
Onets.
The aggregate British home troops
IN South Africa numb4r 116 900; the
NsrelIans 2 1853, and Cape OOIunIals,
81 600
! wo Columns of Onpareil-A Supple
mental . Isr of the british Casualties
LONDON F,O L 4 a m.-Tne sup
umns 1 nonparell type in the morning
pagers, making 1900 reported thus far
IN General Bullec's operations north OF
the Tugels. The Daily Chronicle estl
mates Ths5 the total exceeds 2 600
Cne 40 per cent. loss at SpIon K p IL
greater than any British force ever
suffered, except at Albuera, Spt In, il
1911.
Quiet in Transvaal-~ excitement In Eng
land
LONDON, Feb 3-Dispatches from
several points In 3 nth Africa merely
cell of desultory shell firing and the
movements Of patl OILS, though Cape
Town mentions a rumor that General
French has captured eight hundred
Beers, where and when not being an
bounced.
Sensational rumors are current that
the militia ballot act will be put in
torce February 145n, and Il at Gene'a al
Lord r b-rts. the commander Ia chief
of he Brush forces in South Africa
mas Cabled for ninety thousand addi
tionaI men, which, it is ADDED, the
GOvernmont bas promised TO give him,
sending fifty thoussnd militia and vol
untaers aud forty thousand militia re
serves.
The militia ballot act makes every
unmarried man between IL and 80
years of sge liable to service for Ave
years.
WAR ON THR FIR TILIZER TRUST
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