Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-16
BRITISH NOT OVER
TUCELA RIVER.
Statement Of War Expert Who
Seems to Know the Situation,
PLENTY OF SPECULATION.
Hut Little News Of Evenis-How the
Beers are supposed 10 Have Run
Away-Conditlon Of Troops.

New York, Jan. l6,--A dispatch to
the World from London says:
Mr. Williams, the war expert OF the
Morning Leader writing for this morn
ing's paper with the best information
obtainable. says this regarding the re-
port that General Warren had crossed
the Tugela river:
Gen Warren with his division and
something more. was yesterday FIVE
miles TO the northwest Of Springfield,
where Gen. Butler then had his head
quarters. Consequently the censor at
Durham has been having a little amuse-
ment with the local press for the pur-
pose Of deceiylng any spies the enemy
may have and then confusing them.
"Al the differences drawn from any
kilograms which have so far reached
US must be erroneous. Once and for
all Buffers movement is by the left.
There he has strength.
His plan Is to turn the heights north
and northwest OF Colenso and thus COM
pei their evacuation and then to at
tack any Beers left between him and
Gen. White and make connection with
Gen. Whites force.
After that he may keep the Trans
vaalers on the run THROUGH Natal to
Laings Mex or Charlestown; or he may
decide on separating the Free. Staters
from the strong men OF war and
make with his main force for Harris
NTH and Bloemfontein.
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operations should reach us about
Wednesday or Thursday.
"All that can be said actually Is that
Gen Butler up to yesterday was still
at Springfield Gen. Warren was on
a hill nearly midway between Spring
field and Bethany and Gen. Butler had
assuredly one, and 1t is believed two.
passages Of the river on his hands.
General Butler can spare sufficient
number OF irregulars to send a flying
column OF them into Zululand. nomi-
nally TO check the Boer cattle raiders,
but really to work around the extreme
eastern flnak and head for the Utrecht
and Vryhcid districts, unless they can
cut In on the Transvaal communlca-
lions AM find themselves at or near
the LadYsmth and New Castle rail-
way"
The attacks on the war Office and the
information bureau have been renewed
in several quarters. IL is declared here
that when Wiz ton Churchill first ar
rived IN Matt he had maps Of the
northern PORTION OF the colony, procured
from foreign sources, which We're bet
ter than any possessed by the generals
there, and he loaned them to the COM
manders. The newspapers now say that
experts In the war office have been
operating with a large scale map OF
northern Natal. printed upon seventy
sheets, which was borrowed from the
German war department after the sit
uation about Glencoe and Ladysmith
became critical.
a dispatch TO the World from Brus-
sells says.
Or. W. j. Leyds, the minister pleni-
potentiarv Of the South African repub-
lies, accredited TO all the governments
CT Europe said today:
Remember II IL England, not We,
who Is mainly responsible for this
bloodshed, and who has repulsed all
outside efforts to bring about a sus-
pension Of hostilities.
"As for a refusal OF an exequatur 10
Mr. Hay. (the new United States con-
sui on his way 10 Pretoria to replace
Mr.. Macrum). that rumor appears TO
come through what are called Boer
agents In America. Let me state that
no such person exists. No man In
America has any authority TO speak on
behalf OF the government at Pretoria.
As for the report itself / can neither
confirm nor deny Il. but ! know Of no
reason when Wouiu ieau lne govern
ment az Pretoria 10 take such ue-
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