The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-03
97F2S LEAVE LADYSMITH
TO MEET CEN. BUTLER
Indications Of Another Great Collision On the Tu-
celia RiVeT---NeWS Is Being Suppressed.
portsa That England to Furnish Roberts With 10000
More Troops For the Campaign.

---.- Trb 3.-Heliograms flash
s-.-. u. Er-mith three days ago say
- f.. H..r investment lines then
Thinning and that the besiegeIs
r....r- iu force toward the Iu-
.- .-.s....r.- that O. collision was eX-
5-H ...ra This Intelligence bears
F..r.r Slams that General Butler pro-
mss . fresh attack
70. ..r office continues 10 reveal
-rr. .rF.alr has happened in Natal.
T-.r..- exception the military critics
-. .#.l Hi-may the prospect OF
.. the assaults unless GeneraI
.... been heavily reinforced and
.r.-. is nothing to indicate thar inns is
-....rnraI rum0rs are current that
-. militia ballot act viii be put III
t.. Feb. d. and that General Lord
r.H--e tIa commander in chIel OF lhe
r--.n f.ra- iu South Africa has cab
I'D t. 10000 additional men, when, IL
s-..#.I Ir. government has promised
o. Tive him. sending 10000 militia and
volunteers and .sUU1 militia reserves
d is ais. said that the volunteers
ri. H. modified forthwith. 1t isl even
.--.f.E r.Eng that the cabinet has es-
r.-...... dealt with those matters The
r-H|". Hl. HL act makes every unmar-
rE man between is and 80 years Of
Az. liable t0 serve for 1--WE years.
F,euch C0nsults Roberts.
Lord Kitchener has been travelling
f-n army tu army i'm northern Cape
Colony and General French, by instruc-
u.r. is u-T iI Cape Town consulting
with I.rI Roberts The large engineer
iue ..r .ru.-iou- are proceeding at
Nu#T.r r.EaT suggesting that ord Me
Iu.u- fortified camp has been selected
DIS the base from which To- invade the
free STATE. Numerous sidings. plat
FORMS ana warehouses are being built.
ana @ permanent railway bridge is well
advanced.
German -iralsEistr assert that the to-
biography 0L the country would make
INVASION easier from kimberley and the
district r.r.laard than from the more
Iu--el -a-f.u of CteTEstruOm OF Coles
Eu-- Therefore they infer that the
combined H-uzA forces viii overwhelm
-. aU LaggTSlUntein and first re-
kimberley as an incident of the
invasion
General Buffers retreat says the
Cape Town correspondent of the stand
ard 'dss resulted i'm O. recrud-s r6nce
g. & ..as. aa0ie taIk here. the bitter
feeling H. the Dutch against the Brit
En has possibly suggested the uppor-
-s..es of am organized attack uu Sir
Alfred Miner by ministerial press.
which has published am article. believed
On nave been written by Mr.. Nerrimau,
secretary of the Cape treasury, de-
uE Sir Alfred Miners recall"
t. Is learned that the war Office in
tend. FOB increase the regular army by
hal nj H- -r fr-g- q rr
these r1 che existing regiments.
Cost OF the War.
The cost of the war to the end of the
.ss. year, March 81. is estimated at
Ul lSI5u0j0090l. The house of
COMMONS has already granted El0,-
- and the Times says another
--..I viii be asked Tor
.. Spencer Wilkinson. who davOtes
Dis article U the Morning Post today
,.e principles upon which war
sa. .. conducted as applicable To
South Africa saws.
THE Beers have no great cities. Pre-
IE. ... H.aamIunteiu are not Ceuters
national Hfa like Paris and London
occupy ..ru, therefore. would have
. ..... unless after the defeat of
- .... ARMY.
The i...r power is the body of cit-
+ constituting the army. I- f=.
DUR first business to crush
.. " ARMY. namely. that l ..e
. .. l.IEsuilh- Though there
... ... apparently troops enough in
. ..-.a General Butler has never
.. sufficient numbers for this pur-
'-- Accordingly. the outline of the
WI. ..H ra bold and clear c0ncep-