Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-01-24
GEN. BULLER CHECKED.
Sent a Dispatch Giving This
Information.
WILL HAVE TO ATTACK AT NIGHT.
Such Movement Necessary. to Take the
Beers Principal Position by Surprise.
Warren Has Ridges, but the Boers
Have Higher Ones.

Warren Has Ridges. but the Boer,
Have Higher Ones.
LONDON, Jan. 24--4 o. m.-GeneraI
Buller's great turning movement, OF
which so much has been expected, hal
come to standstill. He sent care
fully worded message to the war office
telling this, after silence of two days
General Warren holds the ridges, but
the enemy's positions are higher. The
British artillery is playing on the Boer
positions and the Beers are replying.
The British infantry is separated by
only l 400 yards from the enemy, but M
approach to the steep slopes, ace oss the
bare open, would expose the British to
fatal rifle fire.
General Buffers plans have reached
their development. He declines to send
his infantry across this zone against
formidable positions by daylight, and
disoloses his purpose to assault the
Spion kop heights during the night.
This appears to- be the key to the Boer
defenses. If he takes it and thus com
mands the adjacent country. m import
ant and possibly u decisive step will be
accomplished.
General Bullor's dispatch contains the
following:
warren holds ,le position he gained
Says sayss age S the m % possa p a Ses
Of Spionskop. 1t is on higher ground than
Warrens position. SO 1t Is impossible to
at can be approached only over open
slopes and the ridges held by Warren,
are SO steep that suns cannot be placed
position with howitzers and field artillery
placed on lower ground, behind infantry.
THE enemy Is replying with Creusot
van vantage % rests with u.s. s as we 'si appear pea ito to
be searching his trenches and his artillery
fire is no; causing us much loss. ~"
seize Spionskop. the salient OF which
form the left OF tho enemy's position
facing th Potgieter,s drift II. II has consider
trenchments."
General Butler reported that the
wounded, Jan. 30, included:
Second Lancasbires-Oa Ned
White and Ormand and Lieutenant
Campbell.
York and Lancashire regiment-Lieu.
tenants Halford and Duckworth.
West Surreys--Oaptains Baitt (since
dead) and Warden aud Lieutenants
Smith and Wedd.
Staff Captain Dallas.
BoER HEAD LAGER, Ladysmith,
Monday, Jan. pa battle has been
raging along the Olivier's Hoek road
| since Saturday between the Beers, un-
der Pretorius, and 5000 British. The
fighting Is in full swing Mt Spion's kop.
The Beers under Botha aud Orohje
have been sent thither.
The. British elsewhere are only max
ing reconnaissance Of the Boer posi-.
tions.
President Steyn was under fire at the
foremost position of the Free Staters.
BoRR CAMP, Upper Tugela river, Fri.
day, Jan. l9.--Reports being received
that 2,000 british cavalry were attempt.
ing to outhank us along the Drakens.
berg ridge, u strong patrol was sent to
reconnoitre. Mistaking the signals the
scouts aud patrol proceeded to kopie.
from whence terrific rifle and maxim
gun fire suddenly opened.
The Beers lost fourteen men killed
aud twenty wounded. The British loss
was probably insignificant. W
The three British positions arc the
old Cheiveley camp, near Colenso. the
central position at Swartzkop drift,
whore they hold both banks Of the
river, and o point higher up in the di-
rection OF Zunckles, where they have
bridged the river and established an I'M.
mense commissariat. On summit of
the terraces nc Swartzkop they have
placed five naval guns and have brought
the field artillery across the river to a
small kopje on the northern bank,
whence they keep mp an incessant and
terrific cannonade on the Boer treuches.
Since the beginning Of the week COM
munication with the different positions
has been kept up under the ordeal Of
this cannonade, the casualties resulting
from this being heavier than those that
occurred at Colenso. One OF the shells
from the naval guns killed u father and
son, Free Staters, who were chatting ut
the time. Strangely neither had any
visible wounds.
MAFEKISa, Wednesday, Jan. 10, via
Beira, Jan. 24.--Sinoe the artillery at
tack of Jan. 3, the Beers have not fired
SO many shells at this place. Natives
report that the Boer chief gunner is
wounded: that five men were killed and
that their breastworks were damaged
during the recent engagement. Com.
mandant Erasmus and his friends are
reported to have departed and the boer
forces in this vicinity are apparently
ewer in number. Their estimated
strength is 1900 men.
GABERosEs, Bechuanaland, Wednes-
day, Jan. II. via Lorenzo Marques, Jan.
A.--A accommodating force this morn
ing found the Boors on the Basute hill,
which the British, supported by an
! armored train, occupied.
Later, today. the cyclist scouts recon.
noitered the Bocr main laager, ten miles
south of Fort Gaberones. They do
scribe 1t as large and strongly en-.
trenched.
The Beers continue the destruction Of
the railroad near Crocodile pools.