The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-19
ANGLO-BORR WAR SITUATION
HEAVY RAINS STILL IMPEDE THE
BRITISH COLUMNS.
Almost u Complete Embargo on War
1ntelligcnce-Isoers Claim There is u
Steady Flow OF Foreign Volunteers 10
The Transvaal-TO be Formed Into
Special Legion French
General TO Have Command.


London, April 19--4:1O a. m.--Heavy
rains impede the movements of the
ener continues although relief is near.
Large quantities of stores are being
moved southwark from Bloemfontein,
which is a reversal of the course Of
freight for the last six weeks These
shipments are made necessary by the
operations in the southeast of the Free
State.
1900 British Sick.
There are 1000 sick in the field hospi-
tails, most of the cases being of dysen-
terry and enteric fever. With the excep-
tion of these facts the embargo upon
war intelligence is almost complete. The
special correspondents send trivialities
or statements which obscure rather
than explain the situation in their eff
forts to prepare matter that will pass
the censor. Here and there phrase in
dicates an expectancy that large things
are about to happen.
Butler and Warren.
What is to be done with Sir Redvers
Butler and Sir Charles Warren occupies
everybody's attention. The papers con-.
tinue to comment earnestly upon Lord
Roberts censure of these commanders.
They ask if more errors are not likely
to occur, together with frutless waste
of life, in the event that men who have
been declared incompetent by their su-
perior continue to command 10000
troops. 1t is now generally accepted
that the government had purpose in
the publication Of Lord Roberts dis
patch, and that the recall of General
Butler and General Warren has proba-
bly, been decided upon.
Volunteers for Transvani.
According to Boer representatives.
there is steady flow of foreign volun-
teers to the Transvaal Hitherto these
adventurers have been attached to the
various commanders. Now 1t is said
they are to be formed into a special le-
gion with continental officers, and there
Is rumor that the command will be
given to distinguished French soldier,
lately retired, who Is now in the Trans
vaal or Is nearing the end of the jour-
ney thither. Presumably the officer re-,
ferred to in this report is General De II
Nieger, former member of the French
supreme council of war, who was re-
moved from the active list last July by
the Marquis De Galliffet as discipline
airy measure during the excitement aris-
ing in the Dreyfus court-martial.
Tore Off Red Cross Badges.
According to a dispatch to the Daily
Mail from Lourenzo Marquee, nearly
half the members of the Chicago ambu-
lance corps, when offered Mausers on
their arrival at Pretoria, tore off their
Red Cross badges. Adelbert S. Hay.
United States consul, notified the Trans
vaal government that he must report
the circumstances to Washington.
The Morning Post has the following
from Bloemfontein, dated Tuesday: I'm
view Of the advisability or a retreat
through Swaziland, parties or the Beers
are now endeavoring to purchase secret
information concerning caverns in the
Greystone country, which are only
known to the natives, with the object
of accommodating provisions and ammu-
nition."
The Bloemfontein correspondent of
the Morning Post, telegraphing Tues
day, April II, says: "The town has
been drenched with rain during the last |
three days, which has caused the great
est discomfort, especially as the Thir-
teenth brigade is not provided with |
tents"
The Lourenzo Marquee correspondent |
of the Daily Mail, telegraphing Wednes-
day. says: 1.-TWO hundred and fifty |
Beers started to-day from Watermelon
der for the marching through the zout
pansberg district to intercept General
Carrington's force"