The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-06
DISTRESS AT LADYsMITH.
Garrison Will Fall Unless Relief Is
Had at Once.

New York, Jan. "a dispatch to
the Tribune from London says: An
unexpected development of the situa-
ton has occurred at Colesburg. Late
advices are that the Beers returned
with reinforcements during the nlgn>
and occupied the position from which
they were driven by General French
on Monday.
There is a deepening sense of anx-
iety respecting Ladysmith, whence
most diSheartening reports OF the
prevalence of sickness are received.
General White reported a list of nearly
twenty deaths from entric fever and
dysentery and seventy-one cases in the
hospital. DR.. Jameson has all the work
he can do in that fever nest.
1t is evident that the garrison cannot
hold out long and that Sir RedVers
Butler will not allow many days to pass
before striking blow. Transports with
fresh battaliOns and batteries arrived
at Durham yesterday, and within forty
eight hours Sir RedVeTs ought to be IN
readiness for a supreme effort. The
Boer line of defense is now described
as sixteen miles in length, having been
extended up and down the Tugela In
order to prevent a turning movement.
There are many dispatches of minor
interest from General Buffers camp
this morning but no details indicating
the direction of the next attack.
Scouting has evidently improved, for
the Hussars of T>ornycrott's horse
and other patrols are described as hav
ing had brushes with the enemy. Inc
naval guns remain in constant practice,
but the Boer guns are silent.
The war office has completed It's ar
engagements for the embarkatlon or
10000 men of the Seventh division IN
the next eight days.
Officials are plodding along with their
work, unmindful of the cross-hre OF
criticism to which they are daily sub
be intensely irritated by the Daily
Nails attacks upon him. He is not
likely to remain silent when he has
strong defense present. His friends
have been insisting for weeks that he
was overruled repeatedly at the open
ing of hostilities, and that his advice
was perSiStently neglected by the min
istry in general and by Lord Lans-
downe in particular. The storm will
blow over if Sir Redvers4 Butler wins
the next battle at tire Tugela and re-
lieves Ladysmith, but another defeat in
that quarter will be followed by ire
mendous shaking up at the war office
and at headquarters.
The sailing of a small German crui-
ser for Delagoa Bay is the only official
sign of displeasure at Berlin caused by
the seizure of the Bundesrath. The
vessel has arrived at Durham and prob
ably a case for her detention can be
made out on the ground of contraband
of war, but details regarding her cargo
are withheld for the prize court.
There is excitement at Lisbon over
the rigorous enforcement of the right
of search, and the French journals are
in high feather over Englands diff
culties in appeasing German resent
ment. Mr.. Bucknell, one of the prinI
cipal owners of the steamer recently
seized with breadstuffs on board, de-
clines to give any explanation of his
alleged dealings with the Beers.
Gibson Bowles is on the warpath,
for the Reputation of the
declaration of Paris, so that all prop
erty belonging to an enemy, even gold
bullion, when it is exported from neu-
trail port, can be seized under any flag.
All the existing difficulties would have
been avoided if the British ministers
years ago had allowed Mr.. Kruger to
purchase DelagOa Bay.