Daily camera. [volume] (Boulder, Colo.) 1891-1928, 1900-03-01
L0dyS|1II|
Is Relieved
Beers LOSE LAOvSMITH.
The Bsst~Ged City Relieved by Advances
Party Of Buffers Army.

The Bes,-Gsd City Relieved by Advance
Party Of Buffers Army.
London, March I-At $50 this morn
ing the war Office received the following
from Butler:
"Lyt.leton's Headquarters, March l.
q:os a. m.-General Duhdonald, with the
Natal Carbineers and composite regi
ment. entered Ladysmith last night.
1.-The country between me and Lady.
smith is reported clear Of the enemy. !
am moving on Nelthorpe"
On February % Clements army enter.
ed Colesburg. which had been evacuated
by the Beers. English citizens wer.
found to be well and not starving.
Lon don is fairly wild over the news.
The excitement aud jubilation are now
past belief. Great crowds packed Pail
Mall when the news was posted and the
cheers and scenes that followed battle
description. Men wept for joy, others
threw their hats high in the air and news
boys were fairly mobbed. Their extras
we're snatched and men gave them large
pieces OF money and declined to accep,
charge. All the credit for Buffers vic.
tory is given Roberts. "Bobs" is the Lon.
don Dewey, the idol OF the people.
Traffic is blocked and business has
been given up for the day. The Lord
Mayor read the message to vast crowd
this morning, which fairly went wild. To
night the bell in St. Paul's church will
toll in honor of the victory.
1t is pers,stently reported that Roberts
and his cavalry have reached Bloemfon-
tein. but the war Office is mute on the
subject.
Buffers relief came in the nick oil
time as Ladysmith was in dire straits
Her garrison was able to hold out only
because Of the belief that relief would
result from Buffers efforts. The town
was short OF food and its water was
poisoned by the sewage from the Boer
camps. The garrison subsisted on horse
and mule flesh. Eggs we're 30 a dozen
and small can Of milk 81, The SIEGE
lasted four months. telegraphic com
munication having been cut November
z. The relief has been most costly.
Sterkspruit, March I-Brabant's force
has captured jamestown. The Beers ad
NIT loss Of 50 killed, I73 wounded and
900 missing.
London, March The casualty list
as compiled at the war Office to date
shows total British losses in South Africa
to be Ia,o37, inclusive Of the losses a.
Paardeberg reported by Lord Roberts.
The classification is:
Killed, 7.oo5; wounded, 5000; missing,
3,I77; disease 800.
General Buffers tidings come weight
ed with his long list of casualties. His
losses in the four attempts 10 get Gen
eral White out aggregate 1000.
Ladysmith IS in desperate straits.
Charles Williams, the military expert
says be learns on very high authority
presumably that of Lord Wolseley-that
General Whites force is almost at its
last gasp"
"This is not so much" says Mr. Will
Jams, ION account Of any lack of provis
ions or of ammunition, as because of the
poisonous waters of the Kip river and
the evil effects of the heat on the terrain
in which the garrison must reside. Even
those who have escaped fever. dysentery
and diarrhoea are in state of low vital
ity. They can still man trenches and
would probably hold their own against
a last desperate assault, but they can
initiate nothing. General Butler now
knows that, as units, the regiments will
be Of no use to him for months.
1.-THE water OF Kip river is not avail
able for drinking, and to boil it Is i'm.
possible because of the scarcity of fuel.
It is thick with putrid animal matter.
Tea made Of it has suspended fiber.
something like beef tea. 1t is caused