The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-02-01
GEN, BUTLER FAILS TO
PEESS BACK THE Beers
Continued from Page II

Mafeking is still holding out. The
garrison is we.I supplied with cattle
and timed meats.
Generals French and Gatacre are
making Reconnaissance while await
ing reinforcements.
The Neither lands Society of Phila-
delphia has passed resolutions of sym
pathy with the Beers.
General Butler has about twenty
traction engines which draw from ten
to fifteen wagons each.
Deaths from enteric fever and dys-
EMERY are increasing at Ladysmith.
They average ten a day.
The steamer Bermuda has been en-
Joined from leaving Philadelphia with
war material for the Beers.
DR.. Conan Doyle is on his way to the
front. He says the war marks a turn
ing point for Great Britain.
The German bark Marie, with flour
for the TTansvaal Government. has
been taken as a British prize.
1t is denied that Webster Davis of
the State Department, who is going to
Pretoria, has any official mission.
England has agreed not to interfere
with German vessels north of Alden or
a similar distance south of Delagoa
Bay.
General Warren with eleven thou
sand men arrived withiL seventeen
miles of Ladysmith on the 10Th of Jan
uary.
Two war correspondents, Nevinson
and Melton Pryor had a narrow es-
cape near Ladysmith from a bursting
shell.
Danish soldiers have sent $4,000
boxes of choice butter to the British
soldiers through the Princess of
Wales
The Brussels correspondent of the
London Chronicle asserts that the
Beers have from $4,000 to 10000 men
in the field.
Advices from London state that ~
guns, 3710 artiglerymen and 2210 horses
would 'eave for South Africa during
this week
Senator Hale has made an impas-
stoned speech in favor of recognizing
a representative of the Transvaal at
Washington.
1t is estimated that the expedition to
relieve Kimberley will have to be
doubled before it can move further
than the MOdder river.
A special from Rome says that Pres
ident Kruger has asked for a United
States protectorate over the Transvaal
and Orange Free State.
1t is said the Beers have committed
a breach of neutrality by crossing into
Portuguese territory. Artillery has
been sent against them.
Kimberley is under constant bonn
no r1 Tho arric no
tured a gun at the De Beers workshops
that shoots we'll at 5000 yards
The Capetown correspondent of the
London Times reports that the SYM
pathy of every Dutchman in South
Africa is with the two republics.
The Duke of Marlborough has been
appointed staff captain in connection
with the Imperial Yeomanry being Or
ganized for South African service.
The German Reichstag has taken up
the British seizure and Won Bulow has
asked foreign nations to cooperate in
forbidding the policy which permits
them.
A patrol OF sixteen men of the New
South Wales Lancers were ambushed
and overwhelmed by large body of
Beers near Rensburg. Eight men es-
capped and returned next day to find
one dead and one wounded comrade.
A number of dead Boer horses atteSted
to the accuracy of their fire.
One of the British correspondents in
Natal gives an interesting calculation
of the Boer losses since the beginning
of war. 1t makes a total of 6,425, of
which nearly a third is estimated to
have been incurred in the siege of La
dysmith. The British losses in killed,
wounded and captured up to and in
Guiding Thursday were 1887 officers
and men.
THE WAX IN LUZoN