The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-01-19

gold industry should be irretrieyabl,
destroyed
President Kruger also issued a cir.
cular, dated January sth. to Boer COM
mandants and ourghers. urging them
to show more energy In the Transyaal
cause. he quotes Psalm -. verse Z,
as God-given instructions to the buryh-
ers. and says that the British have
fixed their faith In Psalm s.. He
quotes Psalm So. verses Is n IA. and
asserts that he has searched the Bible
without being able to find any other
mode which can be followed by the
Beers. who must fight in the name of
the Lord
Communicating is proceeding bust
" at Pretoria where the town guard is
exchanging Mausers for Martins. as
the former are badly needed at the
front. 1t is said that there are nearly
5000 British prisoners in Pretoria
RELIEF FOR LADYSMITH.
A Standard dispatch, dated Saturday.
January 18th, from Durham, says: "A
man who has just arrived here froml
Springfield says that a British column,
proceeding TO the relief of Ladysmith,
has crossed the Little Tugela. When
he left 1t was facing the Boer positionI
on the Big Tugela and a howitzer was
Smelling the o trenches. He says.
also that 270 wagons, laden with COM
m~issariat stores for Ladysmith, had left
column would join hands with Gen.
eral White Monday evening.
The traction engines have been do
ing excellent work in hauling heavyl
wagons out of holes and swamps. This
they accomplish with the greatest ease.
British patrols have discovered partiAs
of Beers in h direction of Ennersdale
between Frere n Estcourt-"
London, January 16.-General Bull
ler's latest authentic word as to what
he and his 80, 1000 men are doing, was
wired from Springfield after his first
Onward step. Striving to think out the
London is confused by sur
mise n rumor and disquieted by sus-
pense. Spencer Wilkinson, the lucid
expert of The Morning Post,
asserts that the Boer force in northern
Natal is larger thar General Buller's
and Sir George Whites together, so
the Beers are able to leave a force
Ladysmith larger than that
the town and yet oppose Gen.
neral Butler with a force superior tol
his own.
Reports from the Boer camps affirm
that the circle of investment as been
drawn closer by the occupation of
hills near the town, thus liberat-
the reinforcements to oppose Gen.
Butler. Although the war pages
of the great dailies today are almost
barren the telegraph instruments click
ceaSelessly.
Yeomanry recruiters are getting only
one n one-half companies out of up
wards of 1000 applicants in the Metro
districts, the others failing to-
meet requirements, and although the
provinces are doing better, the raising
of 10000 eoman is far from easy. A
strike among the military tailors is
perplexity.
THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE
WAR.
j.. b. Robinson, the South African
millionaire, in a signed article in The
Daily News this morning, relates con-
he has had with President
One one occasion PRESIDENT
said:
DO you mean to tell me that you do
not know that the men who organized
and engineered the Jamison raid orr
ganized it for their own benefit? They
had decided how they would divide the
and how ZACH of the partiesl
was to have certain interests in thisI
Many reformers who werel
put in Jail were perfectly innocent.
were ignorant of the schemes of
the men in the inner circle. There wereI
only twelve men in that inner circle,
and they were to divide the TransvaalI
among themselves.
They and their companies found the
money for the raid. Do you think wei
so innocent as not to know that
Rhodes, metaphorically speaking, held
a pistol at the heads of certain men
in England and said to them: If you
not support me l shall denounce you
and your completely in the raid"
The Birmingham Mail, the organ Of
Joseph Chamberlain, says: w UNI
derstand, on the highest authority,
if the government is defeated in
on the question of the war;
the cabinet will Immediately appeal to-
the country, all the ministers havingl
decided to stand together and not tol
permit any individual minister to be
a scapegoat."