The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-06

London, Feb 6.-Military opinion in
London continues to assume, from very
slender materials. that General Butler
5 again throwing his army against the
Boer forces. A retired general. Sir
William Henry Green, whose distjn-
guished career gives weight to his
opinion, thinks that General Butler.
with $4,000 men, is making a wide de-
1Our to the west and north in order to
avoid the toughest parts Of the country.
As General Butler must have thousands
Of wagons. Sir William Green points
out that his advance would necesgari-
y be slow.
No authentic word is at hand. save
mat the war Office reaffirmed orally to
newspaper inquiTeTs at late hour that
It could not confirm the reported ad-
vance. There the Natal situation rests
1t is from the western field that more
definite Statements come. Large opera
ions are apparently about 10 begin
General French. who has now returned
o RensbeEg from his conference with
ord Roberts, has sent what is de-
isTfbed as an overwhelming force of
nfantry to seize NorvaPs point That
s where the railway, before It was de-
5trOyed, crossed the Orange river, and
onnected with the Free State trunk
inc to BlOemfontein-
Beers Are In Danger.
NorvaTs point is. nineteen miles north
+ ColesbGrg and twenty-five miles
rom General F'relCh's headquarters at
}ensberg. The Beers at COieSbeTg
ave been in danger of being sur
oUnded by the largely reinforced and
rZt6nding lines Of the British An Oc-
apation Of NOryal's point in force
-ould presumably render Colesberg IN
enable.
The Beers are showing great activity
7 the NauwpOOrt and COlesberg dis
eicts. Many Of the guns hitherto fac
ng Lord Methuen are believed to have
5Dre to NOrval's point. The British,
therefore,, may find formidable bodies
f Bears there
The war Office announces that fifteen
transports viii be dispatched between
Oday and Monday with 1900 troops.
Sill Alfred Miner, in a letter written
.hree weeks ago to a former lord mayor
Il Belfast, said the war would last
hTee or four months longer.
The censorship seems to have com
rIe.ely shut down the correspondents
SPsr 5n'SEanp. 10 dispatch from
hat point appaars in this morning 5
0apers and nothing has been allowed
% issue stree Sunday evening.
Get Plenty Of Fighting.
A dispatch to the Times from Queens
own. Cape Colony. dated Monday,
o1ys: General BTabant, while ad-
I .sresSlng ore Of the regiments of the
oIorfaI division on parade yesterday,
aid they were leaving the next morn
~ for the front. not to return. he
boped, until the task entrusted to him
~ Lord Roberts had been successfully
sccomplished. He could not dkiehse
he plan of operations. but if his inten-
5Ons were. carried out the greateal
sluttCn of fighting among them would
ave his fill"
It was just one week ago that Cen
craI Butler announced that he would
De in Ladysn1ith in a week. He has
not kept his word.
Regarding the dispatches from Lady
smith saying that Buffers guns have
been heard there. it is surmised that
| ONE practice may have been going on
with the new batteries which have just
cached the front.
A special disp1tch from Durham, Ma
| al. dated yesterday. says: There is
10 definite news from General Butler,
/ but it is reporto1 that there was heavy
! lighting yesterday"
Says Beers are Surrounded.
Cape Town, Feb. "a dispatch from