Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-19
Has Lately Been Heavily
Reinforced.
BE NO TURNING BACK
That IS the Proclamation He Has Made
to His Men-There is a Similarity
of Position With Those 0f3Preyious
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London, Jan. 10, 4 a. m.-Military crit
ics in affiliation with the war office con-
slider that the expected battle along the
wide arc south and west Of Ladysrhith
can hardly be delayed beyond today.
From Durham it is expected that 6ghting
has already begun.
General Buffers forces engaged in the
flanking operation across the Tugela are
some 1900 or $4,000 byaonets, 1900 horses
and 40 runs. The disposition of his other
$4,000 OF 10000 men is not known. although
the assumption is that the whole army
will be in action when the hour for COM
bined movement arrives. Three weeks
ago General Butler had 10000 men. Con
siderable achievements have since
reached him, giving him probably $4,000
men and 50 guns all told. Estimates Of
how many men and guns the Beers have
10 oppose him are mere guess work. In
not replying to General Lyttleton's she'll
fire they are using tactics that proved to
successful In the battles Of Magersfonteip
and C~olenso-laying low in their trenches,
thus hoping to conceal their precise post-
ton until the infantry advance. The
Daily Chronicles military expert sees q
curious analogy between General Buller'a
situation now and the eve OF MageEsfon-
tein. Now, az then, the Beers are max.
ing a stand with their backs to investing
lines within q few miles. As Lord Me-
tAuen. after crossing Modder river. had to
attack the S~pytfontein n Magersfon-
tein hills, so General Butler, after passing
the Tugela, faces invisible entertainments
in a rough country.
One correspondent mentions General
Buffers wheeled transport of 5000 We
hicles which connect him with the rail-
road about so miles to the rear. Among
these vehicles are 30 traction engines,
which draw from 10 to Is wagons each.
General Buffers warning as to the mis-
use of the white flag by the Beers in his
proclamation to the troops is considered
phrase "there will be no turning back"
is played upon ~editorially by the morning
as presaging cheerful announce
ments.
The absorbing interest felt in the sit
uation in Natal makes other points in the
theater of war seem microscopic, t
Lord Methuen lies behind his works at
Modder river. It is estimated that his
forces will have to be nearly doubled be-
fore he can relieve Kimberley.
British reirlforcements are moving to-
ward General French at Rensberg. With
tC ID CAPCSISu " ivy. l. dk
Gatacre's men ccupy Loperburg. a slight
advance.
The war Office ~nnounces that next
week win be embarked 70 guns, $40 men
and 2,210 horses. This is the largest con-
signment of artillery ever sent abroad.
The war office invites 500 volunteers for a
sfrarpshooter's battalion of yeomanry.
Sir William MacCormac, in the Lancet,
says that of the 2O9 wounded in the hos
pital visited by him, only eight had been
hit by shells.
Mr.. Kipling mas written the following
characteristic letter to the British Guiana
of the navy league. in recognition
of a contribution to the war fund: Bravo.
British Guiana. Seeing what they had
to contend with lately in the sugar line.
they have done uncommonly we'll. Please
to them my best ~thanks-frst, as
vice-president of the league; second, as
pe~rpetrator of the absented beggar: and
third, as a fellow contributor to the big
jackpot which We are boiling up on
Thomas behalf. Have you seen Brazil
and Trinidad come into the game?"
The Capetown correspondent of the
Times. discussing Afrikander disloyalty,
II believe the sympathy of every
Dutchman in South Africa is with the two
republics and that a general rising is still
nothing to implicate the bond party as a
whole in an officially organized conspir-
acy against the imperial government, al
though the bond leaders have winked at
Or pandered to sedition in order to pre-
serve their popularity.
1.-The British failures and the appear
of the Beers on British territory
have fomented rebellion. but even now a
decisive British victory would prevent its
further spread"
This correspondent testihes to the value
of the service rendered by Mr.. Schreiner.
the Cape premier. in an embarrassing DO
sition. He speaks less highly of Mr.. Hof-
meyer. the real leader of the bond party. |
and severely condemns the Dutch press
of the colony, which, he says, is doing it's
utmost while keeping on the windy, side |
of the law, to promote rebellion and to en-
venom racial antagonism.
The British losses in killed wounded.
and captured up to date, are 1887 officers
and men. 9t
London, Jan. IA special dispatch
from Durham. dated Wednesday. Says: |
Advices from Potgieter's drift. dated yes |
terday (Tuesday) say that Sir Charles |
Warren has arrived within II miles of !
and that the British wounded
are arriving at Moot river field hospital
by every train from the 'front.' Indicating
that there has already been severe flght-
ing. Neither report has yet been, con-
f1rmed. .
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