Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-16
british ARE OVER
| TUCELA RIVER.
.,,Iis, are Being Hurried For
ward for Ladysmith Garrison
tRrGER's LATEST APPEAL
s,,Ip,ure TO Burghers British
spread numor' 20 oeee''" as''
vroser aud Jameson RAID

,a,r Ian. l5.-Gen. Buffers latest
s.,c word as TO what he and his
~ men are doing was wired from
4 I.essla after his first forward step
tg,lng to think out the unknown
aaor Is confused by surmise and ru-
!, and dlsQuietlng suspense.
y Ger y wilkinson, the lucid military
4, the Morning Post. asserts
"a ,ts Boer force In Northern Natal
"A scr than Gen. Buffers and Sir
-. Whites together, so that the
.,r are able to leave a force around
IN sr,rlth larger than that within the
al and vet to oppose Gen. Butler
", W. force superior to his own.
~ pa,orts from the Boer camps affirm
!" no circle OF investment has been
m nearer by the occupation Of some
a NJ nearer the town. thus liberating
smrements to oppose Gen. Butler
II Tss Daily News suggests that a null
i ,nSs az The rumors that originate in
IN africa and London are given
4 ,rrspcy by the English military au-
ZINES IN order TO mislead the Beers.
No war pages OF the great dailies this
coming are almost barren. Neverthe-
4 q me Instruments on the loops con-
a pctine the war Office with the cables
<pntInue 70 click.
A M war Office has published the dis
xotcb from Lord Roberts. dated Cape
KIM January 18th, $50 p. m:
French reports that a reconnaissance
4 uerday Sunday shelled the Coles
trg road bridge. No casualties. Re-
3rned today. Methuen and Gatacre
y change
4 dispatch from Capetown, date
8aturiay. January 18th. says: There
= good reason to believe that the state.
4 ent that Sir Charles Warren. with
i 900 men, has gone toward Weenen Is
3prreCt, and we may expect important
Tvs shortly. Reports have been re-
kyed here that dysentery is very rife
! Ladysmlth, Everything is phenome-
@ally quiet az Storkstroom.
4 The standard gives prominence to
h following dispatch, date Saturday,
January Ia, from Durham: "A man
Mo has just arrived here from Spring
kd says that a British column. pro-
I sdlng to the relief Of Ladysmith, has
tOssed the Little Tugela. When he left
! was facing the Boer position on the
Dg Tugela, and a howitzer was she'll
b. the B0er trenches.
He says also that 270 wagons, laden
5ith comnissariat stores for Lady
5hlth had left Frere. and It was ex-
kcted that the column would join
bnds with Gen. White Monday even
tg The traction engines have been
ping excellent work in hauling heavy
agons out of holes and swamps. This
&ey accomplish with the greatest ease.
Ei,ish patrols have discovered parties
Beers in the direction Of Ennersdale,
ftween Frere and Estcourt."
A dispatch TO the Daily Mail, dated
tturdey, January 18th. from Lourenzo
Iarques, says. President Kruger has
lued proclamation ordering all bur-
fers TO thu front. The Volks Stem, the
fanTaal official organ, suggests that
fe moment the British cross the bor-
p the gold industry should be ire
fieyably destroyed
4 President Kruger Issued a circular.
PIED January sth. 10 Boer command
ts and burghers. urging them to
pow more energy In the Transvaal
lse. He quotes Psalms 80, verse Z, as
kd.gven instructions to the burghers
p says that the British have fixed
pr faith In Psalm SO. He also
|loies Palm SO, verses 10 and Il, and
F%fts that he has searched the Bible
|lhout being able 70 find any other
poe which can be followed by the
oes who must fight in the name Of
b Lord"
mountaineering is progressing
|shy at Pretoria, where the town
!pard Is exchanging Mausers for Mar
|hls as the former are badly needed
\ ne front. II is said that there are
Fafly 1900 British prisoners In Pre-
The correspondent Of the Daily Tele-
|alh at Pietermarltzburg, telegraph
y thursday, January 18th, says "The
Ilantry OF the Ladysmith garrison
~ saturday appears to have de-
Iessed' II not actually demoralized, the
'oers generally. 1t Is expected that
lsy lost at least two, II not three,
\ Ael as against our one.
Many Beers are believed To be trek
gns no1hward. The magistrate at
'aulu'lululand. teleRraphs that scouts
Epyrt having seen many Boer families,
lln wagons, proceeding north via Zu-
Iand While a European who formerly
[1laed at Dundee declares that after
fepulse at Ladysmith a number of
~ wagons, loaded with dead and
Iolhaed, passed through that mining
PNhshlp, and that the Beers burned
lug o. NE public buildings as they de-
Ntfled' Five days have passed since
,Aaylces from Boer headquarters, out
'oe LAdysmith, dated Tuesday. Janu-
q VIZ, say; The Beers occupying the
rlvsn .dses OF bestor kopje were
tNen out by the British Saturday
,oluandant Mel, on the west OF the
pNh' and the Pretoria commando, on
y norm, have taken the kopjes com.
Ia'lng caesars camp. from which
~, maintained a continuous snipIng
=, s,v oltlsh. Inc Pretoria commando
,,snn ma ,.eil killed and six wounded in
The cors.s W s.orIn 'he tort
,oqrenoo T Ssoonuent OF the Times at
aiprdsDC aarques, telegraphing last
ON cal;o's says The Free State has
|udlne ,ba y Isas esery available man, In.
tpecfss 1Ds ,eadIng merchants, who had
olks Sec, ENJOY immunity The
byio Ma s,elh 10 the course Of an article
N ss inspired Indicates the gold
,bs - 4 political move, holding that
DIX N pons' DC correct that the
n4nit land shares Is held on the con-
ountrl,su sl France and other
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