The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-02-02
BRITISH AND BOERS
LATEST MOVEMENTS IN THE
CAMPAIGN.
A Full Summary Of the Transvsal
War News-Proaress of the Con.
flict From Day to Oay-The British
Encouraged.

flct From Day to Oay-The British
Encouraged.
The war in South Africa is going
on with undated fury, and the British
are rushing more men to the scene OF
hostilities. The following is the latest
news:
Lord Roberts. 1t is reported, will
not at once reinforce Gen. Buffers
army, and the next move in the cam
paign will probably be an advance
toward the Orange Free State.
Gen. Buffers operation at Spion
hop has cost 912 men, so far officially
reported within ten days.
Applying to the 2O5 Spion Kop casu.
alties the rule of proportion, the losses
OF officers indicate probably 500 casu-
alties yet to come. The total casual.
ties of the war, compiled from official
reports, are 9,52S, nearly a division.
or these 2,4S2 were killed. i,S11
wounded and the rest prisoners.
The aggregate British home troops
in South Africa number 10000, the
Natalians 7,151, and Cape Colonials,
$1,000.
William T. Stead has addressed an
open letter to the Speaker of the
House of Commons, William Court
Gully, asking him to bring it to the
notice of the House. The writer says:
The consequence of going to war
with lie in our right hand is now
manifest even to the dullest under
standing. The responsibility for the
lie, which is now working out it's nat
ural consequences in South Africa,
originally lay upon the Colonial Sec
retary alone, but by a conspiracy of
falsehoodS the select committee of
1897 was hocussed into returning
false verdict, which, being afterward
accepted by the House of Commons,
involved Parliament itself into the re-
sponsibility of fatal fraud" Mr..
Stead then asserts that "the war was
undertaken to conceal the truth and
to whitewash the Colonial Secretary"
and he appeals to the House to insist
upon the production of the correspond
ence between the Colonial Office and
Mr. Hawksley, solicitor to the Char
| tered Company, lin order to ascertain
the truth respecting the Jameson
raid and to purge the House of this
, dishoner."
Sir Alfred Miner, British High
Commissioner at Cape Town, has is
sued proclamation announcing that
the British government will not rec
| ognize as valid any forfeiture or en-
cumbrance upon property in the
Transvaal or the Free State subse-
| quent to October 10, the date when
war was declared
John Churchill, second son of Lady
Randolph Churchill, who accompanied
her in the Maine to Cape Town, has
received from Lord Roberts his COM
mission in the South African Light
! Horse.
The British War Office has sur
prised London by making public de-
spatch from Gen. Butler, stating that
Gen. Warren had abandoned Spion
Kop which he captured in the recent
night attack in Natal Colony, after
a sharp fight with the Boer forces.
The British casualty list, including
many officers, exceeds 200. Much
speculation was INDUCED in in London
as to the situation of the Tugela river,
and apprehension has been aroused
about Buffers army and the fate of
beleagured Ladysmith.
A despatch to the London Times
from Spearman's Camp says: "The
Beers are prepared to fight almost
interminably, having intrenched their
ridge, which stretches in an almost
unbroken line from the Drakensburg
many miles eastward. We have not
advanced any further, but we threw
up intrenchments during the night
from behind which the musketry duel
continued"
At Brussels nearly one hundred
thousand signatures have been ap
pended to the address promoted by
M. Lejeune and other members of the
Universal Peace Society, asking Presi-
dent Mckinley to mediate.