The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-05

Life Almost Unbearable-Fesd
For Horses Is Nearly All Ex-
hausted
/ (Correspp dence Of the Associated Press.)
London, Jan. 2f-War letters from
/ Ladysmith monopolize today's London
/ papers. The Times correspondent at
that place writes under date of Dee. 10:
Tt is impossible to express the feel
/ ing Of CONSERVATION with which the
| news Of General Buffers check on the
Tugela river was received. All had
made up their minds that the period Of
enforced inactivity was at an end. No
I one for a moment imagined that the
/ southern force would be anything but
/ successful. On Dec. u heavy firing had
/ been heard in the direction of Colenso.
/ while on the following day the pickets
/ Oh Caesars ca1up and Wagon hill had
/ seen the smoke made by the bursting
I Of ahrapnel. Then we waited for news
waited bTeathlessly for orders tG he
given 20 the flying column. composaI
! of the DevOnShire and Manchester reg
. imeIt1 and the Gordon Highlande $.
| to leave camp to complete devastation
which the southern force had begun.
They Were Happy.
Men ana women congratulated
themselves in the streets when tley
heard that one Of our heavy guns had
been sent TO Wagon hill to cover the
movement of the advancing columns;
but the siieTce was prolonged. though
{ the heIograph winlZed ceasele5siy
I from the hill TOPS. but the rumor had
Its way and stories were told OF
splendid victory, Of deserving Beers of
/ fleeing Dutch and slaughtered burgh-
ers; but nothing from headquarters.
Dec 10 was Dingan's day, the anniver-
I sar. Of the declaration of independence
Of the South African republic LIZ the
triumvirate in 1850 IL was thought
that this would be a suitable date for
US to crush the power of the rebel
state
Day dawned and with the advent of
the sun the big gun on Buiwayo opened
/ a spiteful fire. The twenty rounds
were fired into the town The Beers
( had remembered the salute Wr.ch we
had fired on the Prince of Wales birth
day. Grimly on Dlngans day they re-
turned the salute, and with the effect
that there were three casualties from
the fire. This salute was the song of
the dying swan In a fit of bravadO
the enemy had fired into us before re-
moving the gun to escape the advance
from the south.
Spies in Camp.
The Standards correspondent at La
dysmith devotes the greater part Of a
twc-cOlumn letter To the subject OF
spies. He writes:
That there are traitors and spies.
white as well as black, i'm the garrison
Of LadysGnith is evidently certain. The
enemy never fails 10 receive notice of
our movements. General Joubert. in
deed, is said to have been angry be-
cause on ona occasion ne had not
heard Of the order cOuntermanding q
night attack. He complained of Cen
eral Whites want Of consideration in
keeping the bUrghers out of bed on
mOurnful Monday, (the name given by
common consent 10 the day of NicOl-
sRl's Nek), when the Beers gave dis
astrous proof of acquaintance with
our plans by Withdrawing their main
( body from the center to our attack.
and by preparing an ambush for the
Gloucesters and Irish FusileeTs-
The reconnaissance under Col. Brock
lehurst also showed that they had been
warned IN time TO change their posi-
ton. In snort, il is impossible to avoid
the reflection that We are in an en-
emy's country. The loyalty of the Brit
ish COlOniIts is beyond suspicion, but
The Dutch element in Natal is vefv
strong. Several farmers have been
caught red handed, and many civilians
and volunteers have brothers and
cousins fighting on the other side
Every project is known and discussed
in the volunteer lines lorg before the
. Irr "a o. fr Of
course have received countermands Of
orders that have reached them.
Horses Suffering.
our horses and oxen have suffered.
the supply of fodder being exhausted
and the limited area of grazing
grounds having been cropped TO the
last blade. Groceries have run out.
pure water is scarce: whisky sells at
% cents q bottle. and mich COWS are
Communicated for beeE. hut more Op-
! pTessive than all the hardshirs we en-
dure is the dreadful monotony Of the
siege. We have ceased to take any in
/ terest IN ellis, and even the EOst tim
id walk W street to see the damage
done by one long TOMS best effec-
/ tIves. The opportunities for vast eX-
/ ercises are restricted and gaIlop on
I horse back is possible only under shrap-
| pear to be one Tez)urce Left, and that
is 10 sleep the time peacefully away.
| Even this cons JiauCn is denied for La
( dysmith is afflicted with a plague of
/ flies more terrible than any that op-
| pressed the Egyptians. They descend
/ upon US in cl0uds-noisy, voracious
! singing peets, attacking every exposed
! part of the body with ceaseless energy.
/ boldness ana unflinching determine
| ton. Every dish on the table Is black
/ with these torrents. so that Il is often
] literally impossible to see the food. or
| to carry 10 to the mouth without the
/ rick of swallowing scores Of the poison
: Gus insects.
Fighting an Invisible Foe.
( (Correspcndence Of the Associated Press)
London. Jan. 24.-Julian Ralph, the
| American correspondent writes from
/ Modder River TO the Daily Mail. under
date Of Dec 80.
Did YOU ever see any Beers? an
officer calls out to us
Very few says I; just the prison
! ers we have taken'-fOT we are fighting
an invisible foe. as everybody knows by
/ tbs time.
Well, have a look thfoggh this.