The age-herald., 1900-02-06
GENERAL EULER
 STARTS AGAIN The BOers Are a Silent Un-
 known Quantity CENSORSHIP IS MOST RIGID British Troops Taking Another
 Route to LadySmith. MUCH ACTIVITY IN THE WEST General French Has Sent an Over, whelming Force of Infantry to
 Seize Norvals Point on
 Orange River
MUCH ACTIVITY IN THE WEST

London, February ca a. m)-Mllltary opinion Tn London continues to assume lfoIp very slender materials that General Butler is again throwing his army against the Boer works. A retired general, Sir William Henry Green, whose distinguished career gives weight to his opinion, thinks that General Butler with 9 0OO men is mak- ing wide do,our to the west and north in order to avoid the toughest parts of the country. As General Butler must have some thousands of wagons, Sir William Green points out that the advance would necessarily be slow
 No authoritative word is at hand save that the war office re-affirmed orally to newspaper inquiries at late hour that 1t could not confirm the reported advance. There the Natal situation rests.
 It is from the western field that more definite statements come. Large operations are apparently about to begin. General French, who has not returned to Rensburg from his conference with Lord Roberts, has sent what is described as an overwhelming force of infantry to seize Norvals point. This is where the railway before 1t was destroyed, crossed the Orange river and connected with the Free State trunk line to Bloemfontein.
 Norvals point is nineteen miles north of Colesburg and twenty-five miles from Gen. eral French's headquarters at Rensburg. The Boers at Colesburg have been in dan ger of being surrounded by the largely ren- forced and extending lines of the British. An occupation of Norvals point in force will presumably render Colesburg untenable.
 The Boers are showing great activity in the Naauwpoor and Colesburg district. Many of the gums hitherbo facing Lord Medhuen are believed to Glave gone to Nor- walls point. The British, therefore, may find formidable bodies of Boers there.
 More Troops for the Front
 The war office announces that fifteen transports VIII be dispatched between to- day and Monday With 13,OOO troops. These 13,OOO are mot included in the 1S,00O due to be in South Africa on February 15 The eighth division of 10000 men is saiql ayall- able to send.
 Sir Alfred MIlner, in a letter written three weeks ago 10 the former Lord Mayor of Belfast, slaEd the war would Mast three CT four months longer.
 Sir Alfred Mifner has sent most hopeful reports to the government regarding the prospects of the campaign and it is under stood that his views are shared by Lord Roberts,
 Tine censorship seems ito have completely shut down the correspondents at Spear mans camp No dispatches from that point appear in this mornings papers, and nothing has been allowed to issue since Sunday evening
 A dispatch to the Times from Queens- towns, Cape Colony, dated Monday, says:
 "General Brabagat, while addressing one of the regiments of the Colonial division on parade yesterday, said they were leav- ing the next morning for the front not to return he hoped, until the task entrusted to h.m by Lord Roberts had been success fuly accomplished"