The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-01-23
BOERS MASSING FOR DEFENCE
ALL ALONG THE BORDER LINE
Cen sorship is So Strict That No News of
the Latest Developments Can be
Had in London.

will be taken prejudlcial to prisoners
and aliens.
LONDON, Jan. ia dispatch TO
the Daily Mail, dated Saturday,. Janu-
airy 18Th. from Lourenzo Marquee,
says:
President Krueger has issued a proc
lamation ordering all burghe-s to the
front. The Volkstem, the official or
gan, suggests that the moment the
British cross the border the gold indus
try should be irretrievably destroyed.
Kruger issued a circular dated jan
uary Sth to Boer commandants and
bCrghers, urging them to show more
energy in the Transvaal cause. He
quotes Psalm 33, verse z, as God-given
instructions to the burghers, and SAYS
that the British have fixed their faith
in Psalm SO. He also quotes Psalm
50, verses 13 and IA. and asserts that
he searched the Bible without being
able TO find any other mode which can
be followed by the Beers. who must
fight 'in the name of the Lord"
Relief in London.
NEW YORK, Jan. IA cable TO
the Tribune, dated London, January
18th, says: The news that General
Butler had moved caused an intense
feeling of public relief yesterday in
LCndOn, where the suspense had be-
come well nigh intolerable. A bulle-
tin was posted in the War Office a.
neon stating that he had occupied the
south bank OF the Tugela at Potgie-
ters' Drift Thursday morning, had
seized the pOnt and had found the en-
emy strongly intrenched four and a
half miles to the north. This dispatch
was sent from Springfield, on the Lit
tie Tugela, where the enemy had pre-
viously been reported as holding the
extreme position at the western end OF
their long defensive line OF seventeen
miles.
Tugela drift, or ford. Is fifteen miles
west OF COlenso and eight miles north
OF Springfield, on the wagon road to
Dewdrop and Ladysmith. Buffers ad-
vance line at Potgieters' Drift was
about fifteen miles from Wagon Hill.
where Whites forces were fighting
a week ago. The British
Amy. when once across the Tugela,
would have the enemy intrenched in
front at the western end of their long
line following the Tugela to Colenso.
Butler is apparently attempting a
turning movement west of Colenso
which nearly all military experts were
expecting when his first battle was
fought on December 18th, directly in
front.
Strength of the Beers.
LONDON, Jan. 12.-An apparently
woll-informed correspondent OF the
Morning Post says: THE Boer
strength. originally 10000, is now heav-
lily augmented by Cape Colonists, and
the enemy's fighting forces may be
estimated fairly at 100000 men and POS
guns. The Beers are not compelled
to guard their communications. Their
grass is good. their crops are grow
ing; vegetables, cattle and sheep are
plenty and game is abundant"
The Losses at Ladysmith.
NEW YORK, Jan. IA cable to the
Tribune dated London, January 18th,
says: The casualty list OF the Lady
smith battle is now complete with ff-
teen officers killed, twenty-six wound
ed. and 135 killed and 244 wounded Of
the rank and file. The aggregate OF
the casualties Is 420, or about 3 per
cent OF the probable strength Of the
garrison fit for duty. As the names
represent eighteen military Organiza-
tions, II IS clear that nearly the whole
garrison was engaged in the seven cen
hours fight. This list dlspOses efec.-
ually Of the Boer estimates Of losses.
which General Butler took needless
pains to correct. Those losses were
evidently heavy unless General Whites
men were forced TO spare their ammu-
milton.
Colonel Dick Cunyngham OF tn
Gordon Highlanders won the Victoria
Gross for rallying his men at the sum-