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Intimated That He Is Making An
other Forward Movement on New
Lines, but No VerifcatiOn Can He
Had in London-War Office Is
Either without Information or Is
COnceHIing the Facts.
MAFEKING, Jan. II (via Cape Town,
Feb. 2).-siege rations of bread and meat
have only now been enforced. Oats in
tended for horses are now saved to sup
ply the troops, If needed Timed milk
and matches are commandered Liquor is
scarce
Lady Sarah Wilson is pluckily attend
ing to hospital work and constantly pass
ing to and fro under shell fire.
NO WORD OF BULLER.
LONDON, Feb. 9.-Heliograms flashed
from Ladysmith, three days ago, say that
the Boer investment lines before there
Were thinning, and that the besiegers
We're moving in force towards the Tugela
thus indicating a collision was expected
There All intelligence bears signs that
4 Gen. Butler has commenced a fresh at
I tack. The war Office continues to reveal
nothing of what has happened in Natal.
Without exception the military critics re-
gard with dismay the prospect of a
further assault, unless Gen. Butler has
been heavily reinforced, and there is
nothing to indicate that that Is the case
Lord Kitchener has been travelling from
army to army in Northern Cape Colony,
and Gen. French, by instructions, Is now
in Cape Town consulting with Lord Rob
erts. Large engineering constructions are
proceeding at Modder river, suggesting
that Lord Methuen's fortified camp has
been selected as the base from which to
invade the Free State. Numerous signs.
platforms, warehouses, ETC., are being
built, and the temporary railway bridge
Is we'll advanced.
Engineers assert that the topography Of
the country would make invasion easier
from Kimberley and the district north
ward than from the more rugged region
OF Sterkstroom or Colesberg Therefore
they infer that the combined British
forces will overwhelm the Beers at Mag
ersfontein, and first relieve Kimberley. as
an incident of the invasion.
Gen. Buffers retreat" says the Cape
Town correspondent of the Standard
has resulted in a recrudescence of trea-
sonable talk here
CHURCHILL DEFENDS LONG:
Mr.. Winston Churchill, in a dispatch
TO the Morning Post, comes to the de-
lense or Col. Long, whose error lost to
the British the battle of Colenso, and
while admitting the matter was an er-
ror of Judgment, contends 1t did not re-
suit from rashness or incompetency.
He says Col. Longs injuries are very Sc
we're. An operation was performed on
him Jan. rs. The loss of this officer to
the artillery force is, Mr.. Churchill
thinks, very serious
BULLER NEEDS MEN. ..
Mr., Spencer Wilkinson devotes his ar
ticle in the Morning Post today to-the
principles upon which war should be
conducted, as applicable to South Africa.
He says.
The Beers have no great cities Pre-
toria and Bloomfontein are not cities
of national life, like Paris and London.
To occupy them, therefore, would have
little effect, unless after defeat of the
Boer army
The Boe1 power Is the body Of citi-
zens constituting the army. 1t is, there
fore, our first duty to crush the biggest
army, namely, that in the vicinity of
Ladysmitn 1t is apparent that Gen. Bull
Ter has never had sufficient numbers for
this purpose. Consequently, the outlines
of the war are in bold and clear con-
ception. Unit. we gain the gorges and
control the whole operation there can be
no decided gain.'
= COL. .PLUMER'S BUSY DAY.
LoURENzO MARQUES, Feb. 1.-The
following, dated Gaberones, Jan. 90 has
been received here:
"A Boer scout was captured yesterday,
by Col. Plumer's outpost and a small
party was sent out to reconnoiter certain
hills, They ascended the wrong kopie.
and blundered upon a Boer fortress,
armed with Maxim. Fortunately they
managed to escape without casualties"
A later dispatch from Gaberones, dated
Jan. 26, says:
"Col. Plumer used his twelve and one
half-pounder on the Boer position for the
y first time today. The Beers responded
promptly, and accurately, but did no
damage"
MONTAGU WHITES MISSION
NEW YORK, Feb 2.-Montasu White.
who represents the Beers in this country,
though not in an official capacity, who,
since his arrival in this country, has re.
fused interviews. gave out the following
statement tonight:
'As have frequently been made to ex-
plain the object of my visit to the United
States, may at the outset state--I have
come here in the interests of peace I
was strongly urged to do so by English
and American friends instead of going 70
Pretoria, as was at first intended 1t was
contended that sympathy for the two
republics was rapidly growing in Amer
lea, that 1t could be deepened and
strengthened by the clear understanding
of the situation, and causes Of the war
I was given to understand that the citi-
zens of the United States had been at
first nisled by distortion of facts. put
forward by the Rhodesian capitalist j,ngo
press In England, as we'll as by the mis-
representations Of few individuals in
America. | was urged to- second the eff
forts of local sympathizers in the direc.
tion of conciliation and mediation, for
which / had earnestly striven before the
outbreak of hostilities. Dr. Leyds, whom
I consulted, approved of my visit and
further commissioned me to inquire into
and report upon the trend of the feeling
in the states on the South African situ-
ation"
MAFEKING NOT RELIEVED.
HoURENZo MARQUES, Thursday
Feb Ia dispatch from Gaberones dat
Of Jan. 49, describing a reconnaissance
of some of Col. Plumer's forces around
the Boer laager southwark, seems to dis