The Saint Paul globe., 1900-01-28
LOOKS LIKE ROUT
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lieyed to be the groundwork Of Lord,
Roberts plan of campaign.


Roberts plan Of campaign.
BOERS MAKE MO APPEAL,
BERLIN, Jan. 27-Regarding mediation,
DR.. Leyds said the Beers had no occa-
SION to appeal to any one EVERYTHING
was going splendidly. AS to the conclu-
sion of peace his personal opinion was
that Great Britain would have to return
a large portion of the territory she had
seized from the Beers and the federal
republics would, Of course, obtain every
guarantee that not a hair Of the heads
of their kipsmen would suffer.~-No words,
he continued, need be wasted on the alb
solute independence of the two republics.
Ladysmith, Mafeking and Kimberley, DR..
Leyds added, were simply prisons, with
the sole difference that the British had
to consume their own provisions.
TERRIFIC BOMBARDMENT.
BoER CAMP, MoDDER sPRUIT. Up
per Tugela River, Tuesday, Jan. 23.-The
British are now endeavoring to force with
10000 troops the Spion Kop route to
Ladysmith. The firing on Gen. Botha's
position yesterday was terrific The
grass was fired, rocks dislodged and
trenches pierced, but the battle was prac-
tically one-sided, the federals only firing
thirty shots. A ball from a shell landed
In Gen. Bothas pocket. The only Boer
The firing ceased at dark, but was re-
sumed this morning in the vicinity of
Ladysmith and here, but UP to noon It
| lacked vigor.
MAFEKING RELIEVED.
LoURENzo MARQUES, Delagoa Bay,
Jan. 26.-It is reported on good Trans
vaal authority that Mafeking was re-
lieved Tuesday, Jan. 49,
CT TOfoMY VIEW
NEW YORK, Jan. 27-Dispatches from
London say that the military experts,
| the newspapers and the people in the
street take a gloomy view of the situa-
ton on the Tugela, 1t being the general
| belief that Gen. Buffers f1anking move
ment has failed as completely as his
frontal movement last month. The idea
prevails that the war office has bad news
! which 1t Is keeping from the public and
that the list Of casualties which was
| given out yesterday does not cover the
| losses of Gen. Warren from the annoy
ing fire. spoken Of by Gen. Butler. Since
the nanking movement began on Jan. 10,
| Gen. Butler has reported 80 killed, 5S9
wounded, and go missing. 1t Is remem-
| bered how his casualty list grew from
day to day after the defeat last month,
and 1t is feared the losses Of the past
| few days have been fr1ghtful Gen. Bull
|
! sage, which reads as though he was try
4 ing to saddle the blame for the defeat
| upon Gen. Warren.
! The new British reverse is likely to
have disheartening effect upon the be-
| leaguered garrison of Ladysmith, but for
whom the campaign would have been
| conducted on very different plan. Let
ters when the siege of Ladysnlith was
| begun were very sanguine; letter writ
OBJ f11e Of hnr a
the besieged had rations for six weeks,
and according to all reports the food
question must be pressing. The latest
message from Ladysmith reported twelve
deaths in one day from enteric fever and
| dysentery.
PEACE MASS MEETING.
NEW YORK, Jan. IA mass meeting
| in favor of arbitration and peace Is to
be held at Carnegie hall next Thursday,
Feb. l. The object of the meeting, says
! the call, is peace by. arbitration; to urge
the president of the United States to act
under the peace convention of The
Hague The addresses and resolutions
will be solely in the interest of peace,
and to bring about cessation of the ter
rible slaughter of good men on both
sides.
CANADIANS EMBARK.
HALIFAX, Jan 27.-The second de-
tachment of the second Canadian con-
tingent to South Africa embarked or
the Pomeranian today, marching through
the city on their way to the transport.
After inspection they were addressed by
Lieut. Gov. Daily and Mayor Hamilton,
who wished them Godspeed. The steam
er was booked to sail about O'Clock to-
day.
DIR. LEYDS IN BERLIN.
BERLIN, Jan. 27.-The North German
Gazette this afternoon says that DR..
/ Leyds, the diplomatic agent of the Trans
| uaal who has arrived here for the cele-