Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1900-02-01
GEN. BULLER'S LOSSES.
His List Of Killed and Wounded
Aggregates 7O6 Men.
MORE TROOPS ARE NEEDED.
London Newspapers Agree in Saying
that the British Military Force in
south Africa ls Too SmaIl-Methncn
Praises Beers, Tactics.

London, Jan. 27.-Seyen days Of
fighting have left the main BOer posi-
tions intact and Gen. Buffers army,
700 men weaker, according to the Off
cial casualty lists, which seemingly do
not include the Spion kop losses, rs
those last forwarded do not mention
Gen. Woodgate's wounding.
England is possessed by depress-
ing sense of failure, although not
word in criticism of her generals and
soldiers is uttered Not much effort
is made to place a happy construction
upon Gen. Buffers bare Is words tell
ing of the retirement from Spion kop,
and there is an uneasy impression
aboard that worse news Is yet TO
come.
At one of the military clubs tonight
the statement passed from one MEM
ber to another that the war office had
received an unpleasant supplementary
dispatch from Gen. Butler which was
being held up.
Facts from the neighborhood of tho
Tugela river are scantier than ever.
The censorship is simply prohibitive,
and something is wrong with the ca
bles. The break on the east coast lines
has been repaired, but the cable be-
tween San Thome and Loanda, on the
west coast, is now interrupted.
More troops" is the only sugges-
tion here as to the way to break the
Boer resistance. The Spectator, deal
ing with the necessity of large addl-
tional military preparations, says:
1T may be that we have yet another
cycle of disasters in front of us.
The morning papers edtorially ad-
wise coolness and Judgment and
careful avoidance of overestmating
the importance of the lost position.
The Times says:
THE consequences of this latest
check may be very serious to the gal
liant Ladysmith garrison. 1t is impos-
sible to estimate the next movement.
1t may be that Gen. Butler will be
compelled to retire from the ground
he lately won, but in any event we
may be sure that the British people
will not show themselves wanting IN
fOrtitude and steadinesS. The govern
ment would be well advised to call
out Immediately all the militia and TO
expedite the dispatch of the Eighth
division and of the Fourth cavalry
brigade. No doubt Lord Roberts will
strain every nerve to enable Gen. Bull
Ter to renew the attempt to relieve
Ladysmith.'
The military critic of the Times,
discussing various possible eNplana-
tions. dwells strongly upon 'the ter
rible drawback to British generals in
volved in the absence of maps of this
tangled hill country
The Standard. which thinks still
more troops will be required, and
which comments upon the "astoniSh-
ing manner in which South Africa
swallows up troops wholesale without
any appreciable result" goes on to re-
fer to the continental iubiliation and
to the predictions regarding Gen. Bull
ler's check. 1t says:
1T is humiliating to find that the
Natal map has been more accurately
studied in Berlin than at our own
headquarters on the Tugela."
The editorial then alludes to the
significance of DIR. Leyd's doings in
Paris, remarking:
DIR. Leyds was a guest at President
Loubet's banquet. on Thursday,
where. in consequence, the British
ambassador did not appear. NJ. Del
casse, the foreign minister, cOnversed
some time with him. Our Paris cor
respondent. however, assures us that
the French government is determined
to preserve neutrality.
The position of the British armies in
Cape Colony is virtually unchanged.
Lord Methuen forwards by mail the
first official recognition of Boer valor
and military art. lie calls their tao
tics and their courage 'indsputable.'
In defending frontal attacks, Lord
Methuen saws:
''The mobility of the Beers is such
that they can change front in 10 min
utes, so that tianking operation
when striking home, simply meets a
new front ~