The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-12
-0SS HEAVY AT LADYSMITH.
British HAD OVER 500 KILLED
AND WOUNDED.

/ First Report of the Result of Whites
Battle With the Boers-Boer Loss
pnndinS Bullets to De Uge,: for
Practice OniF~.ssuvere Criticism of
,he Gensorship-Lord Methuen's
Injuries.
/ London. Jan. 12.-The Daily Mail says:
I I'VE learn that in the attack on Lady
smith last Saturday, Jan. g., the British
losses we're IA officers killed, 81 wounded.
I and over 800 non-commissioned officers and
! men killed or wounded.
The Boer losses, We hear, are estimat-
ed at between 1000 and 5000"
1 London. Jan. y. a. m.-Lee- Meiford
cartridges are running short in the Brit
( kh magazines, and, according TO a semi
official report, the war office purposes to
Han back temporarily upon 5000 900
mark "" expanding bullets, most of
which are already in storage in South
africa.
I The war office. however. has issued a
lfNy rounds of mark w" given them
must be used in practice at home, none be-
ing taken to South Africa
After the public announcement that no
such bullet would be used in this war, its
employment, the Daily Chronicle thinks.
iWouid be a serious breach of faith, es-
lpecally as the British commanders have
H. rla bn II,r
Il Iuse such projectiles.
Censorship Criticised.
The newspapers We're reconeiled during
the early days of the war to cable cen
Isorship, taking it for granted that full
narratives sent by mail would supply all
deficiencies. For some weeks, however,
Ieyen the mail correspondence that has ar
Iriyed in London has shown signs of habit
Gal scissoring by the censor. Pages are
Irenumbered without chronological or log
eal connection, leaving the happenings de
Iscribed quite unintelligibly in many cases
The editors, acting possibly in concert,
Iare laying these facts before the public
land insisting that they be permitted to
Iknow and to print the facts.
The Daily Mail formally accuses the war
IOfice of "doctoring" in editing official dis
patches before their issuance, and cites
/ artcuars.
| The Daily Chronicle ayers that there
/ GEMS to be an official conspiracy against
Ietting the truth be known
/ Although the number of deaths from
udysentery and enteric fever at Ladysmith
have been published by the war office
Nsince Saturdays fight, nothing has been
ksiven out regarding the losses in the en-
Neagement. -'-'--.~----. -e-,.......
The war office asserts that 1t has norna
ling to give out.
Waiting on ''Bobs."
1 Armchair critics, who, in the absence Of
Feportorial or official description from the
Nseat of war, pour forth pages of conjec-
uture and opinion, conclude that not much
Il TO be expected of the British hosts in
Nsouth Africa until Lord Roberts shall
Ihape had plenty of time to think and
Iiresp levies shall have arrived. Time is
lWorking now for the Beers. Each day
Imakes more difficulty the three beeagured
lpositons.
1 Although the war office declines to con-
Ifrm the report that Lord Methuen has
lbeen recalled to England, inquiries made
~ a correspondent at Methuen's home in
iWiitsare have ELECTED the information
INA when he received his wound his horse
lthrew him heavily, and spinal and other
inluues supervened.
4 The theory is now advanced that the
ifezures of the German mail steamers
Hhefzog and General, since released. We're
Hfnade on purposely misleading information
HsuppIed to British agents, the design be-
Hng TO embroil Great Britain and Germany
n a quarrel