The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-01
only escaping through the Beers bad
TO FLOOD LADYsMITH.


shooting"
TO FLOOD LADYSMITH.
The. correspondent of the Times at Lou
renzo Marques says.
| "Advices received here from the Trans
vaal say that the war Department, con-
vinced that it is unable 10 storm Lady
smith, and that the bombardment will
prove ineffective, have decided upon new
tactics. Huge quantities of timber, sand
bags and hundreds of Kaffirs have been
| sent from johannesburg and Pretoria
| for the purpose of damming Kip river
some miles below Ladysmith the idea
| being to flood the town and to drive the
| soldiers and inhabitants out of the bomb
proof caves, SO as to expose them to
shell fire.
Portuguese authorities are at least ex
ercising surveillance. The government
has notified the consuls that they must
personally guarantee that applicants for
passports are not going to assist the
Boer army before passports will be
granted 1t is rumored that he has also
| conveyed a hint to Herr Pott, the trans
vail consul, of the consequences If he
continues to infringe the neutrality
law"
BLUE BOOK FACTS.
blue book has been published con.
tanning quantity of correspondence re-
iatlng to the defense of Natal. It con-
talns urgent letters and kilograms from
the governor of Natal from dates as
early as May last, up to the outbreak of
hostilfties, asking reinforcementsi On
Aug. MIR. Chamberlain said:
Arrangements to send 1000 troops are
in preparation"
The Natal ministry grew alarmed, and
on Sept 6 implored the imperial govern
ment to avoid rupture until further re-
1ntorcements had arrived Five thousand
seven hundred men were ordered from
INDIA. The correspondence shows that
Col. William Penn Symons thought that
4,0OO men would be enough to secure the
integrity of Natal, and this view was ap-
parently concurred in by the Cape au
thorities. F~t.i
The Prince of Wales has sent the col
lection of bamboo sticks which he made
during his Indian tour for the use of in
vallded and wounded soldiers from the
Cape.
MORE TROOPS.
Sudden orders were received at Alder.
shot" this afternoon for the immediate
embarkation of the Fourth cavalry bri-
gade for the Cape.
A special dispatch from Cape Town
says 15O American scouts, who arrived
! British forces.
1t is announced that the new United
Irish party at meeting this afternoon
decided to take no collective part In the
division of the house of commons upon
Lord Edward Fitzmaurice's amendment
to the address in reply to the speech from
the throne. @a1
ADDITIONAL CASUALTIES.
The war Office has issued an additional
casualty list Of the battle Of Spion Kop,
Jan. "a and of the engagements at Ven
ter's Spruit, Jan. II and 20. The addi-
ticnal list numbers 130 men killed, 391
wounded and 63 missing, a total of 593
With 174 additional casualties given for
the fighting at Venter's Spruit, the total
loss since the beginning of the war is
placed at 9,65S men.
LEADERS NEEDED
Spencer Wilkinson, of the Morning Post,
| this morning takes it for granted Gen.
Butler will make another attempt to re-
Z. lieve Ladysmith. He seizes the opportu-
nifty to express the greatest admiration
| for the British army saying there is
only one thing lacldng-namely, proper
leadership. He says: ,e >g.-.sf
"The whole manhood of the nation is
| animated by the same spirit that filled
| the troops on the Tugela. Cannot the
nation furnish men to plan and direct
on a proper scale?''
PRACTICALLY CoNsCRIPTIoN.
CAPE TOWN, Jan S1.-Kimberley
! photographed to the Modder river, Fri
day, Jan. &C. that all the British sub
jects in the Barkley West district had
been ordered by the Beers to take Up
arms for the republic under a penalty of
937 or three months at hard labor
| About 300 men are affected by this order
CHEERFUL IN LADYSMITH.
.LADYSMITH, Sunday, Jan. Is. (helio-
graphed to Swartzkop, north of the Tu-
| gela river).-The news of the prolonga-
ton of the siege, resulting from Gen.
| Buffers failure, is received with forti-
| tude. We can hold on. The garrison. is
healthier, CHEEKY and confident. Disease
! is disappearing and there is no horse
sickness. The rains give plenty Of grass
! We can hear Gen Buffers guns stin
working, and 1t is rumored in camp that
| he Is advancing along another line. The
Beer laagers around are again full OF
men, who have returned from the Upper
| Tugela. The Beers have also taken up a
| new position on hills near Colenso, where
! they are in great force. Reinforcements
are apparently arriving from the Trans
| vaal. Large bodies of Beers are also
visible between here and Potgeiter's s
Drift.
GERMANS IN BOER ARMY.
BERLIN, JAN 31.-Dr. Leyds, in the
course of a conversation today, said:
1.-The heavy losses the. Germans have
sustained in the Transvaal service is due
to their exposing themselves, but they
! have now adapted themselves to the tae-
| tics necessary In the rocky land. Recent
| ly German, Dutch and Scandinavian VOL
unteers have been merged in Boer regi-
/ ments so that such losses in the future
/ will be impossible.
QUEENS SPEECH CRITICISED.
PARIS, Feb. Paris papers still con-
tinue to criticise the speech from the
| throne ard the addresses Of LORD Sails
bury and Mr.. Balfour. They point out
that the speech makes no reference to the
United States and that this silence is re-
markable. The Gaulois says that the
! days of the Salisbury cabinet are num-
| bered.
MASON RESOLUTION DOOMED.
| WASHINGTON, jan 31-The Mason
resolution in the interest of the Boer
| republic received attention at the hands
of the senate committee on foreign at
fairs today. There was not a full at
| tendance Of members and definite action
upon 1t was postponed. The sentiment of
the committee, as expressed by those
present, was practically unanimously op-
posed to action because of the effect
upon other nations than the two in
volved in the African war. This express
sion was so general as to make it quite
| certain that no affirmative action will
| be taken on the resolution.
INTEREST LACKING.