Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08
MORE MEN NEEDED
FRENCH CANNOT ADVANCE WITH
OUT REINFORCEMENTS.
METHUEN THANKING ENEMY
Believed a Decisive Blow For Relief
OF Kimberley Will Soon Be Struck
Mr. Choate and Lord Salisbury
Confer on British Seizure of Amer
lean Goods.


London, Jan. 4.-There is a complete
absence of any news from the seat of
war. The report Of the boer attack
upon MoIteno is not yet confirmed.
Apparently Gen. French holds nothing
within five miles of Colesberg junction.
His request for reinforcements dispels
the present hope that he will be able
to seize on the crossings of Orange
river. It is probable when Gen.
Roberts arrives, French will be or
dered to quit the present unsupported
position and to concentrate his COM
mand at Deaar or Orange river. A
dispatch from Dover Farm announces
that Lieut. Col Pitcher returned
safely from Douglass. Since Gen.
Jouberts return to the front the can
nonade of Ladysmith by the beers has
been much livelier Between Dec. 18th
and 10Th four shells killed one Of
ficer and thirteen men and wounded
thirteen officers and eleven men. The
war Office acknowledge the inferiority
of the regular artillery by authorizing
tie equipment of a new battery at,
tached to the London volunteer corps
with bickerS and maXims, some OF
which the beers use, and by ordering
100 of 1919 FOUNDER qu1ck-firers built
Immediately. Eight additional militia
regiments have been called out. Seven
will serve in Ireland replacing the reg
ulars sent to south Africa.
Reichmann to See the War.
Washington, Jan. Capt. Carl
Reichmann of the 18th infantry has
been detailed by the secretary of war
to accompany the boer army for the
purpose of observing and reporting up
on the military operations in the war.
Will Not Take Delagoa Bay.
London. Jan. 1.-The Associated
Press is informed on good authority
that Great Britain will not take Del
agoa bay The government does not
contemplate any such step, despite the
clamor of the press and public.
Methuen May Outfank Beers.
London, Jan. 4-Col Pitchers oc-
cupation of Douglass is regarded as
merely the first step of Methuen's care
fully guarded and matured plans to
outfank the beers. 1t is probable that
Pitcher, in connection with Gen. Bah
bington's force from Modder river,
will proceed to the rear of those in
trenchments which now prevent
Methuen from proceeding to Kimberly.
4 Col Pitcher has only about 40 miles
to travel before he achieves this end,
and if this understanding is correct an
attack by Methuen and determined
effort to relieve Kimberley may be ex-
pected any day.
That Contraband Quandary.
London, Jan. 4-AmbassadOr ChOate
visited Premier Salisbury last evening
for the purpose Of making the first Off
cial representations of the subject OF
the Delagoa bay -four seizures. Mr..
FChoate received no definite reply as the
premier informed him the British gov
eminent had not yet arrived at a de-
cisiOn whether or not the fOOdstuffS
were contrabrand of war. But Lord
Salisbury assured Mr.. Choate that the
commercial rights Of the United States
would be eQuitably considered and a
decision in this important matter will
be reached as soon as possible. The
| interview was brief. Lord Salisbury
is consulting the ablest lawyers in
Great Britain. To quote high Off
cial: England is between ScyIla and
.Charybdis. If we declare foodstufs
contraband we put ourselves in most
awkward position should we be a neu
trail power in some future war. We
are most anxious to conserve the in
terests of the United States yet self
/ preservation must necessarily come
/ first" Great Britain may lay down
new regulations regarding goods con-
! traband, making a distinction between
! food evidently intended for domestic
. purposes and food palpably intended
for field rations Under the latter
head might come canned goods. The
/ government fully realizes that the
representations of Mr. ChoEE8 will
, compel it to decide this far-reaching
matter and while his request has been