The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1900-01-27


= London, Jan. 25, 9:45 a. m.-The =
= war office has received a telegram :
= stating that General Warren has =
= occupied Spionl1op. =
= 4
London, Jan. %, Ais a. m.-The as
semblage in Pail Mall outside the war
office and those privileged to wait in
the Hobbies, reluctantly dispersed at
midnight after the final word that
nothing would be announced. The
morning papers went to press with con-
lectures and forecasts of all sorts, striv-
ing to guess out something from Spion-
kop.
Topography maps show that Spion-
kop is the highest part of a rocky pla-
teau. Eastward for eight miles are
Boer positions along the Tugela- North
westward from Spionkop the plateau
runs gradually up to a great spur Of the
DraSenburg.
General Buffers infantry, to reach
the summit of SpiOnkop must cross
a natural glaois three-quarters of a
mile wide and climb 500 feet up a steep
slope.
Nobody here seems to know, not even
TIE W al OlllCGs WHAT LOTO IlODefIS mas
done with his large reinforcements
Six thousand troops awaited his arrival
at Cape Town. and since then 5000
others have reached there Military
critics are all hoping that a good share
Of these 1900 have gone to help Cen
eral Butler, and they argue that few
days wait may make him strong
enough to overcome the deadlock.
There are $4,000 troops at sea. and
is expected TO destroy the equilibrium
now existing on every field of opera
ton.
The British losses up to date in
killed, wounded and captured, accord
ing to General Buffers last list, totals
S,216 men.
The Daily Telegraph publishes the
following dispatch from Spearman's
farm dated Tuesday, Jan. %. $50 %. M:
ION Monday Sir Charles Waren's
forces cannOnaded and fusilladed the
Boer position west of Spionkop, near
the Acton Homes road. A lyddite bat
terry co-operated with the other batter
les and MaXims. Certainly the fire
was heavy, causing the enemy serious
losses.
The Beers, however chung desper-
ately to their works, from which they
are only being very slowly driven. To-
using also the captured fifteen-pound-
ers with shrapnel. Our casualties today
We're less than those of yesterday.
Fighting began about in the morn
ing and continued until dark, but there
has been nothing like a general en-
gagement The naval big guns assisted
from Potgieters Drift in Smelling the
Boer position
A dispatch to the Times from Spear
mans T,,nrInI- a..
says: The Beers today had more guns
and are preparing to fight almost in
teminably having entrenched their
ridges, which stretches in an almost
unbroken line from the Drakensburg
many miles eastward.
Firing continued throughout the
day. We have not advanced any fur
Their, but we threw up entertainments
during the night from behind which
the musketry duel continued from ex-
actly the same position as yesterday"
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Times, telegpaphing Tuesday. says:
THE BonditeS are preparing to seize
the first decisive British victory or the
invasion of republican territory as the
signal for violent peace agitation.
They viii accompany their appeal to
by covertly limiting that
they are unable to restrain the Dutch
colonists from rising"
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Lourenzo Marquee, dated Wednesday. |
says: This morning all passengers !
booked for the Transvaal were stopped |
by government order, with the eXcep- |
ton of the Russian ambulance corps, !
who proceeded by special train.
A correspondent of the Times at Mod |
der river, telegraphing Tuesday, says: |
The reports of deserters agree that |
the situation of the Beers at Mayors !
.ontein is becoming unbearable, because |
the camp is unSanitary, enteric fever is |
spreading, and vegetables are wanting. |
On the other hand, the health of the |
British camp is satisfactory, although /
-he ground has been exhausted by the 1
ong encamDment. and trees have been
cut down by insect pest and dust |
storms"
The correspondent of the Times at
Iourenzo Marquee, telegraphing yester-
lay. and dealing with the laWleseinesS
IF the low class of Beers who are get
ing beyond the control of the govern
nent and the better class of officials
Who are honestly DESTROYS of protecting
ife and property, says:
My informantS are convinced that
he only way to save the Rand from the
ury Of the rabble is to cut off the re-
reat of the Beers in the direction Of
The hot bloods among
he Beers are convinced that the war is
lue to the capitalists, and that the only
eyenge possible is TO dynamite the
mines"
T. ". Reitz, the Transvaal state sec
etary, has written a parody on Mr.
[ipIing's "RecessionaL' It is entitled
professional" and is dedicated to
Iudyard Piping" The first stanza
ollows:
Gods Of the jingo, sorass and gold,
Lords Of the world by right divine.
Under whose baneful sway they hold,
Dominion over mine and thine;
such lords as these have made them
rotten.
They have forgotten. They have for
gotten.
United States Ambassador Choate
allied twice on Lord Salisbury yester- :
ay, which was the regular diplomatic :
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