The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-23

. i'hlIt Mttl tA.'h dhiiAlN Astl tihil
pletormaritzburg says
Sir Charles Warren marched with
n GOO men eastward from Frcre by
way Of Weenan. His scouts found no
sign OF the enemy at Grobler's kloot
and ColensO was asceriaincd TO be de-
serted.
There are rumors that the Beers are
preparing to leave Natal discouraged
by their failure TO reduce Ladysmith
All the Colonals and irregulars have
been placed under General Warren S
command.
among the Free Staters killed I'm
the attack on Ladysmith on January
9Th was Commandant De VllliPrs. who
but for his weli-known frlendliness to
England would have been commander
in-chief of the Free State forces"
LONDON. Jan. 16.-The Standard
gives prominence to the following dis
patch, dated Saturday, January 18th,
from Durham: "a man who has just
arrived here from Springfield says that
a British column proceeding to the re-
lief of Ladysmith has crossed the Lit
tie Tugela. When he left II was facing
the Boer position on the Big Tugela
and howitzer was Smelling the Boer
trenches. He says also that 270 wagons
laden with commissarlat stores from
Ladysmith had left Frere ind 1t was
expected that the column would join
hands wit, General White Monday
evening The traction engines have
been doing excellent work in hauling
heavy wagons out of holes and
swamps This they accomplish with
the greatest ease.
British patrols have discovered
parties of Beers in the direction of
Ennersdale between Frere and Est
court"
The Situation.
NEW YORK, Jan. ia cable to
the Tribune, dated London, January
10th, says the military situation in
Natal remained unintelligible till late
hour last night. One rumor contradict
ed another. Warren hat gone east
through Weenan and he had gone west
through Springfield and he had cross
ed the Tugela river at Drifts, thirty
four miles away. He had also invested
Hlangwane mountain and occupied the
trenches at Grobler's Kloof, on the OPP
posite bank of the Tugela. overlook
ing the ruined railway bridge. Butler
was at Springfield and at Potgieter's
Drift, and he was also at Weenan and
at Chieveley. There were feint attacks
at both ends and at the center, and
there We're turning movements at the
right and left. Ladysmith was reliev-
ed in rumor.
Two plain facts remain unChallenged.
Potgieter's bridge had been seized ON
Thursday morning, and Warren, with
a flying column of IL 900 men, with n
supply train, had started either east
or west. To these are added the third
fact in the messages of today in the
Times and other journals. from Lady
smith, namely, that the Beers are re-
moving their guns from the Tugela |
and concentrating their forces else |
where. A large camp has been located |
fifteen miles west of Ladysmith, cor
to the force which Buller
reported intrenched four and a half |
miles north of Potgieter's Drift. The
Thirteenth Hussars are reported to be
near Grobler's Kloof
without meeting the enemy.
The Ladysmith garrison has been put
on fun rations, and its immediate re-
lief is confidently expected. Merchants
there are ordering stores from Pieter
Wllle fumOrS tnat the |
Dutch are preparing to retreat in con
sequence of defeat in their desperate
assault upon Ladysmith may be pre-
nature, there is at least evidence that
hey are weakening their central posi-
ion at Colenso, and are concentrating
heir forces elsewhere.
Methuen in Bad ordor.
LONDON, Jan. 16,--Evidence ac-
umulates that General Me;huen's
'lunder at Magersfontein has lost him
he confidence of his entire force to
UGH an extent that, it is declared, it
5 doubtful if the troops would follow
I'm in another attack on the Beers
The War Office is understood to be in
possession of a letter written by Cen 4
raj Wauchope the night before the
'attle, saying that it would be the last !
etter he would ever write, as he had 4,
zen asked to perform an impossible 7,
ask and he had either to obey or to s
his sword. An Immediate
hange in the command OF the force ;
nay therefore be expected 1t is an
icipated in some quarters that Lieu
tnant General Tucker win succeed