The age-herald., 1900-01-13
EULER MAKING
 IMPORTANT MOVE His Dispatch is Dated from
 Former BOGr Position. ARMY NEARING LADYSM|TH Some FierQ Sighting Expected
 at Moment REMARK 2 SCENE IN LONDON After ces Held for Volunteers the orga.-.t Played the National Air, and Wild Outburst of Patriotism Ensued

 General Buffers twenty eight words ans neuncing his forward movement of Thurss day is interpreted as meaning that he has passed around the western end of the Boer lines at Colenso and is now several miles behind them within fourteen miles of Gen- eral Whites outposts at Ladysmath.
 The Boers. few days ago, had forces with guns at Springfield where General Butler dates his dispatch. These eomman, dos have been obviously dislodged either by fighting or by maneuvering. the Boers retiring across the Tugela as General Bul- Ter advanced.
 From General Buffers dispatch, coupled with the fact that unofficial intelligence from the seat of war, has virtually ceased since Monday, the deduction is drawn that important operations in progress he cannot move far without going against the Boer entrencflments.
 The death lists from enteric fever and dystery at Ladysmith. which averages from eight ito ten daily, considered moro serious than the 420 casualties of Satur- days fight, as they indicate the frightfully unsanitary condition of the beleaguered town.
 A letter from Ladysmith, dated Decem- ber 2, says that even then 90 out of $40 men of the battalion were sick with dystery or enteric fever, and according to a dfspatoh to the Daily Chronicle, dated January s, the patients and attendants in Tombi camp. where the hospital is, then numbered 2,S00.
 Remarkable Scene of Patriotism
 Remarkable scenes of patriotism were witnessed in London last evening after a short service held for the volunteers in St. Pauls cathedral The vast audience was slow to disperse.
 Ladies stood upon the chairs, beckonng and calling to brothers, sons and friends in the ranks, the latter signalling back. A scene of great animation ensued.
 The organ.st introduced @ few bars of the national anthem in concluding the vol- untary. The effect of this was magical.
 First the volunteers and then the congre- gation took up the strains, and the vast cathedral filled with the enthusiastic song.
 These demonstrations were renewed by immense crowds outside. St. Paurs church and Ludgate hill were black with people, and it was impossible for the volunteers to march,
 Individual members were pulled out of ulc ranks by their friends and admirers. who raised them on their shoulders and thus carried them down Fleet street to the . temple Those who escaped hoisting pro, eeeded slowly, surrounded by clinging women.
 Streets Filled With Cheering People
 Afterward at the various theaters where the men were entertained, and later on re- turning to the barracks, these scenes were renewed and the streets were filled until midnight with cheering people.
 Reginald Wynne, chief of the yeomanry recruiting office, says he has refused numer- ous offers made by Americans for service
 Only British subjects are allowed to join. Consequently he says the report that sever- al American rough riders have enlisted in the yeomanry is incorrect. Some British CTS, however, who are alleged to have seen service in the American amy in Cuba have been accepted.
 The Duke of Marlborough has been &C., cepted by the war office for service in the yeomanry.
 MT. Chamberlain has issued telegrams from Ceylon showing that the legislative council of the colony has voted to send 125 mounted men to South Africa.
 An apparently well informed correspon- dent of the morning Post says:
 .'The Boer strength. originally 5000 men, Is now heavily augmented by colonists and the enemy's fighting force may be esumat- ed fairly at 100 900 men and 2O6 guns.
 'The Boers are not compelled to guard their communications Their grass is good. the crops are growing, vegetables, cattle and sheep are plenty and game is abun- dant."
 British Casualties at Ladysmith
 The war office announces that the Brit isih casualties at Ladysmith January among the rank and file were 135 killed and PAP wounded.
 Lady Methuen has issued an absolute contradiction of ,the rhmors that Lord Methuen is Ill, or that he was injured by the falling of his horse at the battle of Magersfontein.
 Earl of Ava Dead
 London, January 12.-It is officially an- nounced that the Earl of Ava has died of his wounds.
 As the earl never married, Lord Terence Blackwood, of the foreign office, who mar ried Miss Florence Davis. daughter of John H. Davis, of New York city, becomes heir to the marquisate and the estate
 The late earl went out as a war corre- spondent, although iatterly he had been on Sir George Whites staff. Lord Basil Blackwood. the third son of the Marquis of Dufferen. Is also in South Africa.