The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-09
STILL HOLDS OUT.
General White Was Holding His Own at
Last Accounts.
LOSS WAS NO DOUBT HEAVY.
Fears Are Expressed that Ammunition
viii Be Exhausted.
FOURTEEN HOURS OF HOT FIGHTING.
Unadorned Sentences EloquentIy Tell Of
the Peril OF The BeIeaguered Garrison.
HIS OFFICIAL REPORT WAS A BRIEF ONE
liant Fictory-boers Were Within
the Works All Day.

London, January Q, S:45 a. m.--General
White still holds out, or did so sixty
hours ago when the Beers ousted from
their toothold inside the works. suspend
ed their assault at nighttall. England
has taken heart. The situation, however.
is worse. The beleaguered force must
have expended large amounts OF amfnuni-
ton, which cannot be repienished and
must have lost number OF officers and
men, which is counterbalanced so far as
tho garrison is concerned, by the greater
loss of the Beers
General White still needs relief and the
differences confronting General Butler
are as great as before. The formers
unadorned sentences. as read and re read
suggest eloquently the peril In which the
town was for fourteen hours and how
barely able his 5000 men were to keep
from being overcome. The chief concern
for General White Is in respect TO ann
munition. Stxty-eight days ago. at the
beginning OF the siege. his small arm
ammunition was vaguely described as
plenty" His artillery then had 800
have been In action frequently since then
and all were probably engaged last satur-
day His stock OF shells, consequently,
must be low and this will make It difficult
Tor General White to cooperate In i
movement by General Butler. The in
trenchments at Ladysmith as described in
a message that left day or TWO before
tho fight and has Just come through. are
we'll covered with rife pits and trenehas.
down which the infantry move In single
ale to the various posts in absolute safety
Full rations are stiil served
Full rations are still served. but no
whisky or tobacco.
Mr., Spencer Wilkinson points out that
there Is one division only at Chevey and
at Ifrere end third at Estcourt AS
I Chievely Is seven miles from Colenso the
second division would have to march
| twelve miles to get into action and the
4 third division twenty-six miles. General
Buffers $4,000 men and seventy guns were
therefore almost inactive Saturday and
when General White photographed Gem
eral Butler could really make no move
: but an Ineffective demonstration. England
/ iS preparing armaments and twenty-five
/ transports will be on the way TO South
! africa during the present month, Ac-
cording to tho programme $4,000 addl-
tlonal troops and seventy-two guns will
soon be alioat, The government has or
dered Vicker's Sons and Maxim TO turn
out guns as fast as possible.
3;45 a. m.-The Boer agents. according
to the Cairo correspondent OF the Daily
Mail are eyading British vigilance re-
| specting the importation OF ammunition.
The correspondent says; "A large guam
tity OF quick-hre ammunition goes to Ras
Jibeuti. from which point It is conveyed
by dhows along the coast or trans shipped
TO vessels bound for Portuguese ports In
East Africa French steamers touching
at Ras Jibeuti before reaching Alden con-
I trive TO evade search by trans shipping at
Madagascar to steamers apparently uot
connected with the Eu}opesn line In this
\ way they escape suspicion"
\ The Times publishes the following. dated
january G. from Modder river: News
Z from Belmont shows that the Queensland
and Canadian volunteers have been so
I energetic In that neighborhood that large
| belt OF the Free State across the border
l has been vacated by the Beers"
Ii Lord Dunraven in the Times this mora
ing turns 10 hls arraignment OF the war
Z department for the inferiority OF British
artillery. He says 1T is useless for the
government 10 contend our artillery Is
I equal TO that OF foreign nations since the
/ Beers have longer range mobile guns"
Wernheir. Belt Il Co, diamond mer-