Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-02-08
BRITISH AND BOERS
LATEST MOVEMENTS IN The
CAMPAIGN.
A Full Summary Of the Transvasi
War News-Prosress Of the Con.
fict From Day to r,ay--The British
Encouraged.

encouraged.
The war in South Africa is goins
on with unabated fury, and the British
are rushing more men to the scene o:
hostilities. The following is the latest
news:
At a meeting of the Board of Trade
at Victoria, British Columbia. a reso
luton was passed urging the Do
minion Government to offe. Great
Britain 10000 troops at the exrcnSa
of Canada.
Lord Roberts has notified the WA
Office that forty Highlanders WHO
were previously reported killed at
Magersfontein, are prisoners at Pee
tOria.
The British War Office intends IL
increase the regular army by fifteen
battalion OF infantry. adding thee IL
the existing regiments.
The sum of $4,000 has been raised
at Berlin to assist the Red Cross Seq
vice among the Beers.
fhe st. James Gazette published
report in London Feb. , that General
Buffers forces had recrossed the tn
gela river at three points, and thai Il
tight had occurred, lasting all day.
but the war office failed to confirm the
story, which was widely circulated.
Exceptional activity Mt the English
navy yards continue but this is chief.
ly new construction ana retitting work.
Three ships will be commissioned Al
Devonport this month
Some unpleasant criticism Of the
War Office has been caused by dis
covery that the sights OF the LeeEn-
Held corbines are defective. Old car
bines have been supplied to the out,
going Fourth Brigade OF Calvary.
A despatch from Cape Town says
Gen. Butler still holds the Tugela
drifts, and viii possibly renew his al
tempt TO force his way through the
Boer defences before long. In any
case. Ladysmith is capable of holding
out for considerable time.
A Cape Town despatch says i50
American scouts, who arrived here as
muleteers, have enlisted in the British
forces.
Lord Roberts, it is reported, will
not at once reinforce Gen. Buffers
army, and the next move in the cam.
paign will probably be an advance
toward the Orange Free State
Applying to the ao5 >pion Kop casu.
alties the rule of prspoI t4oli, the losses
oil officers Indicate probably 500 casu-'
alties yet to come. The total casual.
ties of the war, compiled from official
reports. are 9,523, nearly division.
or these 2,4S2 were killed, i,S1l
wounded and the rest prisoners.
Gen. Buffers operation at Spion
kop has cost 9l2 men. so far officially
reported within ten days.
William 7. Stead has addressed an
open letter to the Speaker of the
House OF Commons, William Court
Gully asking him to bring it to the
notice of the House. The writer says:
The consequence of going to war
with lie in our right hand is now
manifest even to the dullest under"
standing. The responsibility for the
lie, which is now working out its nat.
ural consequences in South Africa,
originally lay upon the Colonial Sec
retary alone, but by conspiracy OF
falsehoods the select committee OF
1897 was hocussed into returning y
false verdict, which, being afterward
accepted by the House of Commons
involved Parliament itself into the re-
sponsibility of fatal fraud" Mr.
Stead then asserts that the war was
undertaken to conceal the truth and
to whitewash the Colonial Secretary,
and he appeals to the House to insist
upon the production of the correspond
ence between the Colonial Office and
Mr. Hawksley, solicitor to the Char
tered Company, in order to ascertain
the truth respecting the Jameson
raid and to purge the House of this
dishoner.'