The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-16

Stores for the Beleagured Gar
rison in Ladysmith Have Left
Frere Expected the Column
Would Join Hands With Gen.
White Monday Evening.
CAPE TOWN, JAM; 13-There Is good
reason to believe that the statement that
Sir Charles Warren with II, 600 men has
gone toward Weneen is correct, and we
may expect important news shortly.
Reports have been received here that
dysentery is very rife in Ladysmith.
Everything Is phenomenally quiet at
Sterkstroom.
LONDON, Jan. 16.-The Standard gives
prominence to the following dispatch Sat
urday, Jan. 13, from Durham:
"a man who has just arrived from
Springfield says that British column,
proceeding to the relief Of Ladysmith,
has crossed the Little Tugela. When he
left 1t was facing the Boer position on
the Big Tugela, and a howitzer was shell
Ing the Boer trenches. He says also that
27O wagons laden with >commissariat
stores for Ladysmith had left Frere, and
it was expected that the column would
join hands with Gen. White Monday even
ing.
''The traction engines have been doing
excellent work in hauling heavy wagons
out of holes and swamps. This they ac-
complish with the greatest ease.
British patrols have discovered parties
of Beers in the direction of Ennersdale,
between Frere and Estcourt
BOERS OUTNUMBER BRITISH.
Gen. Buffers latest authentic word as
to what he and his 10000 men are doing
was wired from Springfield after his
first forward step. Striving to think
out the unknown, London Is confused
by surmise and rumor and disquieted
by suspense. Spencer Wilkinson, the lu-
cid military expert of the Morning Post,
asserts that the Boer force in Northern
Natal Is larger than Gen. Buffers and
Sir George Whites together, so that
the Beers are able to leave force
around Ladysmith larger than that with
in the town and yet to oppose Gen.
Butler with a force superior to his own.
Reports from the Boer camps affirm that
the circle Of investment has been drawn
closer by the occupation of some hills
nearer the town, thus liberating re-
Inducements to oppose Gen. Butler.
The Daily News suggests that a multi
tude of the rumors that originate in
South Africa and London are given cur
rency by the English military authori-
ties In order to mislead the Beers.
The war news of the great dailies this
morning is almost barren. Nevertheless,
the instruments connecting the war office
with the cables continue to click.
The military authorities are disturbed
because they are only to get one and
one-half companies out of 1000 applicants
in the metropolitan district for enlist
ment. All other applicants fall short.
One thousand would be regarded as
very small number, even if all We're ac-
cepted. The provinces are doing bet
ter, though to raise 10000 appears to be
far from the easy matter it did a fort
night ago. Among the minor troubles
of the war office is strike among the
military tailors which causes delay In
uniforming the regiment
JAMESON RAID.
y.
lonaire, in a signed article in the Daily
News this morning, reiterates conversa-
tions with President Kruger, and de-
scribes several interviews in which the
jameson raid was talked over On one
of these occas ons President Kruger said:
DO you mean to tell me that you do
not know that the men who organized
and engineered the raid organized 1t
for their own benefit? They had decid-
ed. how they would divide the Transvaal
tzand how each of the parties was to have
certain interests in this country Many
reformers who were put in jail We're per-
fectly innocent. They were ignorant of
the schemes of men in the inner circle
| There were only twelve men in that in
ner circle, and they were to divide the
Transvadl among themselves. They and
their companies found the money for the
raid. Do you think we are so innocent
as not to know that Rhodes, metaphor
ically speaking, held a pistol at the heads
of certain men in England anu said to
them: If you do not support me,
shall denounce you and your completely
in the raid
At this stage, according to Mr.. Robin
son, President Kruger became mQ,e ex-
cited, and shouted SO loudly that people
in the street stopped to listen to the con-
versation. President Kruger continued:
And then you talk to me against arm
ing. 1t Is true | am arming, and believe
1 shall have to defend my country"
FREE sTATERs DESPERATE.
The correspondent of the Times at
| Lourenzo Marques, telegraphing last
| Saturday, says:
1.-The Free State has now called out
every available man, including the lead
| ing merchants, who had expected to en-
| JOY immunity. The Volkstem, in the
| course of an article, obviously inspired,
| indicates the gold tax as political move,
| holding that if the assumption be cor
| rect that the bulk of the rand shares is
| held on the continent, Germany, France
! and other countries must recognize the
| desirability of bringing the war to a.
| speedy close. 1t adds that every day the
war continues costs the shareholders
! 917000 A threat of confiscaton will be
used to enforce the tax.
| with the invaluable assistance OF a
| considerable number of British subjects
| the Boer government is steadily increas-
| ing the yield from the mines, thus secur-
| ing funds to pay foreigners employed In
| the manufacture of explosives, shells and
| other agents for the prosecution of the
| war. The time must come when the i'm
| perial government will proclaim that
| such British subjects will be prosecuted
| for treason, or deprived of British citizen
| ship. The Boer government Is feeding
| 1900 dependents. Lam reliably informed
| that the Portuguese custom house Of
| ficials recently seized a. quantity of
Confined on Fifth Pare