The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-02
Scenes of Great Joy in Brit ain Recalling Lucknow
 and SebastopoI.
NO LET UP IN PREPARATIONS
ROBERTS TO HIVE IN ARMY OF
 25O,OOO MEN.
Gen. Whites Forces Were in n Weak State-This Accounts for His Failure to Assist Buller-Horses Half Starved and Unable to Draw Guns-Genernl Buller's Dispatches Announcing the Relief of the Town.

London, March 2.-4:30 a. m.-Britons feel that they are living in the presence of momentous events. Tornadoes of patriotic excitement and joy are whirl- ing through the country. Even the dullest soul must have been stirred by the emtions of yesterday, and London's s 6,0OO,0O0 were raised to a high pitch of patriotic exultation. It was a wonder full sight. Old men have nothing in memory with which to compare the day Some likened it to Lucknow, oth- CTS talked of the fall of Sebastopol It was 8 time of singular abandon, the usual conventions of society ceased to control, and everybody knew everybody else, all joining in smiles or bellowings as their dispositions moved them.
 Gigantic Preparations Go On.
 Lord Lansdowne chose exactly the right moment to announce estimates exceeding e61 100000 and rather start led the public by unfolding the pro- gramme of the war office to send out, in addition to the 3O,OO0 troops now afloat, 56,OO0 fresh soldiers Lord Rob- erts will ultimately have force of a Qudl lcl OI d lHllllOIl. All OIueI ildS reached Woolwich arsenal for the con- struction of PA new guns from three pounders to twelve inch guns. Of those 140 are to be naval guns. Already 25,- 900 worhmen are employed at the ar senal and 5000 more will be engaged. These decisions to send out more troops and to increase the home armament meet with universal approval
 Boers Didn't Lose Gun.
 The Boers seem to have got away from around Ladysmith without losing a gun or their baggage. Van Reenans Pass is only about twenty miles from 4 Ladysmith The enemy had artillery in action Tuesday, and they probabl util- ized both railroads in retreating send I ing heavy pieces to Pretoria and lighter ones into the Free State.
 Jonbert Assembling 50,oOO Men.
 Dr. Leyds says that General Joubert is assembling 50,000 men at Winburg, seventy miles northeast of Bloemfon- tein. Colonel Albrecht according to a dispatch from Paardeberg af1irms that the Boers have 75,000 men left. Whether Lord Roberts is at Bloemfontein now or not, he doubtless soon will be dating his dispatches there and using the town as his advanced base. Lord Kitchener's | Arundel mission is to combine the forces under General Clement and General | Gatacre and to advance along the line of the railroad to Bloemfontein. The | railway will simplify immensely the perplexites of transport.
 Ladysmith's snd Plight.
 The conditions at Ladysmith, some of | which were explained by Charles Will | Hams yesterday and cabled to the Unit ed States, are now better understood, i as the military authorities no longer re- tain their special information. It ap- pears that since the middle of January the horses have been half starved and too weak either to drag guns or to carry cavalrymen. Hence the im- of dashing out to help Gen eral Butler attack the Boers. These half-starved animals were carefully saved for food. The disposition to find fault, though mildly, with the passivity of Sir George White disappears as the f facts become known. No one is in the mood now to criticise anybody, although two or three of the morning papers gently refer to the fact that the war of- flee at the outset of hostilities rejected Lord Dundonald as unfit to be a sol- dier, whereas it was he who organized ( the co1onials. Emperor William, Elm peror Francis Joseph and King Hum bert have telegraphed congratulations 70 the queen.