Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-01-12
NOT 50 MUCH JOY
ExultatiOn Over Whites Suscess.
full Resistance at Ladysmith
Saturday
Gives Way to q Feeling That the
General Situation There Is
Worse.
Remarkable Revolution in Boer
Tactics Came as a Complete
Surprise.

LONDON. Jan. 1O.-Further news OF
General Whites victory is %anxiously
awaited, as it is generally realized that
there was little warrant for the exulta-
ton which followed the announcement
OF his repulse of the Beers.
The remarkable revolution in Boe1
tactics has been a complete surprise to
the British, who had not reckoned on
the weakened garrison of Ladysmith
being subjected to such a courageous
assault, and it is realized that General
Whites troops cannot be expected to
greatly prolong such an arduous de.
Tense. In some quarters it is consid.
cred un~accountable that General Butler
did not press his attempt to effect a
passage Of the Tugela river while the
Beers were engaged northward. and
the comment on his apparent supine.
ness is nowise complimentary.
From the Boer headquarters it is said
that General Butler is constructing a
subsidiary railroad from the main line
to Colenso, westwardly, in the direc.
ton Of Potgieter's drift.
Hoers Still Fortifyinr.
Advices from the Modder river say
the Beers continue to extend their
works and it is estimated that 80, 900
men are required to defend them.
The prisoners captured by the Can
adams and Queenslanders at Sunnyside
are going to Cape Town for trial as
rebels.
The Canadians expressed intense in
dignation on learning that the prison.
ers were British subjects.
The colonial troops continue to earn
warm praise on the hillsides, the latest
example of their effective work being
recorded in the dispatch to the London
Times dated Jan. 6 from the Modder
river, which said that the news from
Belmont which showed that the Cam
adams and Queenslanders had been so
energetic in that vicinity that the Beers
had been compelled to desert a large
belt of the Orange Free State territory
across the border.
French's Casualty List.
Little change is apparent in the posi-
ton at Colesburg. General French re-
ported to the war Office Sunday morn
ing, Jan. Z, that he had accommodated
with a squadron of the Household cav
airy on the Beers east flank, two miles
from Achterlang, and drew a consider
able force of the burghers, who, being
anxious for their communication with
Norvalspont, withdrew.
The casualties of the Suffolks near
Colesburg were:
Killed-Coronel Watson and Lieut.
ants Wilkins, Carey and White and 28
men.
Missing-Captalns Brett, Thomson
and Brown, and Lieuenants Rants,
Allen, Wood-Martin and Butler, and
107 men.
Wounded -Twenty-one men.
General French further reports that
the casualties of the other regiments to
Jan. 4 were IL men killed and "A
wounded.
The queen has telegraphed her con.
CALCULATIONS and thanks to General
White and his troops of Ladysmith.
A dispatch from Frere Camp last
Sunday night said all was quiet there,
thus dispelling the widespread hopes
that General Butler had followed ur
his demonstration before Colenso with
m effective move elsewhere.
Object to Boer Gold.
The London Times correspondent al
Lourenzo Marques cables that although
there is no guarantee that Transvaal
gold is of standard value the Portu.
guese government compels the local
banks to accept it as legal tender at the
same rate as British s~overeigns, ''thus
giving the republics every facility TO,
extensive transactions here and remit.
ting money to Europe"
Continuing the correspondent says:
ut is a question whether the Portu
guese order is not q breach Of neutral
ity."
The latest news from B1oemfonteir
says the officials there recognize tina
they must %evacuate the town at al
early date and are securing houses a,
Pretoria.
1t is also announced that the hospitals
at Bloemfontein and elsewhere are
packed with wounded men.
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