Daily Kennebec journal., 1900-01-25
HELD AT BAY.
Gen. BulleT's Forces Making
But Little Headway.
The Capture Of Spion Kop Will Prove
a Difficult Task.
Berlin Says that the Relief Of Ladysmith Is
a Fizz!e.

London. Jan. 25-l.15 A. M.-The as
scmhlaee IN Pali Mall outside the war
office ana tha4o privileged ID wait in
the lobbies reluctantly dispersed, at
midnight after the final word that
nothing more would be announced.
Tn utrniug papers went To press
With oonjeccurcs and forecasts Of all
sorts. striving ID guess out something
from Spinn kop. Topography maps
how than Spi1n kop is the highest part
uf a rocky plateau. Eastward for
eight miles are the Bocr positions
along the Tugela. Northeastward from
SpiGn Eop the plateau runs gradually
up t. a great spur Of the Drakens-
burg Gen. Buffers infantry, to reach
thc summit of Spion kop, must cross
Il Tx tv1al eIacis three-quarters Of
mile Wide ana climb 800 feet up steep
slope.
Nobody here seems to know. not even
the "ar office. what Lord Roberts has
aone with his large reinforcements.
six thousand troops awaited his ar
rival at Cape Town since than 5000
others have reached there. Military
critics arr all hoping that a good share
VII these l2.G00 have gone to help Gen.
BulIcr and they argue that few days
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pa every field of operation.
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,.,
Tr, Da:v T-I--rarh pubiishes the
following dispatch from Spearman's
Camp. dated Jun. 2a. a30 r. MI: "On
Monday. Sir Charles WarrenS force
,.e.no1.al4d and fusiladed the B1er po-
-i.=4us west of Sof5n kop. near the
,cri1n Homes road. A lyddite battery
t-,-nparat.d with the other batteries
.rJ 7Iaxf-ns C4riainly thu fire was
effective. causin- the enemy serious
losses Tin. Ii-ers however. cIung
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.h, naiI,. NAH from,
-N.,nn o,.,','-I 1I,~a,,as dated Wadnesday
s,,... ,.,rbis ,3ornina all passengers
h1Gz for rhe Tr,nsvaal were stopped
bv government order with The excep-
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foIIeSH'iluehI n ti'e ia,iioo
Moddef iNef trleefaphlhs' lueaud9'
that the situation OF the Beers at Mag
ersfontcin is becoming unbearable be
cause the camp Is unsanitalY, enterlc
fever iS spreading ana vegetables are
wanting. on the other hand the
health Of the British camp is satisfac
tory although the ground has been
exhausted IA th" irng oncampment
ana thr trees have been cnt down hy
insect pest ana dust storms.
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