Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-16
AS to What Butler And His
Men Are Doing.
THE B0ERS NOT INACTIVE
no
But it is Believed That Many Reports
In Circulation Are Only Meant BY
the British to Try and Deceive the
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enemy.

London, Jan. 16.-The Standard gives
prominence to the following dispatch.
dated Jan. IL, from Durham: A man who
has just arrived here from Springfield
says that q British column, proceeding
to the relief of Ladysmith, has crossed
the Little Tugela. When he left it was
facing the Boer position on the Big Tu-'
gela and a howitzer was Smelling the 'Boer
trenches.
He says also that ~ wagons, laden with
commissariat stores for Ladysmith. had
left Frere and 1t wal expected that the
column would join hands with General
White Monday evening. !
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. :
London, Jan. 16, 4 q. m.-General Bull
ler's 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 disquieting suspense. Spencer Will
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Morning Post, asserts that the Boer force
in northern Natal is larger than General
Buffers force and Sir George Whites to-
gether, SO that the Beers are able to cave
a force around Ladysmith larger than
that within the town and yet to Oppose
General 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
4 \ -~-~n 49, k~-v~ <I,SA 13ho~0 To- ~ rn-
Inducements to oppos General 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 authorities
in order to mislead the Beers. The war
pages of the great dailies this morning
are almost barren. Nevertheless. the in
; struments ON the loops connecting the
war Office with the cables continue to
click. 4 .$. .3 i..# .t,4A .a4 Hill.
The yeomnary recruits are disturbed
by the fact that they are only able to get
one and one-half companies out Of up
wards Of 1000 applicants in the metro
politan districts. All the other april
cants fall short of the requirements. One
thousand would be regarded as a very
small number even We're all accepted. The
provinces are doing better, although to
raise 10000 appears far from the easy
matter 1t did a fortnight ago. o.
Among the minor perplexities of the wal
Office is a strike among the military tall
ors, which causes delay in u~niforming re-
cruits.
J. B. Robinson, the South African mil
~lionaire, in a signed article in the Daily
J, News, this morning relates conversation
he has had with President Kruger de-
scribing several interviews in which the
Jameson raid was talked over. On One
Of these occasions President Kruger said.
do you mean to tell me that you do not
know that the men who organized and
. engineered the raid organized it for theil
own benefit? They had decided how they
| would divide the Transvaal. and how eacl
) of the parties was to have certain inter.
ests in the country. s
!, MANY reformers who were put in Jail
, We're perfectly innocent. They were
ignorant Of the schemes of men in the
inner circle. There were only IL men in
that circle and they were to divide the
! Transvaal among themselves. They and