The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-01-15
BoERs WAITING FOR CARGO.

byEno WA141No ROAs SAAsoOs
Durham, Natal, Wednesday, JanuaV
10 There Is Bosr commando In Ism-
bans county, Sululand. within days
march of the sea, with wagons. IL is be-
Iieyss to be waiting for supplies and am
munition secretly landed near st. Lucia
Bay.
The Beers have looted all the stores
and mines in the Swaziland territory
and the ruined natives ara completing
the work of destruction.
NUMIDIAN 10 BE RkQUISITIONED.
Halifax. N. S., January 1.-THE Allan
linz steamer Corsau, which arrived on
Saturday from Liverpool, bound for
Philadelphia, was measured today to
ascsrts In If she had the capacity for a
transport. The Numidian, now ut Port
land, will also be measured on her arri-
val her, Wednesday. The steamer State
OF Californian, also OF the Allan line,
now due from Liverpool, will mike the
third steamer likely to be requisitioned.
SOMETHING MUST BE UP.
London, January 15.-The special cor
respondent of the Daily Telegraph at
Frere Camp. in despatch dated Janu-
airy 10 after describing the situation as
already known, says:
''Possibiy you may not hear from me
for the next two days OF so but, believe
me, all will go WELL"
VEIL SILL UNLIFTED.
London, January III a. m.-Ihe veil
concealing the theatre Of war from the
anxious eyes of Great Britain and the
rest of tae world. is still unified. 1t is
impossible to doubt that this absolute
closing Of all channels OF Information
is due to censorship, the strictest of which
hiss been redoubled since the landing Of
Lo.d Roberts and Lord Kitchener, con-
corning whom nothing has TRANSFERRED
since the announcement Of their arrival
at Cape Town four days ago.
The war Office ststed at midnight that
no further news from the front had been
received. AS usual when news is scarce,
the rumor-mongsrs have been busy. The
story fioated was that Intelligence had
reached the headquarters Of the Scots
guards that Gen. Butler had again sug-
tained a serious defeat. Inquiry at Well
ington barracks showed that. while suoh
a rumor had reached there, 1t was neither
official nor in any form deserving of
credence.
GOVERNMENTS DANGER.
Copyright, 1900, the Associated Press.
LONDON, January lS.-The frivolity dis
played in his recent speeches by Mr.. A.
j. BalIour. the government leader In the
House of Commons, has landed what
has been known as the strongest govern
msnt Of modern times In the slough, from
which extrlcation 10 both doubtful and
difficult His light-hearted remarks, which
were pleasantly accepted by the nation
when times were good and all was well,
are offensive 70 q people mourning for
lost sons and deeply angered by unpIe-
csdented Ieverses MIR. Balfour, II he
had tried, could not have more success
fully put his countrymen on edge and
when Lord Salisbury speaks he will have
much 10 atone for. The memory of Dir.
ChamberlAi AIMS "allianoe'' speech was
scarcely dying away before MIR. Balfour
put his foot still deeper in the Inire.
The Saturday Review, one of the gov
ernment's stauuohest supporters PUTS It:
"1he adminittrat ion is now face to face,
not with the opposition. but with the
nation"
1t Is a crisis out OF which several must
come with regulations smirched and
may possibly result in the wreck of the
government. In any case reoonstruc-
ton Ct the cabinet seems inevitable.
The Spectator protests agairst making
Mr.. Balfour the scape-gost and declares
that Lord Salisbury should not continue
both prime minister aud foreign score
tary, but that hs he retained at the head
of the foreign Office and Mr.. Balfour ap-
pointed as premier. the Marquis Of Lands
downe being succeeded at the war office
by MIR. Harmed Forster. The same pa
per. gravely reviewing the serious mill
tary condition of the country, advocates
an elaborate plan for home defence, in
Guiding q volunteer army, recruited from
civilians and former soldiers, which
would not actually be called out except
In case of invasion, but which would
form nucleus to enable the standing
army to be sent abroad without qunlms.
eff No are to escape conscriptior,
says the Outlook. "the public must be
educated to take more serious, discrimi-
mating and sslf-sacridcing interest in
The army"