The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-01-13
WHITE CANNOT HOLD
OUT MUCH LONGER
Feared That Ladysmith Will Fall
Unless ReliefArrives There
Very Soon.
The sITuk. ION AT OTHER POINTS.
Apparently No New Developments
at Colesbcrg-The Casualties
oftiie suffolk Regiment
III Recent Fight.


IN Recent Fight.
London, Jan. 10.-Further news of
Whites victory is anSiously awaited,
as it is generally realized there is lit
tie warrant for liberalization which
followed the announcement of his re-
pulse of the Beers. The remarkable
revolution in Boer tactics has been an
other complete surprise to the British,
who had not reckoncd on the weak
ened garrison of Ladyslnith being sub
jected to such a courageous assault,
and it is realized that Whites troops
cannot be expected to greatly proiong
such an arduous defense. In some
quarters it is considered, u~nnccount-
able that Butler did not press his at
tempt TO effect a passage of the Tu-
|gela river while the Beers were en-
gagged northwafds, and the, comment
on his apparent suplneness is not COM
~plimentary. From Boer headquarters
it is reported that Butler is construct
ing Il subsidiary railroad from the
main line to Colenso, westwardly, in
the direction of the Potgieter drift.
UrGa Bullcr to Act.
The London Morning Posts military
expert, commenting on General
Whites report of the Boer attempt to
take Eadysmith by storm, says:
The situation in a material aspect
is what it wa on the eve of battle.
Ladysmith is still invested. General
Whites force still urgently needs re-
lief and the difficulties which confront
General Butler are as great, us they
were before.
Indeed, in two respects the situa-
ton is worse, for General Whites
force on Saturday must have expended
4 large amount of ammunition, which,
until the relief of Ladysmith, cannot
be replenished, and must have lost a
uumber of officers and men, ii loss not
counterbalanced, so far as Ladysmith
is concerned, by the larger losses of
the Beers, for the Bocr force was
much more numerous.
Nov, tn Yefore, while the effect of
the repulscs of Saturday is fresh on
them and before the consciousness of
failure has disappeared is the time for
General Butler to make his attack
General Butler has been in Natal
since November 25 planning to relieve
Ladysmith. Today his vanguard is at
Chieveley, about twenty miles from
Lndysmith. Every hill and kopje be-
You'd Colenso is strongly fortified and
manned, while the Boer trenches on
his front are said to extend seventeen
miles along the Tugela river.
The Mail military expert exults in
General Whites defense and says:
1.-The British army of relief has lost
a great opportunity. Will it be al
lowed another such chance??"
The other military experts follow
the same genera! line, declaring the
situation at Ladysmith is still critical
and urging General Butler to do some
thing for its relief at any cost.
Modder River Situation.
Advices FROM Mcdder river say that
the Beers continue to extend their
works. 1t is estimated that 10000 men
are required to defend them. The
prisoners captured by the Canadians
and Queenslnnders at Sunnyside are
going to Cape Town for trial us rebels.
The Canadians expressed intense in
aignation on learning that the prison
ers were British subjects. The colo
NAL troops continue to earn warm
praise on all sides. The latest eNam-
pie Of their effective work is recorded
in a dispatch to the Times dated Jan
uary 6 from Modder river, cabled the
Associated Press last night, which said
the news from Belmont showed the
Canadians and Queenslanders We're SO
energetic in that vicinity that the
Beers had been compelled to desert n
large belt of Orange Free State terri
tory across the border.
There is little change apparent in
the position at Colesberg. French re-
ported to the war office Sunday morn
ing that he had reconnoitered with a
squadron of household cavalry on the
Beers east flank two miles from Acht-
ertang and drew Il considerable force
of bnrghers. who we're anxious for
their communication with Noryals-
pont.
Casualties Of the Smrolks.
The casualties of the SufTolks near
Colesberg we're:
Killed-Colonel Watson aud Licuten-
ants Willins, Carey and White and
twent%-tEree men.
Missing-LCaptains BRETT, Thomson
and Brown and Lieutenants Rantz, Al
len. Wood-AIartin, Butler and lO7 men.
Neutrality-suspicious. men.
French further reports that the cas-
ualties of other regiments to JVnuary
4 We're twelve killed and forty-four
wounded.
The queen has telegraphcd congrat-
ulatioIs and thanks to White and his
troops at Ladysmitll. A dispatch from
Frere}camp Sunday night said all was
quiet there, thus dispelling the wide
spread hope that Butler had followed
up his demonstration before Colenso
with an effective elsewhere. The.
Times correspondent at LourenZo
Marquee cables that, although there
is no guarantee that Transvnal gold
is of standard value. the Portuguese
government compels local banks to &C.
cePt it as legal tender at the same
rates as British s~overeigns, thus Civ
ing the republics every facility for ex-
tensiye transactions here and remit.
ting money to Europe"
The latest news from Bloemfonte;n
says that officials there recognize they
must %evncuate the town at an early
date, and they are securing houses at
Pretoria. 1t is also announced that
the hospitals at Bloemfontein and
elsewhere are packed with wounded
DUTCH CRUISER FIRED ON
RiImnrnd&in An,c}nrdam That cL.,