The Boston advance., 1900-02-17
BRITISH AND BOERS
LATEST MOVEMENTS IN THE
CAMPAIGN.

War News-Progress of the Con-
flict From Day to Daytime 6r'''S"
Encouraged.
The war in South Africa is gong
on with unabated fury, ana tue brlIlor
are rushing more men to the scene OIL
hostilities. The following is the latest
news:
Gen. Buffers operation at Splon
Kop has cost 912 men, so far ofhclally !
reported within ten days.
Applying to the 2O5 Spion Kop casu-
alties the rule of proportion, the losses
of officers indicate probably oOO caSu
alties yet to come. The total caSual,
ties of the war, compiled from official
reports, are 9,523, nearly division.
Of these 2,4S2 were killed, 4,8ll
wounded and the rest prisoners.
The aggregate British home troops
in South Africa number 10000, the
Natalians 7,151, and Cape Colonals,
21,000.
William T. Stead has addressed an
open letter to the Speaker OF the
House of Commons, William Court
Gully, asking him to bring it to the
notice of the House. The writer says:
1.-The consequence of going to war
with lie in our right hand is now
manifest even to the dulleSt under
standing. The responsibility for the
lie. which is now working out It's nat
ural consequences in South Africa,
originally lay upon the Colonial Sec
retary alone, but by conspiracy OF
| falsehoodS the select committee OF
! 1897 was hOcussed into returning a
false verdict, which, being afterWard
accepted by the House OF Commons,
involved Parliament itself into the re-
sponsibility of a fatal fraud. MT
Stead then asserts that "the war was
undertaken to conceal the truth and
to whitewash the Colonial Secretary,
and he appeals to the House to insist
upon the production of the correspond
! ence between the Colonial Office and
Mr.. Hawksley solicitor to the Char-
tered Company, lin order to ascertain
the truth respecting the Jameson
raid and to purge the House OF tnls
dishoner"
Sir Alfred Miner, British High
Commissioner at Cape Town, has Is
sued a proclamation announcing that
the British government will not rec
ognize as valid any forfeiture or en-
: cumbrance upon property IN the
quent to October 10, the date When
} war was declared.
John Churchill second son of Lady
Randolph Churchill, who accompanied
her in the Maine to Cape Town, has
!; received from Lord Roberts his com
mission in the South African Light
Horse.
The British War Office has sur
7 ,o11yi iV,cr rNI1h
spatch from Gen. Butler, stating that
Gen. Warren had abandoned Spion
Kop which he captured in the recent
night attack in Natal Colony, after
|. a sharp fight with the Boer forces
l. The British casualty list, including
). many officers, exceeds 200. Much
speculation was INDUCED in in London
= = as to the situation of the Tugela river
u u and apprehension has been aroused
Z about Buffers army and the fate OF
beleagured Ladysmith.
A despatch to the London Times
O from Spearman's Camp says: The
= Beers are prepared to fight almos
! interminably, having intrenched thel1
n ridge, which stretches in an almoS
unbroken line from the Drakensburt
, many miles eastward. We have no
- advanced any further but we tnreV
e up intrenchments during the night
A. from behind which the musketry due
Il continued"
At Brussels nearly one hundred
e, thousand signatures have been aI
IN pended to the address promoted b.
10 M. Lejeune and other members OF tn
r Universal Peace Society, asking Pres
dent Mckinley to mediate.
- A battle has been raging along tn
Olivier's Hoek road between tn
Beers and 5000 British troops. IN
fighting is in full swing at Sp1on
Kop. The Beers under Botha an
Nh Cronje have been sent elsewhere.
From Vienna comes the statemer
that the idea of the intervention
of European powers is gaining adhe
lie ents in influential quarters. The Dali
Mail correspondent regards the sign
Ut as unmistakable, and mentions esp
cially suggestions printed in the Au
tro-Hungary Foreign Office journals.