The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-01-12

London. Jan. 1.-THE Daily Mail
says: We learn that in the attack on
Ladysmith lest Saturday, Jan. g. the
British losses were: Killed, fourteen
officers, thirty-four wounded and over
500 non-c0mmissioned officers and men
killed. and wounded. The Boer losses,
we hear. are estimated at between 2,000
and 5000
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
PietermaritzbuTg, dated Jan. S, says:
Private advices from Ladyamith, dated
Jan. ?, say that rations of bread and
meat are plentiful and the garrison has
not touched the bully beef and bis
cult supplies. Luxuries are scarce in
Ladysmith but the hospitals are we'll
supplied with milk and the horses are
in good condition.
The Standard has the following dis
patch. dated Monday. from Frere
Camp: Our patrols have searched both
fianks Of the Beer position. They found
a large camp five miles east Of ColensO,
evidently in anticipation Of a British
attempt at a turning movement.
To Use Expanding Bullets.
Lee etford cartridges are running
short in the British magazines, and. ac-
cOrciug to a semi-offieial report, the
war Office purposes to fall back tenn
pOrarily upon 100000 GOO mark W. ex-
panding bullets. most of which are al
ready in storage in South Africa The
war Office, however. has issued a strict
order to the volunteers that the fifty
rounds Of mark w. given them must
be used in practice at home, nothing
being taken to South Africa.
After the public announcement that
f7fr h. in, 2 -
var, It's employment, She Daily Chron-
icle thinks, would be serious breach
Of faith, especially as the British COM
fDdnd6rs nave complained that the
Beers occasionally use such prOjectiles.
The newspapers were reconciled dur
Ing the early days OF the war to cable
censorship. taking it for granted that
full narratives sent by mail would sup
ply all deficiencies. For some weeks,
however, even the mail correspondence
that has arrived in London has shown
signs Of habitUal scissOring by the
censor. Pages are renum bered with
out chronological or logical connection,
leaving the happenings described quite
unintelligible in many cases.
Reports Are '.Doctored.v
The editors, acting possibly in con-
DeTOrR
pubic and insisting that they be per-
mitted to know and print the facts.
The Daily Mail formally accuses the
war Office Of "doCtOring'' in editing Off
ciaI dispatches before their issuance
ana cites particulars. The Daily CbrOU-
lcie- AYERS that there seems to be an
Official conspiracy against letting the
truth be known.
Arm chair critics who. in the all
sence of repOrtorial or official dis
patches from the seat Of war. pour
forth pages of conjecture and opinion
conclude U,at not much is to be ex
pected from the British hosts in South
Africa until Lord Roberts shall have
had plenty of time to think and fresh
levies shall have arrived Time is
working now for the Beers Each dav
makes more difficult the three beleag-
cred positions.
Recall of Methuen.
Although the war office declines to
confirm the report that Lord Methuen
has been recalled to England. INQUIRIES
made by a correspondent at Methuen' :
home IN Wiltshire have elected the in
formation that when ne received his
warrant his horse threw him heavily
and spinal and other injuries super
vened.
The theory is now advanced that the
seizures Of the German mail steamers
HerZog and General, since released
was made on purpOsely misleading in
formation supplied to British agents.
the design being to embroil Great Brit
ain and Germany in a quarrel
The Cape Town correspondent Of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing Monday, says:
THE van guard of the Sixth division
is awaiting at Table bay until the ar
rival Of Lord Roberts. II. NJ. s. Fear
less seized the bark Maria l., which
arrived at Port Elizabeth Saturday
from the Argentine, with sulphur"