The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-01-12

And WILD
RUMORS
rssracterize the British War situa-
aou - But the Arrival at the
Seat Of War
Of ROBERTS AND KITCHENER
put, a More Hopeful Aspect on At
tairs-Iadysmith Has 'Bully"
Beef and Biscuit.

LONDON. Jan. 12. 4 a. m.-Lee-Met-
,ord cartridges are running short in
the British magazines. and. according
~ a semI.ofiical report the war GIiec
rnrooses to kall back temporarily upon
100 m 100000 mark "" expanding bull
lets most of which are already in stor-
age in South Africa.
The war office, however, has issued
strict order to the volunteers that the
eftv rounds Of Mark W. given them
must be used in practice at home, none
b,nr taken to South Africa.
After the public announcement that
no such bullet would be used in this
war. It's employment, the Daily chron-
icIe thinks, would be serious breach
of faith, especially as the British COM
manders have complained that the
Beers occasionally use such proJectiles.
The newspaper were reconciled dur
ing the early days of the war to cable
censorship. taking 1t for granted that
tuIl 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 remembered with
out chronological or logical connection,
leaving the happenings described quite
,,r,n,sIlIrible in many cases. The edI-
tors, acting possibly in concert, are
laying these facts before the public
and insisting that they be permitted
TO know and to print the facts.
The Daily Mall formally accuses the
war office Of "doctoring" in editing ON
cial dispatches before their issuance
and cites particulars. The Chronicle
AYERS that there seems to be an official
conspiracy against letting the truth be
known.
Although the number Of deaths from
dysentery and enteric fever at Lady
smith have been published by the war
office since Saturdays fght, nothing
has been given out regarding the losses
In the engasement.-Fhe war once as
Serts that 1t has nothing to give out.
Arm chair critics, who, in the alb
s.nce Of reportorial or officlal descrlp-
uons from the seat of war, pour forth
pages of conjecture and opinion. con-
clude that not much is to be expected
Of the British hosts in South Africa un-
I'll Lord Roberts shall have had plenty
Of time to think and fresh levies shall
have arrived. Time Is working now for
the Beers. Every day makes more DIFF
hcult the three beleaguered positions.
Although the war office declines to
confirm the report that Lord Methuen
has been recalled to England. inquiries
made by a correspondent at Methuen's
home in Wiltshire elected the intQrma-
ton that when he received his wound
bis horse threw him heavily and spinal
and other injuries supervened.
The theory is now advanced that the
seizures of the German mall steamers
Herzog and General. since released,
were made on purposely misleading in
formation supplied to British agents,
the design being to embroil Great Bri-
tain and Germany in a quarrel.
LONDON. Jan. II, 2:40 p. m.-Even
the announcement of the arrival OF
Field Marshal Lord Roberts and Cen
eral Lord Kitchener at Cape Town has
failed to stem the growing lmpatiencs
Of the country at the prolonged mac
uvity in the main British camps and
the entire absence of news giving an
adequate insight to the local situation.
The public and press being unable to
form any Just judgment as to the ac-
tual position OF affairs. stories are rife
that inactlon is enforced on General
Butler, owing to the exhaustion OF the
deserves Of ammunition. and there are
even wild rumOrs of shell famine at
home. But not much Importance need
be attached to these rumors. It is al
most universally assumed that with the
landing Of Generals Roberts and KItch-
ener a prompt return will be made TO
the original plan of campaign. namely,
a great central advance on Bloemfon.
teIn. but the most impatient Of the en-
thuslasts admit that General Roberts
will be unable 20 move before the end
OF the month. Up to the present time
Of filing this dispatch no news OF any
Importance has been received to-day
from South Africa.
LONDON. Jan. 1.-THE Daily Mail
says:
We learn that in the attack ON
Ladysmlth last Saturday January 6 tho
British losses were fourteen ornccrs
killed, thlrty-four wounded and over
sight hundred non-commlssIoned ON.
GERS and men killed and wounded.
The Boer losses, we hear. are es,l.
mated at between 1000 and 1000"
The Cape Town correspondent Of the
Daily Mail teleEraphlnE Monday. says:
The vanguard OF the sixth division
" waiting at Table Bay until the mr.
rival Of Lord Roberts.
III. NJ. $. Fearless seized the bark
Maria L., which arrived at Port Eliza
beth. Saturday. from the Argentine
With sulphur"
a Dispatch 10 the Daily Mail from