The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-15
BUTLER NOW
BREAKS LOOSE
contnued From Flrst rage.


day or Wednesday as probable dates.
Inquirers at the war Office are told that
the news OF the relief viii be made pub
lie Immediately upon its receipt. No
word mas come of this up TO midnight.
The latest suPposition concerning Gen
eral Hunter is that possibly he IS march
ing up the north bank Of the Wall with
a force sufficient, in cooperation with
Lord Roberts. TO render BOer defense Of
the Vaal frontier irnpracticable.
East of Bloemfontein General Rumble
Is advancing toward Ladybraad His
troops and those Of General Brabant are
stretched over a distance of thirty miles.
The Beers are described as quite disor-
gained and as retraating northwa-d
President Steyn's lieutenants are trying
20 rally them. The same stories Of dis
inregTaticn come from nearly every point
where the English correspondents are
Mr.. Hollawel, formerly a CORRESPONDENT
at Mafeking who was put over the Trans
vaal border, telesra phing from Lourenzo
Marques Sunday, says: Judging from
talks I have had with the Beers the end
Of the war viii come in month or six
weeks. Mr.. Steinkampf. chairman Of the
second raad, who Travelled with me. said
that II the t1rghers were pressed from
Pretoria they would retire to the district
Of the Lydenburg mountains which had
already bee nprovisioned. He remarked
that he hoped the burehers would stand
firm, but feared that they were TOO brok-
en- in spirit. 7 gathered from him that
the whole available force of the Trans
wall was now in the field, the final com
Wandering having taken place last
Thursday, and that it is only the power
full magnetism Of President Kruger that
is getting his burghers together"
At the British hospital in Bloemfon-
tein the deaths from enteric fever aver
age from eight to ten daily.
LyDDITE Is A FRAUD
London, May 1L-(Correspondence Of
the Associated Press -Reuter's CORE
spondent at Pretoria writes interes tingly
Of lyGdlte as follows: THAT the moral
effect Of artillery far exceeds the prac-
teal results has been demonstrated over
and over again in the present war. After
firing 50 many rounds. the side firing has
been rendered hors du combat, and has
promptly accused the enemy of concealing
casualties when the published results dis
agdeed with expectations. When the war
commenced the burghers had heard so
much about the terrible effects of lyddite
that it was with fear and trembling
that they faced the first fighting. They
learned. however, that the ordinary Brit
ish field battery does not fire lyddite, and
that on soft ground lyddlte is compare
lively harmless For anyone with weak
nerves the whistling of the approaching
lydiite shell and the crash as it explodes
are calculated to have a depressing, if
not demOralzing effect; but the Boer
is the most phlegmatic of men. and he
has no nerves. At the battle of Spion
Kop I saw a young Boer, within three
yards, by measurement from where a big
lyddite shell exploded, tearing up the
earth and sending q score Of fiery fingers
into the air, tardily rising and finding his
limbs sound, mutter.ng to himself. The
reds are vicious today" ("Die Rooics
schiet kwaai vandaag.'O But all were not
so lucky. One young burgher pitifuny
complained that the lyddite had turned
his hair and skin as yellow as a, canary.
Nor would the stuff come Off. The most
general effect Of the poisonous greenish
yellow cloud rising from the explosion
was violent fit of coughing and mild
strangling was SUP srinduced in some
cases. The biggest slaughter reported as
having resulted from a single lydd.te
shell was three killed and fpur wounded,
one day in the trenches Of CoIenso. Lyd-
dite is an unuustworthy explosive. Num-
bers Of partially explodet shells were
found, especially at Coienso. And stll
the UNEMPLOYED stuff burnt all right, for
the Beers used it by firing trains 10 kill
files, which became an uncomfortable pest
in the trenches at Colenso.
4 GOOD STORY or KITCHENER
OF all the stories told by correspondents
of General Kitchener this by far is the
best: while Lord Kitchener was en-
gagged in suppressing the Preiska rebellion
he ordered the destruction Of q cerja,n
farm house. Not seeing any signs Of MS
orders being carried out. he rode over
with his staff and found an interesting
situation. In the doorway of the doomed
farm house stood pretty young Dutch
girl. her hands caspins the poor posts
and her eyes flashing fire from beneath
her dainty suub01net The Irish sergeant
in charge Of the party Of destruction was
vainly endeavoring 10 persuade her to let
them pass IN. bur to ali his Establishments
Of 'arrah darlinG w-sha now, a cusha'
etc the maiden turned deaf ear, and
d deadlock prevailed. Kitchener's sharp
Whats this?' put clirnax to the scene.
The cir. evidently guessed that he vas
the dreaded chief Of staff, and her lips
trsmbled in spite Of herself. Kitchener
gazed surIily at her. standing bravely
though tearfully there. and turned 10 his
military secretary. Put down ne
growled that the commanders orders
with reference 70 the destruction Of
R.zhtnan's farm could not he carried OUT.
owing ID unexpected opposition. For
ward, gen lemeu' This IS vouchcd r
BY c. A McHueuen. an engineer. recent
ly returned from Johannes burg"
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