The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-12

UiHciais say They Have Nothing to
Give Out Bearing Upon the Lady,
smith BattIe-Food Still Plentiful
In the BeIeaguered City-Troops
Are Awaiting the Arrival of Lord
Roberts-Methuen Not Recalled.
| LONDON, Jan. 12-The Daily Mail
| says:
We learn that in the attack on Lady,
smith last Saturday Jan. s, the British
| losses were fourteen officers killed, thirty;
| -FOUR wounded and over 800 non-eommis.
| stoned officers and men killed or wound
| ed.
| THE Boer losses. we hear, are estimat.
| ed at between 1900 and 3GOO."
| dispatch from Pieternaritzburg to
! the Daily Mail, dated Jan. s, says:
| Private advices from Ladysmitf, dated
Jan. 2, say that rations Of bread and meat
are plentiful, and the garrison had not
| touched the bully bcef and BIS ut sup
plies Luxuries are scarce in Ladysnith.
but the hospitals are we'll supplied with
milk, and the horses are in good cendi-
ton"
! BOERs EVER ALERT.
The Standard has the following dis.
patch dated Monday, from Frere Camp:
"Our patrols have searched both fianks
of the Boer position. They find large
| camp, five miles east of Colenso, evidently
in anticipation of a British attempt at a
| turning movement"
Awaiting LORD ROBERTS.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing Monday, says:
THE vanguard Of the Sixth division Is
waiting at Table bay until the arrival of
Lord Roberts
III. M. s. Fearless seized the bark Ma
ria L, which arrived at Port Elizabeth
Saturday from Argentine with sulphur
SHORT OF CARTRIDGES.
LONDON. Jan. 12.-Lee-M -Metford cart
ridges are running short in the British
magazines, and, according to a semi
official report, the war Office purposes to
fall back temporarily upon 1O000O,000
mark VS. bullets most of which are
! already in storage IN South Africa. The
war office has issued a strict order to the
volunteers. however, that Hfty-rounds Of
mark W." given them must be used In
practice at home, none being taken to
ment that such bullet would be used
in this war, its employment, the Daily
Chronicle thinks would be serious
breach of faith, especially as the British
commanders have complained that the
Beers occasionally used such projectiles.
GROWLS AT CENSORS.
The newspapers were reeeuciled during
| the early days of the war to cable censor
ship, taking 1t for granted that full mar
ratives sent by mall would supply all de-
ficiencies. For some weeks, however,
! even the mail correspondence that has ar
| rived in London has shown signs of ha-
| bitual censoring by the officials. Pages
| are numbered without chronological or
| logical connection. leaving the happenings
described quite unintelligibe in some
matters. The papers, acting apparently
| in conjunction, are laying these matters
| before the public, insisting that they be
| permitted to know and print the facts.
| The Daily Mail accuses the war Office OF
"doctoring'' in editing of dispatches be-
| fore their issuance and cites particulars.
| The Daily Chronicle ayers that there
seems to be an official conspiracy against
letting the truth be made known, al
though the number of deaths from ty-
phoid and enteric fever at Ladysmith
have been published by the war Office.
! Since Saturdays fight nothing has been
given out as to the losses in the engage
ment The war office insists it has moth
ing to give out.
MILITARY CRITICS.
The military critics who, in the absence
of reportorial or official descriptions from
the seat of war, pour forth pages of con-
lecture and opinion. concluded that not
much Is to be expected of the British
hosts in South Africa until Lord Rob-
erts shall have had plenty of time to
think, and fresh levies shall have ar
rived Time is working now for the
Beers Each day makes more difficult
the three beleaguered points
Although the war Office denies the re-
port that Lord Methuen has been recall
ed to England, inquiry made by cor
respondent at Methuen's home, in Wilt
SHIRE has elected the information that
when he received his wound his morse
threw him heavily and spinal ana other
injuries supervened
The theory is now advanced that the
seizures of the German mail steamers
HerZog and General, since released, were
made on purposely misleading informa-
ton supplied TO British agents, the
desire being to embroil Great Britain and
Germany in the quarrel.
BoER RECRUITS INTERCEPTED.
LouRENzO MARQUES, Jan. n.-sev-
eral Portuguese who were on their way
10 toin the Beers have been intercepted
by the frontier police. Nobody In the
future will be allowed to pass the border
without a permit from the governor
SYMPATHY MOVE DEFERRED.
COLUMBUS. o., Jan. II. = The Ohio
house of representatives today, by
strict party vote, indefinitely postponed
the resolution expressing sympathy with
the Beers in their war with Great Brit
ain. The Republicans voted In the afilrnl-
ative. or-.-,x,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE answer OF
| the British government to Mr. Choate's
representations respecting the seizure or
| American flour and other goods on the
| three vessels Beatrice, Mashena and Ma
| ria has been received. Just as the Of
| fcials Of the state department expected,
# amounted to a partial answer, very
| satisfactory as far as 1t goes, disPoslng
of the character of some or the goooS
! seized but not finally deciding broadiy
whether or not food stuffs are to De re-
| garded as contrabald
BERLIN, Jan. Ills Is asserted Lhat
| the German cruisers Schwalbe ana CON
| dor which were ordered to Delagoa pay,
| have been instructed to proceed instead
!. to Cane Town. This indicates belief in
! German official circles that the contra
! band controversy will be amicably set
tied