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than appears on the surface, or than
tion.
PARIS Feb. 5.-M. FirmIn Faure.
one of the Algerian deputies, mem
ber from Gran, has given notice of
question to the French foreign
minister, Nj. DeIcasse, with refer
ence to the reports that Italy in
tends to assist Great Britain by re-
placing the British troops with
drawn from Egypt.
NO WORD FROM BUTLER.
LONDON, Feb. 6.-Military opinion in
London continues to assume from very
slender materials that Gen. Butler is
again throwing his army against the
Boer works A retired general, Sir Will
liam Henry Green, whose distinguished
career gives weight to his opinion, thinks
Gen. Butler with his 25, 900 men, is making
detour to the north and west, in or
der to avoid the toughest parts of the
country. AS Gen. Butler must have some
thousands of wagons, Sir William points
Slow.
No authentic news is at hand save that
the war Office affirmed orally to news
paper 1nquirers at a late hour last night
that it could not confirm the reported
advance.
1t Is fro mthe western field that the
most definite statements come. Large
operations are apparently about to be-
g1n Gen. French, who has now ap-
parently returned to Rensberg from his
conference with Lord Roberts, has sent
what Is described as an overwhelming
1orce OF infantry to seize Norvals Point
rms is where the railway, before 1t was
destroyed, crossed the Orange river. and
connected with the Free State trunk line
to Bloemfontein. NorvaFs Point is nine
teen miles north of Colesberg, and twen-
ty-fve miles from Gen. French's head
quarters at Rensberg
The Beers at Colesberg have been in
danger of being surrounded by the large
iy reinforced and extending lines of the
British. An occupation of Norvals Point
IN force would presumably render Coles
berg untenable.
BOERS ACTIVE.
OONAS oAC SilOhlIS great ACTIVITY
IN the Nauwpoort and CoIesberg dis
tr1cts Many of the guns formerly can
tured from Gen. Methuen are believed to
nave gone TO NorVal'S Point The Brit
lsh may ind formidable bodies of Beers
there .
Ihe admiralty announce that fifteen
Transports VIII be dispatched between
new ana Monday with 1900 troops. in
cludlng the Fourth cavalry brigade. mil
lila battalion, 5000 yeomanry, with 2SO
horses aud thirteen guns These "a 00O
are not included in the $4,000 scheduled
to be due in South Africa by the 2eth
Inc Eighth division of 10000 men is
available for service
sir Alfred Miner, in letter written
lAree weeks aGo to the former lord may
Or OIL Belfast, said the war would lasr
three or four months longer. Sir Alfred
wilmer has sent most hopeful and en-
ccuraglng reports to the government re-
sIectlng the prospects of the campaign.
and 1t Is understood his views are shared
by Lord Roberts.
Inc censorship seems to have complete
smut ooWF the correspondents at
Spearman's Camp. No dispatch from thar
point appears in this mornings naners
and nothing has been allowed fhroueh
since Sunday. =
The Times correspondent at Queens.
town, Cape Colony, dated Monday. Jan.
2S says that Lord Brabant, addressing
body of colonial troops on parade
ground, said they We're leaving for the
front the next day, not to return he
hoped, until they had successfully car
ried the operations He could not dis
close the plans, but he said the greatest
glutton among them for fighting wolIld
have his full.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
There was a multiplicity of war oues-
ttons in the house of commons today. on,
little interest was taken in them.
Mr.. Wyndham, parliamentary secretary
for the war office, said in reply to a
question that the government had no in
formation as to the shooting of Irish
prisoners by orders of Col. Baden-Powel]
and Lord Methuen
Answering another question. Mr.
Wyndham said the British artillery in
South Africa was fully up to the con-
tinental standard.
Mt. Balfour, the government leader
replying to William Redmond, Irish Ma.
tionalist, said the secretary Of state for
the colonies, Mr.. Chamberlain, never
made any such announcement as the one
referred to by Mr.. Redmond-nameIy
that a triple alliance between Great Brit.
ain, the United States and Germany had
been arrived at
TIDE HAS TURNED.
Spencer Wilkinson in the Morning Post
saws:
.'The tide is beginning to turn In the
western theater of the war it looks as
4. though Gen. French had been reinforced
pcrhaps by Gen, Choimsides brigade
This would be the beginning Of vigorous
direction of the campaign. When Gen.
French has disposed of the enemy, form
ing his present objective, his force will
be available for another operation
BOERS SURROUNDED.
CAPE TOWN, Feb. "a dispatch from
1 Nauuwpoort says: There is great ao-
/, tivity here and on the Rensburg- Hanover
ad dua fa the diSnatch of an o,,a,-