New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-04-08

all well off and having nowhere TO go: At
the same time they were too proud TO wish 10 DE
basis and did not enjoy the prospect OF exchang
on hearb of cane Town: so altogether there was
a good deal of feeling. A telegram was sent by the
culties of turning thirty thousand people sud
denly m bs Sas When the ba
OF Magersfontein took place: and 1T slowly dawned
their being turned out over for the present but
that also the date OF tneIr renet was 1ad ~
recede and more into the dim and distant
Our Intelligence DEPARTMENT did not succeed IN
ICED a system of native runners and scouts by
which were enabled not only to receive oc-
but also learned what the besiegers We're about,
where their laagers were etc: We gathered s, that
or three thousand round any time, with about
in spytfontein impeding Lord Methuen's advance.
but so mobile these irregular troops that when
ever We made a sortle they collected from all
parts in very short time and made any action on
part very difficult, If not impossible, without
great loss of life.
Mrs Mcguire also says that the Sanatorium. nt-
ted up by Mr. Rhodes his residence, the
constant target for shells. but. thanks poor aim,
its celebrated occupant escaped.
A correspondent Of THE Daily Telegraph" says:
I happened TO be at the sanatorium when
body asked Mr.. Rhodes what he would have done
If the Beers had Intercepted him on his way to
Kimberley. oh" he exclaimed. ct should have
asked them to give horse; it is not at all the
weather for walking"
1.-THE Standards Kimberley correspondent states
that the Sunday previous TO the relief, when petit
lions praying that surrender be resorted to were
being circulated in the beleaguered town, Mr..
Rhodes received message through the Intelli-
gence Department from Lord Roberts, saying IT
would be humiliating for the to
der after its brave defence, and asking him to
the people that relief would reach them in
few days. The message, received by Mr. Rhodes,
was marked Secret 1 met him shortly after its
WI % Il
Lord Roberts never intended it to be kept secret.
The people need something to cheer them up, and
I want every to know I have received this
cheering news He also caused placards TO be
placed at the corners of the principal streets.
nouncing that the De Beers and Kimberley mines
would lighted and opened places of shelter for
women and children at p. m. Over fifteen hum
dred were accommodated at De Beers and thir-
teen hundred the Kimberley mines, while twelve
hundred took refuge under the railway bridge
which was also extemporized by him place of
shelter. In these places they were fed and looked
after by Mr.. Rhodes DR.. Smart NJ. L. A. Gardi-
ner Williams and a staff of able assistants during
the four days of active Smelling which followed"
The same correspondent, writing of the hardships
of the siege, says
For many days the novelty of eating horsefesh
formed agreeable break in the talk. Starv
ing people however, take kindly to any article of
food Personally, although have always found
a piece Of succuIent horsefesh excellent eating,
am taking any of il in Kimberley. Not only
the wretched animals reduced to skin and bone
l a
cough among them which forces me to abandon It's
II is, however. daily served out to the SOL
diers well the people, though there are
| cases of anthrax in the hospital, and outbreak
Of scurvy in many of the redoubts. There has also
broken a peculiar form of throat trouble which
may IT'S origin TO this article of food. At $50
p. m. all conversation ceases and rumors stop,
for by proclamation, all Hghts-eXcept electric or
acetyline gas-must be eXtingushed, and even in
South Africa finds pleasure in telling white
lies in the dark
There many of extreme suffering,
which, although due TO the siege have reached a
climax from constitutional circumstances. There
ladies tonight in Kimberley who are strapped
their bedsteads, and wearing strait Jackets. mad
from sheer nervousness and fright. 1 know OF the
OF a from Johannesburg, who, in a
rapid decline, burdened with the of two chill
dren, not her own, too i'll TO out for her daily
sustenance because her only servant Kafir
girl As native messengers are not served until all
the white persons have been attended TO, she had
| TO return 10 her mistress day after day empty
handed. There are doubt many such cases, but
they exceptional. and IL would be unfair to
Judge adversely these.
The full report Of Mr. Rhodess speech at the De
Beers meeting concluded with the significant SEN
| tence. not included In the cabled report:
In conclusion, let me say how thankful are
| that the War Office at home has at last sent us
| Lords Roberts and Kitchener. for We, as simple
citizens not versed In military tactics, only know
that since their arrival complete alteration has
taken place.
STORY OF LORD ROBERTS.
The marvellous way i'm which Lord Roberts finds
time personally to attend to the smallest details
and to do with unfang Kindness OF heart. "