The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-01-09
'a0IR lgsfII0NI.
C,n any be Stronger, Carry 10. ~,
or be mors Convincing TsJ sMltus
lngtOn Testing
ANNE PROBABLE,

his man is wei, sssssA Force caaast Ne
is verucity - with New suppiy-TA'
on ava :. Aatass Confronting General
r..,,, .ier's PIan Of Relief.
yilp London, Jan. S.--General White still
nolds out at Ladysmith. or did 90 60
hours ago. when the Beers, ousted
from their footholds inside the works
suspended their assaults at nightfall.
England has taken heart. The sit
uation. however, is worse. The be-
lsaguared force must have expended
large amounts of ammunition, which
cannot be replenished. and must have
lost number Of officers and men,
which is counterbalanced, so far as the
garrison Is concerned, by the greater
loss of the Beers.
General White still needs relief, and
the difficulties confronting General
Butler are as great as before. The
formers unadorned sentences, as read
and rereao. suggest eloquently the peril
In which the town was for IA hours,
and how barely able "a 5000 men
were to keep from bel. overcome
The chief concern f.. General White
is In respect Of ammunition. Sixty
eight days ago. at the beginning of the
siege, his small arm ammunition was
vaguely described as plenty" His ar
tillery then had 800 rounds per gun.
Some Of the batteries have been In &C.
ti0n frequently since then, and all were
probably engaged last Saturday. His
stock OF shells, consequently, must be
low, and this will make 1t difficult for
General White to cooperate In move
ment by General Butler.
The entertainments at Ladysmith, as
described In message that left a day
or two before the fight, and has tust
come through, are fortified hills, we'll
covered with rife pits and trenches,
down which the infantry move in single
file to the various posts In absolute
safety. Full rations are still served,
but no whisky or tobacco.
Mr.. Spencer Wilkinson, in The
Morning Post, points out that there is
one division only at Chieveley, another
at Frere and third at Estcourt. As
Chieveley is seven miles from ColensO,
the second division would have had to
march IL miles to get into action and
the third division 20 miles. General
Buffers $4,000 men and 10 guns were
therefore almost inactive on Saturday,
and when General White photographed
General Butler could really make no
move but an ineffective demonstration.
England is preparing fresh arma-
ments, and 20 transports will be on the
way to South Africa during the pres
ent month. According to the program
2s,O0O additional troops and u guns
will soon be afloat. The government
has ordered Vickers Sons & Maxim,
limited, to manufacture as many AZ
inch guns and 6-inch quick firers al
can be turned out until otherwise no.
titled.
The Boer agents, according to the
Cairo correspondent of The Daily Mail,
are evading British vigilance respect
ing the importation Of ammunition.
The correspondent says:
"A large quantity of quick firing am
goes to Ras Jibeutil, from
which point 1t Is conveyed by dhows
along the coast Or trans-shipped to !
vessels bound for Portuguese ports in
East Africa. French steamers touch
ing ut Ras Jibeutl before reaching
Alden contrive to evade search by |
at Madagascar to
steamers apparently not connected
with European lines. In this way
they escape suspicion"
The Times publishes the following,
lated Jan. 6, from Modder River
News from Belmont shows that the
Queensland and Canadian volunteers
have been SO energetic in that neigh
borhood that large belt of the Free
State across the border has been de-
serted by the Beers