The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-01-23

The news from South Africa is oil
the verge of being important. Tn
British General Warren has crossed
the Tugela a long way up with LOO
men and is marching on the nortl
bank. The Beers are massing for de
fense and President Kruger has called
out all the burghers. He is believed
to have 100000 men. Since the an
nouncement was made of General War
ren's crossing no news has come from
the front, the censorship being very
strict The Advertisers news runs t.
the late afternoon of January 10th.
Summary for Three Months.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE STANDARD
summarizes the situation thus: "Well
the campaign has lasted three months
We have something like 10000 troops
in South Africa. With this huge army
distributed over the country we are
still powerless to relieve three garri-
sons from investment. We have still
to see large portions of both colonies
in the hands of the enemy.
I'VE have driven the invaders back
al no single point. We are actually
further from the hostile frontiers than
we were on the day that the ultimatum
was delivered. The work which Min
listers believed could be effectually per-
formed with $4,000 men has not been
done, has not even been begun, by
four or five times that number. Can
any one fail to admit that this is evil
dence of grave miscalculation of
forces and facts?"
The Times in an editorial criticizing
at great length the Governments con-
duct of the war, alludes to the Stupid
and perverse mistakes" that have been
made and demands mat the practice
OF the non-revelation of facts" be
abandoned. 1t insists strongly upon
knowing "the truth and the whole
truth about the situation" and finds
fault with Balfours defense piecemeal.
The Losses at Ladysmith.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE Daily Mail
pays. VIC ltiI lhdI III lHV attain
on Ladysmith last Saturday, January
9th, the British losses were fourteen
officers killed, thirty-four wounded and
over 800 on-commissioned officers and
men killed and wounded. The Boer
losses, we hear, are estimated at be-
tween 1000 and $1,000"
Although the number of deaths from
dysentery and enteric fever at Lady
smith has been published by the War
Office since Saturdays fight, nothing
has been given out regarding the losses
in the engagement. The Wa- Office as
serts that it has nothing to give out.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-THE Standard has
the following dispatch, dated Monday,
from Frere Camp: "Our patrols have
searched both tanks of the Boer posi-
ton. They found large camp five
miles east of Colenso, evidently in an
ticipation of a British attempt at
turning movement"
Dom. Paul's Proclamation.
PRETORIA, Thursday, Jan. II (via
Lourenzo Marquez) Krue-
ger, in the course of stirring address
just issued to the burghers, affirms
that Providence is on their side, that
their cause is just, and that they must
succeed.
Reports from Colesberg represent
the position there as favorable to the
but the British are con-
for operations on large
scale. The official list of the Boer cas-
ualties in what Is called the plat-rand
fight, on Saturday, January 9th, (the
attack upon Ladysmith), shows TWEEN
ty-siX killed and seventy-seven wound
ed. These figures are described as the
first return"
The embargo at Delagoa bay upon
Transvaal imports Is the question of
the hour with the burghers. II this Is
not removed 1t Is asserted that steps
will be taken prejudicial to prisoners
and aliens.
LONDON, Jan. ia dispatch TO
the Daily Mail, dated Saturday, SJanu-
airy 18th. from Lourenzo Marquee
says:
President Kruger has issued proc
lamation ordering all burghers to the
front. The Volkstem, the official or
gan, suggests that the moment the
British cross the border the gold indus
try should be irretrievably destroyed.
Kruger issued a circular dated jan
nary Sth to Boer commandants and |
urging them to show more
energy in the Transvaal cause. He |
luotes Psalnp33, verse 7, as God-giyen |
Instructions to the burghers, and says |
hat the British have fixed their faith |
N Psalm SO. He also quotes Psalm
80. verses IS and IA, and asserts that
ne searched the Bible without being
lbie TO find any other mode which can