The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-16
ANGLO-BOER WAR SITUATION
FURTHER NEWS OF BULLER,S AD.
TANCE HELD BACK.
Gen. Roberts Avoids Mention of the
Operations In NataI-Reports Another
Reconnaissance by Gen. French
Colesbsrg Road Bridge shelled-No
Change I'm Methuen's or Gatacre's
Situation.

London, Jan. 16.-The war office has
published the following despatch from
Lord Roberts, dated Cape Town, Jan.
Is, 6:2O .. M: "French reports that a
reconnaissance yesterday Sunday
shelled the Colesberg road bridge. No
casualties. Returned to-day. Methuen
and Gatacre, no change"
A despatch from Cape Town dated
Saturday, January 10, says: sThere is
good reason to believe that the state
ment that Sir Charles Warren with
11,000 men, has gone toward Weenen is
correct; and we may expect amportant
news shortly. Reports have been re-
ceived here that dysentery is very rife
in Ladysmith. Everything is phenom-
enally quiet at Sterkstroom.'
Bulier's Movements Kept secret.
4 a. m.-General Buffers latest au-
thentic word as to what he and his
10000 men are doing was wired from
Springfield, after his first forward step.
Striving to think out the unknown,
Striving to think out the unknown,
rumor and disquieted by suspense. Cen
eral Roberts seems determined at pres
ent to throw no light on the operations
in Natal, his despatch of tonight like
that issued Sunday, scrupulously avoid
ing any mention of General Buffers
movements.
Butler Way be Outnumbered.
Spencer Wilkinson, the lucid military
expert of the Morning Post asserts
that the Boer force in northern Natal
is larger than General Buffers and Sir
George Whites together so that the
Beers are able to leave a force around
Ladysmith larger than that within the
town and yet to oppose General Butler
with a force superior to his own.
Reports from the Boer camps affirm
that the circle of investment has been
drawn closer by the occupation Of
some hills nearer the town. thus liber-
ating reinforcements to oppose General
Bullei.
The Daily News suggests that a null
titude of the rumors that originate in
South Africa and London are given ac-
curacy by the English military author
titles to mislead the Beers. The war
pages of the great dailies this morning
are almost barren. Nevertheless the
instruments on the loops connecting the
war office with the cables continue to
click.
Burghers Said to bio Depressed.
The correspondent Of the Dali Tele-
graph at Pietermaritzburg telegraph
ing Thursday January II, says: 1.-The
gallantry of the Ladysmith garrison
last Saturday apepars to have depress-
ed if not actually demoralized the Beers
generally. 1t is believed that they lost
at least two If not three killed as
against our one Many Beers are be-
lieved to be trekking northward. The
magistrate at Nqutu, Zululand, tele-
graphs that scouts report having seen
many Boer families with wagons pro-
ceeding north, via Zululand while a
European who formerly resided at
Dundee declares that after the re-
pulse at Ladysmith number of Boer
wagons loaded with dead and wound
ed, passed through that mining town
ship and that the Beers burned some
of the public buildings as they depart
ed Five days have passed since then