The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-01-23
GEN. EULER SILENT AGAIN
SENDS NO NEWS AS TO HIS OPERA
 TIONS lESTERDAY.

TIONS YESTERDAY.
 General Belief That There Must Have
 Been FightIng-The Work Evidently
 Becoming Harder--AM Unconfirmed
 Report That Lord Dundonald Has
 Entered Ladysmith With 1,6OO Men
 Fierccness of Sundays Fighting
 Situation of the Other Divisions.
 London, Jan. 23-4:15 a. m-General Butler has reported nothing of his op erations on Monday and official and press intelligence leaves the British bivouacked Sunday night on the ground they had won after two days fighting. The war office turned every body out of the Hobbies at midnight. Apparently Lord Lansdowne was as much without news all day as other persons were.
 Fight Must Have Occurred.
 Military men assume that fighting must have taken place and that it was probably more severe than on the two preceding days. General Butler would not be likely to give the Boers leisure to add to the elaborate entrenchments, to arrange their artillery and to con- centrate their forces. The special cor respondents Sunday night were allowed to send the announcement that the bat tie would be almost certainly resumed the following day, and hence official and popular anxiety is at high tension.
 Experts Opinion.
 The British military experts all share the hopes of their leaders, and, as Spen- cer Wilkinson points out, they hesitate to say a word that might be unfavora ble. Mr. Wilkinson refers to the cooler judgment of German and Austrian crit ics," which means that some of the best judges look upon General Buffers enterprise as forlorn hope, as merely a continual train of ghting, which may prove too much for the physical energy of the troops engaged.
 The Daily Chronicles military expert says: Even when a battle is won in a single day, as a rule pursuit is only possible when fresh troops are availa- ble. But in this instance it is not a question of mere pursuit, but of renew ing an attac kupon entrenched positions after a days hard fighting and night | of lying on the battlefield"
 Reinforc. meMts Have Arrived.
 Achievements aggregating 5000 or 1 more have reached Cape Town during | Ay- lax | ie oi iy,h hny these have been disposed, but probably most of them have been sent to Natal, where, it is believed, General Butler needs them.
 Other Divisions Inactive.
 The British in other districts in South | Africa continue inactive. Lord Me thuen's 13,O0O men remain behind their works. General French's 4000/ at | Rensburg were aroused by general | alarm that the Boers were attacking on Sunday, but there was no basis for this General Gatarcre Is quiescent at Colesburg. At Ladysmith the deaths from enteric fever and dysentery aver age ten a day. Some fears are ex- pressed that the garrison may be so worn by privation and disease as to be unable to do much in the way of help ing General Butler.
 Cavalry Held Back.
 The war office has decided not to send the Seventeenth Lancers Eighth Illus 1 sars and Seventh Dragoonf Guards to South Africa, although moblized. It is understood that Lord Roberts does not see a way to get fodder for the English chargers. More than that the English cavalry are too heavy for work on the veldt, and Lord Roberts expects to use Colonial cavalry in stead.
 The morning papers express great with Captain A. T. Ma hans statement regarding the merits of the controversy between the Trans vaal and Great Britain. The Times re- marks editorially; "The clear, manly words of Captain Mahan, the man who, | among living Americans, enjoys per- haps the greatest reputation abroad as we'll as at home, must carry great weight"