The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-01-11
NOT 50 MUCH JOY
EXultation Over Whites Suscess
full Resistance at Ladysmith
Saturday
Gives Way to a Feeling That the
General Situation There Is
Worse.
Remarkable Revolution in BOer
Tactics Came as a Complete
Surprise.

LONDON, Jan. lU.-f ulLHer ueWs OF
General Whites victory is an1iously
awaited, as it is generally realized that
there was little warrant for the exulta-
ton which followed the announcement
Of his repulse Of the Beers.
The remarkable revolution in Boer
tactics has been complete surprise to
the British, who had not reckoned on
the weakened garrison of Ladysmith
being subjected to such q courageous
assault, and it is realized that General
Whites troops cannot be expected to
greatly prolong such an arduous de-
tense. In some quarters it is consid-
cred unaccountable that General Butler
did not press his attempt to effect
passage of the Tugela river while the
Beers were engaged northward. and
the comment on his apparent supine-
ness is nowise complimentary.
From the Boer headquarters it is said
that General Butler is constructing
subsidiary railroad from the main line
to Colenso, westwardly, in the direc-
ton of Potgieter's drift.
Beers Still FortifyinR.
Advices from the Modder river say
the Beers continue to extend their
works and it is estimated that $4,000
men are required to defend them.
The prisoners captured by the Can
adams and Queenslanders at Sunnyside
are going to Cape Town for trial as
rebels.
The Canadians expressed intense in
dignation on learning that the prison.
ers were British subjects.
The colonial troops continue to earn
warm praise on the hillsides, the latest
example of their effective work being
recorded in the dispatch to the London
Times dated Jan. 6 from the Modder
river, which said that the news from
Belmont which showed that the Can
adams and Queenslanders had been SO
energetic in that vicinity that the Beers
had been compelled to desert a large
belt of the Orange Free State territory
across the border.
French's Casualty List.
Little change is apparent in the posi-
ton at Colesburg. General French re-
ported to the war Office Sunday morn
ing, Jan. z, that he had reconnoitered
with squadron of the Household cav
airy on the Beers east flank, two miles
from Achterlang, and drew a consider
able force of the burghers, who, being
anxious for their communication with
Norvalspont, withdrew.
The casualties of the Suffolks near
Colesburg were:
Killed-Coronel Watson and Lieut.
ants Wilkins, Carey and White and %
men.
Missing Captains Brett, Thomson
and Brown, and Lieuenants Rants,
Allen, Wood-Martin and Butler, and
107 men.
Wounded -Twenty-one men.
General French further reports that
the casualties of the other regiments to
Jan. were 12 men killed and A
wounded.
The queen has telegraphed her con-
CALCULATIONS and thanks to General
White and his troops of Ladysmith.
A dispatch from Frere Camp last
Sunday night said all was quiet there,
thus dispelling the widespread hopes
that General Butler had followed up
his demonstration before Colenso with
an effective move elsewhere.
Object to Bosr Gold.
The London Times correspondent at
Lourenzo Marques cables that although
there is no guarantee that Transvaal
gold is of standard value the Portu-
guese government compels the local
banks to accept it as legal tender at the
same rate as British sovereigns. thus
giving the republics every facility for
extensive transactions here and remit
ting money to Europe"
Continuing the correspondent says:
1T is question whether the Portu-
guese order is not breach of neutral
ity."
The latest news from Bloemfontein
says the officials there recognize that
they must evacuate the town at al
early date and are securing houses at
Pretoria.
1t is also announced that the hospitals
at Bloemfontein and elsewhere are
packed with wounded men.