The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-01-02

which Qol6Wofthy elsected thSir rescue On
his own responsibility d dsseFving 81 ~
hiehest praise. Our loAs was two men
weunasa s;x TIE &c., ,, aost ABOUT sa'l's
stops Deers Aecruiting.
Another account sAys;
..sThe success az this little party viii
arrest the progress Of the enemyb re-
cruiting Ia that vicinity."
uetkuenss Guns DO Good work.
A dispatch nom Moddsr river says De-
eember d the naval guns planted . few
excellent ahelis without reply. The enc
mysn position on the left u apparently
considerably weakened. But neither Mod
ar river nor the Freere camp send any
naWs tsndine to show IN impending change
ii the existing impasse. nor confirming
the Impressions created by yesterdays
dispatches that Gen. Butler meditated an
Immediate forward movement.
Csunt GleicAen Recovers.
Count 0leichen. Of the Gtenadisf
guards. ana distant relative Of Queen
Victoria. who was wounded at the battle
OF Modder river. has recovered from his
wounds ana left Cape Town for the front.
Need Roberts ut Cape Town.
a cane Town dispatch. dated Sunday.
December a. published IA the second edi-
ton Of the Times. says:
ssror the moment thsre h . general
lu1l IN active military operations pending
the arrival OF Gen. Roberts. II - gem
orally hoped that he Will, for some time
At least, direct the operations from here.
The absence of Butler, however. has un-
avoidabIy left the colony without that
central organization and vigorous control
81 heAdduasfers essential to the conduct
cf . campaiGh along % vast . frontier
stfictsr Csnsership.
The same correspondent says:
IN view Of the fact that Or. L.eyds
ana other Boer agents seem able to cable
frsely to Prstoria. the British censorship
VIII be even str1cter hencefortns
10 stop Boer Lostins.
a De Aar dispatch, dated December q.
says . mounted patrol has gone from
there. and that other arrangements have
besn made to prevent looting In that
neishborhood by small Boer forces.
fsrtuealss Position 70 Be DeAneA.
The Lisbon correspondent OF the Stand
ara says: ut II currently reported that
tn speech Of King Carlos in the cortes to-
morrow will refer at some length to the
situation IN South Africa. but It h doubt
I'll whether anything win be said any mora
friendly 10 England than to the Trans
wal. The public h with the Beers and
the papers generally fear British designs
on Delagua bay. The Portuguese govern
uaent asserts that It has done everything
to preserve neutrality"
Butler Has . Hard Task.
LONDON, Jan. 2--Ths Standards corrs-
spondent At Freere camp. telegraphing on
January !. says:
"sir Charles Warren's division y now
nearly complete. It's headquarters VIII be
q. Estcourt. II h rumored here that the
guns which were captured from Gen.
Butler at Colenso have been mounted in
the hills commanding the drift Of the
Tugela river at Springfield The Beers, II
appears. captured GO rounds Of Bhrapnel
when they took the guns
sA(3en. Buffers difficulties have been Inn
rnaasurAbiy increased by the enforced de-
~ since the last engagement. He now
has before him series Of walled and for
titled hills, running sixteen miles along
the line OF the TuGe1a. These are swarm
Ing with the enemy, posted in positions
Of great strength and bristling with guns.
while the river in front IL in fiil Hood.
The coming battle win certainly be the
stiffest ana probably the most mounentous
Of the entire campaign"