Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-01-01
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A dispatch TO the Daily Mail from
Lourenzo Marques. dated December
10Th says: 1T Is reported from Lady
smith by way OF Pretoria that the Brit
lsh are destroying their heavy cannon.
prior TO a final sortle.
THE Transvaal agents here have
bought W all the available milk, SUI
Gar and coffee. They have managed 10
get large orders sent for shipment here
by French and German steamers.
Prices have advanced per cent In
consequence and the stocks are, very
short Something like a famine Is
threatened as the British government
Is stopping all goods consigned here
from the coast ports.
Several members Of the Volksraad
meet every stea mer. doubtless 10 give
further orders Portugal is doing her
best 10 maintain neutrality but foreign
opinion in LourenZo Marques Is gen.
orally IN favor Of actively assisting the
Beers 10 obtain food supplies
Herr Pott. the Transyaa consul
general here. Is losing Lloyd's agency
and the agencies Tor tie Castle. Union
and Bucknall steamship lines in con-
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In the absence Of confirmation OF the
reported sortle from Ladysmith that
story Is dIscredlted. No such hopeful
view can be taken as the Boer account
Of The Mafeking sortie seems designed
to convey. No word regarding any
such movement has yet arrived from
British sources and the feeling OF sus-
pense Is deepening as II Is feared Col.
Baden Powelrs sllence indicates that
his position Is becoming desperate.
The dispatches from the front breathe
confident spirit which is by no means
echoed here. The latest Ladysl lth adj
vices show that the Beers Smelling Is
becoming deadly. while sickness and
ennul must also be telling strongly
upon the garrison.
The news OF the spread OF rebel
lion among the Dutch colonists and OF
the attempt OF Beers to cut the rail-
way at widely different points Is very
disquleting as bearing upon the safety
OF the extended lines Of communica-
ton.
All the correspondents are beginning
TO hint OF forward movement on the
the part OF Gen. Butler. the danger of
which is indicated In a dispatch TO the
the unfortunate failure Of two recon-
noissances. In one case the Boer lines
at Colenso We're TO have been bonn
barded by night Mounted men drew
the Boer fire, and II was intended that
the naval guns should lombard. This
however. the latter failed TO do, ow-
ing TO some misunderstanding. and the
reconnoiterlng party was compelled to
founder back to camp, through the
wet and stormy night. marching In
mud and water and with the greatest
discomfort
According 10 the same correspondent
a similar fate awaited another recon-
noissance In the opposite direction.
Two detachments," says the dispatch,
lost their way in the darkness. They
were unable to effect junction for at
tack; they stumbled into water holes
and were out all night, only to return
drenched and disappointed in the morn
ing"
II IS roughly estimated that there
| are $4,000 Beers between Ladysmith and
| Colenso. some 400 being on the south
| side Of the Tugela river. At all points
| the enemy shows ceaseless activity.
| A large number OF Americans are
said to be finding their way into the
various volunteer regiments being
raised in Cape Colony 1t is also re-
ported that many Africans are arriv-
ing az Delagoa bay. having been ex-
PEELED from the Rand because they had
refused 10 work the johannesburg
! mines for the government.