The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-11
ROBERTS Is AT SEAT OF WAR,
Will. BEGIN WITH 120. 1000 MEN IN
DER HIS COMMAND.

Methuen's Health Has Failed and He
~~Syy Re Relieved Mans. .&'aSunYfics
Are Feared in the Recent Fight at
ACCOMPLISHMENTS Charges That
the Government Has Made a Great
MiscalcuIatiOn-Gent Yeo-
manry to Go TO the Front
London, Jan. i, 4 a.m.-Duriug the inter
uds of apparent military inactivity ana
Official secrecy Lord Roberts and Lord
kitchener have arrived al the seat of war
II is assumed here that their clearer Wis.
Ion. supported by $1,000 fresh men who are
due to arrive in South Africa within
thirty days, will alter the situation. and
the fourth month of the campaign Will
witness the beginning of victories for the
British arms.
Their presence will restore the shaken
confidence of the men at the front in their
generals.
Lord Roberts finds 10000 men on the de-
fens.ve or watching for an opening.
Lord Methuen's health, according TO the
Daily Mail, has broken down." and the
field marshal may relieve him Possibly
come others will be relieved Of important
commands.
There is certainly plenty of rank in ev-
idence in South Africa. In addition to the
field marshal. there are two full generals.
four Lieutenant generals and twelve or
fourteen major generals.
Many Casualties Feared.
There is an easy suspicion that when
the Ladysmith casualties are announced
they viii be disheartening. and will par
tally destroy the patriotic glow produced
by Gen. Whites victory"
The list of victims of disease issued
by the war Office gives twenty-five deaths
from enteric fever and dysentery in Lady
smith in four days, revealing the fact
that the besieged are existing amid Dad
sanitary conditions.
4 Fatal MiscaIcuIation.
The Standard summarizes the general
/ situation thus:
Well, the campaign has lasted three
months We have something like 120o0
/ troops in South Africa With this huge
army distributed over the country We are
| sill powerless 10 relieve three garrisons
/ from investment. We have still 10 see
4 arge portions of both colonies in the
/ hands of the enemy.
I'VE have driven the invaders back at
no single point. We are actually further
i from the hostile frontiers than we were
on the day that the ultimatum was de-
liyered. The work which ministers be
] ieyed could be efectually performed with
4 1900 men has not been done, has no- even
4 begun, by four OF five times that number
i Can any one fail 10 admit that this is eyl-
A dence of a grave mlscalculation Of Hbrces
and facts?"
Il Gentlemen YeOmanry.
The war office has authorized a special
yeomanry corps, every trooper joining will
pay for his own kit and mount, for trans
portaton and for all other expenses until
his arrival in South Africa. and then VIII
give his services TO the country and pay
\ Tor the privilege, into the fund for wild
o~s and orphans, the amount he would re-
IceiHe as a trooper Several influential
eentemen have already enrolled.
A Ihe Times, in an editorial criticisng at
HGfeat .ength the governments conduct of
me war alludes to the stupid and per
I'll Verse mistakes that have been made and
IA demands that the practice "of the non
n evcation of the facts be abandoned. 1t
III insists strongly on knowing "the truth and
III whole truth" about the situation and
3nads fault with Mr. Balfour's defense
Ipecemeal.