Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1901-01-02
CHINESE COURT onJEoTs.


Two of the Demands OF the Powers Not in
Favor.
Pekin, Dec. 2S-Li Hung Chang
and Prince Ching, the Chinese peace
commissioners, have heard from the
emperor, Kwang Hsu. Prince Ching
called on the former for consultation,
remaining over an hour. The court OBJ
jects strenuously to reducing the forts,
and also to allowing permanent lega-.
ton guards, which, it seems to think,
could he made sufficiently large at any
time it was desired, to menace the
court itself
After the conference it was decided
TO hold further communication with
the court before seeing the ministers.
| A force of LOO (g British troops
with two guns and Maxim gun, has
gone to Yang-tsun to attack the
Boxers in that vicinity and protect the
railroad. The Germans and Japanese
are clearing the river of pirates from
raku to Tientsin.
THoRNEYcRoFT AFTER THE BoEks.
Who Evacuate Britstown-Railway Ser
vice Restured-Comment.
Cape Town, Dec. 26.-Fighting is
going on near DeAar. Particulars are
unobtainable.
London, Dec. 26.-Lord Kitchener,
telegraphing to the war office under
date Of Naauwpoort, Dec. "a, 8 a. w.,
reports: ''Thornycroft's mounted in
fantry have occupied Britstown with
out opposition. The Beers retired to
the north in the direction of Prioska.
They will be followed up"
Cape Town, Dec. 26.-Regular rail-
way service between Cape Town and
DeAar has been restored. The report
of the destruction Of d bridge south of
DeAar turns out to be incorrect; only
culvert was damaged. Trains are
running from DeAar to Kimberley IT.
regularly. There are considerable de-
lays elsewhere us the result of heavy
rains.
London, Dec. 26.-The New York
Tribune's London correspondent cables
his paper as follows: 1.-THE English
Christmas comes this yeal. with holly
and mistletoe, but with no rue. The
| work in South Africa is unfinished,
but there is no sense of humiliation in
the uneXpe ted reverses. and no be-
wilderment over the holding up of the
English army at three points Of
attack, and failure. to accomplish
ths relief of starving ga11isons. The
news from the theatre of war Is mea-
gre, and what there is points to a
gradual breaking down of resources in
| the Boer resistance. 1t is mainly n
| problem of remounts and relays of
horses. The infantry cG.nnot bring the
war to close by sitiiiag tight on the
railways and in the chief towns. The
Boer guerrillas must lie hunted down,
and this can be doEe only by supply
ing the mounted force with droves of
horses for riding hard and fast over
the veldt
Private advices indicate that rail
way and Geographic communication
between Cape Town and the north has
been suspended, partly by the opera
tons of the Boer raiders and party
by the heavy rains. and this fact may
account for the silence of the wires.
Considerable anxiety as to the situa-
ton in Cape Colony is sill said to pre-
vail in military circles in Cape Town.
but here there is the fullest confidence
in the ability of Lord Kitchener, who
is now on the spot. to crush the
marauding commanders. The Beers
are not in sufficient strength to ser
iously interfere with the British lines
of communication, and any damage
that they may have done to railway
and telegraph lines will no doubt be
quickly repaired"
Other views are us follows: 1.-THE
position of Cape colony is hanging in
the balance. According to Ths 4prn,