The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-02-09
INTEREST N B|)ER WAR
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were gazetted this evening. They I'LL 157
quarto pages and make up the official
history Of the war; although without
throwing new light upon several inter-
esting disputed subjects, such as tho
Sannas Post affair.
Hundreds of, officers, non-commissloned
officers and men are faverably MENTIONED,
Including Lord Kitchener, who is referrC
to in warm terms. Sir RedVers Fuller
comes in for criticism
The first dispatch undertakes to give
a concise account of the state of af--
fairs in this country fSouth' Africa, on
my arrival. Jan. TO-" 1t describes the
fore es as much scattered. eHe9decided to
leave Gen. Butler with free hand. IN
Natal, but otherwise to remain on the
defensive until re nforced and until trans
port had 7been organized. He. found, no
transport corps existing, The, colonial
forces had not been sufficiently, used,
Cape Colony was restless: :.
RELIEF OF LADYSMITH:
Writing from Jakobsdai, Feb. 16, Lord
Roberts says:
Gen. Butler. Feb: 6. wired that ne had
pierced the enemy,s lines but that to
give his artillery access to the Lady,
smith plain would cost from 2,OeO TO SC0)
men. L replied that he must relieve Lady
ed Feb. 9 that he was not strong enough
to relieve LadysTnith without reinforce
ments and regarded the operation in
which he was engaged as impractieab,e.
SHORT OF RATIoNs.
The marches to johannesburg and Pre-
toria were uneventful. as described by
Lord Roberts, his chief concern being
to provision the army. 1--WE were prac-
tfcally living from hand to mouth" he
wrote. And at times had not even one
days rations to the good
Writing from Johannesburg, Nov. is.
he said:
with the occupation Of Komatipoort
and the dispersal Of Louis Bothas army,
the organized resistance of the two re-
publics may be said to have ceased,
but there ''still remains much for the
army in South Africa to do to meet
the 0snditions of guerrilla warfare with
forces broken up into small columns
and operating over an area larger than
France, Germany and Austria conn
bined.''
SHOOTING OF MORGENDAEL
BLOEMFONTEIN, Saturday, Feb.
Am influential burgher gives some de-
tails regarding the treatment of the
peace ENJOYS who went to Gen. Dewet's
laager. 1t seems that they Were, ordered
to remain with a cart until the mules
arrived. AS the Beers were breaking
lager in the expectation of a British
attack one morning, Commandant Forne-
man came up and asked them why they
they had been ordered to wait fer the
mules. whereupon the Beer command
ant Immediately jamboked Morgendael on
the head and face. and said he felt in
clined to shoot him.
Gen. Dewet, coming up at the mo-
ment, said:
why don't you shoot him."
AT this Froneman fired at the envoy,
who died of his wound.
Mueller. another envoy was jam
boxed also.
CARTWRIGHT'S ARREST.
Albert Cartwright, editor of the
South Africa News, who was arrested
yesterday, charged with criminal and
seditious libel contained In letter ac-
cusing Gen. Kitchener of secretly in
structing his troops to take no prison.
ers, was formally arraigned in noiice
court here this morning and remanded
in G2.OO0 bail
A Boer force pressing southwark has
been repulsed at Reddersburg. The loss
es were Insignificant.