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Show DISTRESS AT LADYSMITH. Garrison Will Fall Unless Relief Is Had at Once. New York, Jan. 3. A dispatch to ine j.riDune irom Jjonaon ai. --m unexpected development of the situation situa-tion has occurred at Colesburg. Late advices are that the Boers returned with reinforcements during the nigln and occupied the position from which they were driven by General Frenchi cn Monday. There is a deepening sense of anxiety anx-iety respecting Ladysmith, whence most disheartening reports of the prevalence of sickness are received. General White reported a list of nearly twenty deaths from entric fever and dysentery and seventy-one cases in the hospital. Dr. Jameson has all the work he can do in that fever nest. It is evident that the garrison cannot hold out long and that Sir Redvers Buller will not allow many days to pass before striking a blow. Transports with fresh battalions and batteries arrived at Durban yesterday, and within forty-eight forty-eight hours Sir Redvers ought to be in readiness for a suDreme effort. The Boer line of defense is now described as sixteen miles in length, having been extended up and down the Tugela in order to prevent a turning movement. There are many dispatches of minor interest from General Buller s camp this morning, but no details indicating the direction of the next attack. Scouting has evidently improved, fpr the Hussars of T-'.ornycroft's horse and other patrols are described as having hav-ing had brushes with the enemy. The naval guns remain in constant practice, but the Boer guns are silent. The war office has completed its arrangements ar-rangements for the. embarkation of in,000 men of the Seventh division in the next eight days. Officials are plodding along with their work, unmindful of the cross-fire of criticism to which they are daily subjected. sub-jected. Lord Wolseley is reported to be intensely irritated by the Daily Mail's attacks upon him. -He is not likely to remain 'silent "when he has a strong defense present. His friends have been insisting for weeks that he was overruled repeatedly at the opening open-ing of hostilities, and that his advice was persistently neglected by the ministry min-istry in general and by: Lord Lans-downe Lans-downe in particular. The storm will blow over if Sir Redvers , Buller wins the next battle at tr.'j 'Tugela and relieves re-lieves Ladysmith, but another defeat in that quarter will be followed by a tremendous tre-mendous shaking up at the war office and at headquarters. The sailing of a small German cruiser crui-ser for Delagoa Bay is the only official sign of displeasure at Berlin caused by the seizure of the . Bundesrath. The vessel has arrived at Durban and prob ably a case for her detention can De made out on the eround":of contraband! of war, but details regarding her cargo are withheld for the prize court. There is excitement at Lisbon over the rigorous enforcement, of the right of search, and the French journals are in high feather over England's difficulties diffi-culties in appeasing German resentment. resent-ment. Mr. Bucknell, one of the prun cipal owners of the steamer recently seized with breadstuffs on board, declines de-clines to give any explanation of his alleged dealings with the Boers. Gibson Bowles is on the warpath, clamoring for the repudiation of the declaration of Paris, so that all property prop-erty belonging to an enemy, even gold bullion, when it is exported from a neutral neu-tral port, can be seized under any flag. All the existing difficulties would have been avoided if the British ministers years ago had allowed Mr. Kruger to purchase Delagoa Bay. |