Show GLAD SOUND Of RELIEF GUNS GUNSt t Cheered by Fir Mr tug ing of the British C I TWO OP DR THREE DAYS 1 FIGHTING EXPECTED l Arc Getting Gettin Close to the Bar Ber City t I Bailers Bullers Officers Were Making Bets 1 I Thursday That They Would Reach Beach Their Destination Friday Night j Orders to Respect the White Flag Only When Boars Boors Lay Down Their Arms General Warrens SUCA SS Makes the Way Easy Ladysmith Lad Wednesday day Jan Ian 17 via v a Camp Jan te m quiet The The position is lo unchanged 14 JId there is 1 very little bombarding The welcome sound of the gnus gune gu of the re relief II lIet lief column was heard beard yesterday y from rom i Q and Springfield The heat heM Is te I intense but there is 15 no increase of o sickness London Jan 20 hour that hi General Duller Buller Bull delays delaye his hie combined at attack attack attack tack makes his position stronger Transports continue to arrive at Dur Durban DurI Durban ban and ami an fresh tre h troops are being sent up 1 I Ithe I the line to reinforce those in front of o It appears appear that General Bui nul i I lers t north of the Tugela mum I I her berat ja at least and possibly I II I I with fifty guBik gun His total forces form forming Onn i tug ing a great outer curve south and west j i I I of Ladysmith probably number I While General Oeal Bullers Hullers forward op operations opI operations I which began be an on Jan 10 de developed rather leisurely lel the Boom Boere ap appear appear appear I pear to be fully folly aware aW that they must make a strenuous assault Balloon ob observers observers servers have estimated e that 10 Doers Boers are using u spade and pick f fin in artificially strengthening position which nature has bas rendered rea es e sy of at de defense fet Fighting Expected Any Hour Military critics in touch with t tile the war office think that news DeWS th l general enera fighting has bas begun may y be expected at any hour It is not DOt thought ih thone one days lighting fighting will settle the fate fal of Ladysmith but rather that there willbe willbe will willbe I i be two or three days of continuous fighting The Daily Mail Mall publishes the follow OllOW following lug ing dispatch dated Thursday from amp It It Is I rumored that O Ute the Boers Beers have Jw in order or to r r orce their th lr go gu lire heard beam train freni f bt Lady Lad i nith kh this f General Generl DoUses s 8 order truels lo the themen men to heed the white flag of the tSie Boers only when they lay down their arms It I t also instructs t them to beware of false bugle cans u uA 1 A Durban special dated Thursday ays Itte reported here that I L Dundonald has bas smashed a Boer Ioor j General Duller Buller is said aid sald to tt be bi bei j twelve telve miles of or Ladysmith and n I General Warren to be about six miles nils to the rear s Time Set Was Friday The Times has the following dispatch 1 dated Thursday ay from front I General Bullers wagon train Is te nine nineteen nineteen I teen t n miles in length and embraces ill wagons and animals As some of the drifts are narrow and aDd muddy only one wagon is able abe to cross at a tithe time neThe I The officers are betting t tio o to one that Ladysmith will be relieved tomorrow Friday A dispatch to the tho Daily Telegraph Tel aph from Farm or Camp as the correspondents now describe ft It Tt dealing with ith Lord mo moments move moe monte ments to the west of General Warrens force already cabled says s His Hilt Hl success gives give us control of an easy entrance to Ladysmith Lad Our guns continue to bombard the th Boer Beer lines Jines the Boers Boors replying but feebly General Warren is advancing steadily The Standard publishes the following dated Thursday from ne Farm HIt It to t reported that the Boers Doers opposite on finding that Gen General General General eral Buller Belles had bad outmaneuvered them I crossed cro sed to the south of the Tugela on Monday and set lire fire to all aU the houses in the village Boers Bors Boe rs Attend to Trenches As the force from m Chieveley ad advanced advanced advanced the Uie Doers Boers retired before them to trenches on a hill bill in line lifie 11 e with Co Ct louse lem Our infantry advanced to the attack in iu skirmishing order followed by supports and reserves our obI cavalry scouting on the right close up to the I river The Boer Doer forces at must I have b ve been weakened by the dispatch of larger reinforcements westward to meet General Bullers ad advance adrance vance rance and aDd they hey now mow hurriedly evacuated ed of the river trenches and the kopjes kopies opposite the village and scattered be before be before fore tore our shrapnel By evening none of or orthe the enemy was left within rUle rifle shot at The British force then re retired retired retired tired to Chieveley The Boer Boor accounts of the passage of the Tugela river we me e given in the fol tol Continued on 1 Page 3 j i I j 1 GLAD GUD SOLI OF US S Continued from Page 1 lowing dispatches from Commandant camp on the upper Tugela via Lourenzo Marques Marquee dated Jan IS Boers Beers Side of It Jan Bullers second move was a in force with an ar armored mored train and a large body support supported ed by cannon toward Colenso last laut night A heavy bombardment ensued and thereupon the British retired hay hav having ing one of our men menNo menNo No reply rely w was s made This move was wasa wasa a feint to io cover extensive movements up the river on this side de of the Tugela have been warned by the Brit British lath ish to leave their kraals as ng the fight will commence shortly i iThe The second dispatch rune ron thus due Jan 1 The night was unbroken save toe for i slight rifle encounters between outposts which let led to nothing At daybreak the enemy was located as before He had isad hadnot not brought a single sun gun across the river But from the ridges of Swart a battery and a half of siege guns opened on our position at S a m in inThe The bombardment was probably the most moat frightful ever witnessed on land Frequently five heavy naval guns fired simultaneously at one en t Difficulties of o the March MarchA A to the Daily Telegraph dated v from camp describes the difficulties of the march owin owing to the unwieldy baggage column including nfl all the tents teats and sheep over bad roads in wet weather The correspondent then goes on to say eay Some Boers arrived in the rho vi vicinity vicinity of Drift on and Friday of last week and began the erection of extensive and formidable lines of for their position which apparently could only bis be turned from the west by assailing the high ridges of the lop Kop KopA lopA A balloonist today reported that no guns were visible In n the works but there was t large Hoer Boer camp capp in th the direction of a brown ridge four miles from Drift Boers Boera arrived Jn in large to today today day from Colenso nail and Ladysmith They have certainly run branches of the railway from around Mount Nearly early all the Boors Boers have gone to attempt to check General Warrens advance hut but he made no sign signI signAu An Au Unfounded Rumor Humor London Jan 12 It was rumored on the tho stock exchange this morning that after ofir fighting Ladysmith had been relieved ana that General Warren had been killed I log ng t tva aa obtainable tending to verify the rumor an it had no ap on an stocks i HOPES OF OP THE T Generally Elated Over vcr Their Successes So SoFas Far New York Tork Jan 19 An idea of the high hopes entertained In the Trans j real vaal republic of the outcome of the j war with Great Britain is given in a aletter letter written by E as assistant station master at Johannes Johannesburg burg to his sister in Brooklyn The letter was seat sC t in November by oy way i of Lourenzo Marques Marquez The letter says i in part S j j We are getting used to it a bit now flow Since Oct 15 no more letters reached us from beyond the Transvaal A sol aol solitary cable dispatch manages to come through occasionally but then it is a week old At first I still maintained i with Cape Town but butt J that is no more possible now The Boers are scoring an enormous success and have already conquered the biggest part of Natal They are pushing already Into Cape Colony j where they are joined by the burgh i eTc ers is likewise completely surrounded as well as Mafeking while in the northern part last of the Transvaal the Boors Boars are already beyond our boun boundaries boundaries daries On every side the British are getting a good thrashing The internal arrangements here are i excellent Alt All the English have left the country Order is beautifully main maintained tamed The Hours still remaining away may be seen daily leaving for their various commandos The j has reached such a pitch that the who dont do anything for their country grow ashamed Johannesburg now is fearfully quiet All the male population has been drafted into a special constabulary No Noone Noone one is allowed out after 9 p m With the exception of ten mines which are being worked by the government all the mines on the Rand Band are shut down dowa downIf If you could but see how everything is being taken care of and looked after even to the minutest detail you could not fall fail to feel great respect for the genius in organizing which is being dis displayed displayed played by the Boers in command Up to the js 1500 are prisoners among upi are fifty sill officers cers and are slain dain Our loss dues not including the dead and wounded it sounds like a miracle It still looks doubtful who will come out ultimate conqueror but as things look now the burghers stand a good chance No fighting has occurred on their own ow country The supply of food te is plentiful the enthusiasm Is i great The English soldiers are arc not worth and surrender easily Already two ot generals are dead Cape Colony will revolt The English are earned reward and I should not feel surprised to see the English leave South Africa neck and crop S No doubt it will to see me having changed thus but tha thai t could hot be otherwise after having Witnessed everything It is now clear that tbt Cham sole aim has been for three make war against the Trans Train obtain possession of its ter These last months I have a great deal about the Boers I and their country and though I am In I Ino no wise infatuated with them they are J munch much superior to those that work the mines One of the striking features is that Jn in this war the Boers Beers show all I their good qualities leaving their bad ones at home WILL ilOVE QUICKLY I British Consider Ladysmith as Good GoodS i S as Relieved Believed j London Jan 10 General Buller has han telegraphed the war office from Spear mans camp under date of last la even as follows Lord Dundonald with witha a body of mounted troops came Otto into thiS afternoon with a force of piers rs west of Acton Homes After aj a he occupied several kopjes hones which he is still holding Field Cornet Hell was killed twenty burghers were killed or wounded and fifteen prisoners were taken Two British soldiers were killed and two wounded Messages from the front appear to confirm the general Impression that I events in Natal will now move I though hardly as rapidly as the tongues and pens of the rumormongers There is nothing up to the present to sup support port the story that the relief of Lady Ladysmith smith te is an accomplished ao fact but it itis itis is learned oh excellent authority that the situation is now regarded at the war office with entire confidence and that the tha beleaguered town is considered I practically relieved although there te is no attempt to underrate the danger and difficulty of General Butlers task As suggested in these dispatches yes yesterday General Warren was actually In Inthe inthe the vicinity of Acton Homes Wednes Wednesday day and a portion of his force under Lord Dundonald secured an important i position westward of that place during the evening of Jan 17 on the Boers ers j right flank threatening the Free Stat ere communication with their own country by way of Van Remans Pass l The British camp outside of Ladysmith ought to be visible from there as the intervening country is open Sir Ellis ElIis Ashmead Bartlett M I P who has arrived at Fort Cape Colony expressed satisfaction with General Frenchs disposition of his troops He visited yes yesterday yesterday while the shelling of the Boors Boers j camp was proceeding with such sue suc success cess cese that it te is announced on good an that and thirty six Mx heroes were killed Advices from Cape Town say Web Webster ster ater Davis assistant secretary of the Interior at Washington sailed from Port Elizabeth Monday for Bay It te Is understood the imperial yeomen yeoman yeomanry ry 17 will he be leavened before that force goes to the front with considerable de detachments of experienced colonials ac an acquainted with Hoer Boer tactics J The war office ollice has made din j patches from Field Marshal Roberts dated today recording the scouting movements in Cape Colony including the ambushing of the Australians when two of the latter were killed hilled and four fourteen fourteen teen reported missing miming He adds A Boor Boer deserter states that the themy my suffered severely in attacking Frenchs advanced post poet Jan 16 Sev Seventy enty Boors Boers are still unaccounted for SHELL BOEL Naval Kaval Guns Do Destructive Work at Camp Camp Natal Thursday Jan IS 13 p m The Hoer Boer trenches have been persistently shelled by the naval guns all day long Small par parI parties I ties of Boors Boers were seen at intervals I S ana a large force from the direction of Ladysmith were seen trekking towards the northwestward British po position position S A balloon did good service in observing lag ing that force made a demo dem demonstration in the direction of the kopjes kopies tour four miles north of position under cover of ofa f a 8 heavy artillery fire to which the Boers did not respond On the left Gen General General eral Warrens troops are now in pos pee possession session of two prominent kopjes kopes behind There was some Beer snip sniping ing but it was Ineffective The Doers evacuated Jan 15 1 and returned north northward ward across Oie tio river Are Advancing Cautiously Camp Friday Evening Jan 19 Sir Charles Warren and Lord Dundonald are continuing a cautious advance hourly expecting battle There has been slight Might artillery firing here at and ai at Natives report the kopjes are full fult of Boers Boero Death of a Correspondent C Ladysmith Tuesday Jan 16 via Camp Mr rge War Stevens special k of the London Daily Mail died yester yesterday yesterday day of fever and was wan butted at midnight S COMING OF OP MONTAGUE Speculation as to th How State Depart Department mont ment Will Receive Him mm Washington Jan 19 The state de do department has not been advised from any official source that Mr Montague White the consul of the Transvaal re republic republiC public at t London is coming to Wash Washington ington as a diplomatic representative of the Transvaal republic In advance of his nis coming the officiate officials do not cafe care to forecast the decision of th the depart department ment as to his claim for recognition The rule Is to to the secretary of state any proper person who comes on public business but bit that admission does not constitute an official recognition tion timi of the visitor When Mr White coils calls he will un undoubtedly Undoubtedly be seen by Secretary Hay Haybut Haybut but while the secretary may ay talk tree free freely treely ly with his visitor that interview will not in itself amount to an official roe rec recognition of Mr White as representative tive of the Transvaal Jt It will remain for the state department officials later on to pass upon the sufficiency of any credentials that Mn Mi White may bring to establish himself in that Character Colonel who first sought 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