Show J THE UTMOST UT OST GLOOM S I 1 FOR HE BRITISH PUBLIC Necessity is Realized at London of Abandoning General Whites Forces to 10 Their Fate Most Carefully Planned and Executed Movement of Entire Campaign Camp ign Has Resulted in Disaster S S Lo Tan i a m The week wee weel l tats opened with the utmost gloom fo for forthe forthe the British public and the reaction t tall is all the stronger r because of or the high higi hopes that were reposed in General Genera Bullers turning movement movement and of his big announcement that there then would be za no turning back b bc ek ekI At the very ery moment when Dr Leyds Le dB te is being received as an honored guest gues I in the circles on the continent Great GIat Britain has hg to face fRee the worst dis die disaster I aster in tn a campaign thus far disastrous 1 trous trou Open talk Is ia heard hard of the absolute absolute I lute necessity ty of abandoning Ladysmith to tt te fate tate while Lord Roberts resorts Xo 10 the original plan Ian of an advance over the Orange river upon Te To Ladysmith the he disappointment must be very bitter A from j the Boer Doer laager luger near the town dated Jan 24 4 de eribE the garrison garrin as very evidently preparing a desperate coup in order to effect a junction with General I Bullers advancing adva ga army y It may be b regarded as a certainty that in i the confident hope of early re relief relief I lief let Sir George White has lately been issuing extra rations rion and this fact fant f ct has given ilven rf to an exaggerated ides idea td as to tolie the lie length of time the provisions O would last eat Cannot Hold Out Even should It be decided to send General Gener l Buller Huller reinforcements and to j attempt to reach Ladysmith by hs a s I rement through ug the at m Ore difficult cult country east ea of 0 Colenso it is ex en extremely doubtful don whether the garrison garris n nu could hold i u enough as such a 8 a movement move would occupy at least a 8 month mon h I I precedent t in bUr i indeed without a a parallel Yorktown In hi the surrender surre der of except the thc checked check at every point If We are is campaign campaign In fact clearer we had still begin to 1 proofs that even now now the government comprehension of th the has any ny adequate responsible situation The utterances or of done nothing to re ta reassure reassure ble ministers have assure the country en on this tills point Send More Nore Troops i the thing has to be he bedone bedone Heavy He vy or light government nent ought to pre prep and the gover done dispatch J nf of 50 for the immediate re pOre p to In send yet an another another and tak take steps OM men needed other e if th thee should be to carryon carry on the attempts The ho hopeless WIth four Cour widely separated campal campain columns column oath each une unequal lual to its task must of be 00 abandoned for a concentration force and anti of purpose puri oae 1 the editorials this morning An of calm determination determination breathe the spirit I will wUl alloW that any re reverse Not one tion the from could coId deter the country verse erse Itself to attain whatever what I object t it has set Involved in ever ver the which amy mn T be a aVery I frank criticism of the he government govern government Very beginning to be ben Is ment however n h heard even In boldly Th The Daily Mall Mail refrained Michael the blame upon Sir throws all Lansdowne and Lord HicksBeach President Wolseley It pointS to Lord of Simon Cameron of war as a secretary from the post t of precedent for getting rid of eat j c I I Navy Should ie De Post dwells upon the I The rebellion at the Cape danger or of further and of possible tle European he be prepared pre prepared It urges thai th the navy I I emergencY pared for any anh reflect Standard and other papers The how hew anxiety of f the public to learn the I much truth there In Ig In Ig the Boer at ac atI at Gen of the fighting obscurity In his dispatches end criticised tie wenas well as is rather bitterly is not fact that the censor the eliminating heavily dela delaying ing but is only m matter from the ing an all Important To judge with newspaper of the dis extent any accuracy f e e aster w 10 v vIt i y General Duller Buller had bad It appears that wholly or par partially brigades brigade altogether al ether flee fie Cooles Cookes Gen General General General Harts Gen eral and General Lyttle Lyttie em already the ZiO casualties brigade arethus are arethus announced ed In thus explained still surrounds the re retreat Much mystery Bul Buller General that treat It Is p but withdrawn his whole forces ler has assumed that it is 3 generally cavalry and Lord brigade tIle the north northside northside on and other troops I side of the Tugela Suspicious of Boers General Butlers confidence that Mt the become did not molest his retreat they had bad been taught to respect the British soldier powers of the fighting Is not In LOndon It Is hi thought rather that the Boers bad some other r wish to waste plan in store or did not 1 t their h e t r men at i Large eLarge arrival of troops are due There Town during the week Cape been bees great activIty in ill military has of England since all parts quarters In par morning The war office an aD a great crush at the Opening pening j of or parliament has placed new upon visitors viton during the session The situation at other points is un ma unchanged changed but indications that Lord plans for fot an a ad advance Iii Is preparing Roberts vance across th the Orange e ri river ver come ina In Ina 1 a to the Daily from dated elated Jan 25 5 which says that Theists an Important position I near War on the rg g line Is 18 now occupied ad by the BritiSh who are repairing rep airing the railway brid S and The correspondent observes that this thit will facilitate communication between S 1 General Gatacre and General G Kelly r Kenney I REPUBLICANS HELD ALOOF I Refused to Attend a Meet Neet NeetS S in fl Minneapolis Minneapolis polls Mimi Minn Jan 2 28 A pro Boer Doer of was 8 held beTs at the exposition this afternoon which was attended by about abot people de do despite despite spite the fact that the stood below belo zero Frank Larabee ee Minneapolis lawyer presided pre kled and ad dres dresses were delivered by Governor John Lied Lind Mayor Mayol James Gray the Rev He J J M Cleary Clea T pastor pa tor of St Charles Charle church and Judge of ul Chicago The most significant feature of the tho occasion was the Republicans Republicans cans mae During the past week prominent citizens of that tha political faith were invited to co t act as a chairman but declined This however was not from froIn lack of sympathy with the causo caUSt of f the Boers Doers but rather the fear that the he meeting would develop pronounced sentiments however as it proved were groundless s sonly only oily in two or three thre instances refer reference r fer ference ence ace being made to the administrations administration a S policy in the Philippines Resolutions were adopted expressing hearty catty sympathy s with the Deere Boera Boet of ef If South Africa denouncing the efforts sf of f Great Glent beat Britain tc annihilate their re republic republic public and to crush the spirit of ot free dom Dir commenting upon the manne in which hick Oom Paul and his lila people have hast conducted the war var condemning thi thO British the use IS of dumdum dum dum bullets and id shells protesting prot against Of t tr r 4 d t at Big rong g Bosom Meeting Me ting Louis iI Mo Ja 28 The Fr Four Lou St 51 WM with street str et theatre was packed aked enthusiast of r th the liners BOr this afternoon D Dr Emil tUhO acted est Post editor of th I he ius S the meet in inC opened as C chairman n a Adith Ad Interesting sp rth eth and brief with ith c tv made by g dr ses were m JI J JT ad ESHI JUdges T V r Stone Taylor and I t the e Ryan and R Resolutions ery adopt adopted The r were h hare hiv the oon passed are re probably yet hl nasa mas m anY iv in After country declaring in faVor or of frel nt and defined by as Abraham they ean all up president or of the United t tuse the good gunel offices t to r bring rin about ah u t a L a us use h his s 14 11 n now nw on ending elding of the struggle quick and l r t republiC tW 1 the Doer Boer eventS tend to ti f fro T nail and if later even Britain victory of Gr Great at lint Brit Britain east oost the ultimate demand that the thear aud ain am to step in the also alk in stopped d They war var ar be United States State t to H Honce at the president of f t recognize the representatives once and Orange Free State the tl Transvaal r sent to the areto be resolutions ai The Kmen representing enU g St Ij J Louis uis in S S WERE WEBiE ALLOWED TO PROCEED Frenchmen Who Are Their Way Into the Transvaal vaal London Tan c corre 44 the Times Time at Lourenzo Marquez cf f Thursday Jan i says who wit M ed Over thirty the French steamer Girondo by prohibited from were appeal appealed f t to the to the th consul Transvaal who protested that they French Transvaal the by had hll he would hold the who declared and in damages dam damages Portuguese tn In ht law lawin breach iut for n a ui i ages al ai allow refusal to in the event of Oi of low them to go forward Portuguese governor general As A the he the passport IY signed had previously compelled to admit the validity r of nr was contention Th Tb French consuls consul the the Frenchmen n were was that result Eighty mm for foreigners to proceed allowed expected by ly a German eigners are steamer st mer next week J Prize Court to Meet I Town Thursday Th Jan The Cape prize court hAS fixed Monday Monda Jan 29 the heerin of the charges char ep with re resPeCt respect for fOl Hour flour our said aid 10 Ii o b bL hp he to the m cap intended for the Beefs L which w va Wa waa on oni onboard onboard Mashona board the British steamer r New York Nov 3 when she he wag from captured by hy the British gunboat Par Partridge i month The overdue trans tri last has at pot port Manchester Corporation na i here Will Not Be Recognized Cape Town Friday Jan Al Alfred Alfred Alfred fred British high commissioner commis announcing haT has a will not government that her maje js s forfeiture tm t r ri J recognize as valid aUd any Incumbrance unon property in m w ter or the tle Free State subsequent nt to Oct 10 the date when war was v ti dt dr dared S Dr J Jameson ameson Wounded Head Laager Noar N u Lady mith lb Jon Jan h hIt Jan Tan 26 25 via i Lourenzo Lourenso Marques It Is reported here that as the th lIH I of long Toms practice on nn Monday 11 D lay in the ItI wounded Dr JIU SOU wa was this lange f President Steyn has visited t Commission For Por Young Churchill Town Friday Jan Cape second son On of Lady thE in Churchill ho accompanied her Maine has tram m Lord Roberts Rooert his commission in it the South African light horse |