Show I AMERICANS FIGHT GUT FOR i Rt f I LIBERTY ERTY OF THE BOERS I It I t f t Chicago Ambulance Ambulance Corps Abandons Red ed Cross and j Takes Up Arms at Pretoria t t I Consul Hay Reports the Incident to Washington ashington W Bulter r is isto i ip t p to be Recalled H Ht Ii t London April 19 cording According to a dispatch to the Daily Dail Mall Mail from Lou Loure re renzo Marquez Marques nearly half the mem mom members j bers bern of or the Chicago ambulance COrDS con s when offered rs on their arrival at Pretoria tore off their Red Cross badges I Adelbert S Hay Ha United States eon con consul sul sui notified the Transvaal government that he must report the circumstances I to Washington Heavy raIns impede the movements of the British columns The blockade of continues although relief is near quantities of stores are being moved southward from Bloem font In which is a reversal of the course of freight for the last six weeks These shipments are made necessary by the operations in the southwest of the Free State There are 2000 sick in the field fie d hos hospitals hospitals I most of the cases being of dys dysentery eatery and enteric fever With the exception of at these facts the embargo upon war intelligence is almost com cam complete complete The special correspondents send trivialities or statements which h ob obscure obscure scare rather than explain the situation in their efforts to prepare matter that will pass nass the censor Here and there therea a phrase indicates an expectancy that large things are about to happen Buller and Warren What is to be done with Sir Redress Redvers Buller and Sir Charles Warren occupies occupIes occupies pies attention The papers continue to comment earnestly upon Lord Roberts censure of these com commanders commanders commanders manders They ask aak if more errors are not likely to occur together with fruit fruitless fruitless fruitless less waste of life in the event that men who have been declared incompetent by their superior continue to command troops It is now generally g ac accepted accepted accepted that the government had a pur purpose purpose purpose pose in the publication of Lord Rob Roberts Roberts Roberts erts dispatch and that the recall of General Buller Bulber and General Warren hag haS probably been decided upon According to Boer reports there is isa isa isa a steady flow of foreign volunteers to the Transvaal Hitherto these adventurers adventurers adventurers have been attached to the va various various rious commandoes Now it is said they the t tare are to be formed into a special sp cial legion with continental officers and there is isa isa isa a rumor that the command will be given given given en Inch Branch JK lately latel retired who is now in hi the Trans Transvaal Transvaal vaal or is i nearing the end of the jour journey journeY journey ney neY thither Presumably the officer referred to in inthis inthis inthis this report is General de for former former former mer member of the French supreme preme s council of war who was removed from the active list last July by the Mar Marquis Marquis Marquis quis de Gallifet as a disciplinary meas measure measure measure ure during the excitement arising from the Dreyfus The Morning Post has the following from dated Tuesday hIn In view of the advisability of a retreat through Swaziland emissaries es of the Boers are now endeavoring to purchase secret information concerning caverns in the Greystone country are only known to the native natives with the ob object object object of accumulating provisions and ammunition Stores for the British Large quantities of British forage and stores were dispatched Lb b the south yesterday esterday Colonel Crofton who was in com command ccmmand mand at Spion Kop from the th time tim Gen General General General eral Woodgate was d until Col CJ Colonel onel was to the position and whose heliograph mes messages messages messages sages to General Warren caused Gen Geon General eral Buller to appoint a to the command was ais placed on un half pay ly today to I Private information received from I tS 1 E I Shrewsbury today is to the effect that General Gatacre is leaving South Af At Africa Hr 1 ti rica ica r this week to resume command of ofa tf c 5 a local district t The Lourenzo Marques Marquez correspondent f t I Ithe of the Dally Daily Mail telegraphing Wed Wednesday 1 Ii says sa S Two hundred and Md fifty i rI t Boers Boors started today from t 1 Onder marching through the t t 4 i berg district to intercept General Geral Car i force forc It is persistently stated in military f circles that Lieutenant General Sir f t I r rCharles Charles Warren the commander of the Fifth division of the South African field I f r force has been ordered to return home It is salt said that a peremptory order r for General Warrens return was ca cabled C j i bled to South Africa this morning The i war olce declined to give any information k mation in regard to the current reports i that General Warren had beek re so recalled recalled called r I |