Show ENGlMl ffARS TOWNS MAY FAll Continued from page L position near the spot from which General Gen-eral Methuen ha just evicted them An Gloom Elsewhere From no other point can even a semblance sem-blance oC success be reported lafe king is apparently in wore plight than the Brltshers have hitherto cared to admit and it is difficult to see how it can be relieved for some time to come WhIle i the official dispatch from the I Boer head latg r outside Ldsmlth I slated Nov 24 showed that the town I was still dying the union jack on Friday Fri-day the cheerful tone of the message I and the evident anticipation of the speech reduction of Laysmith is not calculated to cheer anxious relatives The reported silence oC the British guns also again arouses fears of a shortness of ammunition and the fact that the Boer have just placed In position po-sition another siege gun shows that they have not yet dQne their worst The arrival of the German officers some of vom it l understood gained larze experience in reducing fortified tlnsln 18iOi is cacul ted to iatfe a chang of tactics which wU add to the suspense of the sorely tried garrison sonThe situation In the northern part V of Cape Colon Is about as unsatisfactory qnsatsactory as it can be Boer are turning up In all direUon A Cape Town dispatch received at a Into hour tonight reports that the enemy en-emy have blown ul a railway bridge between Rosmead Junction and Mid dleburg with the object of preventing in adva1ce from Port Elizabeth This was effected by a small commando which i Is state remains in the neighborhood The effect cr blowing up this bridge will tend to isolate Nauw I poor whIch was recently reoccupied by the British and must delay the advance Elizabeth ad-vance of the troop just arrived at Port |