Show BIG BAT US LOOKED FOR Buler start For the Relief of Ladysmih MEJHUEN PUSHING ONTO ON-TO CITY OF KIMBERLEY I Boers Preparing to Warmly Receive the British force Gene Jeubert Gives Orders For His Soldiers t Reserve Their Fire Until the Enemy Are Within 400 YadsMore Troops tc Be Set te South Africa From Great Britain umors of Belief at Lady smith I London Dec S General Bulers arrival ar-rival at Frec Is held to indicate that aU the preparations for an advance to the relief of Ldnmlth arc complete and that strIng news wi soon be re cehed The fact that Lord Iethuen Is announced as resuming his command at almost the same moment is interpreted Inter-preted in 5me quarters to mean that bates wi le fought simultaneously In Natal and at Spytfontein I appears doubtful however whether General IethuelS force Is yit ready for what wi evidently be a peay encounter The cQstructon Qf the temporary brIdge across lodder river has entailed en-tailed enormous labor and even now the structure Is liable to be washed away should a heavy storm come General Gen-eral fethuen has been obliged to move his camp a mile north In consequence or the unsanitary state of the stream due to the lreseacs of the bodies of dead Beers As the railway brIdge was completely destroyed he was compelled to leave a losICerabie force to prtct his communlcLs TO Hold Their Fire A special correspondent ends the interesting in-teresting information regarding Doer I tactics that Commandant General ouI bert has given general orders to reserve re-serve fire until the British are within the close range of 400 yards At tie Modder RIver battle the Free State te burgher became nervous opened fire prematurely thus revealing their pa siton and frustrated the Doer plan The government has dcIded to bs patch to South Africa at the earliest possible moment a cavalry brigade of about 4000 men Baron Loch former governor o Cape Colony and Br1Is1 hIgh cm JssQnet for South ATrick lecturing In London last evening relate some of his dx perenced with President Kr er He said the remarks of the Transvaal l president years ago showed ta he contemplated just thC state of affairs whIch had now arIsen DIr KruJer even expressed a desire to have a seaport port and said the Transvaal hope to have a navy same day I The Times commenting upon Lord I Lochs reminiscences says that they I prove up to the hilt the Dutch ambition I for Dutch supremacy In South Africa I |