Show = 1 1 NATAL UIET 1 Mitary Opinion iii Lon on iI I Assumes that Buler is A1valleiil V Advancn 1 I HAS A GREAT ARMY j With Twentyfive Thousand i Wten he Moves North Jt J PROGRESS SOMEWHAT SLOW I Is Making a Wide Detour to Makg a Det tt j West and North i Order to Avoid I the Rough Parts of the Country War Office Declines to Give Out any t V Information Hegardlng His Advance Ad-vance In the Western Theater of War the Situation has Become Animated Ani-mated It Looks a Though Gon French had been Reinforced Perhaps haps by Gen Chennsides Brigade i Advance Northward will in i Advnce Nortward wl all Probability Soon bo Ordered bY Lord Roberts Tide has Begtm to 1 Turn for the Britons j London Feb G Military opinion In London continues to assume from very slender materials that Gen Buller Ifi I again throwing his army against theV Boer forces A retired General Sir William I Wil-liam Henry Green whose distinguished career gives weight to his opinion thinks that Gen Buller with 23000 men Is making a wide detour to the wcst and north In order to avoid the roughest rough-est parts of tho country AsGen Bul leI must have thousands or wagons Sir William Green points out that his advance ad-vance would necessarily be slowSV V V No authentic word ISat I hand evc V that the War office rean med orally to newspaper Inquirers at a late hour thxt it could not confirm the reported ad vancc There the Natal situation rests V V OPERATIONS IN WEST I is from the western field that mora definite statements come Largo operations opera-tions arc apparently about to begin V Gen French who has now returned t Rcnsberg from his conference with Lord Roberts has sent what Is described de-scribed as an overwhelming force of Infantry In-fantry to seize Norvalspoort That Is where the railway before It was destroyed de-stroyed crossed the Orange river and connected with the Free State trunk connecle line to Blocmfontcln SURROUNDING THE BOERS Norvalspoort Is nineteen miles north of Colesberg and twentyfive mllea from Gen Frenchs headquarters at Rensborg Thc Boers at Colesbcrg have been in danger of being surrounded by the largely reinforced and extending lines of the British An occupation ot Noorsvalpoort In force would presumably presuma-bly render Colesberg untenable The Boer are showing great activity In the Nauwpoort and Colesberg districts l V dis-tricts Many of the guns hitherto facing Lord Mcthuen are believed to have gone to Norvalspoort The British therefore there-fore may find formidable bodies oO Boer there BEGINNING TO TURN Spencer Wilkinson in thq Morning Post says rime tide is beginning to turn In the western theater of war It looks as though Gen French had been V reinforced perhaps by Gen Chennsldea brigade This would bu tliebeglnnlns of a systematic direction of the campaign cam-paign When Gen French has disposed of thc enemy forming his present objective j ob-jective his force will be available other operations NORTHWARD ADVANCE Detailing possible operations of nn French KellyKenny and Gatacre Mr Wilkinson says There Is now a prospect pros-pect that In two or three weeks time j British forces will be holding the pusses of the Orange river repairing th bridges and collecting all the requisites for the advance northward to begin a soon as Lord Robertssees hlb way to order the movement V MORE THAN ENOUGH MEN V t V There are now more than enougit troops between the coast and Orange river to form three infantry divisions and a cavalry division without count 111 0 lag < either the colonial mounted trooPs or five militia battalions which can be used to relieve regular battalions on the I lines of communication Lord Mctliu lnes communicaton MCtm ens three brigades make a further audition au-dition that might ultimately be utilized V V ized PROVIDING FOR EMERGENCY 1 Mr Wilkinson then proceeds to una the Government to make every pre paratlon against emergencies at home and particularly to put tin volunteers and all available forces In the nioa complete condition for service If ceo volun cd He recommends rearming teer batteries of position with hI bast modern guns and In short thr rJl Izatlon and equipment of the a llnlle fzaton endeavors to hogt forces rather than hasty cndccrs recruit untrained meD I iI V MORE MEN FOR FRONT V The V War oHlce anounccs that llflccn transports will be dispatched between today and Monday with 13000 troops 1 Sir Alfred Mllner In a letter written 1ord three weeks ago to the former would war 1 Mayor of Belfast said the I last three or four months longor mont1s himrve l com I The censorship seems to 111C jv f correspondent pletely shut down the front at Spearmans camp No dispatch tror SPelmons a that point appears in this morIng d Jo papers and nothing hit been nloct papJ to issue since Sunday evenlm VV ILTSNTY OF FIGIITINfl AlmAD V A dispatch to the Times from QLWIhiS < V dated AI01it town Cape Colony I H rays Gtiii Jtrabant while flhtl f one of the regiments of U > eololmht hey StlI division on parade yoHteiday the V or r won > leaving the next inoinlnff untIl front not to return he hoped tinlc I IntruHtwl 1 to him by Lord Roberta ml lirnn uccegfuUy accontplwhcd Ho could not UscJouo the plan of opcra xbm but If hli Intention wer crrl d t IH thf prit test glutton of flghtlnjf Ret have hhi11 among them would hJ l rHARGED WITH SE0ITION Thc Capotown corrfnpondcnt of the lort Daily Chronicle Il The South African Afri-can frILgue l baa paawwl a reuwlutlon declaring kaGc I claring that it roKnrdu with reKr t and almost with despair th probability of cojonlal rebels tiiO autUorltlm trying coJnla1 re1rnJs1 fc Ii re S Jury The resolution urgeu 0 cinrtTmrtlal Mr Schrelnftr the Premier Pre-mier I replylnK to 0 letter lneloinir I I CJPJ of the resolution aay the Gpvrn mint hl taken tCJ t present the C T < J to Jurien In ordk loprev lt Jim duo detention oC ort cJj prt wLUt F I lL dlllon I |