Show lAS COM1TOASf ANDSTILL This the Condition of BuIiers Great Turning Turn-ing Movement of Which So Much J c c Was Expected r Ito I I i q 1 War Office Receives a Dispatch Dated Tuesday Evening Which is Carefully Worded and Reads Like an Apology and an ExplanationBritish Infantry Only 1400 Yards Distant from Boers London Jan 21Contrary i to the announcement an-nouncement made shortly before midnight mid-night by the War office that nothing further would be Issued before Wednesday Wednes-day forenoon the following dispatch from Gen Bullor dated Spearmans January 23rd G50 p m has Just been posted at 250 oclock this Wednesday Wednes-day morning Warren holds the position he gained two days ago In front of him at about 1100 yards is the enemys position posi-tion west of Spionkop I Is on the higher ground than Warrens position so it Is impossible to see into it properly I prop-erly erlyI can be approached only over bar open slopes and the ridges held by Warren are so steel that guns cannot I be placed on them But we are shelling shell-Ing the enemys position with howitzers howitz-ers and field artillery placed on lower ground behind infantry The enemy is replying with Creusot and other artillery In this duel the advantage rests with us as we appear to be searching his trenches and his artillery fire Is not causing us much loss An attempt will be made to seize Spionkop the salient of which forms the enemys position facing Trlcharda drift and which divides It from the position facing Pot ieters drift I has considerable command over all the enemys intrcnchmonts LHCE AN EXPLANATION Gen Bullers great turning movement move-ment of which so much was expected has come to a standstill His carefully worded message to the War office tell lug this after a silence of two days reads like an apology and an explanation explana-tion I Gen Warren holds the ridges but the enemys positions are higher The British Brit-ish artillery is playing on the Boer positions po-sitions and the Boors arc replying The British Infantry is separated by only 11CO yards from the enemy but an approach ap-proach to the steep slopes across the bare onen would expose the British to a fatal rifle fire DEFENSES KEY TO BOER Gen Bullers plans have reached their development Ho declines to send his infantry across this zone against I formidable positions by daylight and disclosed his purpose to assault the Spionkop heights during the night This appears to be the key to the Boor defenses I he takes It and thus commands com-mands the adjacent country an important impor-tant and possibly decisive step will be accomplished It seems that Gen Bullcrs dispatch reached the War office rather early In the night and was the subject of a prolonged conference between Lord Lansdowne Mr Balfour and several staff ofilclals A determination appears ftafi ap-pears to have been reached not to give out the message during the night but toward 2 a in copies of the dispatch dis-patch wore made for distribution among the newspaper ofllces These arrived too late for extended comment LADYSMITH HEARD FROM the The Dally Chronicle publishes following holiographed message from Ladysmlth dated January 22nd byway by-way of Swartkop January 23rd Yesterday we could see British shells bursting close to the Boer camp shels on the plateau this side of Potgieter drift but the camp still remains In position po-sition there today Wo heard very heavy firing all this morning The bombardment here In slack but the Boers big gun on Mount Bulwana Is still firing PREPARE FOR BAD NEWS The Morning Post and the Standard touch lightly upon the unpleasant features fea-tures of the dispatch and take hope from the projected night attack but altogether considered the dispatch looks like preparation for worse news Parliament will meet In five days The Cabinet has been hoping for one rallying British success to cheer thc countr and to command generous support sup-port for fresh revenue measures Among these will be probably an Increase In-crease of the Income to a shilling In the pound but this would only provide the cost of five weeks hostilities The duties on tobacco alcohol tea and coffee are likely to be raised The Cabinet will meet at tho end of the week and discuss dis-cuss the situation AFTER THE AUTHORITIES Political considerations both fOlel nand n-and domestic press upon the military authorities the necessity of speedily accomplishing ac-complishing something These authorities authori-ties may have been persuading Gen Boiler n1 to attempt his great operation without adequate preparation This impression whether true or not Is abroad abroadBULLER BULLER HAS FREE HAND S Apparently Lord Roberts has nothing AJparntl whatever to do with Gen Bullcrs operations oper-ations Gen Bullet and the War office I communicate with each other direct I Bullers scheme was conceived bcforo I Lord Roberts arrived at Capetown and Its execution was begun on the day he is landed The fact that the Judgment of Lord Roberts has not been brought to bear upon the movement does not add to public confidence BY TIMES AS VIEWED THE TJF The Times commenting editorially I upon Gen Bullers dispatch says It cannot be the aim to Increase the severe se-vere strain from which the nation Is suffering We must await the result of his attempt to seize the formidable I l Boer position uilh courage and cool leas ills sUecec may he derisIve but the danger of the attempt is evidently great The Intense oxcltcmnt of the besieged be-sieged In Ladysmlth may be imagined BOERS WELL INTRENCHED Gen Warren Is moving with com mendnble caution but It must not be forgotten that delay however caused must tell In many respects In favor of the enemy The Boers have It Is true fallen back when hard pressed but they have gained time to bring up men guns ammunition and supplies to the position they have selected for their principal stand and to intrench It In thorough fashion tho fashion they understand un-derstand so well Until that position has been taken and its defenders routed and badly cut up the relief of Ladysmlth cannot be considered here INTERVENTION TALK From Vienna comes the statement cOres that the Idea of Intervention of European Euro-pean powers is gaining adherents In Influential In-fluential quarters The Daily Mails correspondent regards the signs as unmistakable un-mistakable and mentions especially suggestions printed in the AustroHun garlan Foreign office journals Dispatches from Boer sources describe de-scribe the renewal of the bombardment of Ladysmlth as more heavy than any previous firing and as intended to discourage dis-courage a sortie symptoms of preparations prepara-tions for egress from the town having c observed from the Boer posiUpns INVESTMENT OF LADYSM1TH Spdcial dispatches holiographed from Ladysmith on Monday say that the investment in-vestment has not boon relaxed and that the garrison has ceased to speculate regarding re-garding the precise date of deliverance The position of the British forces outside out-side of Natal Is unchanged The forward I ward movement elsewhere appears to be waiting for reinforcements I THIEVING OFFICIAL I Military Commandant the Rand Attempts At-tempts to Loot nn Vaults I London Jan 21The correspondent of the Time at Lourenco Marques I I telegraphing Tuesday says The I wholesale expulsion of British subjects now remaining In the Transvaal is expected I ex-pected next week Schuctte military I commandant of the Ronid Is I maintaining unscrupulous ing his reputation as an I and vindictive official His latest t move wns an attempt to break open the I vaults of the Rand Safe Deposit company I com-pany ostensibly to obtain their securities securi-ties for the residents lle BRIDGES UNDERMINED It appears that all the bridges on the Natal railway and the Lamgs Nek I tunnel and the bridges on the Free State line have been undermined so a to enable thorn to be destroyed at n moments notice In the event of Boer retreat retreat The French liner Glrondc has arrived lner rived here crowded with military looking look-ing foreigners bound for the Transvaal Ing These Include fifty Russian ambulance tfty FienUimen Ital men with Germans 111endlnen Ia wih tho ians and Greeks Her Potts Transvaal ConsulGeneral here has arranged ar-ranged for their conveyance to Pretoria by a special train DUNDONALD HOLDS A ROAD A dispatch I to the Daily Mall from PictermarTuburg dated January 3rd savs Lord Dundonald holds the road Iloeck The latest arrivals to Olivers pass att rivals from Johannesburg bay that the working ruin to the Boer methods arc miner The Boers pick out the rich I ore leaving the cost of further developments leaving shareholders Stores aro ments to the Slolts being robbed wholesale The safe deposit de-posit vaults under the stock exchange vnuls and have been broken open and jewelry been extracted plate left by refugees have tracted Grass Is growing In the streets Grss growlJS and cattle are grazing in fashionable I thoroughfares There are still 1 about 2000 Uitlandcrs in the Transvaal A let received here from Ilarrismith relates ter In lates that three Britishers were shot II refusing to go the market square for refusing marlet sClHle to the front when commanded REPORTS OF CASUALTIES REPOHrS dispatches posted at the War The post this afternoon though ofilco UP to arernoon dated Shearmans camp today contain dIled but reports of casualties len nothing that the wounded Janu Buller reports arv 20th included LancashlresCapts Dod Second LnncashlresCapt Whyte Seond OrmoncA and Lieut Campbell Camp-bell York and Lancaster Regiments Halford and Duckworth Lleuts Halfoll Baltt since Capls West SurreysCaPt Balt dead and Warden and Lieut Smith and Wedd FIeld Staff Capt MarShal Dallas Lord Hobelts reports larahal that the war from Capetown today that wor situation Is unchanged SYMPATHIZE WITH BOEHS SY IPTHIZE VlH A correspondent of the Daily Chronicle cOTespon Mon telegraphing lIon I Slcrkatroom tcllrphlnS cle at Slerkjtrom colonist although Dutch I day says Many DutchlololiHhJ though ostensibly loyal really symjm them lilac with the Boers and koop wJh all British movements move-ments posted regarding They discharge rockets ana make other probable signals to the enemy however is i no rising A general howccl my 4 Jcntn1l rlslnS longer feared TJNCONFIKMED STOUT n Rumor that huller Has Berlin Has a Ruor Duler Been Defeated 2S Th > re was a rumor Berlin Tan lhlt on Jerln the bourse today Unit Gen gullor P had suffered defeat London Jan 23Itwas r reported on today that tuo battalions exchange 1 the slack e dllh tllu talions of British troop hivc been cap f tall tured by tho Boers There IS nothing hero to confirm the rumors on the Bcrj lln Bourse and the stock exchange oc thla city The fact that Gen Bullet wad herd from this morning when ha sent lists of casualties to the British troops seems to disprove these tories The official of the War office entirely discredit the stock exchange stories also the report of Lord Dundonalds entry en-try Into Ladysmlth They think the frmer rumors were circulated for stock exchange purposes The officials said to the representative of the Associated Press that no decisive news was expected ex-pected tor two or three days relating cither to the relief of Ladysmlth or a conclusive victory or defeat as the op orations at present being conducted by Gen Bullcr were of a lengthy character charac-ter x CONTRABAND OF WAR 5 Temporary Injunction Issued Restraining Re-straining Steamer from Sailing Philadelphia Jan 23A special five day Injunction restraining the steamer Bermuda which acquired some reputation repu-tation as a filibuster during the Spanish1 war from leaving this port was granted grant-ed today by Judge Pcnnypac kCK In Ito Common Picas court The Application for the injunction was made by George R Gamble of Kingston Jamaica tL subject ot Great Britain who alleges that he his information that the vcsaol Is to carry articles contraband of war to South Africa for theBoers S BRITISH ADVANCE CHECKED Details of Sunday Battle from Boer Camp Boor Camp Upper Tugela River Sunday Jan 1After Commandant t Botha checked the British advance yesterday morning It was expected that there would be no further actjon until tomorrow However signs AVOID discerned of an Intended movementIn the British northern camp When the heat which was more frightful than any yet experienced had worn off the British cannon started In full force and the Infantry advanced in extended order Gens Botha and Cronje held the high hills over which the road to Ladysmltli passed When the Mauser fire opened a pandemonium of sound filled the air The vindictive crash of Lyddite shells the sharp volleys of LeoMetfords and the whiplike crack of Mausers were Interspeiscd with lie boom of the Boer Maxims The battle ended with darkness dark-ness but not without evidence of execution exe-cution among the British that wag manifest at sunrise First Corner Ernst Emllio was killed Nor did the Generals escape unscathed At the central position Swartkop where the other road to Ladysmlth crosses the hills the British advanced from low popjcs on the banks of the Tugela unmolested Then they entered the zone of Mauser fire and although their naval guns kept up the usual terrible ter-rible rocket the advance was stopped and the British had to count out their dead and wounded Commandant Vlljoen and two burghers bur-ghers wore knocked senseless by an explosion ex-plosion of Lyddite but Commandant Vlljoen recovered Field Cornet IJcli bron was wounded and on refusing to S surrender was shot The loss wag probably Insignificant They complain that expansive bullets in Mausers were fired In the field and softnosed bullets with LeeMctfords The Boors admit that sporting Mau cors were occasionally found but they deny the charge respecting expansive bullets Not a shot was llrod by Urn Boers with cannon or rifle at the Swartkop position this side of tno river One thousand Infantry and a battery advanced Into the second roy of low hills between the Republicans and the river Heavy cannonading proceeded at a range of 2000 yards buc Boers maintained the silence of death This must have staggered the British as the advance was stopped and his morning they retired to their ohlposH tlons FIGHTING IN FULL SWING Battle Fought Monday Along Oil vicrs Hoek Bond Boer Head Laager Ladysmlth Mop day Jan 22 A battle has been rnpjn along the Olivlcrs Hock road since jjai urday between the Boers under Prclo riots and COOO British The lighting In full swing at Splorskop The Boor under Botha arid Cronje have beeneflt thither The British elsawhcre arcoflj making a reconnaissance of the 1Cr positions President Stoyn was unticr fire at the foremost position Free Stators The quarters of Gen WiiIto Hunter iore smashed this nornIng shot from a long torn It I5rl ii known whether any of the occupajU of the building wore Killed j Rosebcry on the War 7p London Jan 23At the openlnffC8 new town hall at Chatham the fhn Lord Roflobcry referring to said In Midi u war we tflUS rho imd moments But 1 trust tiiR n a providence of God we aro s tr B balance of the ovlls Great Brlli n I SdcSone and the good derlvgl jo not think the balance Vu against Great Britain s j i Continuing Lord Kosebery rv flH was never so proud or m ybntij0 ot during the week following tjH dls rugcla river when partyJ wuy ta ipiM nred ubsolutoly and T ° thy rriioivi to pour ssFsasstffinsfiiisK the country In her hour of need Whatever What-ever foreigners may say they have not got to the bottom oC old England yet This test of thecharacter of Bullish people will alone counterbalance our losses The reverses of the war hne taught the country that the Empire Is u 1 united empire In commerce education edu-cation and war Great Britain Js niH I methodical and not scientific The country has yet to brlnj the war to a triumphant conclusion When this Is clone It must set to work and put the empire on a business footingand strive to make It realise the British Ideal of an empire without nlenace without appresalon model state ruled by model Instltullonsand Inhabited by a model race1 |