Show CALLEDBACK D K Duller and Warren to t be h Ordered to Return to J En all LONDON ASKS QUESTION Wonder if More Errors are not Likely < to Occur mORE SACRIFICE OF SOLDIERS This in the Event that Men Who Have Been Declared Incompetent by Their Superior Continue to Remain Re-main in Command Heavy Rains Impede the Movements of British Columns Blockade of AVepener f Continues Although Belief is Near There Are 2000 Sick Men in the I Field Hospitals of tho British SpEncer Wilkinson in His Criticism of Delay in British Offensive Operations Oper-ations Says Fate is Against tho British Army and One Would Like to Know Who Helps Fate London April 19th 410 a m Heavy rains Impede the movements of the JJrJtlsh columns The blockade oC Vopcner continues although relief Js near Large quantities of stores arc being moved southward from Bloem fontelu which Is a reversal oC the course oC freight for tho Inst six weeks These shipments are mal necessary by the operations In the southwest of the Free State There are OOO sick In the Afield hospitals most of the cases being of dysentery and enteric fever EMBARGO IS COMPLETE With tho exception of these facts the embargo upon war Intelligence Is almost al-most complete The special correspondent corre-spondent sent trivialities or statements which obscure rather than explain the I situation In their efforts to prepare matter that will pasi the censor Here I and there a phrase indicates an expectancy expec-tancy that large things are about to happen I B ULLER ARREN CENSURE What is to be done with Sir Redvers I Buller l aid Sir Charles Warren occupies occu-pies everybodys attention The even atenton papers pa-pers continue to comment earnestly upon up-on Lord Robertss censure of these commanders They ask 1C more errors er-rors are not likely to occur together with fruitless waste of life In the event that men who have been declared de-clared Incompetent by their superior continue to command 10000 troops WILL BE RECALLED I Is I now generally accepted that the Government had a purpose In the publication pub-lication of Lord Robertss dispatch and that the recall of Gen Buller and Gen Warren has probably been decided upon VOLUNTEERS FOR TRANSVAAL According to Boer reports there Is n steady flow of foreign volunteers to time Transvaal Hitherto these adventurers adventur-ers have been attached to the various commandoes Now It Is said they arc to be formed Into a special legation with continental oflicerH and there Is a rumor that the commard will be given to a distinguished Fieneh soldier lately late-ly I retired who Is now In the Transvaal or Is nqarlng the end of the journey thither PURCHASING INFORMATION The Morning Post has the following from Bloemfonleln dated Tuesday In view of the advisability of a retreat through Swaziland emissaries of the Boers arc now endeavoring to purchase secret Informatloii concernJng caverns in the Greystone > aovuntry which are onlyknown to tnesimllvcs with the object ob-ject of accumulating provisions and ammunition Lui v iquant I ties of British Brit-ish forge and R tea were dispatched to the south yeaScfday CRITICISED THE BRITISH I Spencer Wlllclnaon In the Morning Post today criticises tho delay In the British offensive operations caused by the Boar raids In the southern part of I the Free State and the necessity of relieving re-lieving Wcpener He regards the raids as designed to rocommandcer the surrendered sur-rendered Free Stuton and adds These Boer measures can only bo effectively slopped by defeating and destroying the Boer army In tho Held Delay in offensive operations Is as a rule equivalent to a victory for the defenders de-fenders and the present general halt has lasted a long time FATE AGAINST BRITONS Mr Wilkinson proceeds to criticise the omission to supply the needful re I moimtH clothing boots and stoics and the rolling stock to convey thcsi to Bloemfonteln Precisely the same reasons rea-sons he remarked have prevented the relief of Mafeklng He cites Gen Men guns reld raid Into Kentucky in 18o2 ns an the I Infitance of the possibilities against Boers Il if the British had n sufficient Boer number of horses and he concludes I thus But fate Is against the British army and one would like to know who help fate In these affairs TO INTERCEPT CARRINGTON The Lourenco Marques correspondent of the Dally Mall telegrapher Wednesday says Two hundred and fifty Boors started today from Water I ffy Onder marching through timer Zout pU erg district to Intercept Gen I I I Carrlngtons force DRENCHED BY STORM The 1IQcmon t ln correspondent of lelfgniphlug Tuesday th > Movnlng Punt leIClrhluI day April Jtli jray Th < Unvn In bprn drenched with rain durltis the last I thro rlayr hlch has caind thE I I greaczt discomfort ecpc1il as the I Thirteenth brigade is I not provided with tents TORE OFF RED CROSS BADGES N According to a dispatch to time Dally Mall from Lourencb Marques nearly half the members of the Chicago ambu lance corps when offered Mausers on their arrival at Pretoria tore off their Red Cross badges Adelbert S Hay United States Consul notified the Transvaal Government that lie must report the circumstances to Washington Washing-ton BRITISH LOSS AT WEPENER A dispatch from Maseru dated April 17th says Col Dalgctys casualties since he has been besieged at Wepener I I have been twenty killed and 100 wounded The Boer losses are reported to have been considerably heavier After Af-ter the night attack on April 12th the dead were left on the field where they still UP unburied There Is a conflict of opinion among the leaders Some want to attack again while others refuse to do so Desultory cannon firing and snipping continues The Caledon river Is rising which alarms the Boers who are now on both sides of the river and might be cut off If the stream was to become Hooded Five Boer guns arc believed to be dlB ubleSTILL STILL SURROUNDED Advices from Pretoria dated April 17th say The latest official reports from the Free State arc to the effect that Gen Dowel Is still surrounding Gen Brabants and Dalgetys forces though The British forces are strongly Intrenched In Boer fashion indicating that they arc colonials Commandant Frenemann reports that he chased 400 troops across the river In the direction of Allwal North capturing several prisoners It Is said that Bethullo bridge has been blown upMANIFESTO MANIFESTO TO AFRIKANDERS The Boer Governments arc circulating circulat-ing the following manifesto to Afri kanders throughout Cape Colony Ve feel that out fate and the fate of thc whole of Afrikandom is at stake and we appeal to you to stand and fight shoulder to shoulder with us You cannot can-not you may not allow the tyrant to extinguish your finest traits of character char-acter as a nation With you on our side the Issue cannot be doubtful We must conquei God grant that love for your country and your liberty and the noble virtues of men truly free may Induce l In-duce you to joIn us In the hour of our I supreme struggle 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