Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-01-01 | Page 65 | Needs More Soldiers

NEEDS MORE r SOlD ERS How Journalists Regard Situation Sit-uation in South Africa BRITISH PEOPLE WARNED Lord Kitchener Is Turning the Artillerymen Who Have Become Disengaged by Reason of tho Return Re-turn Home of the Heavy Guns Into Three Corps of Mounted Infantrymen In-fantrymen Each 150 Strong Pur thor Details of tho Attack on Pir mans Camp London Jan Newspaper correspondents corre-spondents In Pretoria continue to send warnings of the need of more reinforcements rein-forcements Lord Kitchener is turIng tur-Ing the artillerymen who have become disengaged by reason of the return home of the heavy guns Into three corps of mounted infantry each 150 strong Independent accounts of the Boer attack at-tack on Col Firmans camp on December De-cember 24th add little to the ofllclal story of the occurrence except that Gen Dewets force of 1500 men which boots was at Majuba removed their climbed the precipice without noise and completely surprised the sleeping British camp The terrible struggle lasted barely half an hour Three more British olllcers have died from wounds received in this engagement making all told nine olllcers killed The Government scheme for the settlement set-tlement of land In the Orange River Colony Is already In operation Nearly 100 men mostly timeexpired yeomen have settled there with the assistance of tho Government consisting of loans of farming Implements