Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-02-02 | Page 5 | An Ambush is Feared

AN ASN IS FEARED German Official and Troops, Are (hissing. Berlin, Feb. 1. Nothing has been heard for weeks from Col. Leutweln, the Gov-eiior Gov-eiior of German Southwest Africa, who wns making a long march from Warmbad toward his forts northward. No runner has got through the lines of the revolted natives, who have besieged all the outlying stations and arc supposed to be in force between Windhoek and Col. Leutweln'H column of less than SCO. men, who vcro returning fron the campaign against tho Bondclawarls in their territory, terri-tory, forty-five miles south of "Windhoek. Tho HcriTos rose when Lcutweln was still engugrd with the Bondolswarta. Chancellor Von Biulow announced In the fielchstag January ISth that Col. Leutwelu was on a twenty days' march from Windhoek nnd It Is now feared that Col. Lcutwoin. In tha tropical heat, encumbered en-cumbered by his flck men, harrassed by the JPbfls and possibly deserted by bis carriers, may have been unable to force his way through the hostile tribesmen, and that he has been obliged to entrench himself and await for tho arrival of a rescuing expedition. The Idea that he has bei.n overwhelmed is rejected officially, but this apprehension apprehen-sion Is expressed ln the newspapers. The German Consul-General at Capetown Cape-town baa transmltted'a dispatch from tho commander of the Genaan forces left behind be-hind by Col. Lcutweln, announcing that Bondelswarts surrendered January 2Stli, and also saying that the surrender of the Khara mountain Insurgents was expected.