Show SIDE WITH BOERS BUERS Four Thousand Now Under Arms Armi and 2000 on the Way OF I I lloro bo be Lundell In III South nr ar ropic Chicago Dee special to th Tribune from from Cincinnati OhIo says At a 11 or the Transvaal sym sIn held In hail lIall last a to the United States of South louth proposed b the tho mentioned the tho members of if the government Natal Cape Colon Orange Free State Transvaal ond nd Swaziland Mr Mn Von a cousin of President Kruler Kruger arrived from rem New ew York In time to make a speech In the course ot of which he said We Iso have havo now Am Americana well rUled drilled In with 2000 more on onlie the lie wa va Funds are aro coming from all part arts ot of this broad land We may need men but WO we are arc satisfied that we wean cnn an have hao them on time even een with the English blockade Contributions to the amount ot of soy lIev oral eral thousand dollars were made In se secret secret cret session A badge wall adopted with the motto United States of South Africa In the shape ot of a Maltese cross cro the names of the tho states Inscribed In red orange oranJe and blue blu bluew New ew York Dec dispatch to lo the Tribune from London says As the transport on Ing at Caeton yesterday with sith two battalions ot of field artillery and an am ammunition ammunition column for the fifth division was os for tor Durban Gen jul lets lers next battle II likely to be deferred until the middle ot of next week lIe He will virtually have bac under his direct corn com command mand three out of the five divisions sent to the Cane with n a tour four divisIon locked UI under White In The remaining division Is 18 distributed alon aion the western and northern fron frontiers ron tiers With 1000 men ot of the I garrison and cavalry added Ito hI has luul called three divisions In Into into to Natal for the relief of a fourth In Instead Instead stead of carrying them Into time the Freo State In accordance with his own plan lan formed before he left London Failure allure to relieve after sa ro complete on an abandonment of his orl origin n iii 01 plan of campaign will be 00 ruinous to hie He Hc is 19 evidently strengthening his arm army by all means In his power and will make a 11 deter determined determined mined effort to crush force torce and ond rescue the Harrison garrison before time the arrival ar rival of Gen Roberts who will Le be due In Capetown In twelve days No record has yet been r received elved of the disposition mode made ot of the siege e train which arrived at Capetown on Tuesday Lilt but the news may a have hac been suppressed for military reasons These 12 heavy guns will be a great creat addition to tl the lime British line of attAck It t there are men n trained use I 1 have been in informed formed on good authority that the new nem howitzer batt batteries are arc n a recent to the British artillery and that there then are few tew and gunners gunnels capable of handling them effectively There va vaa n a short period ot of practice with naval nava guns on Whale Island before fore the howit howitzer zer batteries were sent to South Africa ond ad similar training Is now In preg rear res Much Macli hM has been written about the neg neglect leot lect of the war office to rend Fend long rang guns to the front during time the earl early per period lod iod of the Time The truth Is tha the guns were not In service and whet when found men Inen had hod to be trained for tor serving r rIng Ing them After the tho arrival ot of the Majestic Rt a athe the Cape where she Is duo due today with wIll 2000 1000 Infantry there will be only on one transport the Victorian with cavalry caval r ry to enter the port ort for tor n a week The sixth dIvision will begin to arrive arrhe about time time Lord assumes command so that he hI will vIii have ton thousand housand fresh troops b by the middle ot ol January Five battalions ot of the sew sev seventh nth division will stat from England text next Thur Thursday da and by the second week In H February he will have hae ten thousand additional men The eighth division will bl be earl early In January Januar and lie will vilI be increased ed by en thousand Imperial yeomanry and volunteers during the thc next two months month There will be a steady movement ot of week after week to the tho will viii have haven eat of war George Wyndham n strong case to present In defense of the he war wor parliament meets Cor or there has hos been no lack of energy and nd toll toil In carrying out the mobilization theme and time the largest army over ever organized for tor a for foreign or ign eign ce Veteran smile grimly when they hey read reSl WInston Churchill frantic call alt for tor three British soldier r for 0 every no rand SUggest that tIme the which he 0 met the woods wood Is still BUll eq his Ills In time Morning second edlI n yesterday has In the alarmists like journal aird tit they are renewing their heir warfare upon Lord tord Ir Michael HicksBeach each and O and tem seem to drive these rhese antica rom rem theIr posts contrast strangely with the of mind and unflinching faith In I the arraY army the nation continues I I I to The most stirrIng bit ot of war ne news yel ye was vas a report through Router Reuter that thol heavy firing had been heard on In Inthe ii the direction of but the war wa chico tailed failed to confirm It since a bulle bulletin tin titi fro front Gen l Walker under unde the same sarno date announced that there then was no change In the situation ot of flat Gat Gatacre acre and French with the exceptIon that the Indo railway vas again In I operation New Ne York flee Dec special to the Times from rein Montreal says Within the th course of another two weeks week the second contingent ot of 1000 troops which Canada Is sending to South Africa will sail rom for Cavetown Capetown It will be corn com I posed of cavalry or Infantry and field artillery The first Canadian contingent sailed about eight weeks ago alO and now nos forms a part of flop column consisted entirely of Infantry and was made UP ot of volunteers The second contingent will be differ dieter different ent Mounted rifles will bo be composed ot of tour four detachments Two will be reo me from the Northwest mounted police and from time tho cowboys ot of the west vest I These will be genuine rough riders and Col Lessard who vho will be the superior officer In command has ha seen long antI and active ac lve service In the tho west and andIn andIn In Africa The second officer will be Cot Col T I D I n Ii Evans R Ii C D who has a reputation as aJ a 11 fighter The other two to detachments 11 fl bo be made up UI from the various arlous c cavalry corps the recruits not being necessarily required to be members of any regular corps It If they can quality qualify otherwise In accordance with the Imperial army rt regulations ItU III 0 n s The artillery arm ann of the contingent I will bo recruited from time thc several bat tories ot of artillerY In time the Dominion militia A amid U bat stationed respectively r nl at ton and Quebec which constitute virtu virtuallY virtually allY the lie only regular artillery service In Canada will contribute large largely to this branch ot of the contingent Cot Col Drury It C A will have hao command of the tue brigade division In a addition to the and field artillery with Ith their complements of horses hONes guns juns and other Captain howard lIoard ot of galling gun fame III accompany the contingent In charge of a gun or of the Maxim pattern used IJ by the thA ond known as the Galloping Gun It 03 ammunition and a great dial deal is 18 being said about Its be lug Ing lie he most deadly weapon Invent Invented d yet |