Show I I I BRITISH MUST BE ON O GUARD Danger that tho Advance Will bo be Entrapped by Boors Boers IS ll ut ul 71 iii tary 11 vu Sc N Net York nov O I A to the Tribu tram Jondon says Y The It tot tM which h oll opened n the We sad aDd cleared the ground Hem with the her Ger GerIn herman I man In emperor ha has reached the lion tion stage between I a Dutch lutch aUck thwarted d by the successful defense ot of anI and and o n now w on a lam teal scale There wi a renewal yesterday ot of elastic rumors of at ofa 1 a disastrous r reissue of 11 fleer at Ladysmith on an Jut but these h have deprecated In Ivance b by defInite detinUe nf n ws the that t Gets arm army had remained inactive so late as 11 Fri Friday day There nets IHre valUe If report rl that Joubert forces tortel had raised the siege gone Ione south and cut oil off from the see HI but these lacked lackl confirmation rh rho siege 1 of hind holl evidently taIled lut bUI the of Hot craft had not boils been and both White Whit and 1 Cler Chery needed to 10 be on their guard being at the hint mo mo moment ment when the union of 01 their to foro only required cautious caution and patience This was the tho undertone ot of talk at the war ohIce ad and am among ng th the military sarr staff and oce hOI hope as expressed that thal Whito would remain QUIt quiet and ller lery would not Dot all allow himself to b be hurried While the facts ot of the military situation In lower Natal lre are carefully coneal concealed It Ii Is plaIn that thai Clary Ciery wi will ha have In thus the COUI course of a few tew days a tore force of or ISO troop including the naval and the battalion which were or OD the round before reinforcements 0 be begun gun on to arrive at Durham These wi will In elude dude three brigades ot of the first an and l third divisions and the Somerset IMbt light infantry which left lett yesterday Roth Cler ao and have tn been connected with lh the staff college olele an erd I are consIdered among the bt best tacticians ot of the British ann army They have been on great favorites with J Woltan and understand lh the details of an tactics ot of 4 as tauGht In Inthe inthe the hols schools hiie the campaign In natal la is wrapped II irs mystery and darkness so 10 much light II on the movement toward y that seine leading decline to 10 believe that tha t tIt It wi will come on I as freely advertised Lr Lord Methuen hi has two brigades tn In the guards regiment of lancers several letral batteries ad and a naval conto contin contingent gent and the brigade d under wilt m join jiin him There wi b be a Oy body of Gt nearly morly men Skeptics assert that thus the censor ten woul would not allow allo the If press dl patches to go through It te the tl real r of th the col and fot that 1 it wi both ot of the Orane river and drw draw ot oft the Dutch tt troops from Capt Cape Colony Colon Other writers In journals urge the advance gutted hil has gone one oneto to too far lar to la support that ther theory and that Ina may be In greater straits and ond that hen Gen than thon the public supposes lullen knows know that the relief column I must manh march speedily I The censorship irs In that quarter p ha has evidently b been n reo re laed taxed from some secret motive which is II not understood General Is expect expected ed to play at an important In the e advance upon from ERt East London In connection with Methuen operations hut hi his force torce Is now small small Tf Three dI loll hue have ben been completely reul recast without regard tu to r red tall tape aval anh are annoyed b by crl ohm of the admiralty for or arranging s je transport by slow ships and are re torUn totting that the situation hu been saved by b the u navys guns They cn con contend tend that the war ar offic wa was ignorant of the artillery resources of thus the floors or and allowed to be selected as a camp without guns equal In range to thoe those mounted against I it on th tile outlying hl hills but that that th the effect of this blunder Wil was counteracted b by the from the ships In the nick of time This cannot annot b be de denle flied nr nor cn can I it be questioned that the naval guns on Improvised carriages have transformed the situation at Ret curt court Ind and on Orange rier rierA A point which Enl not con nete wills the rival ln services Ire is II that the resources of the government for tor carrying un on war warM f n a long distance inland are In Inor or by th the active ot of the Irm army and nl navy In the Om cain The bluj ket nol now on ox nt at and tb the Orange A are like the displayed at Mala Malta by IonI Beacons Beaconsfield field fild Q as I a practical reminder to Itus UI Ila cia that there was IS more than on one wy wyot way ot of fighting a big campaign London JAnton Nov O D 22 5 1 a an announcement from that wih with II is interrupted seems to confirm the belief that a hoer ha baa established III itself at Willow Orange or near the sleet river ant and ha has cut cUi the telegraph wires No Nev whatever definite news the commanders may haY luave ob tamed from the scouts ot of the lion of the fleer Doer commands la in Natal antI ton the condition of beleaguered gar ar particularly nothing has hall hn been allowed to 10 d develop elo for tor thus the public In informatIon formatIon I It Is certain that owing to t the heavy work o of and In Durban Burban the nie preparations for tor the a st anN vanse tt of the relict lur force art are In no wise as advanced 01 as ba has been supposed This tO may also 11 be due to the necessity of pushing stores stOttS and to the front In needful quantities before the troops ae are sent On Ca the tho other hand hant the celerity wih with which troops ore are being forward from Cl Capetown town equably tends to show hOI that ni all such preparations regarding tom forage and provisions wore were already well el advanced Capetown before the troops at Con Oon has arrived at I De Mr Aar addressed to Lord Ird Me Methuen Methuen thuen Pretoria via 11 Capetown Th the reoccupation of I is good goed news new for tor the British I It l is not known her hero Irons rom what hat the top OIe caine but is II Presumed thy they were from De DC Ant r In which event nt It wi will not be belong long before also is II pied commands the rp gap gapin In the the last strong po south of Orange river tactics mOt most admirably suited to JJr hoer Cl Cal nO dispatch from Lady Ladysmith smith finally disposes of ni reports of anther another ne ok great victory there lat latok last Late last evening the tho WAr me made mep p dispatches from then en huller Duller at C Capetown The fIrst h had d ben been reo re from hen Oen Clery Ciery dated Monday November OUI nad that privates were wounded the pro ra day at Mool liver The Tho second was waR from Col Coi hated at November saying Al All well cell hero herc We have haa had n a few ful Our loss Is two offIcers and seventeen men killed anti tour four officers Ind and twentynine wounded The lOls loss is II heavy 11 Ills numbers lt are decreasing n If but his guns remain and shell us k keeping out ot of the range of our Gur small guns Jave Have had no news neS the outride since October Ih Clors Callers at the Unite United States toy today were Informed that the United States was nl no longer able abl to forward messages e or Mi send information regarding the Kruger having r refused tuN the to alow allow to II lt liSt of prisoners Though I ap remains II time nominal agent ot of Creat lie he I is practically d do position of ni all powers pertaining to the Il It 1 understood President ob Jete to 10 Mr o Macrum 01 on the ground that the tho United States cia claims Ins to neu were prejudiced b by her evident friendship for Great Britain Al All cm corn to the British Prisoners no now go 0 thruSh the orinal ordinary military r chanels which render their ultimate delivery doubtful and certainly stow I government so tar far has no steps to 10 ameliorate the pras re enl eat condition ot of the prisoners A t g guy rent informed a representative tive of the Associated fr Press that he dk did not N see any woo good In trying to 10 get t any other to 10 r In ther theIr behalf lS as Kruger would doubtless trat treat its representatIves In the sans manner that he I lied had treated the representative of the State Moreover the omea official addel added I It Is not Ill that President Kruger wi will lie he there IanI iong If IC ye we did sk an any other power to nt act In behalf of Britain It would bo pea P |