Show BRITISH ARE HIGHLY ELATED Victories at and Orange River Are the tho Cause lIAS MEN Will vIII Dorn br or sy urn DId Uld Not oL LOndon Jan morning papers unanimOus In praisIng the tho gal gallantrY n are lantrY or of the antI and colonIal The Times sAYS anyE The Th mother country will share with the tho Canadians antI and Australians In tio tho pride and gratification they must feel teel at the fine displayed ed by theIr troops In this das little engage engagement engagement ment The Standard sa says s The Canadians and Australians had been spelling for rora IL a fight low the ha hare 1 had their op opportunity and lind the have hae greatly dis themselVes by their coolness anti dIscipline From the view or of Imperial the fight ma may fairly be de described as one o of the most gratifying recorded In the recent history or of the British race Although the continuance or of minor SucceSses gratifIes the public it Il IS not that th the larger o of the he campaign are unchanged As the Dall Dali News Newil remarks It is 18 a aday aday day of at small mercies The fhe Importance or of both General Frenchs nd Colonel lies In th effeCt they are likely to have hao on the Dutch The dis ti om Douglass confirms the earlier report that the Boer langers chiefly or of British subjects 10 ca In the arrival ot of th the Free Iree Scale commandO accepted probably an to throw In their lot with ith the DOHS thus thu terrorizing the he loyal 1001 loyalIsts who are now jubilant A dispatch reports that the rebels In Darkley district are do de by ly the British occupation or of Dordrecht Should It turn out that the Dutch rebellion Is 18 thus being dimin It will vill be n a matter f great relief tor fr the British campaign The Standard remarks remark Until the Tugela has been and Lad Lady Ladysmith smith relieved It would be Idle to deny dony that the present position In Cape Cap CapIon Ion Is one ot of wry very great rea t danger and 1 If unhapPilY General Duller IS 10 again defeated It will bt be necessary to dispatch men to keep th Dutch In order that men will be to defeat the tho forces ot of the two has hai been ridiculed In many quarters but butas as n a matter or of fact act this number la is al already ready rendy almost without the extra which the Standard tore fore foresees sets sees might be Yesterday the admiralty chartered eight Ight more large larga transports When all the troops destined for South Africa join those already there Lord Rob Roberts Roberts erts will be In command or of about men Thirty thousand Ire are now afloat or ready to embark Military In view ot of hat those these figures cannot see how the British can canfall tall fall to crush the Doers b by mere mero force or of numbers The Dall Daily Mall oll makes the following statement this morning We under unde understand stand that Ute the defense committee or of orthe the cabInet after tion o of the question or of the defense or of orthe the empire particularly with regard to artillery will shortly call coli for tor the ex expenditure or of to make good tIe de and an to place the nation on a apal pal with other great powers The new equipment will be provided os as speedily as possible and while sur suf mobile for tor use Ue In the field It Its itIs Is s Intended to be adaptable to the necessities ot of what are known as S guns or of position The Tho Dall Daily Telegraph has hos r received eC 1 the dated t 2nd from Fr re Camp rho weather Is flue fino The Tugela river Is now fordable Gen Dul DulI I r arm army Is In fine form ready and nt for Cor the work before It ItA itA A dispatch from dated Tan Jan eary let rays 3 S IA Last night Su hay haythe the British In cr greit t force Coree attached ed commandO In Inthe inthe the r district and tried to storm the tho 0 They repeated the tho attack this morning but vere er forced to re the holding tho Ihl loss ot of the British III i not known hut but It i is 15 re reported Ort d to have ben II heavy The Bo rs consider It n a great greal com coin nt to the that Lord sl Uld have hao been sel ted to command or of the British tor forc At Frere Camp yesterday the Boers Inquired b by Why Is Rob Robert Robert ert coming has haB Duller Buller done doneTh Th The British replied flow lIow did you OU In the tho late battle battleS The fht Doers Boers In S The Tho the following dated January 2nd from Crom Lourenzo Marques It ia 19 that Mai Daly and men ot of the British medical corps corpe who were left nt at Dundee when h n the town was WiS evacuated are now nov on the way from Crom Pretoria to ba Belmont Delmont Cape Colony Colon Monday Monda Jan JanIA IA dispatch from Crom Dover Farm dat dated dated ed Jan 1 says sarI Tho rho troops sho ho have been longing to lo be allowed to meet moCt Ute the Doers Beers hare havo at last been ell given nn opportunity to do 10 so and s scored ored a 6 brilliant Th The raid conducted b by Colonel Pilcher van very cry difficult owing to the fact fael that the movements ot of the tho tops were Immediately com communicated communicated to the Beers by the no an noli li tives es In order to prevent this Colone Pil Pilcher cher In making hie hl forced march from elmont left lert n a British trooper at every farm hou house with instructions not to fit at atlow fitlow low th the natives to leave IMO their home hom the tho patrols calling the tho ot of the natives order to their escape nt In the at Cooks Cook scat Bent patrol east Ono One or of th these con of tour four men c commanded by br LIeutenant MIle Adle encountered fourteen Ii Boers s who opened lire fire The lieutenant was waa severely wounded and Private Butler Dutler gave up his hili horse IB Ia order to carr carry the lieutenant out or of tange Another wh whose horse had hod bolted pluckily returned to render as II lie He was wounded In the tho le leg legand and hi hie hors hor wu was killed Meanwhile LI Lieutenant H Ryan an who had worked m magnificently reported that the tho veldt oi 01 the right or of the enem enemy wa clear wh whereupon do Rou Rougemont mont or ordered tIered dered the guns cuns to a trot The They or within 1500 yards of at the tho longer unlimbered and planted five hells In Inns Inas ns as many minutes within the lanor Immediately the tho enemy could be Pen mn over th the kopJe They The wel Were completely surprised but quickly opened a well directed fire A or of the had the privilege e ot of carrying nn an order to the Toronto for tor Quick Into action The ord r ra was a received with great Th The ny rushed forward until within yards yard ot of the lie 10 when It opened n a hot 1111 upon the kopjo and completelY subdUed the tho Doer lire fire The British artillery the tho po with wonderful accuracy while Lieutenant with Ith mounted try worked around the o tely Un In Uncovered covered the fire o of the Boils JOIS who haul hall been ensconced In the Moo Mel awhile Colonel the toiling taking or of eiry cuver coer made a 0 attach the Iho Australians moving slowly Jut but only shouting when whon they saw law tHe enemy merny retiring tinder their steady lire The behaved with groat coolness laughing and oven oon nt at atthe the moment or of lre tet peril During the tho advance the Doer Beer fire firo suddenly De Beers hoIsted a hita liar flag and surrendered A portion or if the moved across the ho ot of the suns gUlls And entered the tho longer aa er rho fhe Beers had Oed lied Fourteen tents three a 11 great store or of rifles rilles ammunition Co forego rug saddles and camp equipment nd numerous mating were captured rho lost six killed and The stood the gal Ial bat lant fire with admirable patience never wasting a shot Douglass CliP Cape Colon Colony Jan 2 Colonel Pilcher has occupied Douglass without opposition and has hos been tl re with enthusiasm by the loyal loyalIsts loyalists London Jan Berlin corre ot of the Standard rays as The Tho British at Derne has lOdged a protest with the Swiss gov government go calling attention to the tact fact that the recruiting for the is 18 In progress In territory Many young oung mon men who had engaged to go to England for Cor were told on ar arriving riving nt at tImi England no longer needed them but that they could go to the thu It Is said thAt many have accepted this suggestion Uon tion And lOG are reported to haE sailed for or D Delagoa bay In a 1 Frond essel The Lisbon correspondent or of the tho Stan third dord It Is reported here that Great Groat officially acknowledges the correctness or of the attitude or of For Por lugol regarding ba bay It 11 Is also that inquiries instituted b by the British consul at Lourenso Marques show that since hostilities began rioth Ing contraband line hos been imported there except barbed wire and Brussels Brussel Jan former minister of justice and now member or of the council ot of state for former mer Senator Lafontaine other leading members ot of the Universal league o of Peace have a meeting to be held next Thursday In favor or of appealing to the United States government to offer to lo mediate In the tho South African war |