Show ju L BRITAIN RELEASES AMERICAN FLOUR FLOURI Ambassador Choate Has ilas an Interview With Lord Salisbury This Afternoon With This Result FoodstuffS Not Contraband of Var Unless Intended for the Enemy Britain in Great German Ship Storm Bursting Over the Head a f the Home Government Displeasure at Governments Lack of Energy No Longer Concealed Press Arousing Everywhere Conservative Papers Call Ministry a Body of is That Boers Retire From Froni Advance on Turned Back American flout flour Jan un don Bay has been rO re ort aeed United States Am AmbaSSador lc ed InterVieW with the had nn an Cholte hOt this afternoon and of verbal yerbal replY to the n a ot of the tho govern nest was The British noto on this subject later to the United States em lint cable to bail bwy The gist tf It was In brIef food StUffS are contraband or of war un cot ot lug leu intended for the enemy Durban Jan BrItish au have released the German steamer whIch was seized Jan Jantho JanIth Ith tho while on her WaY to Lourenzo The Ite hague Jan minister of Instructed the theander Jansen J C ander of the Dutch cruiser Fries 1 Marques to I now nt to Durban and take on board the tte Dutch Datch Intended for the and the stores sent out for forthe forthe the herself which form torm part of the cargo of the Herzog Herzo London Jan iThe plight of Ish arms In South Africa Is overshadowed owed oved for the present by the storm Js Is bursting over the tho head of the home government Th The of cf Mr t tU lI government It tn th I o ot SUch II a torrent of comm f from frees the I press ISS and individuals of his hison on party part that were cre parliament to ru ro today It Is doubtful If the tho conservatives would retain power Dower In of theIr tremendous majority ot of the past t sessIon The pent up dissat with the governments lack ot energy In wagIng the thc war Is no longer aled Wh When n such Ruch ardent conser alive papers as the TImes and the come corne out boldly with reproof there I Is no knowing where the agitation tion will end The provIncIal press has taken up the cry For the Mr Ir Is the scapegoat hit but there Is a terrible rod roo In pickle for forthe forthe the MarQuis of while Lord and other cabinet minis t rs not escape unless a wonderful change comes over oer the war situation A of the AssocIated Press learns that the conservative leaders admit the gravity of their sUon but tall fail to see what ca can n bo be done In the meanwhile the successes In the III abate the pOpular clamor Some ot of the conservative papers go so sotar tar far M a to regret the extreme age of the tho cabinet ministers and refer to the c bl nfl net u as a f C patriarchs Under these It Is doubtful whether events transpiring before the tho bling of parliament would be powerful to restore confidence In the tho and maintain Its majority There ere Is the important alternative that Lord Landowne or Lord Inn easy be sacrificed A of the Associated 1 resl learns that Lord Wolseley not only e of Lord Roberts up ap tl t the chief command of the tho troops In South AfrIca but al his disapproval to be generally It Is the fact that Lord Icy ley kneW nothing ot of the governments government Intention In thIs until ho saw the announcement of the appoIntment In the newspapers Whatever ensues In Inthe inthe the immediate future will doubtless Fee on the government such as Lord has hns not had to with stand during all the course of his po career The borrowing powers conferred on the government at the last session of at IJ are almost exhausted bout About seven and a halt half out of eight millions of treasury bills authorized have already been Issued The large revenues coming In however probably ably furnish amPle funds until parlia parliament meat ment meets There was a 1 sIngular dearth of oC news this morning from all parts palts of the theater of oC war len Oen French supple supplements ments Ilif hili advices of yesterday by to re portIng that Capt Ricardo and four troopers of the life guards are missing showing that his party met with opposition Oen Gon Gatacre dispatched a strong force Monday January 8 to reconnoiter which the Doers Boers were re reported reported ported to have evacuated The British found the burghers stron strongly ly entrenched and returned to The Sailors and Union of Glasgow Is trying to block the salting o of the transport City of Rome by do de an Increase In wages Jn An incredible rumor comes from that the Doers have with from Probably this Is an embellishment of the native report that Gen Oen Cronje Is sendIng rein to 1 London Jan J 3 Balfour Ue the leader In the house of corn com ons at II a luncheon given Ien In Manches tei hI this mall Jl P n he her r U he was a thick and thin supporter of the War office ite that even If nn an angel from heaven told him him It was possible In Ina Ina a great war to carr carry out everything a written out on paper lie he should know that the angel was drawIng upon his imagination It was not true he added that the office had E sent nt the British army Into the field with guns which Placed them at a hopeless disadvantage with the enem enemy Ife He did not claim the army system was perfect but the crit critIcs Ics ought not to Ignore the dinar military problems of the present war var between which and the problems with which continental headquarters staffs had to deal there thero was no paral leI For the first time In the history of the world the country countr had to meet an enem enemy entirely mounted and it 11 was true truo that If Groat Britain had entered Into the war with a vast number of mounted soldiers It would have long ago been concluded Hereafter It would also be rec recognized thAt guns would not be bens beus us ns mobile as horse soldIers and thAt field artillery must mut be made part or of the regular equipment or of eer every army But seeing that the BrItish war had hadnot not lagged behind the best militAry opinion of toda today It was ludicrous to charge It wIth want of prescIence lb Ho was WIS sure justice would be done In due time to the admInistrative system o othe of the army The last thing the government d desired was any undue concealment of ant facts London Jan 10 p mOen Lord Roberts the new commander of the British forces In South Africa and his chief ot of staff Con Oen Lord Kitchner have arrIved at Capetown |