Show PRACTICAL RELIEF OF lADYSMITH War Department Regards the Sit Situation With Entire Confidence BRITISh VERY CLOSE CLOSEt t I Slay nay be In Heavy of 01 this be Cabinet Meeting Eighth Army r Corll Corps Caled Called London Jan 19 p from rom the front appear to confirm the tho general Impression that events In Natal wi now move quickly though h hardly as a as the tongues arid and pens of the rumormongers Tere There Is nothing up to the present to lo support the stor story that tie the rUef relief of ho 19 al an accomplished tact fact but It Is learned on excellent authority that hat the situation 1 is how regarded at the war onee office wih en entre entire tre tire confidence and that the belea red town ton Is considered practically releC relieved ther there Is no attempt to under underrate r rate tc the danger dancer nn and of Gen Oen I task Ai As sur suggested In thes these dispatches yesterday Gen Waren Warren wee I actually In the ho vicinity of Acton clon Home and n a portion of his force torce uner Lord Dundonald secured an ire v position westward oC that place during the evening ot of January 1 17 on thO the I Deem I right fank flank threatening thu Fr Free communication with their heir own Country b by way say of Van an pas pass Th The British careD camp outside ot of Lady Ladysmith smith ought to be visible from trem ther there 01 us the thc intervening country Is open Sir Ashmead M I 1 P Pha h ha hii has arrived at Fort Furt Re expressed satisfaction wih with Gen dl disposition or othis his trOP le lie visited yesterday while the shelling 0 of the tho I Boors camp waa pro wih with such success that list I it Is al nit on good authority that 1 U Do Doers and 3 33 horK horace were vero killed dlce from frem 1 say Webster tais assistant secretary of the In tenor nt at Washington sailed from Port Elizabeth Monday Monda for Cor Delagoa 0 bay I It Is is understood tM the Im Imperial yeoman yeomanry r ry wi 1 be leavened before that tore foree Gocs goes to the with considerable do de of experienced colonials cc ac wih with Dor liver tactics C 40 p war office has made made public from rom Feld MaNhal Marshal no Roberts rl dae dated today recording ho he movements in Cap Cape Clony Colony In eluding tt tte ambushing or of the am when hen two to of the latter Wf were kille killed eld and fourt fourteen n reported missing 10 Ito adds A Doer Boor deserter state states that the tho enemy suffered severely In attacking French Frenchs advanced post January Seventy Senty for or Doer Doers arl are stil still Noral Normal orders hat have ben been issued to mobilize the eighth division of oC the Belt ish urmI I It rumored on the stok stock exchange this that after el eighteen hours fighting Ladysmith ha hail been relee relieved and that Gen Warren ha had been killed Nothing was obtainable however tending to the rumor and It had nc no effect on stocks General hd telegraphed the war once from camp un under det der date dato 0 of last evening M as follows tollow Lr Lord with a by body ot of mounted came Into acton action this afternoon wih with a tore force ot of Dor Boors o of Acton Homes After a 11 fight ho he Q oc several kopJes which he I is still sti Field Cornet Comet was I I twenty burghers were killed or wound wounded ed and nd fifteen froner prisoners were taken Two British soldiers were killed and two wounded Camp Natal Thursday Jan 1 15 85 p n Doer trenches hlo have ben been persistently shelled by the nal naval suns al all day long Smal Small parIes parties of nor Doers sen seen at intervals and a fal large fort force from the tho direction ot of l Lady Ladysmith smith were tn seen trekking the mth U te teo o 0 British position A Ild did good service In ob observing force oree made n a demon tri lon In the of the font ln four ml miles north of the tho h lostion under cover ot of II a heavy tr Ile lire to which the Dors Boors did not nots s on n the tho left Gen Warrens tr tro I J are now In possession ot of two kopjes koples behind There h f wu was some Doer sniping but It Te Doers evacuated 1 ka Janar January 15 and returned north the tho river Ai U der River Cape Colony Jan 19 18 G n who Is In robust health e 8 Iy directed another strong sance yesterday The la ssu succeeded In driving the Doer Doers Drush bank by long T The C DO Doer rw re was In I ew ew York Jan dispatch to the WOrld IrOn from London ss says Gen Oen tore force Is both able oble and wiling 1 I n the Leaders expert thinks to 10 threaten the mountain passes to the Orange Free State thus cutting ot off the retreat of the burghers of that republic and at the same time timeto to the roads to Ladysmith The Thc ule caine military wrier write als also declares that the Ladysmith relief column Is no now In a position to flank ank the hoer Doer ments on the ferry crry and west of Pot Fot gl ford He expects Gen White hie and Sir Rod Rodra vera ra Duler Bullet to join In a day or two without great The war ar chiefs however look for tor seine very er hoa heavy lIghting before the tho sIege Of Ladysmith Is raised London Jan 19 cabinet meeting I took place today for the purpose of or ar arranging ranging the legislative program for tor the coming se session slon of parlament parliament and to outline the tho queens speech 4 S p e |