| Show NO GOOD NEWS NO NEWS l London Loaders leaders Statement Why Buller Does Not Report Promptly hAS A BI mu TASK rASK BEFORE hIM Uni I If le lie ne Ito iii 1 be the tho Greatest Soldier Since ting t London Jan Ian war epert expert ot of tho Loder Loader writes In Issue Not a ord ome from Gen Duler Duller yesterday gog gogl or bad We do not nol think h he would have hae refrained from reporting lall night had h lie had an any god good news newsOne newsOne One thing only we enemy at length s outmatched In artillery but bul lie s supremacy In rUle rifle tre fire seems to remain It I is to lo make nn any re remark remark mark upon the tho composition or of the Itaf staff I of the tho eighth divIsion the latest sian organized save that another guardsman Is pushed up two steps by bythe bythe the vicious old system lie He has haa In spite of ni all that tha t hl has happened got gOl n a brigade on account or of the absurd rule that guardsmen must bo be b by guardsmen and there thore are two battal lOls of oC guards ire In this brigade This rule itself to the secretary ot of state for tor war most of oC whose rein rola lives are In the household troops Lord Methuen got his command be because cause he Is n a guardsman New York Jan despatch to the tho Tribune from London I It has haa been to understand the reports ot of the tho fights among the owing to the tho Inaccuracy ot of the maps available here and the confusion caused pa y the use of oC the terms rIGht and Ier left when the direction II iii which Gens Warren arren and Cler were ere movIng was unknown I It Is III now fairly cor clear that thal Saturdays fighting was welt ivest of 01 Spion Kop Iop and that the hoer Boer right tas forced back upon the main Post ton lion Sundays attack carried Warrens northward left Idt and upward two mills miles Central News dispatches dated on Sunday Sunda night describe Gen Oen Warren as having worked around the extreme right ot of tIme the Dutch lne line and as hn having In taken everything except time the last laRt ridge on the tho summit ot of Spion J Kop cavalry brigade le was still further to the north and west covering the and OIly approaches to the lens over oer the mountains Gen Warren 0 has apparently fol got to tolie lie tho end of oC the DOr Doer hin of oC defense deCenso and turned I it while his 19 cavalry holds holda a strong on the tho main rod road to near Acton Home Is Ills arm army bloks blocks In any attempt otho enemy to outflank his own turing turning movement b by advancing from Bethany toward Springfield General Lyttleton at Drift faces the second Doer ot of and als also ob obstructs n a counter atack attack up upon Spring Springfield field The Dutch second lne line or of eon con extends from Spion Kop JOP to anal thence to the hla hub Ladysmith and southward to Colenso As many as eight Doer camps have ln been son seen from Ladysmith westward With this h IL Cor force confronting him Oen White cannot cooperate wih with the tho relief column until JOp and ar are taken and Warrn Warren marh marches eastward Gen Oen Duler Hullers head headquarters headquarters quarters ar are on the heights heiGh Is behind Pot Drift but as Bartons brade bradeIs brigade Is u Chleele t and Is prist persist persistently ent reported to be with Warren on time fighting lne line I he have hae large r reserves ef at Springfield The situation while a promising ono one for an ultimate BrItish SUC Is fraught wih with daner r General force Is hard I adequate In strength for foren SD en bold n a movement and 19 its success Is largely larel dependent upon Dutch neg let to make u use or of superior mobility for Cor a counter attack General lul Duller ha has challenged good fortune In playing for high stakes Succors 11 ibi make him the greatest English h soldier since ince Wellington failure expose him to wi ep destructive crIticism for tor attempting I with lh thirty thousand men work whIch I required an arm army of oC fifty ty thousand The rho news from eer every other quarter Wr tas meagre There were fever feer lists from Ladysmith casualties from the Upper Tugela and large ad to the deth death rols rolls ot of fontein cuE caused b by the additon addition of namO or of British troops burled buried by the the Dutch General French ha has been reinforced and Is using sheil shells tr freely Ther There ar are intimations that Lord rd first work ork 11 b be the tho clearance ot of the northern frontier b bt by t sixth which wi will reinforce Generals French and Gatacre I ws dis army remains Idle |
