| Show AT Al MERCY OF EVERY WILD RUMOR I I Hoping Pea ring Doubting Nation is England Be Bc hiees That Butler Buller is News of an Exceedingly Tentative Character London Fob Feb hoping fear fearIn In ng doubting doublinG nation remains at al the mercy merc of every wild r rumor mor The in that lea Oen forces are will not die out In spite ot of the continuous assertions of the war office that It has no news new to confirm that be belIer behot hot lIer From Ca capetown eton under toda date comes lomes the statement that thal up to this morning nothinG has lias been beeh heard there thero re regarding Gen hullers the river while Field Marshal Lord Jord In a 11 dispatch dated Monday Monda 6 5 no change In the sItuation In view ot of the dis It seems hard to credit the tho dr reports of the engagement of oC ion hullers troops The view almost inclines towards th the decision that are due to the wish father of th the thought Supposition upon such auch a bull basis Is utter I futile Th The silence from the front and Ind at al home may ma be significant US the aver but It more probably represents that period ot of prep preparation which ca an Import nt movement The reports report from Crom thus Oran Orange river I f I on conditions are scarcelY more satis satisfactory til factory There Thero Is nn an inconclusive vagueness ner regarding Gen reported mien tUrn lo 10 Pont lont with on an overwhelming force of Infantry While the news or of sharp harp fighting In till the neigh neighborhood of Col burg can lIn be fairly ox ex within a few fel liars clays It Is not like likely J ly that Jt It assume sume greater lions than thon ond ani skim for th purpose of holdIng the advanced position of the forthcoming main IId b by way ay of fontein Gen French Is II strategically from running tiny any risk fisk Lord Lard reI to ruger and Steyn creates nn an excellent Impression hero From Kimberley and Mafeking the there is II nothing n new so It can be presumed that the tle IntermIttent bombardment ot of those laces contInues Capetown F Peb b Argus U an that Ihal ninety guns been dispatched from Pretoria to the tho front and that the tort forts have been d denuded of artillery artiller Modder Feb trum rum dated yesterday Feb Jeb February Mb lith says has hn been since 3 In the morning with the occasional roar of a Long Tom The firing It ItIs Is II added continues |
