Show BOER WAR big casually list of british troops in Lady i deaths of typhoid be arranging adother attack boers challenge Chal methuen to fight railroad armourd lacy inith there is an alliance between englana and united states pretoria monday dec 23 gen Schalk barger reports under date of dec 23 that trains aro now running to colenso indicating boers have built a connection around lady smith gen cronje reports from the modder river pec 24 that the boers captured two british forts at kurcman Ku ruman dec 17 it is rumored that gen big naval gun has exploded the transvaal government has promulgated a new gold tax law by which individuals and companies working their own mines are taxed thirty per cent of tho output while mines worked by the government will pay fifty per cent suspended mines will pay thirty per cent on their probable output calculated on three workings reducing works will ay thirty per cent of their net the law is retroactive to october 10 capo town thursday dec 28 A dispatch from cradock reports heavy in the direction of it is supposed that this is connected with gen Gat acres attempt to reopen communication with the indge collier ies london dec 29 A dispatch received by the war office dated cape town thursday dec 28 says there Is no change in the situation so far as generals gatacre and french are concerned london dec 29 the war office has received the following dispatch cape town thursday dec as the indge colliery line is now working again london dec 29 william waldorf astor has subscribed 1000 pounds to the Bucking hamshire fund to equip the count rys contingent of yeomanry act 29 lord salisbury presided pie sided at a meeting of the national defense committee today london dec 29 dispatches from ail parts of south africa emphasized the great enthusiasm among the public and troops occasioned by the appointments point ments of generals roberts and kitchener the announcement that the former will have supreme command and that the latter will be chief of staff has largely dispelled the depression in cape colony caused by the recent reverses while the soldiers anticipate everything from the presence of bobs from success in battle to caper beer advises advices from cape town dated dec 21 say an investigation shows that the reported disaffection among the dutch in the victoria district has been overdrawn the farmers it la pointed out arc mostly land owners and will not risk the loss of their farms by rising A dispatch from lourenzo marquez dated dec 23 says a curious story h current emanating from boer sources that matt stayn brother of the president of the biange free state and free St aters have definitely refused 0 continue the war matt steyn acting as spokesman of abo party is reported to have told the president that he was only authorized to intervene in the event of peace and that iho burghers did not feel that they bound by his unwarrantable ran table conduct especially as they ran the risk of confiscation of their property and they simply desired to bf permitted to farm in peace and proposed to hu mediately return to their daims the text of col nadan powells proclamation cla mation to the besieging matching the gist of which has already been cabled comes from lourenzo marques today after asserting that tho republics cannot hope for foreign inter vestion and pretending to relate the exact attitude of all the european powers including emperor william who the colonel said fully sympathized with england baden powell makes alic extraordinary statement that the american government lias warned the others ot her intention to side with england should any of them interfere A war office dispatch from col bad en powell dated dec 12 after announcing noun cing that lady sarah allson had safe and well at adds that the bombardment and musketry fire continue daily on all sides and that the health and spirits of the garrison aie very satisfactory dewitts little early risers purify ine blood clean the liver invigorate the system famous little pills tor constipation and liver troubles WALLACE CO |