Show COLONIAL TROOPS LONDON MORNING PRESS HIGHLY compliments THE CANADIANS london jan S tho morning papers are unanimous in praising the gallantry of the canadian and colonial troops although the continuance of minor successes gratifies the british public it Is not forgotten that tho larger aspects of the campaign arc unchanged As the dally news remarks it la a day of small mercies the importance of both gen french and col victories lies in the effect they are likely to have on the colonial dutch the latest dispatch from douglass confirms the earlier report that the doer langers laagers consisted chiefly of british subjects who on the arrival of the small free state commando accepted probably an invitation to throw in their lot with the boers thus terrorizing the loyalists who are now jubilant the standard remarks until the begela has been crossed and lady smith relieved it would be idle to deny that the present position in cape colony la one of very great danger and if unhappily gen buller is again defeated it will be necessary to dispatch additional men to keep the dutch in orde winston Chur chills estimate that men will be required to defeat the forces of the two republics has been ridiculed in many quarters but as a matter of fact this number is already almost reached without the extra which the standard foresees might be required yesterday the admiralty chartered eight more large transports when all the troops destined tor south africa join those already there ird I rd roberts will be in command 0 about men thirty thousand are now afloat or ready to embar lt military observers in view of what these figures mean cannot see how the british can fall to win the dally telegraph has received the following dated january 2 from frere gamp the weather is fine the tugela river is now tor dable gen bullers army la in fine form ready and confident for the work before it A dispatch from pretoria dated january 1 says last night sunday tha british jn great force attacked commandant Scho emans commando in the Co lesberg district and tried to storm the position they repeated the attack this morning but were forced to retreat the boers holding lie po the losso the british Is not known but ft Is reported to have been heavy the boera consider it a great compliment to the transvaal that lord roberts should have boqi selected to the supreme folmand of the british forces at ficro Camp yesterday the boers inquired by heliograph why is roberts coming what has buller done the british how did you like our in the late battle the boers signaled in response rats the times publishes the following dated january 2 from lourenco marques it is asserted that maj daly and forty one men of the british medical corps who were left at dundee when the town iv as evacuated are now on the way from pretoria to delagoa bay |