Show OEN BULLERS RETREAT took up a position five miles further to the rear to prevent boers flanking his army Ws guns were undoubtedly captured by the Bows Cronje makes a sharp reply to methuen americans going to aid the boers censorship on south african news leaves many questions unanswered in regard to bullers defeat A dispatch to the new york herald aiom chieveley Chie veley camp dec 17 says gen bullers army moved bach five milea today the march beginning tt 1 0 clock this morning two brigades soang to the rear in order to defeat a attempt on the part ot the boers to execute a flank movement to tha railroad on the british rear now york dec 21 A dispatch to the new york herald from london tiuya thero Is practically no reh newa from the seat of war further details ot the battle of colenso continue to erbb e in but on the whole they do not add much information the posts correspondent affirms positively that tha boers captured ten field arns col duller commanding the devon regiment with three officers and forty men was surrounded tind all wore taken prisoners by the boers while looking tor wounded men under a flag of truce according to the chronicles correspondent spon dent the british mounted antan try and irregular corps with two bit 0 artillery managed to take the Colea aso road bridge eventually the river but the boar erfle fire prevented them from pushing on and the battery was abandoned seemingly the guns were lost on the north side ot the tugela and it so there is little doubt that they were captured the times baya that people who know the country consider the boer position the strongest in natal mr in the telegraph says the boers are digging more trenches nearer the river and employing a areu creu sart gun to shell the british camp there Is still no news ot lord meth iian ills communications have been t ct or else tho censors are determined lo 10 allow no information as to his doings to reach the outer world some sensation has been cadei in diplomatic circles in st petersburg by a that the british ambassador there had a private audience with the czar in connection with events in south africa the chat causa of the uncas lotes which brings back the shadow to english faces la a suspicion that tho garrison is short of ammunition and incapable of a prolonged defense the war does rot admit that Is in serious danger lor shor 0 ammunition but the censorship has allowed these reports 0 o teach england the consor it is apparent asleep or s drugged by too too inquisitive from colease COl easo are still in but every one bears evi alence of rough from tho censorship jl is impracticable either to tebesa fragmentary accounts one wui another or to explain the discrepancies between them and gen bullers report one journal after another Is forced to describe their own correspondents dispatches aa unintelligible and there are strong expressions of disapproval of the ruthless manner in which the ensor mutilates tho carefully written reports after the battles are fought there are at least a dozen questions of fact which remain unsettled six days after this battle occurred abo most important ot those relate to the comparative para tive ranges of the boor and british la which guns and the circumstances longs battery was lost know whether Bl allers lers ATO anxious to army with a numerical superiority in higher degree of skill guns and with a la tho service ot them wai without owing to the fact adequate that it was l by the aw artillery there are a hundred details la eager to which the public and about the chief battle of the war 13 g SS d and overy co ro sound and off from clear descriptive work the english press is much submissive than the and docile would ho in sallar american press but it is showing signs irritation and Is on tb point of asking whether the war in south africa Is conduct for tho enterprise a private ot fa purpose ot in the field and red tape martl abets in the war obice boer accounts of the cat ca t c are modest and convey the that the dutch burghers are not aalee by their victory on the tugela pool dec 21 the cunard lice ahre steamer umbria which arrived noc 19 from new york bas been chartered tor by the british government use as a troopship AFTER THE COLENSO BATTLE SATISFIED BULLER MOVES FIVE MILES TO TUB new york dec 21 A dispatch to the new york herald from dec 16 says camp till ald armistice there la an in order to bury th e dead and remove the wounded Is placing meanwhile the enemy they may cover our areah guna so that ambulance martlea part lea themselves as atia they express and boast battle with yesterdays hd that they cannot be turned out of their present position the dutch stripped our dead heroic during the fighting some the Irregular a performed deeds were ak ang with tho regulars tor distinction aleut lonsbury Pons bury of mounted infantry and private farer 0 the natal Carbine ers attempted to save some of their comrades at imminent peril of their own lives an injured man carried by aleut waa mortally wounded while in the arma ot tho REPLIES TO A CURT ANSWER TO amit ISH GENERAL london dec 21 p m the war has received the following from gen forestier walker the british commander at cape town cape town wednesday dec 20 methuen wires that he has received a rude reply from gen cronje respect ins bis representations as to aleut chandos pal gell saying that this boffl la regarded as a spy general cron jc also states he will hold no further communication with methuen on dec IS the british war office received the following dated sunday dec 17 gen walker methuen reports that aleut chan doa pal gell was taken prisoner last thursday meeting a flag of truce lie waved a handkerchief in response and wan unarmed BULLERS GUNS WERE LOST Q NO CREDENCE GIVEN TO STORY OF RECAPTURE new york dec 21 A dispatch to alie new york herald from london saya little credence Is placed in the rc that the guns lost by the british were not captured by the doers had alia story been true gen buller must have referred to it sir redvers artillery cannot now much more than thirty guns the captured british weapons have no doubt been mounted in the boer lines and can be used ammunition lagona seem lo 10 have been lost with them chicago dec 20 the greatest problem that england will have to face in south africa said dr J C hammett who today returned from mash ovaland on aland in rhodella Rho desla northward from th transvaal will in nil probability ho that of the natives and not of tho boers even if the boers are suppressed and tse english supremacy established in avery short time the natives will eull be left to deal with aticy arc not musing any trouble juat yet but are many signs that they will put england in a very position at no distant day bradera who come in north think that now after the difficult left between he whites have the conquerors will find a big native problem on their bands and that tho blacks will have to be conquered all over again BRITISH FOUGHT WELL BUT HAIL OF BOER BULLETS WAS DEATH london dec 21 there was no newa from south africa up to 3 p m today other than fragments and disconnected stories of past events this silence Is having the natural effect of creating forebodings the splendid patriotism patriot sm of the volunteers continues to bo evidenced on all aides tho newspapers note with satisfaction alie favorable impression that this effect of display creates on continental powers the westminster gazette however sounds a note of alarm it thinks the moment is peculiarly to send abroad tho home defenders no one la quite easy aa to the effect tho proceedings in south africa will have on great britaina Brit ains european neighbors belated stories from camp natal all concur in say n tho british did marvels in an impossible situation tho oldest war say they never saw anything with the bravery of the men and officers the naval contingent created an am benbo furore engaging the boera single banded and balling shrapnel and shells on the north of the town in a van effort to the murderous fire of tho boera while the british forced the pas saga of the divor the advance of tho second brigade along the road leading to ibo bridge in the face of a deadly fusillade la described as the british forced their way the alro zono aider a perfect storm of balleta from the invisible boers tho patter of the bullets on the dry plain it la added raised the dust like heavy rala drops on water the amat throughout waa intense there were many stories of special acta of bravery the duko of marlborough who Is a lieutenant in the Oxford shire yeomanry and who lias volunteered for er take with alco in south africa and forsea of his him fifteen men troop he will personally furnish the equipment tor these men the earl of warwick the earl 0 dudley tho earl of lonadale and viscount balway aro amock tho other of ho aristocracy who have on fourth page GEN BULLERS RETREAT continued from first page volunteered for service in tho campaign against the boers the parting message gen lord roberts sent the associated press to the american people is in london today and occupies the foremost place in the afternoon papers here which characterize acte the straight simple words as eminently soldierly and as having the ring which it is claimed should mark the relations between the anglo saxon people although it arrived too late for the usual editorial comment on its contents ithe display headlines show that his reference to americas friendliness and canadas patriotism and hig repudiation tion of the charges of irish disloyally are widely approved queen victoria and princess beatrice went by train from windsor to farn borough this morning and spent an hour with exem ex em pres pre s eugenic the queen has been greatly annoyed by the unfounded statements that she is in ill health and perpetually weeping A paragraph contradict ng these stories appears in tha papers which added that it has never been her maje habit to display golc like a hysterical school girl the allan line steamers laurentani Lauren tan parisian and Po moraln have been chartered by the government tor the purpose of conveying canadian troops to africa jy lord roberts bade farewell to he prince of walea at marlborough house the staff of the new british com mander ln chief in south africa in eludes general and viscount downa besides his present staff y |