The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 21, 1899, Page 1

W De #a,\\,n the Libra ‘ .+ o - The Eall VII-NO. 21. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1899, PRICE FIVE CENTS. T[N HAVANA’ OFFICERS ARRESTED GREAT BRITAIN HAS THE WAR FEVERAWTNS AND A VAST ARMY WILL SOON BE LANDED IN SOUTH AFRICA. NEW YORK Dec. 20.—A special to the World from the British camp at Chieveley, Natal, dated December 18, says: There was Charged “ 1th Defraudmg heavy firing this morning at Ladysmith. Colonel G. M. Bu'!lock of the First Devonshires, three of his officers and forty men were taken prisoners by Boers while flying a flag of truce and looking for their wounded. LONDON, Dec. 20.—There is no iresh news from General Gutacre. but the latest telegrams at the War Office report that on Mon- the Government of Cus- tom-House Fees. PR ALL ARE MEMBERS OF GOOD F AMILIES, - LOST THEIR LIVES IN AN ICE JAM of the ton Peri vie. Wrecked sh Near Fitatie PEARY PREPARING FOR ANOTHER VOYAGE Have the Steamer Windward Repaired and Fitted for a Three Years’' Cruise. JOHNS, N will ANXIETY FELT FOR THE BIG OCEANIC Famous White Star Steamer Thirty | Hours Overdue on Her Trip to Queenstown. ENSTOWN, Dec. 20.—Considerable arding the White Star ptain Cameron, which December 13. She is STANFORD GLEE CLuB GOES OUT ON STRIKE Dissatisfied Because Arrangements Have Not Been Made to Take Out the Full Club. \'IA\‘HII« 1 Dec. 20.— ™ e and man- d a strike, and as - vacation irip thi he trouble is a ru e committee ows the r men. nizations | creditable with Jess men, and v will not | imber. Al incurred the £ boards with « teriale. If t fuse to prov: desired they expended and lawsuits for the rec What makes the cf all' !h more embarrassing is the fact that 1n clubs are bil *how in San Luis Obispo to-mor ght. In_ order to| fulfill this cng t the men must| leave the unive ITOW morning on the 10:20 bs unanimov decided at tielr meeting to-night to leav, with twenty-seven men or not at ai Meanwhile the whole university is anx ously awaiting the outcome of an embar- rassing situaton. » day General French engaged the enemy near Jasfontein farm. The Mew Zealanders occupied the farm and adjacent hill unopposed. Boers advanced to the attack, but General French, having made a reconno’ssance to the north of their position, retired his force. landers are reported as having been most steady under a hot Boer fire at short range. New Zea The Daily News has the following dispatch from Cape Town, dated Saturday, December 16: **The Boers intend to make a big stand at Stormberg, and are massing a great force at the abandoned British camp. mando of 2000 consists chiefly of rebel Dutch.”” Qecosivivsisiesitioieisieieioisdotsisbate e PGP POPOPIPIPEINGIIIOII S In the bend of the O oo b0 eded-eied ONDON, Dec. Ominous silence continues | regarding Generals Buller | and Methuen. Some interesting details of the battle Colenso have been received to the effect that the fight was a drawn bat- tle and that British troops are the aban- of keeping an eye on » doned guns, while one tele-| gram records their recovery by a| party of volunteers. But there | re- non- | men for- was no confirmation of these ports. The names of 137 commissioned officers and who were killed have been warded instead of 117 as at first reported. There was no fresh news from General Gatacre. General French had another encounter with the Boers on Tuesday, when the New Zealand- ers distinguished themselves un- der a heavy fire. from Modder River refers to an exchange of shots between Boers and General Methuen’s outposts. The Boers still hold their position at Magersfontein. The town of Jacobsdal is also in their hands. But little credence is placed in the report that the guns lost by the British were not captured by the Boers. Had the story been | true General Buller must have referred to it. Buller’s artillery | cannot now muster much more than thirty guns, while the cap- tured British weapons have no doubt been mounted in the Boer | lines and can be used, since the ammunition wagons seem to have been lost with them. Remarkable, indeed, were the scenes in Pall Mall yesterday. Of late at the War Office we | have gronn accustomed to see ladies in mag‘nlficcnt toilets, | wives, mothers and sisters of offi- cers at the front, and modestly clad relations of soldiers elbow- ing each other, all with the same anxiety depicted in their faces and the same heaviness of heart. | Tt was in the center hall and out- | side in the streets that the scene | yesterday was quite ‘new. In- tead of the usual war news eckers bands of stalwart, ath- letic, big-boned young men were had to The latest dispatch of Saturday ‘ the | e is the town of C: be aband: They were of aj build which showed them to-be of a race accustomed to live an out- |door life. They had healthy zlooking color in their cheeks. | All of them were well dressed, | [ most of them affecting a jaunty ! | colored waistcoat, sporting hunt- ing cravat, leather gaiters and boots which looked more like those made for a day’s shooting than those which are generally | |.seen in swell Pall Mall. They came in crowds; they were eager, talked much and kept darting in and out of the doors and pas- sages of the War Office. Many | of them saluted Lord Chesham |and Lord Lonsdale, who each re- | mained for a considerable period. All of these able-bodied, | sportsman-like youths differed from the usual crowd, inasmuch as they were not there with the usual question, “What news?” nor were their faces anxious. | Their expression was eager. What they wanted to find out, what they were there for, was to know how they could get to the war—how they could be "em- bodied in England’s citizen army of irregular troops. According to the War Office during the day from throughout the country came offers of ser- vice from 100,000 of yeomanry and volunteers, all prepared to equip themselves under the terms of broad latitude of the rule as to clothing, which really only restricts them to neutral colors, | s0 as not to be too conspicuous | targets for Boer sharpshooters. Further offers of voluntary ser- 5o E;_sléa e Netie He R et S § nevertheless active.” @ *listiolistististiotioti | most every [ ] ‘J‘Q‘Sfi’fi"i‘300r0Q’"'Qfiofiofi‘fio&ofio&ofiofi’fi‘&”fi‘fiomo BIG MEN BEHIND THE PRO-BOER MOVEMENT CHICAGO, Dec. 20.—Peter Van Shaack, ex-president of the Holland So- ciety of Chicago, said to-day that he knows of forty-eight men who are go- ing from this city to join the Boer forces in the Ffield, and that he expects the movement to grow until there will be an exodus of Dutch sympathizers from New York and other ports to South Africa. He said: movement in this country has some big men behind it—such men as Mayor Van Wyck and Robert Roosevelt of New York. OF course Mayor Van Wyck is compelled to work carefuily because of his official position, but he is r . which was occup! e is doing the on the right. ied by General N. G. Lyttleton’s brigade as a reserve. I e = o o o o 0 0 M 21— | assembled. vice were commg 1 vesterday afternoon that it was impossible to attend to them. | wire and cables from the and the west, Australia, Canada, Malta and the Cape, and from al- region where the British colonies flourish. Everywhere the war fever visible. is People thought the war | fever was great when war was de- clared, but it nothing to what on every side is witnessed to-day, and what was most re- markable is that women are just as keen as men. Almost every woman, be she a star in society or on the stage, tells you with deep yearning that she wants to be a nurse. If men and women were to be allowed to have their own way just now Great Britain would very speedily be depopu- lated and find-its populace on African soil. was The wave of enthusiasm which is rolling all over the country is being fanned by all public speak- ers and newspapers. Last evening Sir Richard Tem- ple talked of an army of 175,000 men. The War Office to-night con- siders that it can get all the men and horses it wants. Lord Wolseley, who has been openly severely attacked, has completely changed his views, and is now for all the cavalry that can be mus- tered. Officials in the artillery depots and manufactories are working double gangs, night and day, in strenuous efforts to get fresh They came by post, by telegraph | east | General Buller and Staff Watching the Action at Colenso. e so- fast| batteries. to replace those taken, while the manufacture of lyddite shells is being rushed to its ut-| most capacity. At the army clothing depot the staff has been nearly doubled and works night and day, like all | getting | and | other departments, in khaki uniforms completed packed for the front. People are really almost for- getting Christmas in the absorb- ing enthusiasm of war. not that they manage to recoup in money spent for the enormous number of presents to be sent out to South Africa for officers and men. But altogether from to-day on we might easily imagine that England had commenced a new war, much larger and more inter- esting than the first. Such is the dominating note among the Eng- lish people this day. All say for- ward; none say enough. The announcement that the men of Section D of the army re- serve are to be recalled to the colors is significant of the strain which the present situation has imposed upon the resources of the regular army. The whole army reserve consists of four classes of sections, A, B, Cand D. Section A is a small reserve of 5000 men. Section B consists of men who have completed their color service and are working out in the reserve the remainder of their engagement. - Section C comprises men who for various reasons have been transferred to the reserve before completing the SMOSSMO&'HOBOMOEOWW [] -3 “The pro-Boer .ommfimm RN RN NG eR R e E On the left General Hart, with the Irish Bri- In the middle foreground on the left are the naval guns, ral Barton's brigade is shown on the hill to the extreme right, and the Boer artillery on the ridges beyond the river. Trades- | people would be hard hit were it | The The One com- R B B e o ko o i S B S S Y ) + and on the right the fleld E colors. Section D is a supplemental reserve consisting of men who on | engagement are enlisted to serve in reserve, and are not liable be called out until after the rest of the reserves. The calling up of Section D is sections are or very shortl\ will | be used up. The total strength of the re- turns, was 82,003 The men. immediate future, | the War Office plans, creased fully 50 per cent. full divisions of the regular army are now in process of arrival be at under sailing orders. drafts to bring regiments already at the front up to full strength to replace the wastage sent out. and yeomanry which is to be or- ganized will still further swell the number. The total of reinforce- ments already arranged for fol- lows:, Volunteers, 7000; yeo- manry, 3000; fifth division, 11,- 000 (about 6000 already landed at the Cape); sixth division, 11,- 000; seventh divisidh, 11,000; cavalry brigade, 1206; reinjorc- ing drafts, 12,000; Canadians and Australians, 2000. Total, 58,200. Deducting casualties, these re- inforcements will bring the Brit- ish forces in South Africa to 130,- 000, not including the colonial and irregular troops of Cape Colony and Natal, which prob- ably will number 30,000. The action of the city of Lon- don, through the Lord Mayor and Corporation, in resolving to pay the entire cost of equipment of 1000 city volunteers, entailing | an expenditure of about 100,000/ pounds sterling ($500,000), is but typical of the feeling prevailing in England at present. From all sections come enthusiastic replies to the call for volunteers. — | 5 Continued on Second Page, . e vepeDed e 0‘004&4‘“0-0—0-0 Pedei et edebedebebeb et edes normal period of service with the completion of their first period of for a further period of four years| to| therefore an indication ,that other | serves, according to the latest re- | army in South Africa will in the | according to | in- | Three | the Cape, on their way thither or Large | war | caused by casualties are being | The great force of volunteers| LAST AT OF HERDISN Brave General Met Death While Aiding a Wounded Young Officer. REFUSED T0 SEEK A PLACE OF SAFETY. “I Must See What's Going On in the Firing Line,” He Said, Just Before Being Shot Down. — Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. " Copyright, 18, by James Gordon P -nnett ANILA, Dec. 20.—The circum- stances surrounding the herole death of Major General Lawton at San Mateo, at 9 o'clock Tues- day morning, show the nobility of hi= character. When Captain Ethelbert L. D. Breck- ! enridge was she eral Lawton assist in taking the young officer to a small de- pression, which, it was thought, offered sufficient protection | Bullets rained about the tall form of | ral Lawton as he exposed himself |above the embankment. Officers about him called the general's attention to the | fact that Filipin rpshooters were alm- 1g at him. They begged him to be careful | General Lawton resolutely replied: “I must see what s going on In the firing line.”” He then started off and had tra- ersed about fifty feet, when he met his aids, King and Fuller, returning. As they approached him General Lawton suddenly paled and clenched his hands. “What is the matter, general!” ex- claimed King “I am shot through the lungs,” replied General Lawton. He pltched forward with blood gushing from his mouth. He did not speak again, for he was dead. | General Lawton's staff officers were | grief-stricken. Their sorrow is so great that they cannot talk ‘ Manley Lawton, the 12-year-old son of | the general, who accompanied his father in the entire northern campaign, stood outside the gate of his Manila home to- night, waiting for the arrival of the body. “How 1 dread to see my father dead!” he exclaimed. The brave boy was over- come with grief when the ambulance with a big cavalry escort thundered down the street and came Into view. Mrs. Lawton was packing up in a dazed way, getting ready to return home with her dead husband. Every one is fearful | of the result if she breaks down. General Otis says he feels as If by Gen- eral Lawton's death he has lost his right arm. sy BODY OF THE DEAD GENERAL REACHES MANILA MANTLA, Dec. .—Major General Law- ton's body was brought from San Mateo to Manila this afternoon, his staff and a squadron of cavalry acting as escort. It | was found necessary to bridge the river. The funeral will take place from his late residence here, a mansion formerly occupled by a Spanish gen The body has been placed temporarily vault in | El P cemetery, where many of the | American soldiers have been intersed, and a guard of honor will be maintained. When Mrs. Lawton and her four chil- dren shall have completed their arrange- ments for returning to the United States the remains will be taken on a transport with an escort of officers for final Inter- ment, as it is thought probable here, in Arlington Cemetery. General Lawton’s death has caused uni- versal sorrow in anila. No American pularity among all and in his gs with th na- commanded their re: and confidence to a remarkable degr The | Mayors whom he installea In the neigh- boring towns are arranging to attend the funeral in a body. To Lawton's executive ability and per- sonal leadership is chiefly due the bril- liant execution of the plan of campalgn in North Luzon, which has scattered the insurgents from San Isldro to the Gulf of Lingayen. That section of the island, | which had to be traversed during the very | worst season of the year, presented dif- ficuities considered by all acquainted with it to be almost insurmountable, but Gen- | eral Lawton thoroughly covered the pro- gramme assigned him. When he reached Tayug and found that the other division had not arrived, he went through to Dag- upan on his own responsibility. Although he imposed great Lardships upon his men, he invariably shared their Jot cheerfully. Thirteen Americans, including three officers, were wounded in the engagemen? at San Mateo, where General Lawton | was killed. Captain Breckenridge's wound is not considered dangerous, though the bullet penetrated his and side. It is estimated that the insurgents num- bered 500, and that half of them were armed with rifies. The Americans num- bered 1300, but the command had been much depleted by sickness. ‘The wagon train found the roads passable and was obliged to return. The Insurgents retreated to the north- east, leaving six dead. They have other forces near Taytay. This reglon al- though close to Manila, has proved the most difficult from which to dislodge the enemy. It is now reported that the in- surgents intend to concenfrate at Santa | Cruz, Laguna province, and in the dis- trict east of Laguna de Bal. The American secret service reports that Aguinaldo has joined the Mariquina force. 3 g 2 - ] -] t arm im- - e PRESIDENT PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE BRAVE LAWTON WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—The Presi- dent to-day sent the following cablegram to General Otis: EXECUTIVE MANSION, Dec. %, 1890.—Gen- eral Otls, Manila: | have learned with inex- pressible sorrow of the death of Major General Lawton. and ask to share with the officers and men of the Eighth Army Corps their grief. Ome of the most gallant officers of the army has fallen. At the time the sad news came to us his nomination as brigadier general of the regular army was dy made for trans- mission to the Senate, but no rank can en- hance his fame. He rose from the ranks of the Ninth Indfana Volunteers. grade in m-m-‘-mm o0 that of major genera! volunteers, Jhree wars was con- icuous for bl'I'Itfl devotion to The country mowrns the S death o¢ this