The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1900, Page 13

R e e e S g This Paper not to be taken from the Library.+*+* —————— #00009"00#0000000000?0: * - + e : + * - + P +* : Pages 1310 22¢ P : Pages 1310 22: - + + + - > + * B e e o e g FEELILPIELEIEIEFIEIEEILIII I Lo A\'()I UME I \;XX\;II~NO. 52, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, 1900—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. GENERAL BULLER HREPORITS THE CAPTURE OF EHREE MILES OF RIDGES British Troops Ground Gained Duri From 6 A. M. o7 Boer Army Yet B Relief Forces and Ladysmith. REPORTED BURNING OF COLENSO patch from General Buller dated Spearmans C “*General Cleary, with a part of General Warren’s force, has been in action from 6 a. m. till 7 p. m. to-day. By a judicious fought his way up, capturing ridge after ridge for abou *The troops are now bivouacking on the ground he has gained, but the main force is still in front of them. ““The casualties were not heavy. by 6:30 p. m. SPEARMANS CAMP, Jan. 20 (evening).—The Boer inually to-day. Genera! Lyttelton’s brigade advan 2000 yards from the Boer position at Brakfontein. About 100 wo vanced with a balloon in action and were received with a heavy fire from the The artillery and musketry fire continues from General Warren’s posi- Boers. tion The enemy had not shifted its position at th sent and the shells set fire to the grass. surprised 350 Boers. Boers to advance leisurely before opening fire. a majority of them galloped ofi. The Jan. 20.—From | between Dundonald and the | es which have been| Boers near Acton Holmes, in| it looks as [ which the enemy’s loss appears | d dangerous to have been much more serious | projected by General than was at first supposed. One | I satisfac- correspondent gives an interest- | I 1d’s activ- | ing calculation of the Boer losses is specially since the beginning of the war | screening Warren’s and makes the total 64235, of r s ym the Boers.| which nearly a third 1s estimated | to have been incurred in the siege of LadVysmith. The second detachment of the city of London’s Imperial Vol- unteers destined for the front left early this morning. Better ar- rangements than last week were | made to protect the troops from | the excited crowd, and owing to | restrictions of the line of march and the wretched weather sight- seers were much less numerous than last Saturday, but the fervor | of the send-off was not strong. s Camp to-day it the £ o f 14! the firing of field ird early this morn- s understood to mean en has commenced to Boer trenches on muana. At the believed that the wrown almost their orthern Natal Buller and at the trenches are completely village having 1 to the ground by a h crossed the less the PRI MARLBOROUGH AND THE VOLUNTEERS OFF FOR WAR | is object. But this e mat f | g nation, ot ‘,'s]llch LONDON, Jan. 20.—The Duke of Marl. | Sous s i at present. v ¢ this morning, A . G 1 in his bachelor flat in the hester ( i & . . suardian s All preparations for his de- C nt gives currency to parture for South Africa had been made, 2 that the total Boer A4 there was little to do but bundle his = ' > > -‘ t 0 a cab for the rallway sta- streng N iern Natal is al captain was not at all o - y : the t that there were T ess than 48,000. If it is true | only a few hours more before he .uld t the greater portion of this art for the front, and there was not the | of bravado in his voice enthusiastically that he wfully anxious to get to the fronti.” wish not likely to be gratified | line from Potpicters Drift Gen. |12 r future, as the yeomanry will t be sent to the fighting lines until tre: ler has clearly to meet an have had a month-or so of special train- force is concentrated between the ‘ugela River and Ladysmith in ad numerically his su-| The report that the Duke of Maribor- ey - . ough extended outfit to South erior. It is considered improb- | 37e.” . ing prepetations” f5r a | however, that the Boer | bienic quite unfounded. He had not 3 1 i the slightest desire but to do the best he | rce is as strong as is stated. can as a staff officer, and he does not | 2 at a ate his apabilities in this | to be expected in that Lord Dun- 1sh on with his cav- : does not take out with nim as has been asserted. | of his cquipment r,” in which Lord traveled S “spide or ) : N ¢ dolph Churchill all | s i th Lol AT archi; all over d the left flank of | gouth Atrica and which. the uke = t heir line of com- rough placed at the service of ncia, his immediate commander to whom the courtesy is generall reclated, as a well seasoned “spider one of the best means of transport. n to Van Reenans Pass |t ly enter Ladysmith. In en’s which as al-| The five horses the Duke of Marlborough 4 takes out will, likely enough, be much r is supposed to |needed as remou before the Duke gees Blenheim again, and if he does not use here them himself they will always be at the | lenty more iturous work for d osal of his brother officers. The Duke | of Marlborough’s “retinue” consists of a | : yorse valet, who will probably be dispensed i with when the Duke leaves the ship. Once | both the southernw the field he contemplates mfing o m frontiers continues. | BT Paszase than allowed in the asse seem as if both sides| ke conscious of the im- | | He is greatly amused at | the stories regarding the Oriental style | in which it has been asserted he will | travel. Probably the only articles outside | of the official kit which the Duke of Mar borough will have with him when the | their it and left, but is affect- vond keeping his ing n men employed ‘he Boers are alert. Details furnished of the engagement Weapons, wait- | himself. The Duchess will not follow rim | pressions of friendship for Great Britain Methuen is endeavor- | | represent the majority of American ogin- | of Mariborough has dropped his rank and | to emulate @s far as in him lies the 1 of Marlborough drove to the Waterico operations now being| carrie on in Natal and were | yeomanry is sent forward is an ingeaicus- ly devised writing portfolio, invented by | res p: : to the Cape. ult of the conflict | The Duke is much pleased at the ex- 1 so much depends. emanating from the United States, and is serjously anxious to learn if such feelings | e his troops l_uy a Se-{ {on From all appearances and from the tious reconnoissances | frankness of his conversation the Ouke is just an ordinary captain of yeomanary, who is anxious to serve his country and | founder of his house. About 11 o'clock the Duke and Duchess raflroad station and made thelr way through a crowd of khaki-clad officers are iu Bivouacking on DON, Jdan. 21.—The War Office shortly after midnight posted the following The number of killed has not yet been ascertained.” Lord Dundonald’s force on Thursday The British, who were posted on a kopje, allowed the It is reported that the remainder surrendered, | ana Rea Cross nurses and a labyrinth of | the car smiling, acknowledging the cheer- | burg reports that the Dutch inhabitants | force at Norvals Pont. The British shells ng Fighting P. M.—-Big etween the amp, January 20, evenin use of his artillery he has t three miles. unded had been brought in trenches were shelled con- ced and occupied a kopje A company of rifles ad- e time this dispatch was Boers did not reply and > o~ °°~-o.ooo?99°p ‘ [ @44+ 444444 44444444440 baggage trucks to the reserved salon car- | riage, where Captain and Lady Glenfell, ‘t LONDON, Jan. 20.—One of Ladies Blanford, Budler and Esser and |+ the British correspondents in Mrs. Arthur Paget were seated. Do o : After the Marlboroughs arrived a con- |+ Natal gives an interesting tingent of the National Fire Brigade Un- calculation of the Boer losses ion, of which the Duke of Marlborough |4 since the beginning of war. is president, arrived to bid him farewell, It makes a total of 6425, of and the railroad car in which the Duke and Duchess and their friends sat be- Nl s S ] et came the center of attraction of the en- (4 mated to have been incurred in the siege of Ladysmith. The British lossesin killed, wound- ed and captured up to aud in- tire train. At this moment Mrs. O, H. P. Belmont arrived for the purpose of ac- | cluding Thursday were 7987 officers and men. + companyinig her daughter, the Duchess of Marlborough, to Southampton. | The fire brigade men started cheers as the train pulled out, which were taken | up along the whole platform, the Duke of Marlborough standing at the door of B R s D S @++++ 4444444 44444444440 ing. The departure of the second detachment of the London volunteers for South Af- rica this morning led to a repetition of | the scenes of enthusiasm of last Satur-| NOTED BRITISHERS day along the whole route from Welling- | ton Barracks to Nine Elms station. The | SAIL FOR SOUTH AFRICA Londoners commenced assembling hefore | e h daybreak, headed by several bands and | 2 the volunteers, numbering 700 men, left | the barracks at 7:45, marching in fours. For a time the people contented them- selves with cheering and the column ad- vanced in good order until it reached | Great George street, where the friends. |y ;g for South Africa, sailed to-day. She wives and sweethearts of the men in- S e R b SR sisted on joining them and marching arm | ‘“‘5,3“ f Tetvbor 1n epite Gr th ';“" in arm. Thus In the midst of constantly | STOVS OF PEOP® Fi0 0 R B O et s increasing enthusiasm the volunteers | that it was raining . the finally reached the station at 9:30, where | 493YS- the Duke of Connaught, the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and other military and civie dig- nitaries had assembled. The volunteers | were rapidly entrained for Southampton | and steamed away to the strains of “Auld | Lang Syne” and “God Save the Queen.” Large crowds met the volunteers at Southampton and gave them a raging | send-off as they embarked on the trans- ports Ariosto, Kinsfaun Castle and Gaul. Bleers o LOSSES -SUSTAINED ‘ BY THE BATTLING BOERS | REMSBERG, Cape Colony, Jan. 19.—A | gentleman who has escaped from Coles- proximately 6425 men, including 2000 cas- ualties during the siege of Ladysmith. —_———— SOUTHAMPTON, Jan. 20.—The {rane- port Kinfauns Castle, with the Duke of Marlborugh, Rudyard Kipling, Baroness Burdett-Couts, Admiral Frederick A. Maxse and many army officers on board [ R ot St o ok e ol e o o o who are sympathizers with the Boers are proceeding to the Orange Free State in anticipation of the evacuation of. the town. Mr. Van der Walt, a member of the Cape Assembly, has already gone. The Boer force there Is estimated to num- ber from 6000 to 7000 men, besides a strong ; did much execution eastward of the town. The Boer loss up to date is probably 200 men. Carefully compiled figures from repub- lican sources, some of which have been investigated and found to be correct, show the Boer losses up to date are, ap- E Jerp sTANLEY TH W PRESS CENSOR AT APE. TOWN O e ST S SR . >+ Q@ DUNDONALD'S CALLOPING . . GUNS BOERS FIGHT ONLY QN THE DEFENSIVE St R Al Their Have Been Won by Forces Greatly In- ferior to the British in Numbers. Victories Al S Spectal Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyrighted, 1900, by James Gordon Bennett. ADEN, Jan. 20.—American passengers on the steamer Konig from the Transvaal make the following statements concern- ing the war: The total of Boer losses in the entire war in killed, wounded and prisoners, including recent battles, does not gxceed 800, and less than half the adult Boers are now under arms, the Gov- ernment not having yet required the serv- ice of all burghers. The Boers have am- munition to last for three years, and Pre- toria is provisioned for one year. All the Boer victories have been won by forces greatly inferior to the British in numbers. The Boer plan of campalign is purely defensive, and they are confident that they can maintain the Transvaal borders against any number of British troops which can be sent against them. Two of the three Americans with whom I talked believe that the British cannot successfully operate with less than 300,000 troops in the ficld, and the third was con- fident that the Boers w.ll eventually win. They all agree that their prisoners and wounded are being most kindly and hu- manely treated. A gentieman whose name I cannot quote, but who should know the Trans- vaal side, gave me the following inter- view: “The number of Boers in the fleld has been greatly exaggerated. I am confident that they have less than 25,000, but as many more are ready to answer the call of the Government whenever needed. There are plenty of Mausers and ammu- |'nition for all. In no battle have the Boers | had more than 4000 men engaged. They ler at the Tugela. “At Nicholsons Nek the British had re- treated to a strong position on a rocky kopje. There they were isolated from the rest of the army and attacked by 1200 Boers. beaten the British in every engagement of any consequence so far, and the latter have not yet learned how to fight the Boers. Any statement of inhumanity to- ward the British wounded or maltreat- ment of prisoners is absolutely untrue. The average Boer, for all that has been said about his ignorance and narrow- mindedness, fylly realizes that Tommy Atkins is not responsible for the war. “It can do England no credit to discredit the Boers. The Transvaal is surrounded i on all sides by hiils pecullarly adapted to methods of defense in which the Boers think the English nation has formed no adequate idea. “General Joubert is suffering temporary disability from a rupture caused by hard riding, but his advice is invaluable to the Boers. General Joubert will come out of this war, whatever its result, a bright fig- ure in history.” — PRISONERS FROM KURUMAN. PRETORIA, Friday, January 19.—Cap- tain Bates Dennison and 155 prisoners of the Kuruman garrison have arrived here. It appears that six Boers were killed and eighteen were wounded during the fight- ing at Kuruman. had that number opposed to General Bul- | They lost £00 in killed and wound- | ed, and the rest surrendered. It was a | Majuba Hill over again. “The Boers have really completely are skilled, and to penetrate that line of | defense is a task of the cost of which I | Great Britain’s War Against the Boers W'ill Be Pursued to the Bitter End Re gardless of For- eign Interference and W him- perings at Home. Major General Carrington to Attempt to Achieve by Means of One of the Most Heterogeneous Forces Ever Gathered W hat Commanders in the Field Declare to Be Impossible. | | CENERAL THE EARL DUNDONALD, INVENTOR OF. THE GALLOPING GUN - Copyrirght, 1900, by the Assoclated Press. ONDON, Jan. 20.—To thoroughly and conservatively appreciate the politi- | cal conditions as they exist in Eng- land to-day, to understand the re- | flections that military successes or | reverses In South Africa create in the | [ | minds of the public and to gauge the task confronting the Government at the forth- | coming session of Parliament, it is first necessary to realize the stupendous change that in the last few weeks has | taken place in the national character. To | put it briefly, since the British arm: the fleld has found the Boer army was its | match or more the British nation has be- come one huge stock exchange—not the materlal sense, but in se: The nation as a whole governs its opinions by the happenings of the hour, vacillating according to the news the ticker in fts traditions of centuries as easily as the most nervous market that ever operated in times of uncertainty. Nothing so ade- quately lends itself to a ready and force- ful simile of the prevailing temper of the British nation as the popular conception market. of the stock As On the floor there is a certain small percentage with such huge interests at s that they are never budged by rumors that make or break the smaller fry. But these com- pose the very inmost ring, and their ex- clusiveness may be judged from the fact that one never knows when opening from day to day such solid and conservative journals as the Times, the Morning Post or the Standard whether they will uphold or bitterly abuse the Government. In a like manner does the majority of the pub- lic opinion sway as fanned by news from the front. Thus it is well nigh impossi- ble to determine the real feeling toward the administration and the war, and it is still harder to forecast the result of the debates in Parliament. Yet, in spite of this tremendous vacil- lation, the information which represen- tatives of the ociated Press have gathered from all sorts of sources tends toward the impression that Lord Salis- bury will continue not only in power, but in the matter of votes, with but a slightly diminished control, which is tantamount to saying that the war against the Boers will be pursued to the bitter end, regard- less of foreign interference and whint- perings at home. The selection by the War Office of Major General Sir Frederick Carrington for ser- | vice at the front calls out the comment | that the Government has recognized this officer's claims at a very late day, con- sidering the fact that his name is most favorably known lin South Africa, where he spent almost his whole military ca- | reer as a leader of expeditions. While Sir Frederick Carrington's billet is at present a mystery to the English press, the correspondent of the Assoclated Press is able to say that it was not, after all, the initiative of the War Office that he was called, and further, that he will be intrusted with what will be practically | an Independent command of large pro-i portions and will attempt to achleve by means of one of the most heterogeneous forces ever gathered on the face of the earth the gallant objective hitherto held | by the commanders in the field to be an | impossibility. ‘ TUnless Ladysmith is quickly relfeved | the international situation promises to be | of more interest than the actual opera- tions. The seizure of another German vessel, following so closely Count von Bulow's business-like speech in the Relchstag yesterday, will probably pro- | at | They were devoted to each other. e 9 MoNT-AUX-soURCES, NaTAL® > This place is on the srder of & Y the Orange Free State and * Basutoland, and is not far from @ the scene of the Boer attack on the @ ¢ Carbines at Acton Homes. * - * @rso o000 0000e0e® duce at least a keen International press war and rumors damaging to steamer values, if nothing more, though the dis- crepancies between Count von Bulow's speech in Germany and the representa- tions of the German Embassador in Lon- don, the latter being extremely concila- tory, from a reassufing clrcumstance. The news of the death of G. W. Stev- ens, the special correspondent of the Ddily Mall, from enterfo fever, Monday Ladysmith, has been received with genuine sorrow in London, where he had in and out of his profes- vens had a distinguished careeer at Oxford. His first newspaper success was a series of letters which he wrote from America, headed “The Land of the Dollar.” His last work before go- ing to the Transvaal was “The Tragedy of Dreyfus,” and his long stay in hot, unsanitary Rennes is thought to have undermined his constitution to an ex- tent that made him easy prey for the fever. Mr. Stevens made a romantic mar- riage a few years ago with a Mrs. Rog- erson. well known in London socety. She was 60 years of age and Mr. Stevens but 2, but the marriage was very happy. Mr. Stevens used to write to her dally wher~ ever he was. i LONSDALE PRAISES AMERICAN HORSES Special Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyrighted, 1300, by James Gordon Bennett N. Jan. 20.—One busiest men in London at the present time s Lord Lonsdale, to whom the Government has come to find horses and les, two most vital necessities for the South African campaign. Dealers are coming to him all day long with saddles, the weaknesses of which the Earl speedily picks out with the quickness of an expert. Here is what Lord Lonsdale says concerning his work: “On the 2ist of December the adjutant general asked me whether I could supply him with 1700 horses at once. I replied no, Lut 1200 yes. To-day I find 1500 Eng- lish horses, 2000 100 Australian and pretty I want from Hungary Crities say that v good and that you are going to send . accustomed to luxury.” dale quickly replied: “My! Hunters! That class of horses would not stand work at all. What I am sending are horses from the fells and moors of Cumberland and West Moreland. They are horses accustomed to live on the wildest kind of stuff. They are as hardy as they can be, living among the rocks and never having had a feed of oats In their lives. Some have accused me of buying fine horsse, too, but I know y cannot get them too coarse. I have such rough chaps. They have never seen a stable. What we want is a wild, rough horse and small. None I have be over 152 1 have got 487 horses, 1000 cowboy horses and little ponies, secured from people in the midlands, who take no care of them and keep them hardy.” «“Are your preparations for the yeomanry?”’ “Yes, perfect. If there are ten thousand men to offer to-morrow I will engage each. I shall have a service blanget and waterproof mantle’ for each horse and the best cavalry saddle. One thing I must say, and that Is that the yeomanry are being weakened by the addition of civil- ians, whereas what is wanted is rather a few regulars among them to give them backBone." “Are the men good?" “Yes, the best in the world stance, in my own regiment there are some forty men who pass their lives walking over the hills of my country looking after sheep from early morning till late at night. These fellows are of splendid material ana never tire.” “Do you think your horses will arrive of the very Argentine, 2000 American, uch as many well forward For in- “Certainly. I have got people working with me who have made a science of carrying horses and delivering them in good condition.” “It is mostly a question of the box In which the animals are sent. It must fit exactly and not be too long so that the horses are knocked about. Then, of course, there is the matter of food. American horses are excellent. They ar-