The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 2, 1900, Page 1

J,X:‘\:X\']I—flfi. SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1900. PRICE FIVE CENTS. TORNADOES OF PATRIOTISM SWEEP GREAT BRITAIN e R g e B R B o S o R S S R S o e R D R R e R e e S S R S R " ] Beititititid i 4iaitiditiditidi s s sodosisid Sobode PAARDEBERG, Orange Free State, Feb. 28.—It is understood that some . : 7000 Boers are concentrating on the British front. The British cavalry is in : . touch with them to the eastward and sKirmishing began this morning. 3 Bt iei4040 4044040404040 404040404040404 040404040404 04040404040 404 BHO+OHO+O4O+ O+ THOIOI040+04 04040404040+ 040404040404 0404 0404040404040 4040404 060‘06@60“6“.. JOUBERT ASSEMBLING A BIG ARMY TO RESIST ROBERTS Until After Midnight London’s Population Celebrates the Relief of Ladysmith, and Telegrams Express= ing Joy Pour im From All Parts of the Empire. ONDON, March 2, 2 a. m.—Until after midnight London gave itself up to scribing the rejolcings. The news was received with great enthusiasm at Dub- ® the wildest expressions of joy over the relief of Ladysmith. From. the lin, where, however, the jubilant spirit of the Trinity College students carried Mansion House te the West End all the leading thoroughfares were con- them beyond the bounds of discretion. A large body of them marched to the stantly paraded by cheering. crowds, ‘intermittently bursting into patriotic Dublin Mansion House, where they scaled the garden walls and captured a green songs Bands marching ‘through the streets assisted with-strains of jubi- flag flying in the grounds. A policeman and the servants of the Mayoral house- lation and the same exultant notes were to be heard at every place of public hold, with cheers, struggled desperately to recover the trophy, and eventually gathering throughout the metropolis.. The West End clubs, the cafes, the res- Wrested it from the invaders, several of whom were injured. Other constables taurants and the public bufldings .were all brilliantly illuminated and thefr in- soon arrived upon the scene, and a dozen students were arrested, but with the teriors, even to the tables, were beautifully decorated with flags, bunting and eXxception of three all were rescued or managed to escape. ingenious arrangements. of electric lights. Later in the day isolated assaults were committed, chiefly in the neighbor- 73" At all the musie halls patriotic songs were glven, the people rising and join- hood of College Green. A strong force of police kept the students within the col- ing, amid scenes of unbounded enthusiasm. Hardly a person could be met with lege grounds and cut them off from the excited crowds that assembled in front of who was not wearing the national emblem In the shape of a tri-colored rosette the college building. The three students were arralgned and small fines Inflicted. or ribbon. The biograph representations of leading generals and heroes of the No further disorders occurred. war were greeted with tremendous acclamations. Great rejolcings are-'reported at Malta and also at Gibraltar, where an efigy One striking feature of the rejoicing was the great number of American flags of President Kruger in chains was paraded. intertwined with the British. At 11 o'clock, when the theaters and music halls Lady White, wife of Sir George White, and Lady Lansdowne. all of whom at- poured forth thousands, the jubilation was redoubled. In Trafalgar Square tended the performance at the ‘Alhambra, were cheered for several minutes. At every available inch of space, including the plinth of lions at Nélson's col- all the theaters thete were scenes of enthusiasm. umn, was occupied by a surging, singing, cheering crowd. - All joined in singing In Parliament the onlooker would have had no idea that anything greatly un- “God Save the Queen,” applauding every reference to Lord Roberts, Buller, ysual had happened. There was a small attendance in the House of Lords, and White, Baden-Powell and the rest. The scene at this point was almost with- there were only four ladies In"the gallery of peeresses. Lord Lansdowne's state- out precedent and is not likely to be forgotten by those who witnessed it. ment evoked only a shadow 6f enthusiasm. A smaller but almost equally striking demonstration occurred In the. vicinity In the House of Commons the war was not mentloned until 7 o’cldck, but the of St. Paul's churchyard earlfer in the evening, when the famous peal of bells House was crowded, and -there were evidences of strong suppressed feeling. was rung in honor of the occasion. Pal Mall, the Strand, Fleet street and Cheap- Finally a member arose and asked if any official news had been recetved from side echoed and re-echoed until long after midnight the characters and songs South Africa that had not been communicated. Amid the profound hush Balfour of the slowly and reluctantly dispersing crowds. arose, holding a slip of paper, and read General Buller’s dispatch from Nelthorpe, Even now, at 2 o'clock in the morning, there comes from Mansion House beginning: “I have just returned from Ladysmith.” The whole House burst into Square every few: minutes the sound of vigorous cheering. Everywhere groups a great shout of joy, followed by prolonged cheers. Then, waiting only to hear of people are to be seen and, although noisy, they are perfectly orderly. the remainder of the dispatch, the members poured into the lobbies, talking ex= Great throngs remained in the vicinity of the War Office until 11 o'clock last citedly of the event.. The few who remained laughed heartily as Major Frederick evening, when it was announced that no further news was at hand for publica- Rasch, Conservative member for Southeast Essex, asked whether the War De- tion. partment, with its usual ingenuity, had celebrated the event by having. the flag From every part of the empire there Is a constant. Influx of telegrams de- all day at half-mast. B o e e e e e B e e e e e e e e e e L ) after determined fighting the Boers were repulsed with ‘a loss of forty killed and wounded. The defenders, who were abla to take advantage of the shelter of earth- works, lost only -two “killed and thres wounded. . — REINFORCEMENTS YET LEAVING ENGLAND LONDON, Maréeh 1.—In the House of Lords to-day Secretary of State for War, the Marquis of Lansdowne, reply'ng to congratulations and 2’ question, prefaced his announcement of fhe relief of Lady- smith by saying the news had at last removed the fear of an impending ealam- ity. He added that he did mot know whether most admiration should be given to General White and the gallant defend- Commander of the British Forces That Were Besieged in Ladysmith for So Long. i LIEUTENANT GENERAL SIR GEORGE STEWART WHITE, ]‘ | | \ ONDON, Mz 2, 4:30 a. m.—DBritons feel that they zre living in the presence of momen- ,,,d offlhdygmuh' 20 1w fEhve Shen 2 ) RO R R PSS R kotind dUed 5 % o under General Buller, or to Lord Roberts, S € Tornadoes of patriotic excitement are whirling through the country. Even ; to WA VR Sl cssatal oo movement was due the pressureé by which Natal wis relleved. Continuing Lord Lansdowne sald: “Two recent successes will not be made the pre- text for a relaxation of our efforts, which will not be relaxed. In the ‘week ending March 3 eight ships will leave England, carrying 4700 men; during the week end- ing March 10 fifteen ships carrying 1189 men will leave for South Africa. During the week ending March 24 nine ships with 8900 men are to sail. .Finally, during the week ending March 31, six ships carrying 3200 men will sail, totaling about 38,800, and during the following month 17,300 men will be ready, for whom ships have not yet been allotted. The stream of rein- forcements will not run dry.” i adiod ve been stirred - by the ™emotions ‘of ‘yesterday, arid London’s | rh pitch of patriotic exultation. O1ld men have nothing in memory with which to compare the ; others talked of the fall of Sebastopol. It was a time of sin- 1 conventions of society ceased :to control, and every one knew - every- s their dispositions moved them. es or bellowings, chose the psychological moment to announce estimatgs exceeding nd rather startled the public by unfolding the programme of the 1ddition to the 30,000 troops now.afloat, 56,000 fresh soldiers. | 1y have a force of a quarter of 'a million. An order has reached 324 new guns, from 3-pounders to r12-inch guns. Of these 140 nava g 7 v 25,000 workmen are employed at the-arsenal, and 3000 more will © be engaged 2 15 to send out more troops and to increase the home armament meet s seem to have got quite away from around Ladysmith GENERAL VIEW OF LADYSMITH: THE STORY OF THE SIEGE. From a Photograph taken just before the. War began. The hills In the distance lie between Ladysmith and the Tugela River. A_t the beginning of the war the town had a population of about 4000, of whom-a third were whites and the rest Kaffirs and Hindus. The number was DEMO"STRATIO" lN THE largely increased by refugees from Dundee and the country lll;?]undi < AR R sk ded is a summary of the most important events o e stege and rellef of lysm! H A . General Yuie with 800 men from Dundee arrives, giving General White 12,500 men in all. STREETS OF VANCOUVER October 30—Heavy fighting north and east of town; disaster at Nicholsons Nek; naval brigade arrives. * X 4 November 4—Town completely invested by the Boers. § Spectsl Dispatch o The Call. -+ b 2 November 17—Relief column - under Clery beats Boers at Willow Grange. VANCOUVER, B. C., Mareh 1—Thera November 2—Relief column. of 18,000 men reaches Frere. Wes' i gheat celibration fn Vaneouver st December —General Buller arrives at Frere and assumes command. 3 o'clock this morning. The news of the December $-10—Garrison makes successful sorties to Lombards Kop and Surprise Hill relief of Ladysmith was announced by the December 12—Buller advances on Colenso with 24,000 men. o ringing of church_and school bells and December 15—Buller attempts to cross the Tugela, but after eight hours’ fighting is repulsed with loss of ten guns blowing of whistles,-and ‘Soon”flieve was yout twenty miles from Ladysmith. The enemy had artillery obably utilized both railroads in retreating, sending the heavy pieces 1es into the Free State. and 1097 .men. a crowd of several thousand people in the ; 1 eneral Jouber sembling 50,000men at Weinberg, seventy miles | January G—Boers assault heavily at Caesar's Camp and Wagon HIll south of town. Repulsed afer fourteen Stieetns i ke A v e T rtheast of Bloemfontein: Colonel-Albrecht, according to a dispatch from. Paardeberg, -affirms | hours' fighting. - Garrison loses 300 men, including many officers. White signaled Buller: “Hard with thé whule beigade at its Mead- the Sattoca s \ : | pressed.” crowd paraded the streets until daylight. that t oers hay 000 4nen January 12—Buller moves west and seizes Potgleters Drift, twenty-two miles from Colenso. No official declaration was made of a.pub- 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 = g : January 17—General Warren crosses the Tugela at Trichards Drift. | lic: holiday, ‘but after 1L o’clock business Y er Lord Roberts is at Bloemfontein now or not, he doubtless soon will'be ~ dating R M Warren occuples Spion Kop; but abandons it next night (25th). | viss senaticolly; insaaivinh. Tl shcped In the streets and there was ‘an enthusi- astic welcome to the passengers of the ‘Aorangl, who had not heard any war news for three weeks. Entertalnments January 27—British retreat acrdss the Tugela and’'concentrate at Potgleters. White- signals: “We ecan hold out here.” Dysentery and enterlc fever raging In Ladysmtih. Fifty deaths. per wee February 5-7—Buller makes a third attempt, -but is repulsed at Brakfontein and Vaal Krantz. Retires to Spring- hes there and using the town:as his advanced base. Lord Kitchener's mission is to combine the forces under General Clement and-General Gat- EEEREOER R R ARy 1 field. acre and to advance along the line of the railroad to Bloemfontein.. The railway will simplify im- February 12—Buller concentrates again at Frere and prepares for fourth advance. ere hald to-night 1 all-of the. Masstons 1 lexi f t t February 17—Naval guns.shell hills. east of Colenso. Boers regeatdtg north -of Tugela. House fund. s mense:y.the perplexitics ol fransport. ruary 20_Joubert sends off 6000 Boers to reinforce Cronje at Paardeberg. ST iinn Taduiinitly ‘shane of wdih- o plained by Charles Willi d | February 22 Buller crosses Tugela and fights his way four miles toward Ladysmith. “Blocked at Grablers Kloof. INDIA’S CONGRATULATIONS. i A i A R kel e S s R A Huams ana February 2-Z—Buller withdraws his whole force south of the river, recrosses five miles below and captures Pletars PP R s bled nit Sta T T S ilitary iti re- Hill, the key. to the Hoer position. . L e ’ ed to nited S(..tc‘s re now befter nn(lf\rstoml. a.\' the military authorities no-longer . re SRR Du“domym' e o oir b o Yooy it ;i"é’fi;ii.fi"é?‘éfi?f‘;;é"{:: ::";?en:alg:;‘r? tain their 1 information. It appears that since the middle of January the horses have. been | March 1—Boers abandon their positions south of the town and General Buller enters Ladysmith. Siege lasted 116 Tt The. Btatue of . Tord Robests has days. been decorated with flowers and many ved and altogether too weak either to drag guns or carry cavalrymen. Hence the impos- a L feofenfonfonfotocfonfosfocts confoefecfocfe sfnfonfenfenfeofoferfoefeefosfoforfortesie congratulations were wired him, inefuding sl g hing out et e e @ rom the Cawnpore. Chamber of Com- 4 G > i merce, -which said, “Your birthplace. sa- - e R = = KITCHENER Cape Town. ‘A guard was provided -by | Cape Town says that a telegram has been | " 1o> YO PRI AT 691 2 MEN ROBERTS AND the Royal Artillery, the Royal North Lan- | received there from Mafeking announcing FIFTY WERE KILLED. 5 g ARR'VE AT KIMBERLEY cashire. Regiment presenteéd arms and the | that the Boers made a severe and pro- LA DYSM ITH COSTTH E‘ BRITlSH i bugle sounded a.general's salute. Cronje | tracted assault on February 17, but were | STERKSPRUIT, Cape Colony, Feb. 28— —— i P and his wife looked profoundly misera- | driven off at all points. The truce Which | The Boers admit that their losses when fohta < v h 1.—Lord Roberts | ble, the former walking to the train as if | js usually observed Sunday was broken | Brabant captured Jamestown were fifty Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. -Copyrightsd, 1900, by the New York Herald Comparny. :nslgffifi%fiéfic‘l’g\'& arrived here this | to the scaffold. The exact number of | the 25th by another flerce attack, but! killed, 123 wounded and 300 missing. eral ¥ s da Lora reAche s er v W ed by 0 taken' at the surrender of neral ‘s day. ¢ dy:s i q | and were warmly welcomed by | prisoners. ral day. Lord Dundonald reiched Ladysmith on Tuesday -night mclrn!ng1 gan o g & i —_—— [ ST DS TSSO HS OSSO TS ST red the eity and reported that the country around it was clear except. for e awasful rellef of the town. Lord: Rob- LD IN E VENE IN Sk "Hill. This great British success occusred-on-the one. hundred. and fortys ! s : centh day of *he & w eyl eatd it had given him great pleasure S s ot =il i cighteenth dny of e siege. Tt was accomplished after four previous | erts sald it had gleen WU STCT £0C000 BULLER REPORTS THAT — wogor s of the Tugela had-fafled. The sjege and relief of ‘the city have: cos : Gt S it Cian S an General Buliors foroes. made up as follows: - IHied: 10 wotmdgs " [nd’ that he: was .glad et THE BOERS HAVE LEFT 0 i The battle of the ZTth and scizure of the backbome of the mass of hills be. -[AUnity'to R torie: but wauli Taye —_— SOUTH AFRICHN WAR { s lieved the city. The main relieving force has descerided the ‘northern siope.of 1;‘0"2?,:\9, iy ‘LONDON, March 1.—The War Office' has ? ¢ Celthorpe. The Boers only left a weak rear guard in the portion ‘where the Iines to.the = | 'n;ere is great excitement and rejoicing | received the following from General Bul- F » ac g part. If possibie Lord Dundonald, who is alréady_on the move; will cut the line to'the north. |, There 1= &Teat ShCIerRRr, Bi, T T ? ‘ o Soers” femporary rallway behind:Bulwana _sna Lonards Kop makes with the-main. line. ' If he t b g S AR stk 1 W P Bt WASHINGTON, March 1.—Representative o i Wew Tork A some of the Boers' big. guns. R DA : : - Sulze; 7 e goreg mis veceived it seems the siege was ralsed nanp too soon, as the garrison’ was ‘in grievous | GENERAL CRONJE LOOKS :;T:“:;_"fi':;':"_‘; ;’:r':‘h’;"l"é"‘l‘;‘:'“ fi:‘“ to-day introt}uc‘d the following resolution in the House: D ok st wils be-required hefore, Goneral SVuita's. soldlerd: are abain M. for ‘tue ot UNDLY MISERABLE | the whole of the enemy lately besieging " “Resolved, That the Republic of the United Statessympathizes ihat A long period of rest will be Tequired before General White's soldiers. are again fit for the field. PROFO A s e ook Tty eRa:ts A bekve o i Ol & e e St ak Tal 8 < the greatest British success gained in' the war, and is of immense importance to them from | : e " € ; is t grea the south of the town the country is quite ence and hereby declares that the people of the South African Re- they rid of a great entanglement of the war, but 8000 trcops' and a number of .bat- LONDON; March 2—The Daily Tele- | ciear of them. e hols ecaay 2t T Jeat magmant. Tha-reliet ‘of. Laaysith: sies wishyay | BFapbc publisies. his dlipatoh eom s |+ ephipighesivan yran o Lale a peund of | £ puliic ind thé Grsnge ¥rve State zw and of Hght ought o be free et e i eir adv: 3 a h S ecial correspondent: meal a man per day supplement e 2 - - 3 ¢ scheme of campaign in their advance on Pretoria through the Free State, which the be- | *UCS SoR"RIVER, Wednesday, Feb. 28 |meat rations by horses and mules. The and independent, and the Congress of the United States hereby pro- tests and remonstrates against the barbarous ‘war now being waged against the patriots of South Africa. - “And the President is hercby authorized to take such steps as - may be expedient, in his judgment, to secure and bring about an - honorable peace between the contending parties.” Smberley prevented. The knowledge of this plan, in all probability, had much to do with terent took plice this L 02 P is wonfirmed n_telegram from Brussels published in Berlin which was inspired by Trans. | —A scene of SSat g ) et | e w"h"',,:,d".'."e AN TRl Ny iret that General Joubert will choose the neighborhood of Windburg. seventy miles northiwest of |morning when & ived, here: nofer Ak for the y S G defenwe and will concentrate there the nucleus of an army of 50000 men. The terfito- |nied by his wife, arcived here: noder, a3 | g b % {Vinabure resembie those at Ladysmith and offer a possibility of long resistance. Should the British | escort of fifty men of the City Impe 2l | FIERCE ATTACK ON s - N veelk. Bloemfontein will be evacuated without serious resistance. The Boers are already |yolunteers. ~The - Kaffits cheered, but T o ontein. In fact, the Morning Post's correspondent says that at the time Cronje's sur. | 41" ‘was o demonstration by the Lo MAFEKING FAILS cummated an action whs about to begin. but Lord" Roberts felayed it. 5 5 be . ' General Cronje and his wife % to the eastward of Paardeburg. Another force is reported to be to the southwest lm.d at & local’ hotel, and,late this ; d reached Bloemfonteln,. b L ailft oo 22 Lf;»’i‘;;,;\‘"fi{;;:{g«t'en?;:?x‘véd.- rumor present in London that Lord Roberts’ cavalry has 8 m ut no atternoon traveled by .p;g._x train to szqpou, March 1—A special:- from repder w ng. o The Boers are said to number PO T T T % ? i