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TIFFANY the Plan NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 17. 1000. 3 General whom Roberts has honored with his hands of the British, besides a great quantity KIMBERLEY RELIEVED. Is confidence Colonel Schermbrucker, the last of cattle and two thousand sheep. of survivor the once famous German Legion The rapidity of General French's march and Prof. E. Phelps. D., LL.D., • for service E. M. | nnMniii( from flrat pair*' raised in the Crimea but conveyed the overwhelming nature of his force enabled to South Africa In 1886 to as»tet in colonizing him, In spite of the difficulties of water trans- the eastern provinces cavalry and horse artillery approached Klm- of Cape Colony. He rep- portation, thoroughly to outwit and. surprise the cf resents King t*rley from the and south, after com- William's Town in the Cape Par- Boers. The British casualties were slight. west liament. Lord Roberts pletely turning The Dutch positions. The Sixth h»s rallied the local Colonel Hannay, while on his way to Ram- volunteers for the colonies, vision blocked one road eastward and the defence of the and bam, encountered five hundred Boers, two Pi is making large use with Division had closed in upon Jacobsdal, of them In his campaign. gruns, holding a kopje commanding the valley Seventh One of the effects of following the mounted infantry, and shut off his work will be the dis- leading to the drift. The fightinglasted all day appearance of ihe last traces Cronje'a most direct line of retreat eastward. of Braddockism long, and the Boers disappeared during the In the attitude of Imperial "War Office iss-ucd a series of bulletins the officers toward night. Thirteen men reported missing from The the Provincials. General Roberts during the evening. The Hannay's force are prisoners. They were capt- from Compensations first described the march of th<» Sixth Division to northward are 550 large that the ured treacherously during the fight. They were jiodder River to leave General French free to Dutoh success in driving back the skeleton army informed that an agreement had been reached on, and also the entry of the mounted in- left behind at Colesberg is regarded by military between the British officer commanding the ex- fantry Into Jacobsdal, which was occupied by men here as an affair of slight importance. Gen- treme left and the commandant of the Boer am- vomen and children. The mounted infantry had eral Clements's forces are now at Arundel and bulance, that half a company of the British Dutch at g, gha: p skirmish with the enemy and recovered the Rensburg, with raiding parties should be permitted to fetch water from a scouring the two officers who had been captured. General country east and west. General neighboring farmhouse. The ambulance then jYeiv'h meanwhile had reached Abonsdam and Roberts takes the situation lightlyenough. Boer retired and the Boers rushed out of conceal- judreduced the pressure on Kimberley so that accounts describe the capture of one line of ment and cut off the water party. The thirteen Coione! Kekewich was able to occupy one of the kopjes after another, with heavy British losses, prisoners Included an officer. goer positions. five Dutch commanders are named, so that it is General French now holds both the Modder X second bulletin reported that the Boers -were clear that a lar^e force has been concentrated In and Riet rivers between the Boers at Magers- :iing the trenches at Magersfonteln and that quarter. The latest word from Arundel is fontein and their base at Bloemfontein. trying to escape, and that General Kelly-Kenny's that the Dutch are shelling the British cavalry Throughout the march the Free State farms hills; forces were pursuing a large Dutch convoy mov- patrols from the that the Innlskilling Dra- were respected, but their owners almost invaria- bly jjjg toward Bloemfontein. goons have made a most effective charge and fled, taking their effects. A third bulletin contained General French's that the artillery fire is briskly returned. The health of the troops Is excellent, but jaeeß&F^ th«it he had dispersed the enemy south Boer accounts also describe heavy fighting at sickness is prevalent among the horses, and a plentiful supply of remounts will be required. WIRES OPEN TO KIMBERLEY. The Commercial Cable Company announces that telegrams can now be accepted for Kimber- ley. South Africa, at senders' risk, and not ex- ceeding twelve words. The Western Union Telegraph Company ad- vises that messages may now be accepted for Kimberley, South Africa, at senders' risk. The messages cannot be over ten words In length. LIFE IN BESIEGED LADYSMITH. GARRISON FAIRLYCHEERFUL ON A DIET OF HORSE AND MULE MEAT. London, Feb. 16.— The correspondent of The Associated Press at Ladysmith, from which place he escaped on February 10, and arrived at Durban on February 14, sends the following, written before he left Ladysmith: Since the furious cannonade in the early part of the week quietness has reigned. The hills on which the relief column's lyddite shells were bursting in hundreds a few days previously are only occupied by grazing cattle. Further away on the north side of Spion Kop the Boer laagers can *>c seen, evidently bigger than before, show- ing they have no idea at present of retiring from their position. Much disappointment is felt at the non-ap- pearance of General Buller, as frcm the severity of the fire every heart was glowing with hope and excitement at the prospect of Immediate relief; not that we are at all in the blues, for every one capable of shouldering a rifle is con- fident in our ability to hold the town against any force the Boers are capable of putting In the field. Still, the continued diet of horse and mule flesh is getting somewhat monotonous, al- though the health of the camp, taking every- thinginto consideration, Is better than could be MAP SHOWING THK SCENE OF LORD ROBERTS'S MOVEMENT FOR THE RELIEF expected. Enteric fever and dysentery have abated. The camp fever Is not virulent, but Is OF KIMBERLEY. slightly increasing. The scarcity of vegetables Is very trying to the troops. Luxuries are beyond the means of of Kimberley, capturing: a la&grer and depot of Ramah, which may refer to Colonel Hannay'a the majority. Eggs are 36 shillings a dozen, a sur plies, and that he was scouring the country movement with a mounted infantry brigade, and small fowlis IS shillings and 6 pence, pumpkins northward. there are belated dispatches relating to Fort 12 shillings each, small vegetable marrow 6 Discovered and First Prescribed ElofTs resistance to Colonel Plumer's advance shillings, a tin of jam 12 shillings and 6 pence, ROBERTS COMPLIMENTS GERMANS. a tin of milk 7 shillings and 6 pence, a box of toward Mafeking. There is an unintelligible shillings from enabled General Bard!nes 3 shillings, and tobacco 90 a A final report Jacobsdal account of an attack of grenadiers on a party of pound. Acase of whiskey was raffled for f145. by COMPOUND compliment Germany a reference casualty camp CELERY s to eighty Boers, official lists In- smuggling PAINE'S and the The Boers are tobacco into to tne ambulance hospital which he found there clude thirty men missing in the operations near through natives. Alocal factory is turning ont Prof. Phelps was born in Connecticut and graduated in medicine at Yale. His unusual talent soon under charge of two German doctors, who had Modder River. excellent horse sausages and another Is making nourishing by among professional pro- the British prisoners. MASSING AGAIN. soup, which Is much appreciated brought him reputation and prominence his brethren. First he was elected to the fceen most helpful to BULLER'S FORCES the who certainly have In dispatches troops, Increased anatomy University. appointed It was clear from these that Gen- There is no news from Natal except a report strength since these were served out. fessorship of and surgery in the Vermont "Next he was lecturer on materia too busy to enter Kimberley year eral French was that several Boer guns were disabled In recent The escape of The Associated Press corre- medica and medical botany in Dartmouth College. The next he was chosen professor of the chair enemy was breaking: up. and that array vhen tne operations and that a British Is massing spondent adventurous and arduous. Robby, occupied chair, important country, K-kevich was occupying the advanced for another assault upon Colenso. was most then vacated by Prof. and the the most one in the at the time Colonel Leaving Ladysmith on the evening of Febiuary trenches. General French was keeping his cav- Lord Roberts's striking success has caused an when he formulated his most remarkable prescription. Intense feeling of relief throughout England. It 10, guided by a native, he soon encountered a fir^t a.ry :n and harassing the enemy at every given positive sleeplessness, motion has also spiked the guns which Lord Rosebery Boer patrol, who fired upon him. Escaping tha Prof. Phelps has to his profession in Paine's Celery Compound a cure for turn, and General Roberts was also disposing and Mr. Campbell-Bannerman have opened upon biliousness, neuralgia, rheumatism, Ministry's of national defence. patrol, he crawled twenty-two miles of the wasting strength, dyspepsia, liver complaint, all nervous diseases and fcis forces so as to cut off the main lines of re- the new measure Mr.Balfour was enabled to make a spirited reply roughest and stoniest paths, hiding In native and to scatter the enemy's forces. The kidney troubles.
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