Show VICTORY vATs DEARLY BOUGHT General Eie Eeports Heav Loss of Life In Battle of Gras Pan London Nov 2A dispatch has been received here from General Buler giving a list of casualties among the troop engaged In the battle of Gras Pan but whIch Is now omcIal deslg uate as the bate of Instill I proves a9 anticipated that the British success was heavily bought The losses a flounced today added t6 the naval brigade bri-gade casualtIes previously notified make a grand total Qr IS as the cost or General Melhuens second battle I The Yorkshlres apparently bore with the naval brigade he 1r t 9 the fighting as there were In addition to three officers ortelght of the ran and file killed wounded and missing The fact that the list contained the casualties or the Ninth Lancers seems to dispose of the fears that the caval r was surrounded and captured cii pecially as none of the lancers Is reported ported missing General Bulers list of casualties shows that among the wounded of the Second YorkshIre light Infantry wee Captain C A Yates Lleutent H C Fern11ugh and Lieutenant Ackrold The casualties among the noncommissIoned noncommis-sIoned ofcer and men of the various regmfnts engaged were Killed ten wounded seentrone missing nine The war office has received the following fol-lOWIng dispatch from General BUler dated Pietermaritzburg Natal Nov 28 Our last news from Lad smlth Nov 24 said all well An old message dated Nov 19 just arrIved begIns Joubet has explained firing on one Red Cross fag previously reported Have accepted eplanaton as satisfactory satisfac-tory Lieutenant Lethbrldge rifle bri gde died of wounds other wound goodSix general doing well Health of troops Six wounded Dublin fuslcr captured cap-tured on armored train suthof Cole so sent here today The casualties In the reconnaissance of the armored train Friday Nov 24 were Killed Lieutenant F Owen ewls Bombay Infantry and one private prI-vate wounded one In the reconnaissance of Sunday Nov 26 NInth Lancers Wounded LIeutenant J G Sterling and one trooper A corrected list of the British casualties casual-ties at Gras Pan shows that Flag Captain Cap-tain Reginald C Prothero of the DorIs Do-rIs and Lieutenant of Marines Walter T C Jones also of the DorIs prey ously report wounded were killed The additional casualties telegraphed by General Bullet appear to be the first ea rrno I intimation I of the actions of General Methuens forces 1lch have not yet I been reported As the Ninth Lancers participated In a reconnaisnce on I Sunday they must have safely returned from the pursuit of the Boer after the battle of Gras Pan Aparety the government 15 mo nopolzing the single cable working to South Africa ns up 10 2 oclock this af tern1on no news from the seat of war han been made public with the excep ton or General Butlers dispatches This Is particularly tantalizing at the present critical moment I While the latest news is o a faIrly reassuring character from the British point of view much of it Is assumed to I be true on Insufficient evidence Fort Instance Ute reported capture of Honey Nest Klot of which there is no confirm aton whie the stories of the rapid rI treent of the Boars In Natal mst be received wit caution I The fact appep3f to be that the Brit lh scouts have lost touch with the burghers portions of whore force after I withdrawIng out or the reach of obsen I crc may it Is claimed made a detour hm K Iale1n i with the object of interrupting the British line of communication Sharp fighting may be expected at any time on the southern frontier PossiblY I Pos-siblY General Gatcres first battle will I be In the rouh t5aszen ot the Stoam burg mountaIns The particular sen Ice squadron of tile i3rltis1 fleet has Ce nSq Jti 2f been ordered tts proceed to Gibraltar I Dec i I will probably replace the channel squadron whIch 15 coming home for Christmas leave I Is said that the French cabinet has InGtructed the minister of wr to refuse all officers leave to go abroad anti that officers Absenting therrfseives i In order to go to the Tr nsa1 will dO so at the risk of dismissal I |