Show I I BRITISH USE DTTMDUlilS I A Number of the Terrible Bullets I Found at Dundee By the Boers London Oct 28The lull in the news from Ladysmith Natal which was beginning I be-ginning to be regarded as ominous has at last been broken by a Cape Town dispatch under this mornings date saying sying Scouts from Moddersprnlt having reported re-ported the Boers in force on the Help makaar road General White ordered 1 out a strong force or artillery mounted infantry and cavalry A small patrol 1 1 of mounted infantry was shelled by the Biers nine miles from Ladysmith and Biers mie was finally located I the Boer position fnaly three miles beyond Modderspruit The Britishforce is now four miles from the Boers Bor The dispatch does not give the date of the above occurrence but it must have been since Thursday last when news arrived from Ladysmith So the Boer advance from Dundee southward and from Besters station eastward evidently dently proceeded steadily in the interim in-terim and the engagement foreshadowed foreshad-owed by the above dispatch may already al-ready have been fought The other news from the front does not enlighten the situation in Natal Fragmentary details are arriving of the occupation of Dundee by the Boers I is added twenty men of the town guard occupied a outpost a couple of miles from the town when a Boer shell dislodged dis-lodged them and the men fed to a neighboring hill where 300 Boer surrounded sur-rounded them and shot the majority entered Dundee dragged The Boers the entere drgged several civilians out of their homes and pistoled them in the streets As a pendant to the above is a story from Cape Town to the effect that several sev-eral cases of dumdum bullets were found by the Boers at Dundeowhich the British abandoned in their flight Some of the Boers wanted to use the dumdum bullets but President Kruger vetoed thj2 saying No it must not be so Whatever the British are we Boers are at least humane hu-mane The bullets were then destroyed de-stroyed Furthe details from Bulawayo Rhodesia Rho-desia show that the armored train from here on Oct 27 sent towards Mafeking under the command of Lieutenant Llewellyn got wjthin seven miles of Lobatsi when the British found the railroad badly damaged Boers were visible on hills in the vicinity Lobatsi had been looted The train encountered encounter-ed IheTBoers three miles south of Croco tliidr pass and the British opened fire T ith theirMa3rimsand drove the Boers back to the hills whence they had advanced ad-vanced Besides eight men killed the Boers lost eleven horses Dispatches from Sydney and Melbourne Mel-bourne record the departure of the Australian contingent for the Transvaal Trans-vaal amid scenes of enthusiasni I Mr E Jesser Cooper of London has placed his steam yacht Sunrise at the disposal of the government and starts for South Africa Monday with several volunteer nursts and doctors + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Tf + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4i t + 4 r 4 + F F i + + + + z f J rc cr f k + + GREAT DIAMOND CENTRE WHERE CECIL RHODES IS BESIEGED + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + c r i 0 < |