| Show lADYSMITH IsTO BE THE SCENE OF GREAT BATTLE Boers Have 17000 Men Who Are Besieging 12 OOO English Troops Under General White President Kruger Is At the Front and This May Be the Decisive De-cisive Engagement of War London Oct 30The position at Lad yn th without being alarming is 1 sufficiently dangerous to excite anxiety Evidently the Boers are trying to repeat their Dundee tactics Roughly estimated estimat-ed they have 17000 men as against 12 000 British General Sir George Stewart White p has the better artillery but his is I of 1 lesser range The delay in the Boer attack is reported to be due to the iionarrl val bf Commandant General Jouberts column This has given the t BritIsh a much needed respite after their recent exertions EverytlUrg it is now considered hinges on General Whites resources and judgment Nothing is known regarding re-garding the progress of defensive works for the protection of Ladysmith lq1 The censorship is more active than cpr According to the Daily Chronicles Chroni-cles correspondent the new regulations limit the number of words allowed for press messages to onefourth the number num-ber before Farmers 4n the neighborhood of Ladx smith have left their farms and sloe at the mercy of the Boers and an conciecdtefl in the town Two guns the Boers have mounted are powerful weapons They are the ones ured in shelllnjr Dundee and it is a how matter of considerable surprise they managed to transport such heavy I pieces Kruger to the Front Again it is reported that President Kruger accompanied General Joubert to the front in a splendidly fitted travelIng travel-ing wagon The Standards corespondent at Lndj smith telegraphing Saturday sends a statement that the Boers have captured cap-tured 1500 nlules a loss that must seriously se-riously inconvenience British transportation trans-portation The attempt of the Boers to cut the railway at Pieters was frustrated by BritisCi cavalty The wife of General Jan Sock has arrived at Ladysmith under a Hag of truce to nurse her wounded husband All the unwounded Boer prisoners have b < tn sent to Durban to prevent any attempt at-tempt at rescue The pxnlanation of the alleged Boer massacre at Dundee appears to be that a portionotthe town guard although f airlyw ± iid by General Yule before asia letirement continued to carry arms and thirty of them were shot before the Boers discovered who they were Symons Body Buried Without Coffin The body of Sir William Symons was buried without a coffin shrouded in the union jack Among the papers found upon him was a telegram from Lady Smons congratulating him upon his success Later accounts of the first battle and the evacuation of Dundee do not give those affairs a rosier hue Owing to the shelling of Glencoe camp the telegraph operators were compelled to scamperS scamper-S with numerous forwarded dispatches When the Boers entered Dundee they indulged in general looting of stores but anparently did not otherwise molest the populace In the first battle the Boers captured tin Maxim of the Eighteenth hussars but only after the entire crow of the gun with one exception had been disabled dis-abled The survivor effectually damned dam-ned the gun Only two officers of the staff of General Symons came off without v with-out a wound Trickery of the Boers Again it is asserted the moment the Royal Dublin Fusileers reached the summit of the kopje at Glencoe the B ers showed a whit flag and asked for a truce to bury their dead The British artillery was ordered to cease firing and the Boers took advantage of the opportunity to retreat en masse otherwise they would have been decimated deci-mated by the British cannon The special correspondent of the Daily Mail at Ladysmith telegraphing Sunday describes the arrival of the war balloon there on Saturday It was Jo nflcompd he said with wild dances by the Kaffirs who regard it as a deity Octirral White and General Archibald Hunter both ascended on Sunday and onnnitered the enemys position According to the latest reports from Car Town General Joubert has joined hands with the Free State forces and there has been Some outpost fighting President Kruger has arrived at Glen coo Thex is no fresh news from the west cm frontier The miners are still working work-ing at Kimberley where there are provisions pro-visions enough to last nine months Cecil Rhodes has mounted and fully equipped a town guard of 400 men at a cost of 15000 Pondos Anxious to Help The Durban correspondent of the Daily Mail says It is reported on the authority of th British residents in Pondoland that the Pondos are in constant con-stant communication with Durban ad that they arc anxious to help The Household Guard it is announced have received orders to form a composite com-posite regiment for South Africa in Life Guards Lieutenant I eluding the First I ant Colonel Sir Lockhart commanding quartered at Windsor and detachments I detach-ments of the Second Life Guards Colonel Colo-nel the Earl of Bundonald commandIng command-Ing and the Royal Horse Guards Lieutenant I Lieu-tenant Colonel Brocklenhurst commanding com-manding The medical examination wag I j begun yesterday and it is expected that i the regiment will embark in about a I weekEmperor farewell I i Emperor William wired a message 10 the Royal Dragoons of which regiment he is honorary colonel saying May you all return unscathed and well The Standard voices the general anxiety anx-iety regarding Sir George Whites position posi-tion by remarking the adaptability and able strategy of the Boers for which they had hitherto not been given credit It goes on to say Their strategy is so well planned that it Is impossible to doubt that it is the product of some officer trained in the best European school of war BRITIS USE A BALLOON By This Cleans Locate the Boer Guns I at Ladysmith I London Oct lOThe Daily Mail publishes pub-lishes the following dispatch from Pie termaritzburg dated Sunday Patrols from Ladysmith report that there are I four large Boer camps within a radius of ten miles extending in a semicircle I northeast of the town Evidently the enemy is concentrating all his forces Commandant General Joubert is in supreme command One Boer laager I has a Red Cross tent carefully posted In a conspicuous place I The British had several skirmishes i with the enemy today Railway communication com-munication with Ladysmith is still intact in-tact At Colendo a couple of Basutos j were arrested for putting boulders on the railway They confessed they had done this by order of the Transvaal authorities A war balloon very small and so I light that two men can hold and haul it down with a wire strand and which can ascend 3000 feet is now in use and the I full position of the Boer guns has been ascertained The heavy and incessant rains have j flooded Tugela river which will prove un effectual barrierto any Boers proceeding pro-ceeding southward The remaining bridges are strongly guarded FIGHTING NEAR DUNDEE 1 Boer Losses Last Friday Estimated I at 500 Killed and Wounded I Cape Town Oct 29The following i official data are made public regarding 1 the fighting near Dundee j i The Boer losses during Fridays engagement I en-gagement at Talani Hill are estimated at 500 in killed and wounded Yesterday the divisional staff was reconstituted The country was clear of the enemy eastward but as big forces were reported closing in on Dundee Dun-dee from the north and west it was considered advisable move the British Brit-ish forces across the railway to a new I I position south of the camp During the afternoon the infantry moved out and I began entrenching in a new position All available transportation was utilized I util-ized to carry soldiers At 4 oclock in the afternoon the enemy opened fire on the entrenchments entrench-ments and camp from the shoulder of I Impati mountain with two sixinch guns getting a fairly accurate aim over a range of 700 yards The soft ground rend red the percussion fuses I useless In spite of the falling shells the wagons were loaded with stoics i Lieutenant Hanna and an artillery sergeant were killed During the night of Oct 22 a fresh position was occupied about 7300 yards from the enemys guns News was received I I ceived at 8 oclock Monday morning of the victory at Elandslaagte and a I division was moved toward Glencoe Junction for the purpose of cutting off the retreating enemy should they use Glencoe pass Two fugitives were captured cap-tured turedWe We moved our guns down the ridge to the wast Impati mountain and our artillery exchanged shots with the enemy I en-emy who brough sixinch guns to bear i I on the troops Rain and mist coming 4 I on it was deemed advisable to concentrate i con-centrate on the positions occupied that morning The movement was completed at iicn the British troops having marched ten miles The column was en route for Lady smith at 11 oclock that night passing through Dundee into the Helpmakaar road without attracting the attention of the Boers Major Wickham of the Indian commissariat service joined the column with fiftythree wagons from the old camp Moving eastward through Blesbok pass Beith was reached and here the column rested after which the night march was resumed and Wasch bank river reached the followng morning morn-ing at 9 oclock At 11 oclock two batteries two I squadrons and all the available infan tContinued on Page 2 rr 5 I i a I 4 f r i t j THE liEW DOPPER LOW DTTTCH CHURCH AT PRETORIA WHERE PRESIDENT > > SRUGER PLEACHES J i1 < oI S |
