| Show SURRENDER OF RUMOR BritIsh War Office Says It Has Heard Hear of Belea Beleaguered Town ANXIOUS ABOUT NATAL r Moot er Hud Pressed j b the B Bo rs s RISING IN O l E COLONY hutch Faking alan e oJ 01 Advance No Nov 2 news ot of the death ot of the and lb the final defeat deat of the dervishes has been r received led hero here herewith with groat t joy os as a w come ret off to the serious situation In South Africa A dispatch from Cape an announces announces that tour four colonial rob robel el eI including an ot of Dark Bark have jointed the tho en enemy my nt at the latter place Illace and that the whole is II reported to be In whence It cart can operate to Intercept Gen advance to reoccupy Strom Stromberg Stromberg berg Junction a strategic lo r point from which Gin Gen Gatacre can g get in direct touch through the tho raIlroad with Gen French nt at an 1 thus with The British base at De Dc Mr Aar Another dispatch says that refugees arriving from assert ert that has been occupied by the tho col colonial onial farmers and that tt It Is feared there Is n a general movement In favor ot of the he Doers Boors Advices from Belmont Delmont confirming the treacherous use of the white flag by bythe bythe the Doers Boors are arousing In indignation The troops engaged are bitterlY corn com and It I is feared the result will willbe be a refusal to give 10 the Doors Boers Quarter A similar Incident to theone which occurred st at the battle battlo ot of when on an vas shot eliot by n a Doer Boor Is reported by the London Times lor cor correspondent respondent at Belmont Delmont who ho says 1131 that of at the guards Guard was shot by n a wounded Beer whom he be heas was as attending Such statements ap appear ar incredible but the they are no now confirmed b by the prot protest t Gep Moth uen vho rho has sent Jent a to the Boor r r WOUnd WOUnded Und ed not to shoot hoot our I must warn IU not tO use tice Ilum um bullets or use the flo flag ot of truce Such Hueh aCtion Is cowardly In the extreme and andI I cannot countenance It All accounts confirm the splendid charging ot of Ih the British infantry the entering the fight with 1 drums hosting and tiles fites playing 0 The second ridge rai the position The Doers Beers there wore werl shel sheltered tt behind ramparts ot of bould N Nevertheless the guards lIard advAnced steadily In many an ot of them coolly Int ing l 1 J F I a well war cot cor who iho went to havana dur during Int ing the war sync Will Was wounded In the arm b by II a bul bullet let It The hospital traIn arrived at I Orange river In the nick ot of time from CA Capetown and was sent lent to The train Is constructed on en the corridor system with beds bedl ranged In tiers on each ilde Ide On Its return to Orange rl rh or with the wounded It was found a number of at them were abl able to 10 walk but there were man stretchers carried The troops In camp lined the route from the station to the hospital The were cheerful and a as they limped along supported by medical orderlies ox ex chan ed chart chaff with soldiers In the tho crowd Got Cot an any loot asked a soldier Yes 11 was the grim reply tram from the maimed man In m my blooming Ie leg There is III much discussion now nol S as to whether Gen Methuen Intends to march direct to or around and cut ut oft off the Free FrH who ho have hae In Invaded the Colesburg and Burghers drop dI them on Gene Gen Gatacre and French inflict a crushing defeat on them The g general nral opinion however Is that he will proceed north and attack the Boors at Modder river thu relieving There Is much now nol as al to the tate fate ot of Mafeking In view ot of the latest and somewhat despondent It was rumored In the Glasgow Glagow stock ex exchange change toda today that Mafeking has hIlA sur surrendered rendered ered but the war office officials dl de dare clare the they have nothing confirmatory or otherwise In n the meanwhile the news newl from Nn Na Natel tel I ii not encouragIng and the Moot river camp are both hard and it Il seems almost a Joke to regard the garrison PI as forms torm II hg tart part ot of the relief force torce for tor Lad Lady Ladysmith smith smithA A teh from PretorIa dated Thursday gives a dispatch from south ot of to the effect that Gee Joubert that thet morning shelled camp but bUl without response The In inhabitants habitants of the town wore Were reported to be leaving A dl dispatch from Pretoria also cates that news neWl at t the battle ot of Uel Ii mont had reached Pretoria as It aye ae hea heavy lighting fighting is II reported south louth ot of tle today between the Free and a 11 supposed relit relief forte torel front the Orange river The foregoing dispatch also allO retort refers to the tho British n lark on the te Doer Boor position at Willow Grange outside of F Estcourt the previous da day which was wa reported by the English newspaper correspond eats ent The attack Is III IBid eid to ho hare been bren a surprie and although the British h re retired retired tired on they did not lo do go eo until the they had ba eighty Anti and captured all th lr equipment nail a number ot of horses A big Run gun itt In th the rapture capture ot of which up pears pearl to have been the British obJective was 1111 found to have hae been The story is II thus thu cIrcumstantial No official confirmation is II yet et forthcoming An official was vas issued at Durban yesterday that there were tI nt Boors youth ot of the 1001 river The Tho Thol l hors however as shown In recent dispatches are t rapidly closing round the fool Moni river rier camp Another train and mounted patrolmen reconnoitered the country and report fIn none ot of the enemy Dut today the were In strong trang force la in two directions Ti the tho mobility of oC the forces Two To Doers Bor have bave surrendered to the tho pC at Nottingham Road noad station uth ot of river and there are aref f reports that the fleer r torch are tarv stary ing which explains their raIding tam faints Numbers of loyal Natal have hae taken the tho field In response to th the call for tor mobilization ot of the rifle lions tiOn and Are now doing splendid scouting work r ot of th thee H volunteer patrol checked the near 1001 riVer The government has hal the ot of their services and yesterday au authorized authorised th 1 raising ot of a mounted corps ot of farmers to check hoer Doer raiding The reported determinatIon ot of the United States to com compel Cl PresIdent get er to allow Consul General Macrum to exercise his hll rl rights n as agent at Pretoria has hal created an excellent mm hare and hu has called I out yari varl OUt ot of and Th The St Sf Paul Gazette I says S The he United States StitH is II IIno no stand any nonsense from It II was the British representative who kept nil an 0 eye on captivity at Santiago and It the representative who did similar liar for tor captured Amer v In Cuba and the Prato Pretoria ria Nov No official die patch front the non fleer head bead longer laager out outside We side dated Friday Nov 0 24 t tHY HY s HYThe The garrison at was 41 strangely quiet yesterday The cannon ride ade today hardly evoked a response The Tho balloon no 10 longer sours The third bIg cannon which the Boors have hat bap Suzerain wu wee placed In poll tion today The German ar arrived arrived rived last night The Doer generals think they will the taU fall ot of tit t the end ot of this w ll There was a terrific thunderstorm lat last night Four Doers guarding a can cannon cannon non were ere seriously struck FALl Moot River nIer Natal atol Friday Frida Nov No In force torce In the direction ot of station has discovered a abig abig big force ot of Boors with guns The rhe Doers Boers shelled and tIm tho British guns replied The Pho scouts eouts also reported another stron strong Doer force torce to the northwest ot of th the carnu camu The guns have re fo returned turned to camp camo and the infantry has lias fallen hack The mounted infantry is 18 still out WOUNDED WOUND D COMING IN l lOrange Orange River Cape Colony Friday No Nov U 11 60 p 11 cli wounded several IJ enl have hin arrived ared hero heN from flora Belmont One ot of the Beers a 0 aboy bo boy If 11 years tara of at age WI was compelled d to take un arms with his lather father who is II isa n a A wounded D Doer r said that twenty lenty men were selected from achi ach section to pick oft off the British But ho he added on the advance or of the British force torce the marksmen were be and It WI was le to dill the oJ eera who wore wora the same as the men menThe menThe The were also unable to mak out OU th the sergeants sergeant and other non whose WhOM stripes had been removed O Paris Nov i Tho caricatures In connection with the war culminated In grossly grouly obscene Insulting Queen Vie Vietoria 10 torla toria In La Caricature entitled Eng lid Correction which the lolice seized probably Ri ae tb the outcome ot of Il leti ev |
