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Show BRITISH KETREAT. Insufficiency of Uoer Communications Save ltrltlsh Crushing Defeat. London, Oct. 2S. The official announcement an-nouncement of the joining of Gen. White and Gen. Yule has come as a great relief, and all the more so in view of the fact that later dispatches have shown that only the incapacity of the intelligence department of the Boers saved Gen. Yule's column from a great disaster. It appears that the British evacuated Dundee during a thunder storm lasting two days, which stoped the Boer cannonading, can-nonading, taking all they could, but leaving plenty behind for the Boers to loot. The appointments of the Boers hospital at Dundee are described as very inadequate and primitive The Boers themselves, in the absence of a nursing staff, get only scant attention. Gen. Yule's column had a very exhausting ex-hausting inarch, chiefly, it is believedi by night. The reason of a nigh t march is not given, but it was probably a fear of Boer surprises. The heavy rains aud mist hampered the march, but were perhaps the means of saving Gen. Yule from molestation. It took the column twenty-four hours to cover the last sixteen miles. The official announcement ismadeof the death of General Symons, who was yesterday reported improving. He was wounded at Elandslaagte. |