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Show GEN. JOUBERT PROTESTS. Doscn't I.Ike the Ammunition Used By the Urltlsh. London, Nov. 5. Belated dispatches from the British camp at Ladysmith, Natal, add little information regarding regard-ing Monday's fight, except the estimates esti-mates of Boer losses, which are now said to be ninety-flve killed and 200 wounded, mostly victims of the artillery artil-lery shells, which have wrought such great havoc that it is said General Joubcrt, the Boer commander-in-chief, has written a letter to General White, the British commander, protesting against the use of lyddite. According to all accounts the presence pres-ence at Ladysmith. of the long-range naval guns, and the splendid shooting of the bluejackets have materially improved im-proved the position of the British. A temporary armistice was declared Monday evening, to allow of the collection col-lection of the dead and wounded. |