The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-14
BRUSH WITHBOERS
AHMORED TRAIN RUNS TO NEIGH
BoRHOOD OF COLENsO AND
MEETS RESISTANCE
FUSILEERS VOLLEY THE FORT
RECEIVING 70 RESPONSE, PRE-.
SUMPTION IS BOERS EVACU-
ATED COLENSO
BULLER's TROOPS ARE LANDING

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Great Britain Is Most Interested
Now in Their Arrival at Cane
| Town and Departure Thence for
Durham and the Front-storv OF
Surrender of Large British Force
Told by Army Chaplain.
| ESTCOURT. Thursday, Nov. 9-An ar4
mored train with a company Of the Roval
| Dublin fusileers started at 1:30 this AFT.
ernoon, and reached the break in the rail.
way line about half mile from Colenso.
without accident. Capt HensIey, with
several men, reconnoitered and met sew.
eral natives, who said the Beers were noe
cupying the town. When the conversa>
| ton was in progress the Beers opened frs
from Fort Wylie. but did no damage
! Capt. Hensley, thereupon, retired upon
the train and the fusileers volleyed upon
| the tort There was no response, and the
| inference was that the Beers had re-
treated. The armored train returned here
| saIely at o'clock. Capt Hensley learned
from the natives that the Beers were ac-
tive on the Ladysmith side of Colenso.
| During the afternoon there was an in
| cessant bombardment of Ladysmith A
! heliograph was working from Fort Wylie,
BULLER's TROOPS ARRIVING.
| LONDON, Nov. 13.-A dispatch from
Cape Town to the war Office announces
the arrival there today of the troop
| ship Armenian with three batteries Of ar
| tillery and an ammunition column, and
the troopship Nubia with the Scots
guards and half a battalion of the
Northamptonshire regiment. This brings
! the total number Of reinforcements TO
1892, Of which about 5000 are already
on the way to Durham The Armenian
and the Nubia, whose troops belong to
the First division, will probably also be
! ordered to proceed. Nine troopships. car
rying 11,00O men, are due at Cape Town
| tomorrow (Tuesday).
WATCHIN GREINFoRCEMENTs
Paucity of news from the front still
leaves the chief interest centered in the
arrival Of reinforcements Estcourt dis
patches say that heliograph eommuniea-
! ton has been established with Lady
smith, but so far no news has been re-
| ceived, the latest date being Nov. 6
which shows that the occupants of Lady
smith had no news of the outside world
since Gen. French reached Pietermaritz-
burg, and that they were puzzled at the
| inactivity of the Beers Everyone was
confident and cheerful but all were suf-
| fering the inconvenience OF the siege,
bread selling at 8 shillngs per loaf
Col. Baden-Powells dashing sorties at
Mafeking encouraged the hope that the
British garrisons along the western bUr-
der are all able to hold out. Cecil Rhodes
is employing 5000 men, whites and
blacks, at Kimberley, in roadmaking, as
a remedy for destitutiun.
According to a dispatch from De Aar,
the Beers at Kimberley have now got the
exact range of the mines and are con-
stantly throwing shells at the dynamite
| huts. Several of the latter have been
| blown up, and the damage done to tho
mines already amounts to many thou
sands Of pounds.
Among the stories from Brussels is
one that Gen. Joubert and Sir George
| White have been endeavoring to nego-
tiate for the capitulation of Ladysmith,
but have failed to come to terms
Lord Salisbury and Lord Wolseley were
! guests of the queen at Windsor castle
| last night.
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling has donated R20
and some books to the fund for fitting
out the hospital ship Maine.
COURT-MARTIAL DEMANDED.
The story of Father Matthews, ca
! bled from Lourenzo Marques, regarding
! the surrender at Nicholson's Mex is too
vague to be very convincing but in mill
! tary, circles 1t is considered unpleasant
reading and it viii be Impossible to learn
the facts until the officer concerned has
| been cOurt-martialed.
| The report that the British cruiser Ma
gicienne has fired on the French steamer
! Cordoba raises the doubtful p int VIII tn r
| Great Britain has yet actually declared
| war. 1t is believed. however, that Eu-
! ropean nations have been made acquaint-
| ed with the severance of diplomatic rela.
! tions between Great Britain and the two
republics.
! 1t Is believed that the navy dapar7 ment,
| On Gen. Buffers adv.ca, has arrar ged chat
! the cruisers at the cape should go ont
! to intercept all arriving transports and
| inform them of the latest orders respect
! ing their destination, which are to be
! kept secret.
BRITONS ARRAIGNED
| CHICAGO, Nov 1S.-England was
| charged with treaty-breaking and cruel
| oppression by speakers at the mass meet
ing at Central Music hall tonight under
the, auspices of the Holland society, OF
| Chicago. Addresses were delivered by D.
J. Schuyler, president of the Holland So
| ciety; DR.. Thomas, William Woke, Judge
| Kavanaugh and Prof. ]. T. Bergen, Of
| Holland, Mich.
FUTURE OF SOUTH AFRICA
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, chancellor of
the exchequer. speaking this evening at
! Bristol, said:
Tho war in South Africa has Destroy
! ed both conventions with the TransYaal.
| We must establish there pure and hon.
est government on the basis of equal
rights and on something more enduring
than paper safeguards Subject to this
we should give whatever. self-govern-
ment may be possible in South Africa.
No one desires that great continent to
be governed permanently from Downing
street.
BOERS DEFEATED.
| A special dispatch from Durham, Ma
tal dated Thursday, Nov. 9, evening,
says:
Native runners, who have just arrived
here report that the Beers suffered a
severe defeat at Ladysmith this morn
ing The Boer guns were s:lenced after
four hours fighting, during which the
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