The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-17
MARCHED BACK
BoERs DECLINED To RISK BATTLE
WITH THE BRITISH.
Latter Were i'm strong Position at
Glencoe, hut the Enemy Failed to
Make Its Expected Appearances.
10000 ACROSS THE BORDER
INVADED NATAL THROUGH THE PASS
CALLED LAING's MEX,
Occupied Newcastle, Advanced to
Dannhauser, but Retired Yester-
uny on lhSaSune.
KIMBERLEY NOW CUT OFF
CONFIRMATION OF THE RUMORED
INVESTMENT OF THE TOWN.
Little Apprehension Felt. However, as
the British Military Force Is Said
to Equal the Besiegers.
TROUBLE In CAPE COLONY
DUTCH FARMERS. 1T Is FEARED, MAY
JOIN kRgGER's ARMY.
Volunteers Called Out-All Passes
wctched by Boers-British Parlia-
ment to Convene To-Day.
Little Apprehension Felt. However, as
the British Military Force Is Said
to Equal the Besiegers.
TROUBLE I'm CAPE COLONY
DUTCH FARMERS. 1T Is FEARED, MAY
JOIN kRgGER's ARMY.
Volunteers Called Out-AlI Passes
Wctched by Boers-British Parlta-
ment to Convene To-Day.

LONDON, Oct. 16-Dispatches from the
Cape are very meager tonight, but they
include an important message from Glen
noon. announcing that the Boer COM
mandoes which invaded Natal through
Laing's Mex, and, after occupying Newcas-
tie, advanced to Dannhauser. retired on
Ingagane yesterday evening. their trans
port service being reported defective. This
will delay indefinitely the anticipated and
hoped for assault on the strong British
position at Glencoe.
Another dispatch reports activity on the
part of the Free State commando in the
neighborhood of Aliwalnorth. on the SOUTH
ern frontier The Beers advance patrol
the dispatch says, go TO the frontier brigade
nightly to keep watch. firing shots at inter-
walls as signals. 1t is believed the enemy
intends shortly to destroy the railway sta
manding the town.
There are rumors that the Beers have
been repulsed at Mafeking and are attack
ing vryburg. A Cape Town paper has a
dispatch from the Orange river stating that
the telegraph wires have been cut between
Vryburg and Kimberley, and it is believed
the Beers are taking advantage of the
presence of a large gathering of disloyal
farmers at yryburg celebrating nachtmal
to attack the town. hoping the farmers will
assist them against the British. The same
dispatch says the British force at Kimber-
ley is confident of its ability to hold out.
but urges the immediate dispatch of a relief
force.
This question OF possible rising of the
Dutch farmers in the northern portions OF
Cape Colony Is very important. The Daily
Malls correspondent at Colesburg has been
inquiring regarding the matter. and. on the
whole, thinks the chances are against a
rising He bases his opinion on the prospect
OF good crops after four lean years, which
he believes will predispose the farmers to
peace. Nevertheless there Is serious dis
loyalty and much anti-British agitation in
these districts. while the Free State Beers
threaten an immediate invasion of Coles
berg and Aliwalnorth.
AFRIKANDERS MOBBED.
The Daily Mails correspondent asserts
that Sir Alfred Miner Is worked to death
and that Cape Town Is sursing with bitter
resentment at what Is called the Schreiner
Cabinets betrayal of Mafeking by its con-
slant refusal to send n volunteer force
thither. Many residents Of Cape Town have
relatives at Vryburg and they are furio Us
with Messrs Merriman and Sauer, respec-
lively colonial treasurer and commissioned
Of public works, and the ministers are
mobbed whenever they appear in public. Mr..
Hofimeyer, the Afrikander leader has gone
60 the country il order to escape the out
bursts of Indignation. On Sunday night the
streets were filed with angry citizens and
It was feared that rioting wou,f occur. This,
combined with the pressure of the imperial
government, brought the Schreiner govern
ment TO sense of its peril. as well as OF its
duty. and moved IL 20 decide TO call out the
volunteers. The ministerial party also
worked its hardest 10 prevent the ovarion
TO Conyngham Greene on HIS arrival from
Pretoria. but failed. The volunteers are
1000 strong and have eleven pieces of ar
tillery. There Is no further news rega. cling
the present position.
The Natal invasion was made In three COL
vmns at dawn Oct. IL. through Bothas
Pass, Laing's Mex and from wakkerstroom,
the objective point Of the invaders being
Newcastle. The Beers utilized several thou
sand natives who were tramping from the
Rand 20 drive their heavy guns up
Laing's Mex. Precautions are being
taken for the defense OF Pieter-
marItzburg and Durham. in the re-
mote contingency that the enemy may elude
the vigilance of the British at the Lady
smith and Glencoe camps A dispatch from
the latter place says the partial closing
down Of the national coal mines will not
interrupt the supplies for the imperial trans
ports at Durham. as was imagined by the
Beers. large quantities OF coat being already
on the water from India Regular ship
uents will arrive from India until the Natal
mines open again
MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED.
Tho Cape Town correspondent OF the
Times says he learns on the highest au-
thortty that there Is no truth In the state
ment being circuIated-doubtless with sedi-
fous motives-fhat the imperial government