Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-25
ARE IN BAD FIX
Forced to Abandon
Several Towns.
A MESSAGE FROM WHITE
That General Yule Had Been Com
PEELED to Retreat to LadySmith-
It is Believed The War Office IS
Holding Back Dispatches.

London, Oct. o5.-The following dis
patch from General Sir George
White to the Marquis of LansdoWne
secretary of state for war, received last
evening at II O'Clock was posted at the
war office soon after midnight Lady"
smith. Oct. "A. 9 p. m.-lnformation re-
ceived yesterday showed that the Beers
had established themselves in CONSIDER
able force in an exceedingly strong posi-
tion west of the main road leading from
Ladysmith to Dundee l also had lntof-
nation that the Dundee force, me
commanded by General Symohs All"
since his wounding commanded py 1eh-
eral Yule. was falling back on LadSsh'l''
by way of the H~elpmakkarr road bel'n
and the valleys of Waschbank and sum
aav rivers and was expected to repott
at Sunday river valley to-day. there
fore. moved out with a strong force "
cover the movement of IuleS colulln.
The enemy was discovered about se'els
miles out of L~adysnith IN a postum =
great natural strength, west OF tne 20"
When he saw that preparations were ue.
ing made against him ne opened INV WV
one gun with great accuracy.
.Onr artillery soon got into positlo'
and the gun was silenced. Our troops
were ordered to occupy a strong fluse:
parallel to the enemyS position W. e".
or to the road. l confined ms efforts TO
occupying him and hitting MIN nav
| enough to prevent his taxing ao.'o IS
against Yu]e's command. umbers OF
tha enemy fed to the west and the hr'hs
| has practically ceased at 2 O'CLOCK.
General White has not fought ms way
out of Ladysmith as published III .lie
New York papers. because he left Lady,
smith Saturday morning ana caploiVu
Elandslaagte, which is Is miles OUT ana
he has since apparently moved o"a1u
Waschbank. He expected to unite WIN
General Yule in the neighborhood OF
/ Waschbank tonight, SO his tight WIN
the Orange Free State troops must nave
, occurred nearly % miles out from Lazy
smith, and S i: took place on the Lady
smith-Newcastle road. which runs some
two miles west and almost parallel WIN
the railroad he evidently encountered the
Free State force, which had taken up q
position in the BlgSarsgurg hill ana
blocked the road betWeen Ladysmltf
and Glencoe, also threatening Genera
Yule's flank. The disposal of the Orange
Free State force sensilly improves the
British position at Wascnbank II Zen
-raI White decides to wait there for Gen
e1al Joubert.
The war office dispatch seems to realiz'
the worst fears. General Yule has
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abandoned not only Dundee, but Glenco'
also and SO far as present news Woul'
Indicate he has neither Joined Genera
White nor reached Ladysmith. Genera
Whites "successful action announces
in parliament by Mr.. Wyndham, seem
to resolve itself into a mere engaging o
the Free State troops While General Aul
is slipping southwark.
1t is evident from the official dispatche
that both Commandment General Jou
bert's column on the north and the Or
ange Free State troops on the west nov
occupy strong positions and that moth
ing hinders the Beers from following III
3 General Yule's retirement and gettins
around Ladysmith from the southwest
Until reinforcements arrive it seems tina
General White is obliged to concentrat
on L~adysmith.
1t is believed that the government haV
other dispatches that have not been pub
lished. The secretary of state for wa
left the residence of Ambassador Choat
immediate after The banquet to Genera
Harrison, and went to the war depart
ment, where there was considerable ac
ltivity, even at midnight.