Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-11

TRENCHMENTS AND HAS AN
AMPLE SUPPLY OF PROVISIONS.
Beers FIRED ON A WHITE
FLAG PARTY.
LONDON, November 10.-The Brit
ish war office has received from Gen.
Butler the following dispatch:
CAPE TOWN, Thursday evening,
November 9.-Have received from pig
con post from Gen. White to-day the
following:
The bombardment at long range by
heavy guns continues daily. A few
casualties are occurring, but no seri-
Gus harm is being done
The Beers sent in to-day a num-
Der of refugees from the Transvaal
under flag of truce. A flag of truce
from Ladysmith met them outside the
pickets. When the party separated
the Boer guns fired on it before it
reached our pickets. Major Gale, Of
the royal engineers, was wounded to-
day while sending a message.
The entertainments are daily grow
ing stronger, and the supply of pro-
visions is ample.
LONDON, November 10-With the
arrival at Cape Town Of the British
transports Roslin Castle and Moor, to
be followed by continuous succession
OF troop-laden ships, the real campaign
in South Africa may be said to have
commenced, and the fact that the first
named ship was ordered to proceed to
Durham, Natal, forthwith, is said to
indicate at least a modification in the
plan of advance.
1t seems that Gen. Buffers first move
will be to free Gen. White, thus some
what departing from the earlier plan
credited to him of advancing through
the level country of the Orange Free
State and Southwestern Transvaal. 1t
has been apparent for some days that
the situation at Ladysmith could not be
indefinitely prolonged and it is under
stood that information has reached the
quiescence of the Beers will shortly
be changed by the arrival of the siege
train from Pretoria, into determined
attempt to deliver a telling stroke.
This, it is added, led Gen. Butler to
prepare counter stroke and endeavor
to push the Beers back by direct at
tack. Such an operation. if attempted
will necessarily entail great expendi-
ture Of life, as during the month the
Beers have occupied Northern Natal
they have fortified most of the passes
and other positions suitable to their
style of fighting.
While the pigeon dispatch Of Gen.
White shows the beleaguered garrison
was holding its own yesterday, it is
feared here that the silence regarding
what the British artillery was doing
in reply to the Boer guns indicates
that the dread that Gen. White is short
of long-range ammunition is not alto
gether groundless If this be true, the
reported further destruction of the
railroad near Colenso assumes greater
Importance.
One very serious passage in Gen.
Whites message gives the first official
confirmation of the statements of Boer
treachery, which there has been a dis
position hitherto to discredit, but which
must now be accepted as at least partly
true
With the additional division an
nounced by Gen. Wolseley at the lord
mayors banquet yesterday evening,
Gen. Buffers forces will aggregate
about $4,000 men by Christmas.
Another rumor emanating from Am
sterdam sources says that "a British
regiment was decimated Friday by
Free Staters." 1t is added that 900 of
the Britist soldiers weer killed or
wouneded and that 300 horses were cap
tured.