Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-17
Shows . Total of Over Nine Hundred,
Including Seventy Officers.
LACK WATCH HEAVIEST sUFFeRE RS
MUSES. NsW SPIRIT INTO BoER ARMY
Captures Great Quantity OF Loot,
Including Rifles, Cartridges and
Hundreds of DnSoncts from
General Mcthucn's Army.

LONDON, Dec 16-General Butler reports
to the War office that his losses in yester-
days engagement we're: Killed, So;
wounded G67; missing 34S a total of ,O97.
The revised list OF British casualties al
the battle of Magesrsfontein shows the to al
to be 1853, of which seventy were officers.
! The Black Watch were the heaviest suffer
ers OF the rank and file forty-two we,e
killed, 1S2 were wounded and Ill are miss
| ing.
( LONDON, Dec 16-The War office late
tonight issued the following list of General
Bul er's casualties. Killed:
/ Field Artillery-Captain A. H. Golde and
Lieutenant C. B. Schrieber.
Dublin Fusiliers-Captain A. H. Bacon and
/ Lieutenant r. C. b. Henry.
1nniski.lin Fusiliers-Major Darley and
Captain Frank c. Lotus.
| Medical Corps-Captain NJ. J. Hughes.
| Thurneycroft's Mounted Infantry-Lieu-
tenant c. NJ. Jenkins.
officers wounded:
Devonshire regiment. five: Rifle Brigade
(The Prince Consort's OWN, one; Fifth bri-
gade staff, one; Inniskillin Fusilers. eight;
Border regiment, three; Connaught Rangers
| two; Dublin Fusiliers, three; irish Fusilers
five; medical corps, mounted infantry, three:
Natal Carbineers, two; South African Light
Horse, two
The wounded include Captains N ]. Good.
win, j. r. Radcliffe. P. U. W. Vigors Hon.
st, Leger Jarvis. A. ]. Hancock, w. F. Hoey,
E. ]. Breckley, j. e. S. Probyn, II. M. S
Lewan J. e. r. Brush, H. d. White -Thomp,
son, H. l. Reed, f. A. G. Elton and w. N
Congreve; Majors r. N G. Heygate, A. w
Gordon and F. A. B. Racington Colonels l
G. Brooke, Long, II. H. Hunt and Lieuten
ant Ponsonby of Thornycroft's mounted in.
fantry.
officers taken prisoners or missing: Field
artillery, five; Devonshire regiment, three
Essex regiment, one Royal Scots Fusiliers
six; Royal artillery, three,
Rerews the Beers Spirits.
PRETORIA, Wednesday. Dec. 13.-An Of
fetal dispatch from the Modder river says:
The Beers captured great quantity of
loot, including 200 Lee Metfords, cases of
cartridges and hundreds of bayonets Great
numbers of the British have retired from
Tweo- -Rivieren in the direction of Belmont.
The loss of the British was very great. There
were heaps of dead on the field The wounded
are being attended to, temporarily at Bis
sells farm. The sappers and miners must
have suffered severely. The Beers suffered
heavy losses in horses. l cannot otherwise
describe the battlefield than as a sad and
terrible slaughter. Monday was for us a
brilliant victory. 1t has infused new spirit
into our men and will enable them to achieve
greater deeds'
PRETORIA, Wednesday, Dec 13-Adyjces
from Mafeking say an attack on a small
British fort has been made with good re-
suits. The fort was demolished. Heavy
cannon firing is proceeding.
Colonel Baden Powell has sent the Beers
a notice, advising them to lay down their
arms and return to their homes, promising
them that protection will be given them as
soon as Great Britain has taken over the
Transvaal.
News from Seat of war Scarce.
LONDON, Dec. 17.-Beyond a partial list
and summary of the totals of the casual
lies in the Tugela river engagement posted
At about midnight the War office processes
not to have any news from the seat of war,
while the censorship evidently blocks other
channels of information.
Never within the range OF the longest
memory has Great Britain met with three
such military reverses in a single week and
lence it is not surprising that notes of
anxiety should be heard amid the general
'horus of press expressions of grim
philosophy and resignation.
Mr.. Asquiths speech at Newcastle last
'Yenlng fairly expresses the moderate aver
ge opinion OF the situation. A more rad-
al view, which, however, has few open fol-
overs, was echoed by Sir Wilfrid Lawson
n an address to the liberals of Carlisle. He
expected the government, after bringing the
ountry to "A verge OF war with America,
russia, Germany and France, to have
'lunged it into war with South Africa,
through incompetent diplomacy. He thought
he people should insist upon the govern
nent stating its terms so that everybody
night see what it was fighting for.
At the Army and Navy and other clubs
he general impression is that the check Is
My temporary.
The government view is probably voiced
" Right Hon. Walter Long. president OF
he Board OF Agriculture, who, speaking at
he Ship Brokers' dinner in Liverpool last
yening, intimated that the cabinet com
littee on national defense had considered
he adyisability of utilizing the militia and
Olunteers for service abroad He emphat-
ally asserted that the government in no
'ay attempted TO interfere with the gem
rails in their military operations.
Some say that another 100000 troops are
anted and, declared Mr.. Long If the gov
does not purpose to send them II
i'll be wanting In Its duty to the country
or his own part Mr. Long said he failed
see that the necessity had arisen, but II
does arise the 100, 900 will be forthcoming
nd they will be sent Immediately