Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-10-24

the public for bad news and it Is only too
likely that General Yule has been com
peeled to abandon the wounded and the
prisoners At Dundee because his force Is
too weak to hold the four and a half mile
Separating Dundee from Glencoe
Probably General YuIe believes he can
better protect Dundee from an enemy ad-
yanc!ng from the northwest by concen-
trat!rg ali his available strength at Glen
coe, where there are now 800 men ard
three batteries. In the meantime efforts
viii be made 10 reopen the railway and TO
get TeinfCrcements from Laoysmith-
1t Is expected that Commardant Eras-
nus has 5y this time joined CommandaDt
General JUGbert and that their combined
columns amount to some 1900 or ncD
men. while the Free State Beers now
threatening I-aGysmith from the east and
z column reported to be coming through
ZulVIard must also be reckoned with
In short. General Sir George Stewart
White has been unable 10 follow up his
successes and IS obliged TO remain at Lady
smith without being able 70 restore railway
Communication, which IS probably broken
at other points besides ElauGslaaGte-
Thus the enemy, although their original
plan which was supposed To have been
COIone! Schiel's. failed, may fairly be cred
:ted with having Isolated General Hu!e >
bT.E3Ge ana GIFllrI l!-" ibF-LlSl 4'EEtS -
Natal. General Yula may find himself il
tight place needing all his experience in
Indian and Burmese fighting 10 extricate
himself
II quite evident that the war Office has
news which has been withheld from the
public. and If the situation as here
sketched Is confirmed. Boer divisions may
be- expected at other frontier points.
Up to midnight the war Office was be
s:eged with inquiries, the heavy lists Of
British losses causing much heart burning.
Sad a wOrkingman who was reading the
list: II this Is the price Of suzerainty
good COD, but We are paying in full"
it is regarded as not impossible that
General White may yet be compelled TO
Concentrate all the Natal forces at Lady
smith and await the arrival of the army
corps.
a dispatch to the Times from Colesburg,
Cape Colony, says:
The situation to-day CAlOnday) is grave.
The Beers are 80 strong and will be Telr-
forced from Driekop. No defense is pos
sibie. The town guard Will retire on
,Iaauwpoort on the appearance Of the en-
emy.
The Driekop force is estimated at 800
men The report OF the fighting at Glencoe
has been placarded at BethuIie, the frontier
town on the East London line, as bril-
liant Boer victory
The Daily News publishes the following
dispatch from Ladysnaith, dated Sunday
night:
a large force under Commandant Cen
eral Joubert and Commandant Vogar
opened fire on Dundee yesterday. The fir
ing was continued to-day. The result j.
not known here"
The correspondent OF the Daily Mail a
Durham, Natl, says:
An official of the Bonanza mine wht
has just arrived from Pretoria, declare:
that while there he heard that Colone
Eaden-PoweI the British commander a
Mafeking, had captured General Cronj'
and thirty other Beers and had killed 90
The parliamentary secretary OF the wal
office, Mr.. George Wyndham. made a state
Inert in the house Of commons to-day. say
ing:
Lord woIseley sums up the position il
Natal, as follows:
In the battle of Elandslaagte. Octobe
q. two guns were captured from the Beers
who lost heavily.
4 large column Of the enemy appeare
advancing from the north and west o.
General YuIe, who consequently had fall
en back from Dundee and was conceu
trating at Glencoe junction. In this opera
tiyn, we gathered in the wounded and med
teal attendants LEFT at Dundee.
- General White was In position at Lady
smith and is being reinforced from Pieter
maritzburg.
The enemy appeared to be in larg
lurerica! suueriOrity -