The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-27
An OminouS Veil Hangs Over
the Movements of Gems.
White and Yule.
THE CENSORSHIP WORKS SMOOTHLY.
1t is Believed, However, That the Two
British Forces Have Effected
junction Near Ladysmith.
A Squadron of Hussars Cut on BY the
Beers, But They Brilliantly Fought
Their Way ThrOugh-Three
of Them Are Missing.

LONDON, Oct. 26-With unconscious
humor, a Cape Town correspondent
autographed Wednesday: THE censor
ship, which is always a delicate mat
ter, is working smoothly and without
a hitch"
This exactly hits off the state of af-
fairs at present. An ominous veil is
still drawn over the movements of
Gen. Sir George Stewart White and
Gen. Yule. Beyond belated Ladysmith
dispatches concerning the Elandslaagte
fight, which are still filtering in the
British public, is left in complete dark
ness and to conjecture over cooked"
war office dispatches. The officials of
the war office Wednesday evening said
that very few dispatches have arrived
and that nothing further was to be eX-
pected until morning.
Since it is practically Gel tain that
Gen. Yule has now effected junction
with Gen. White-although this was
not brought about Tuesday night as
announced by the Daily Mail, bat some
time on Wednesday-and as both are
now in a position of safety, conjecture
concerns itself chiefly with the man
ner of Gen. YuIe's retreat. That it
was hasty is evident. Was it disorder
~? Was any considera BILE camp equip
ment abandoned? Was there any fight
ing on the way? Such ques-
tions and like them the public
is anxiously asking. Since the receipt
of Gen. Whites curious first descrip-
ton of the Ladysmith fight, in which
the British lost a hundred men, little
reliance can be placed on the official
dispatches. While the concealment of
the facts regarding Gen. Yule's retreat
can be amply justified on the ground
of keeping the intelligence from the
Beers, the hiding Of the news respect
ing the Hussars and Fusiliers. who
were apparently captured in the battle
---of Glencoe, is severely criticised, no in
timation even having been given that
the officers were missing.
LONDON, Oct. ga squadron of hus-
.sars usually consists of three troops Of
% men each, or about so officers and
men of the 18th Hussars are supposed
to have been captured.
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
from Ladysmith. dated Monday, says:
Thirty Of the 18th Hussars who
were sent from Glencoe to intercept
the retreat of the Beers from Glands
laagte were cut off by the enemy. I'm
der Sergt. Baldrey they brilliantly
fought their way across the Biggars-
berg. the enemy pursuing and firing
at them at range of 800 yards along
the passes. They arrived here at 10
o'clock this morning. Three of the
troop are missing owing to the break
down of their horses. The Beers used
a Maxim. A lieutenant of the Hussars
with party was driven back to Glen
.coe. The Hussars were fired at as lar
down as Moderspruyt."
The war office returns show that the
total British casualties since the be.
ginning of hOstllltles reach 591, is Of
ficers having been killed and 80 wound
ed, and IS men killed and 435 wounded
There are Is unaccounted for.
This total however, does not include
the squadron of the 18th Huzzar:
which went astray near Dundee, anC
the officers OF the Dublin Fusiliers.
The report of heavy losses sent from
Rietfontein came as an unpleasant sur
prise, as Gen. Whites telegram to the
ware Office Wednesd ay gave the i'm
preston that there was merely a
brush.
Gen. Sir Redvers Butler is e expected
to arrive at the Cape early next week
and the indications are that some
troops have already arrived at the
front and been in the fighting whose
arrival has not yet been announced