The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-11-14
COMMUNICATION OPENED
LONDON AGAIN HEARS FROM
LADYSMITH.
The Railroad Said to be Still Open
Probable Attack Upon Pietermaritz-
burg by the Boer Army.

LONDON, November 8, 9:15 p. M
The war office has just received cable
gram announcing that communication
with Ladysmith has been restored and
that messages from that place are now
coming through.
LONDON. November 3.-Belated dis
patches from the British camp at Lady
smith, Natal, add little information
about Mondays fight, except the esti-
mates of the Boer losses, which are
now said to be 95 killed and 200 wound
ed, mostly victims of the artillery
shells, which have wrought such great
havoc that it is said that General Jou-
bert has written a letter to General
White. protesting against the use of
lyddite.
According to all accounts, the pres
ence at Ladysmith of the long range
naval guns, and the splendid shooting
of the bluejackets, have materially i'm
proved the position of the British. A
temporary armistice was declared on
Monday to allow for the collection of
the dead and wounded.
While the wires at Ladysmith are
cut the optimism of the war officials
yesterday in refusing to believe that
Ladysmith was completely invested or
Colenso captured, appears to be justi-
fed, as this morning it was asserted
that the railroad is still open though
greatest caution What however, was
only rumor yesterday may prove to
be a reality at any moment, as General
Joubert, with a large and wonderfully
able force, is expected to dispatch sew
eral thousand men and make a dash
at the railroad.
A Cape Town dispatch reports a re-
pulse of the Beers by the British yes
terday.
LONDON, November "A detailed
and revised report of the total casual
ties among the rank and file at Far
quahars farm gives the following fig
ures: 81 killed, 227 wounded 473 miss
ing. The last mentioned does not in
clude the Irish Fusileers
NEW YORK, November 3.-General
Joubert's movement to cut off General
White at Ladysmith from Colenso is
being carried out and it is probable
that Pietermaritzburg, the capital of
Natal, will fall into General Joubert' S
hands before General Butler and rein
forcements can arrive.
The South African situation is again
causing the deepest alarm. The silence
of the War Office, which received today
several dispatches from Cape Town and
Durham, the holding back of the list OF
casualties at Ladysmith and. finally
| the announcement of the mobilization
of the second army corps on the 10th
of this month, all combine to show that
the position of British power in South
Africa is one of gravest peril.
The World correspondent learns that
the Dutch rising in Northern Cape Col
ony has assumed menacing proportions
! owing to the Boer success, while the
native unrest all along the Transvaal
and Orange Free State borders has be-
| come most menacing.
The natives cannot be relied on by
either side, but probably will fight for
| their own hand.
With sedition spreading among the
Cape and Natal Dutch, the natives
waiting to jump in on their own ac-
| count, and General Whites forces be-
leaguered in Ladysmith, this war has
suddenly become the most momentOuS
England has been engaged in since the
American revolution.
Mr.. Chamberlain, who had proposed
to take his ease at his country seal
near Birmingham, while the Transvaa
was being conquered, has found it nee
! essary to come to town and is in con.
stant communication with Sir Alfred
Miner, the British High Commissioner
in South Africa.
LONDON, November 3-Reason is
being found to doubt the policy oi
doubling reports of Boer successes
merely because they come from con.
tinental representatives of South At
rica. AS matter of fact, the rumors
of the capture of the hussars, the occu
patton of Dundee and the disaster or
Monday came first from Berlin, from
which city also came the first news o.
the Jameson raid. So, tidings of any
British reverse are as likely to come
from there as from anywhere.
General Whites position, is acknOwl
edged to be so precarious that the land
ing of big naval brigade to go to hi:
assistance is being advocated.