Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-10-03
Five Thousand Beers Are Con-
centrated Near Dundee, Ma
tai, and Ab"1t to Attack.
PRECAUTIONS HAVE BEEN TAKEN.
Four Thousand Armed Beers Are at
SandspriIit and Yolksrust, just
Beyond the Natal Border.
From All Points in the Tranv wal, Natal
and Cape Colony Gomez Lepo. t. OF
Continued iIitary Acttviy--
Joubert at La.ng4 Nek

LONDON, Oct. San engagement be-
tween the Beers and British is report
ed to have taken place at Dundee
Monday. The report says the Beers
captured the place, killing 81 of the
British.
LoSDox, Oct. ga, total absence OF
Transvaal news Monday causes the be-
lief that the Beers, have cut telegraph
wires right and left, or that a strict
censorship has been established.
A corps of gentlemen rough
riders, patterned after Roosevelt's
regiment is being formed for South
African service. Advices from Lady
smith, Natal, say 600 Burghers have
assembled at Albertina in the Orange
Free State and raid on Natal is
feared.
MAFEKlNe, Cape Colony, Oct. ga
town meeting was held here last night,
at which an urgent appeal was made
to Sir Alfred Milner, British high com
missioner to South Africa, to send help
to the town as the British frontier de-
fenses are utterly inadequate.
CAPE TowN, Oct. 3.-The Care Argus
publishes the following dispatch from
! Charlestown: "Commandant Gen. Jou
bert will command the Boer forces at
Laings Mex. This is regarded as the
/ oil ,..,,,1xr To no If
the British troops. There is consid-
erable uneasiness here"
DUNDEE, Natal, Oct. 2.-Five thousand
Beers are now concentrated in close
proximity to the frontier and it is re-
ported that they are about to attack
Dundee. The most complete precau-
tions have been taken.
Charlestown is deserted. All the wom-
en- and children have left and not more
than 10 men are now there. A locomo-
tive is ready to bring away the rail
way staff.
NEwcAsTLE Natal. October 2-Four
thousand Boers are at Sandsprit and
Volksrust, just beyond the Natal bor-
der. The Natal police. are being called
in from outlying stations, and the local
troops and carbineers are mobllizing
| for the defense of Newcastle.
LONDON, Oct. .. From all Toints in
the Transvaal, Natal and Cape Colony
come reports of continued military ac-
tivity on the frontiers; and, while the
movement of individual commands as
yet do not show concerted plans, it is
evident that the narrow, wedge-like
strip of Natal, whose apex is crowned
| with the ominous name of Majuba
Hill, will be the center of the coming
storm.
Late Saturday the Beers established
camp at Scheepers Mex, near Vry-
held, and they will mobilize great
force on the Buffalo river Monday,
which the authorities at Dundee ex-
pect will move across the border to
that point, probably at once. 1t is be-
lieved that a conflict at this point will
certainly occur carly in the week
At the same time the Beers are col
/ lCCllhB a AOANN OA ~fNOO lLlNilS hAbNA VIC
notorious Commandant Cronje, in the
Mulmani gold fields, near Mafeking,
where Col. Baden Powell is stationed.
Enthusiastic scenes at all the rail-
way stations have marked the advance
of the Natal volunteers.
| JOHANNESBURG, Oct 2.-The COM
Wandering orders are completed and
the burghers are ready for the field. A
large body passed through the town
Saturday afternoon.
Business has virtually ceased. The
merchants have finished barracading
premises, and the proprietors of the
drinking saloons expect to receive a
notification to close their establish
! ments.
A party OF 200 Germans has been
notified to leave and the Irish corps
commanded by Blake, an Irish Ameri-
can, will 20 early in the week.
! Three trains filled with armed
burghers for the Natal border were
Sunday evening reported as unable to
leave Braalfontein, owing to block
on the line, which has disorganized
the whole train service. .,........
Two thousand passengers left Sat
urday by the morning and afternoon
trains and nearly thousand more by
outgoing trains Saturday night.
The government undertakes to pro-
vide for the families of the burghers
W no 60 to the front.