Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-02
London Post Says il Is Responsible
for the Loss at Ladysmith.
LONSDALE MAKES PROPHECY
Kari says the Itriush wan Have q
Grand Review In Pretoria IN
March Seat

London. Nov s--Tho break down q
the Dclagoa bay cable route. comblnod
with tho monopollaatlon of the svalla-
Die telegraph lines By thr government
and British atan onicors. De- responsible
Tor the fact that nothing further has
arrived from South Africa. The gov-
eminent has received dlapatchcs recti-
fylnE the casualty llHis. Thcuo viii be
published today.
Up 10 last midnight nothing had boon
received concerning Mondays casual
ties, The war office officials are work.
ina under great striin. Capt perriott
stan captain 20 the military secretary.
hns iust died. hlH end being FASTENED
hy anxiety and ovcrwork
An unconhrmcd statement To- pub
llshcd that Gen Sir Rcdvcrs Butler has
let capctown Tor LadyamIth.
\ bclatod dispatch from Ladyvmlth.
describing Mondays tight says "A
couple Of squadrons % husslrs had a
narrow escape from disaster early 10
the dny They found themselves sud-
denly confronted within easy range. by
an overwhelming force % liugrs, who
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earth The hunnAra were Hpleudllly
handled ana were eNtrlcatcd with only
one man wounded"
Tho queen Ia credited with expressing
sincere pity Tor cir George Stewart
white, ana the officials are IN noWlee
inclined 10 Judge him harshiy. So far
aH the public b. concerned. however.
while qualification ia felt az the man
nor ln which the Isolated battnliunH sur
rendered, there n atiN severe criticism
OF Cen. White and Llout-Col Carleton
Tor ullowlnE the column Co got out 90
touch, Tor tho absence % proper scout
iuN and Tor not retiring when the ann
munlti0n was lost. IN favor " Lieut.
Col, Carleton the explanation 10 haze
nrded that be believed lt was impern-
tive that be should hold the position
ut Nlcholeon'e Mex.
The Morning Post comments severely
upon the British contempt Tor the eu-
envy ~ shown by their belief that tho
large Bocr force nt Acton Homea could
be held In check by Carlctons email
column. II points out that even n tho
british there had been supplied with
ammunition, thcy could have held out
only a few hour longer inuHiuuCh aH
they were 10 the most complete eensc
detached and because nobody uppar.
entity al Lndyrmlth had any idea of
their distress or took any measures 10
rescue them.
"rhc column was oacrnccd" says
the Morning Post, "hUCnuno 10 was sent
into action gagrcd and hllndioldoi, u
had neither scout nor patrol Twelve
hundred men were thrown away Tor
lack OF cavalry which would not have
boon missed from another part OF the
field"
The standard. which comments In
rimiiar terms upon "thC fact that Gen,
White made mo enort to eNtrIcato the
column from The lmuoaHlhle situation
Into which he had thrust IT, draws a
cad picture Of the mon hoping Tor re-
lief and then r,allzlng with bitterness
90 heart that some one had Numbered,
that they had been forgotten by their
general and hlH etan, and that nothing
was lcft but surrender and lmprlHon-
mout at Pretoria until the end of the
war"
Tho Daily Chronicle Gays. 1T ia cvi-
dent nat somebody Numbered. but
more details are required before the
blame can be lpporiluurd,
The Times says. - careful cnlculn-
ton NJ the British loaaes In all the en-
gugcmeuts since the outbreak % hostil-
tiles, excluding the casualties among
the on-cominlssionod officers ana men
IN Mondays disaster az Ladysmlth.
which are thus far unknown here, gives
"a total ~ 0iG to which probably l,200
win be- added when the details regard
Ing the Ladysmith reverse are received.
This total h made up uH follows pih-
Gers. igg rs being Killed. 81 wounded
and 90 captured, men, 49, being 49,
Nutd,''lg2 wounded and l5i captured"
The Times snyH "rhu dangers of Sir
George Whites plans ARE patent oven
90 civilians, but u II not impossible
| that the Cape boys ln charge ~ thn
mountain battery have been tempered
with by the beers, OthCrwiHe such "a
large and comprehensive stampede u "a