The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-09
PLEA FOR MERCY
BoERs so BADLY CUT UP BY BRIT
ISH CAVALRY THAT THEY
CRIED FOR QUARTER
ARE SLASHED WITH SABERS
WOUNDED FOLLOWERS OF DOM
SWORDMANSHIP OF BRITONs
GORDON HIGHLANDERs SUFFER

Siege of Mnfeking Develops Into "a
Farce-BOers RedoubIe Efforts to
Take Kimberley in the Hope of
Capturing Cecil Rhodes - SiGnIf-
tcant Dispatch From COrre-
spOndent, Promising Good News.
DURBAN,Nov. 5.-Further information
= confirms the statements of native eve
witnesses respecting the severity of the
lighting on both Friday and Saturday
at Ladysmith. The natives assert that
the Beers were so cut up that they
hoWled for mercy on the field, and
covered their bodies. Ladysmith is crowd
ed with Boer prisoners and wounded. the
latter presenting horrible evidences Of
the swordsmanship of the cavalry The
Gordon Highlanders suffered severely In
the fighting
GEN. JOUBERT'S CRUELTY.
ESTCOURT Natal, Nov. 6-Mr. Bur
nard, proprietor of the Railway hotel at
Ladysmith, has arrived here with a COM
panion, having eluded the Boer outposts
by night, riding along Katfr paths. He
connrms the report that when Gen.
White requested that the women and
children be permitted to depart Gen. Jou-
bert replied that he would only allow
them to get away under the muzzles or
Hre or his guns. Mr.. Burnard views the
situation gravely, and says that none of
the British artillery is apparently able to
cope with the Boer siege guns.
LONDON IS HOPEFUL.
LONDON, Nov. s.-London Is hopeful
that from now on news from the seat
of war will be favorable to the British
To the eyes of military experts the
darkest page Of the war is now being
written. But even that is illumira ated
with bright passages, such as Gen.
Whites victorious sorties. If he can keep
the British flag flying over Ladysmith
until he IS relieved, the campaign will
turn fresh page, and with the advance
OF Sir RedYeTs Buffers force the British
public Is promised more chserful reading
This feeling Of relief, inspired by recent
good tdtngs, is nevertheless tinged by
q single anxiety, lest Gen. White should
again make some fatal miscalculation in
Volving repetition of the Nicholson Mex
disaster. Her majesty does not share
this anxiety and apparently is sanguine
of his ability to pull through successfully.
1t IS asserted that she has written to
Lady White, expressing sympathy with
her husband in the trials and difficulties
he is now experiencing, and assuring
Lady White Of her own undiminished
confidence in his generalship. The pur-
port of this letter has been cabIed to Gen.
White by the Marquis Of Lansdowne.
The most important news tonight IS q
dispatch from EstcOurt announcing the
departure of q strong force Of mounted
troops and artillery for destination not
given IN the advices Another message
announces the arrival at Estc0urt and
Pietermaritzburg, within the last few
days, of reinfOrcements from Durham,
and that $500 troops are assembled ready
for an advance to CClensO when the op-
perfume moment arrives. The latter dis
patch throws light upon the former, and
the force which left Estcourt, Monday,
has doubtless reOccupied ColensO and IS
doubtlessIy row advancing cautiously up
the railway towards Ladysmith, Gen.
Whites sortie of Friday, almost to the
banks of the Tugela river, encouraging
its commander In the hope Of joining
hands with him.
JOUBERT GROWS CAUTIOUS.
Gen. Joubert, the latest advices would in
dicate, drew in his horns after Friday S
y engagement and has since withdrawn the
southern Boer contingents, leaving only
outposts the line from Ladysmith to
Colenso. The Beers, who occupied Co
lenso about the middle of last week, re-
tired without damaging Bulwer bridge,
over the Tugela river, or the railway as
far north as the village of NelthOrpe,
seven miles south of Ladysmith. Evi-
IDENTIFY they nurse a hope of eventually
utilizing both I ntheir descent upon Pie
termaritzburg. Meanwhile the British are
also able to use both, as they have al
ready done, in running up an armored
train, which may at the present moment
be covering the advance of the Estcourt
force
At Estcourt and Pietermartzburg the
defensive works have been greatly
strengthened within the last few days
and they are now believed capable of
holding their own against any force which
Gen Joubert would at the present juno
ture risk sending against either town.
Both are likely to be strengthened before
the week is out by a further naval force
and even by the first detachment of Gen.
Buffers army corps.
None Of the transports have arrived.
The one which it was predicted might
2 arrive at Cape Town at the earliest on
Monday IS as yet unannounced, and when
1t does arrive there it will have three
days steaming to reach Durham. AS
many as three transports, with $500
troops, were expected to be in Cape Town
harbor by this time, but the war office
has issued q statement that reports Of
the arrival of transports at Cape Town
were caused by the arrival Of the Su-
matra from Durham, with sick; the South
ern Cross from Gibraltar, with mules
and the COlHef w W6UVOo. VI course 1t ts
possible that dispatch boats have been
sent to meet the troopships, with instruc-
tions to proceed direct to Durham, and ir
that event the statement that none has
arrived at Cape Town would be literally
accurate, even though several should be
half way between Cape Town and Dur
ban.
WANT CECIL RHODES.
The British are safe at Mafeking, where
the Beers are apparently disheartened al
the unexpected resistance, large body
of their force having been detached fol
the southward to assist in the attack or
Kimberley, around which the Gordon 1.
drawing tighter Evidently the Beers in
tend to make a concentrated effort t
take Kimberley and that arch enemy
Cecil Rhodes
The reported departure of a Boer con
tingent from Pretoria, with German mill
tary gunners, moving in southerly di
rection, is taken to mean cooperation ir
the invasion Of the northern part Of Cape
Colony, an undertaking which, thus far
has not progressed very rapidly
Reports of treacherous use Of tn,
white. flag by the Beers, coming from ma
tive sources, are not received with com
plete credulity, but at the same time thel
reiteration Is making an unfavorabe i'm
preston. One paper asks sarcastically