Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22

SELVES OF SHELTER-THE
BOERS SAID TO BE DEMORAL-
lied AND UNLIKELY TO MAKE
FURTHER OFFENSIVE MOVES.
LONDON, October 21.-The war Of
fee has issued the following list of cas-
ualties in the battle between Glencoe
and Dundee yesterday, received in a dis
patch from the general commanding in
Natal, Sir George Stewart White, dated
Ladysmith, October II, APO a. M:
Divisional staff: Gen. Symons, NOR
tally wounded in the stomach; Col. c.
E. Beckett. assistant Adjutant General
severely wounded in the right shoulder;
Major Frederick Hammersiey, Deputy
Assistant Adjutant General, seriously
wounded in the leg.
Brigade staff: Col. John Schesston.
deputy staff officer and brigade major,
killed; Capt. f. l.. Adams. A. d. C..
seriously wounded in the right shout
der.
Lelcestershire regiment: Lieut.. L. d.
Weldon, wounded slightly in the hand.
First battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers:
Second Lieut. A. H. M. Hill. killed:
Major W. P. Davidson, wounded;
Capt. F. H. B. Conner, wounded. since
dead; Capt. j. w. Pike, wounded;
Lieut.. G. c. Southey, wounded; Lieut..
II. c. w. Workman, wounded.
Royal Dublin Fuslliers: Capt. G.. A.
Weldon, killed; Capt. NJ. Lowndes,
wounded; Capt. A. Dibley, wounded;
Lieut.. G. n. Perrean, wounded; Lieut..
G. G. j. Genge, wounded, since dead.
Kings Royal Rifles: Lieut.. Col. R. H.
Cunning, killed; Lieut.. J. Taylor, kill
ed; Lieut.. r. G.. Barnett. killed;
Lieut.. N. j. Hambro. killed; Major
9. A. I. Doultbee. wounded, Capt.
o. 5. W. Nugent, wounded; Capt. A.
X. M. Stuart Wortley, wounded; Lieut.
+. M. Crum, wounded; Lieut.. r. John
stone, wounded; Lieut.. G. II. Martin,
wounded
Eighteenth Hussars: Second Lieut..
H. A. Cape, wounded; Second Lieut.
A. G. McLachlan, wounded; Second
Lieut.. E. H. Bayford, wounded.
The war Office announces more fight
ing yesterday at Glencoe. thirty
non-commissioned officers and men
were killed and wounded.
later dispatch from Sir George
Stewart White says that Sir William
Penn Symons is brighter to-day, but
that the doctor can give no further
opinion.
The war Office has issued the follow
ing announcements:
The Queen has been pleased to APP
prove of the promotion of Colonel Local
Lieutenant General Symons, command
ing the Fourth division of the Natal
field force, to be Major General super
numerary to the establishment, for dis
tinguished service in the field.
The list of officers killed and wound
ed strikingly shows that, although the
British victory was complete. it was
bought at a heavy price. In addition
to Sir William Penn Symons, who is
Captains and five Lieutenants were
killed, and Colonel, three Majors. six
Captains and ten Lieutenants were
wounded.
This heavy loss among the officers
was due, as the latest dispatches from
the front show, to their valiant but in
sensate conduct in sticking to the ira
ditions of the British army and re-
luSIuS 10 USE luC tON6F Vi W ulCn the
men availed themselves in storming
the Boer position on the summit of the
Kopje.
Among the rank and file the Hussars
had seven wounded, the artillery one
killed and three wounded the Leices-
tershire regiment one wounded; the
Kings Rifles eleven killed and sixty
eight wounded; the Irish Fusileers
fourteen killed and thirty wounded; the
Dublin Fusileers four killed and forty
one wounded, and the Natal police two
wounded.
Colonel Sherston was a nephew OF
General Lord Frederick Roberts. AS
his aide-de-camp he went through the
Afghan war, accompanying Lord Rob-
erts on the famous Kandahar march.
Col. Cunning went through the Zulu
war and was also in the Burma cam
paign.
The Outlook publishes a dispatch
from Cape Town dated yesterday, al
leging that the Beers are not likely to
make any further considerable often
sive movement. The correspondent
says:
''They are utterly demoralized anG
the men refuse to take risks. They are
growing to distrust the aged Joubert.
The mixed mercenaries are proving
troublesome The artillery is badly
handled and the administrative de-
partment is revealing marked defects.
MIR. Schreiner, the Cape premier, is
each day being brought more into line
with the policy of Sir Alfred Miner,
British high commissioner in Africa
and governor of Cape Colony, and his
resignation is not now desired. as the
premier's present attitude is considered
a safeguard against Dutch disaffec-
ton"
The first news for a long time from
Rhodes comes in a telegram from Tuli,
dated October 16. The dispatch says:
Major Pilson. from Rhodes Drift,
with fifty Beers, passed Point Drift
this morning, shouting that they would
make the British sit up. Another body
Of Beers has crossed the river at Bain's
Drift and is marching on Mac Loutsie.
where the postmaster declares that he
thinks he can hold the Beers at bay.
The garrison is throwing up ensreneh-
ments"
This shows that the Beers have thus
far achieved nothing in the direction Of
Rhodesia-
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