Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-11-14
KIMBERLEY BEGINNING TO FEEL
THE LONG SIEGE.
B0ERS SMELLING THE MINES
HAVE EXACT RANGE AND ARE Do
ING GREAT DAMAGE.
Bread Selling at 80 Cents Loaf
Cecil Rhodes Is Employing 5000
Men at Road Work to Re-
lieye Destitution-Lady-
smith Isolated.

LONDON. Nov. 1.-THE paucity of news
from the front still leaves the chief inter
est centered in the arrival of reinforce
ments. Estcourt dispatches say that hello
graph communication has been established
with Ladysmith but so far no news has
been received, the latest date being No
vember 8, which shows that the occupants
OF Ladysmith had no news of the outside
world since General French reached Pieter-
maritZburS, and that they were puzzled
at the inactivity of the Beers. Everyone
was confident and cheerful. but all were
suffering the inconvenience of the siege,
bread selling at shiIlinss per loaf
Colonel Baden Powells dashing sorties at
MafekinS encourage the hope that the
British Sarrisons along the western border
are all able to hold out. Cecil Rhodes is
employing $3.50 men, white and black, at
Kimberley in roadmaking, as remedy for
destitution
According to a dispatch from De Aar,
the Beers at Kimberley have got the exact
range of the mines and are constantly
throwing shells at the dynamite huts. Sew
erai of the latter have been blown up and
amounts TO many thousands of pounds.
Among the stories from Brussels is one
that General Joubert and Sir George White
have been endeavoring to negotiate for the
capitulation of Ladysmith, but have failed
to come to terms.
Lord Salisbury and Lord Wolseley were
guests of the queen at Windsor castle last
night.
Mrs. Rudyard Kipiing has donated 500
and some books to the fund for fitting out
the hospital ship Maine.
The stories of Father Matthews, cabled
from Lorenzo Marques, regarding the sur
render at Nichons6n's Mex. is too vague
circles it is considered unpleasant reading,
and 1t will be impossible 10 learn the facts
until the officer concerned has been court
The report that the British cruiser Mag
icienne had fired on the French steamer
Cordoba raises the doubtful point whether
war. 1t is believed, however, that Euro
pean nations have been made acquainted
with the severance of relations between
Great Britain and the two republics.
1t is understood that the admiralty, on
General Buffers advice, has arranged that
cruisers at the Cape should so out to in
tercept all arriving transports and inform
them of the latest orders respecting their
destination, which are to be kept secret.
A dispatch from Cape Town to the war
office announces the arrival there to-day
of the troopship Armenian, with three bat
terieS of artillery and ammunition col
umn. and the troopship Nubia, with the
Scots guards and half a battalion of the
Northamptonshire regiment. This brings
the total number of reinfOrcements to 12.-
sO2 of which about 5000 are already on the
way to Durham. The Armenian and Nubia,
whose troops belong to the first division,
will probably also be ordered to proceed
Nine troopships, carrying 11.COO men. are
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. chancellor OF
the exchequer, speaking this evening at
| Bristol, said:
THE war in South Africa has destroyed
both conventions with the Transvaal. We
| must establish there a pure and honest
government. on the basis of equal rights
and on something more enduring than pa
| per safeguards Subject TO this. we should
give whatever self-government may be pos
| sible in South Africa. No one desires that
great country to be governed permanently
| from Downing street"