Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-04
NARROW ESCAPE
OF All the Forces Under
General White.
THE NAVAL CONTINGENT
arrived Just in Time to Prevent the
Beers Administering a Crushing
Defeat--Ladysmith Has Probably
Been Attacked by This Time.

London, Nov. 4. 4:05 a. m.-There is worry
.ittie 1fesh intelligence today, but it is
'eiteNed mat the Delagoa bay route. if
- alfeauy restored, speedily will be.
mus giving quicker communication with
the cape. Tbs situation is, still home
full.
Inc accounts that continue to arrive
regarding the fighting on Farauhar's
farm only confirm its serious nature and
the narrow escape General White had.
On TINS point the Morning Post remarks;
NolHlhS tells such q tale of battle as
the lst OF the missing. When the miss
ing exceed the killed. it is almost safe
~ write defeat across the story, because
missing means abandonment or sur
render"
IL no" appears as if it We're only the
arrival OF the naval contingent from the
ro"erlul which prevented a worse dis
etslef' IL Seems that When it was seen
ehat retreat was imperative. two Natal
cdNalryfnen volunteered to convey a dis
patch across the Boer lines to Major
Adve, ordering him to retire, but the
FISK vas considered too great, and flag
signaling was employed instead. The
Instance was too great and the ground
TOO rough for cavalry 70 go to his as
According to dispatches filed on Tues
Gay, defensive works We're being con-
stiucted On the hil4s around Ladysmith.
ana IL was expected there that the big
naval guns would be MOUNTED the follow
ing DAY. Inc Beers We're threatening
10 attack the town in force on Wednes-
Gay and Thursday. and the women. chill
ufen ana otner non-combatants We're be-
lGS S-nT nv I pa in tn fHn ,,,tL
is provisioned for two months.
A dispatch from Colesburg, dated Nov.
l, announces that Six IoiiceInen who
We're stationed at Colesburg bridge We're
and captured. This is prob
ably the origin Of The story that the Beers
occupied Colesburg.
Paris and Berlin continue to supply
or British reVerses. the latest
being that Mafeking mas fallen. The
Paris correspondent OF the Daily News
Boer secret service fund has increased to
100000 monthly and hat pro-Boer jour
nallsts are bfibed at Wholesale. None
Or these futnors are yet confirmed and
little attention is paid to them.
The STANDARD publishes a dispatch from
Luxembourg, which says: Until within
a few days DR.. Leyds has been in tele-
graphic communication With Pretoria,
through an Indirect diplomatic channel.
by means of which he has been able to
INFORM the Irai1sNaal OF the supposed
British plan to advance through the Or
Free State. With q view of an
ticipating this movement the Beers will
endeavor to capture or solat Ladysmith
and then to press on to Durham, where
they would be able to prevent a Brit
ish debarkation. while the main Boer
army would hastily retrace it's steps to
defend the line of the Orange river"
At Plymouth II is runlored that the
channel squadron will be ordered to the
where Il great naval force is to be
concentrated with a view of establish
ing a Gordon from the mouth of the Or
ange river to DeiaGoa bay TO prevent the
landing of supplies for the enemy and
with a yiew also, if necessary. of land
ing guns to assist the British forces.