Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-29

LONDON, October 28.-The lull in
the news from Ladysmith, Natal,
which was beginning to be regarded as
ominous, has at length been broken by
Cape Town dispatch under this morn
ings date, saying:
Scouts from Modderspruit having re-
ported the Beers in force on the Help
makaar road, General White ordered
out a strong force of artillery, mounted
infantry and cavalry. A small patrol OF
mounted infanty was shelled by the
Beers nine miles from Ladysmith and
the Boer position was finally located
three miles beyond Modderspruit. The
British force is now four miles from the
Beers"
The dispatch does not give the date
of the above occurrence, but It must
have been since Thursday. when the
last news arrived from Ladysmith, so
the Boer advance from Dundee south
ward and from Besters station eastward
evidently proceeded steadily in the in
term, and the engagement foreshad-
owed by the above dispatch may already
have been fought
The other news from the front does
not enlighten the situation in Natal.
Fragmentary details are arriving Of the
occupation of Dundee by the Beers. 1t
is alleged that 20 men Of the town
guard occupied an outpost a couple of
miles from the town when a Boer shell
dislodged them and the men fed to
neighboring hill, where 80 Beers sur
rounded them and shot the majority.
The Beers then entered Dundee, drag
ged several civilians out of their houses
and pistolled them in the streets.
AS pendant to the above comes a
story from Cape Town to the effect that
several cases of dum-dum bullets were
found by the Beers at Dundee, which
the British abandoned in their fight.
Some of the Beers wanted to use the
dum-dums in the next battle, but Presi-
pdent Kruger vetoed this, saying:
Whatever the British are, we Beers
are at 1eaHt bur ne" The bullets
were th II destroyed.
Further details from Buluwayo, Rho
desia, show that the armored train from,
there on October II, sent toward Mate
king under command of Lieutenant
Llewellyn, got within seven miles of
Lobatsi, when the British found the
railroad badly damaged. Beers were Wis
ible on hills in the vicinity. Lobatsi
had been located. The train encountered
the Beers three miles south of Crocodile
pools and the British opened fire with
their Maxims and drove the Beers back
TO the hills whence they had advanced.
Besides eight men killed the Beers lost
II horses.
Dispatchs from Sydney and Mel
\ bourne record the departure of the Au-
\stralian contingents for the war amid
wild scenes of enthusiasm.
A Dutch ambulance corps has also
STARTED from Amsterdam for Lorenzo
Marques.
Mr.. e. Jesse Cooper, of London, has
PLACED his steam yacht Sunrise at the
DISPOSAL of the government, and starts
for Soutn Africa Monday with several
women volunteer nurses and doctors.
According to special dispatch re-
ceived Mere to-day. rumors of dissen-
sion aA Bloemfontein, capital of lie
Orange Free State, have reached Cane
Town. " is said a movement is ON
foot to depose President Steyn and in
stall Mr.. Fraser as president.
The TEMPORARY cessation Of news
from the selat of war gives the news,
papers here the opportunity for retro
spective CRAFTY firstly on the sue
cess of Gen. Whites strategy in the
face of greatly superior forces in puz-
fling the Beers, preventing the juno
ton of the Orange Free State and
Transyaal armies and in a word, gain
ing time ard delaying the invasion of
Natal until the arrival of Gen. Butler
and the army dorps permits of seat
operations for the invasion of the two
republics to commence; secondly on
the bravery and daring, both of the
officers and men of the British army.
which has astounded not only their enc
mes, but the continental neighborS Of
Great Britain; thirdly on the readiness
Of the reServists to respond to the call
to arms and the smoothness, success,
swift precision and completeness of the
mobilization, which has equally
amazed the European critics who, if
they did not anticipate a disastrous
repetition of Crimean history, had not
an idea of the immense improvement
made in the organization of the COM
missiariat and fighting machinery. The
spector IF we could only bring the
militia up to the army level of disci-
pline we would be safe beyond any
conceivable danger. We cannot any
longer be contended either that educa-
tion and examinations take the pluck
and daring out of either officers or
men,"
The Chronicle raises wall over the
wording Of the Queens speech, which
It says clearly regards the wars as
Operations designed to bring revolted
colonists into submission, so that the
Dutch people who were assured by Mr..
Chamberlain that we had no designs
on their independence, are inform ID
that they are already regarded as citi-