Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-10-24
SITUATION IN NATAL
The Two Armies Treat Wounded
Prisoners Humanely and Will
Exchange Prisoners.
new YORK WORLD WHOOPS
General White Fought Successfully Today
and Is Expected to Make Junction
Today with General Yule's
Forces.

London, October 24-News received
direct from Colonel Baden-Powell, dat
ed at Mafeking October Is, confirms the
statement that i'll the armored train
fight the British had two men killed and
fifteen wounded, including Lieutenant
Lord Charles Bentrick, of the 9th
lancers. The Beer loss was estimated at
flfty-three killed and many wounded.
Latest advlces from Kimberley, dated
October 21, say large Boer forces in the
neigfhborhood destroyed big sections of
the railroad line north and south of
town. Many fugitives from neghboring
villages have been imprisoned by Beers
and released. The released prisoners re-
port they Were we'll treated. According
to runners who arrived at Kimberly
from Kuruman, British Bechuanaland
the natives have promised to remain
quiescent.
A dispatch from Pretoria indicates
that the Rhodesians under Colonel
Plummer, at Fort Tuli, on the Trans
vaal border, attacked the Boer patrol
at Rhodes Drift, but apparently not
much damage was done by either side.
The British military authorities hope
to have wireless telegraphy in opera
ton in South Africa within three weeks.
Berlin, October 24-Telegrams from
Brussels announce that in the Trans
vaal legation circles it is stated that
France and Russia will not permit the
annexation of the Transvaal and the
Orange Free State to England.
New York, October PA dispatch to
the World from London says: The min
isters and their supporters are now
realizing they have plunged into war
with reckless haste. The queens mes
sages, in which she speaks of dearly
bought victories" and dreadful loss of
life indicate with plainness what she
has never before permitted herself to
indulge in under like circumstances, her
disapproval of war. The British forces
in Natal have already lost nearly 500
mem in three days of fighting. The Cor
don Highlanders lost only one officer
and five men killed in the famous at
tack on Dargai heights, in the Afridi
campaign. while at Elandslaagte they
had four officers killed, nine wounded
and twenty men killed and thirty three
wounded. The Beers distinguish and
shoot the officers by reason of their car
rying no rifles, their uniform being the
same as that of the men. A squadron
Of hussarS and a section Of mounted in
fantry which pursued the Beers after
the first fight at Glencoe last Friday are
still missing. A prolongation of the war
beyond British expectation Is now re-
garded as certain"
London, October A.-The parliament
airy secretary of the war office, George
Wyndlham, in the house of commons, to-
day announced that Field Marshal Lord
Wolseley sums up the situation in Natal
to-day as follows:
General Yule has fallen back to eff
feet a junction with Sir George Stewart
White. He camped yesterday evening
about sixteen miles south of Dundee,
without seeing anything of the enemy
during the march, and 1t has since been
reported that 'all is we'll on the Wasch-
bank river
General White fought a successful
action with the Orange Free State force
to-day on the road between Ladysmith
and New Castle, and should join hands
with General Yule this evening Gener-
al Yule reports his wounded doing we'll.
The Boer wounded on our hands are
treated just as our own. have every
reason to believe the Beers will treat
any of our wounded in their hands in
similarly humane manner"
WynIdham added: II may remind the
house THAT the Transvaal is party to the
Geneva convention"
Lord Wolseley further adds: IT have
also received from General Walder at
Cape Town the following message:
Last message from Kimberly, October
%, p. M, reports all WE'LL"
Replying to a question as to what ar
rangements have been made to employ
civilian doctors to assist in the care of
the wounded in South Africa, Mr..
Wyndham said he was glad to take the
opportunity Of announcing that Sir Will
liam McCormac, the distinguished pres
ident of the Royal College of Surgeons,
had intimated a readiness to accom-
pany General Sir Redvers Buffers force
and place his great skill at the disposal
of the army medical authorities. Mr.
Wyndham said: 1--WE have not hesitated
to accept this patriotic offer"
A courteous note reached Colonel Ba-
dem Powell from General Cronje, the
Boer commander, offering Facilities for
the Interchange of wounded prisoners.
This indicates that when the Beers
fired on an ambulance train attempting
to pick up the dead they did SO by mis-
take.
A native rumOr says Colonel Plumer
at Tuh engaged and defeated a force Of
Beers.
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