The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-10-31
JOUBERT and TIE BOERS
ADVANCE SUCCESSFULLY AGAINs
GLENCOE.
British Successful at Glands Laagte.
Battle Field Extended for Miles-Brit-
ish General Yule in Tight Fix.

LONDON. October 24.-The Daily
Telegraph has received the following
from Ladysmith, dated, sunday, at 2:3O
p. m: The Beers, reported to be 5000
strong and under the command of Com
mandant-General Joubert and Pres-
dent Kruger in person, are again to-
day attacking Glencoe, General Yule,
commanding our troops, has moved his
camp back into better defensive posi-
| ton
LONDON, October 2S.-The Daily
News publishes the following dispatch
from Ladysmith, dated Sunday night:
A large force under COMMANDING Gen
eral Joubert and Commander Nogan
opened fire on Dundee yesterday. The
firing was continued today. The re-
suit is not known here.
Lord Woseley sums up the position
in Natal early this morning as follows:
| In the battle of Glands Laagte, 100
| Der 2lst two guns were captured from
| the Beers, who lost heavily.
a large column of the enemy ap-
| peared advancing from the northwest
| on General Yule, who consequently had
/ fallen back from Dundee and was con-
| centrating at Glencoe junction. In this
| operation we gathered in the wounded
and medical attendants left at Dundee.
| General White was in position at
| Ladysmith and is being re-enforced
| from Pietermaritzburg.
1.-The enemy appears to be in large
| numerical superiority
/ The War Office received the following
! dispatch from General George Stewart
| White, commander in Natal, dated at
Ladysmith Camp, 4:45 p. m. today:
/ General Yule telegraphed me yester-
| day evening that the wounded at Dun
/ dee We're doing we'll" This greatly re-
/ lieves the anxiety regarding Glencoe,
! as the British there had evidently not
been attacked up to last evening.
General Yule evidently is in a tight
corner as he now has or had to face
/ the main Boer army under General Jou-
! oert. General Sir George Stewart
| White, the British commander-in-ch chief
I in Natal, will undoubtedly detach part
of the force which was victorious at
4 GLANDS Laagte to his assistance. Such
| a detachment, however, will leave La
dysmith poorly protected against the
threatened attack from the west, as
General Hunter on Saturday wired that
/ the departure of the force to Glands
Laagte left him with only a couple of
battaliOns of regulars, a mountain bat
/ terry and 500 Natal volunteers to defend
/ the town, which is the British military
base in North Natal. Further news,
therefore, is anXiously awaited.
CAPE TOWN, October 20, afternoon.
!
to the effect that the Boer disaster at
Glands Laagte staggered the Beers
completely, rendering the attack upon
Dundee feeble. Therefore there is no
cause for anxiety.
LONDON, October 24.-The Daily
Mail publishes the following descrip-
| ton of the battle of Glands Laagte from
it's special war correspondent, G. w.
! Stevens filed at Ladysmth: 1.-The
| ha hril -
! The Beers numbered from 1900 to 2000
and probably had about 100 killed and
$50 wounded. The fight itself was like
a practical Illustration of hand book
tactics, each arm represented doing its
proper work to perfection. The Gordon
Highlanders in their attack, advanced
in magnificent order. They were i'm
mediately saluted with a heavy fire,
which told from the first
Their Major fell with a bullet in his
leg but as he lay where he fell he lit a
pipe and smoked placidly while the ad-
vance continued. AS man after man
dropped, supports were rushed into the
firing line, our men darling from cover
to cover, splenddly led and ever adj
vancing. As ridge after ridge was won
the Highlanders still found a new ridge
confronting them, and thus they fough'
their bleeding way until the final ridge
was neared, with nearly every officer
down.
Then, slamming every available man
into the firing line, Manchester, Devons
and Light Horse all mixed, with bugles
chanting to advance, bagpipes shrek
ing and the battle a confused surge, Oul
men swept yelling forward and the
position was won. Meanwhile squad
rons of Lancers and Dragons Tapped
round the Boer left flank, catching the
enemy as they retired in order, goring
and stamping them to pieces, and the
commander was not"