Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-15
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MODDER RIVER.
|,,A Forces Were Drawn Out Of
| Range Of Beer Artillery.
APE COLONY DISTURBED.
:, rake Ittie TO Cause an Up
Cen. French Tighting-Ber-
lard saysit IL a Big War

4
e,IOrd saysit Is bis WA"
"a, Dec l5.-The war office Is
n,,bout news from Ladysmith
Nan already published The gem
u.f e that the large Boer forces
,.,buen encountered at Mayors
,, we're partly drawn from Natal
W., Gen Butler will strike blow
ss,ore these have time to return
,eNspapers are calling upon the
.,.rsment to employ the cunarders
.n as the White Star steamers as
IRIS seeing the urgent necessity
.',,ipe more men to the Cape as
,.dly as possible.
r,,y thousand men could sun be
!. from England without calling up
n. militia for foreign service The
M, Effective is 100000, and from
hosy 20 900 carefully selected could
'av ne spared for South Africa.
,,soyer the colonies are again prof
,g assistance. The greatest need,
.,rtore, Is speedy transports
=, charles Warren. who arrived at
',s,oWn Yesterday, will possibly join
od Methuen and take command or
combined forces.
ne Daily Chronicle Modder river
rs,fb. which Is AT variance with all
other reports. represents Lord Me
srsns forces as retiring Tuesday on
: esmp at Modder river as the result
renewed artillery firing that day,
\, correspondent says;
tuesday forenoon the Beers brought
,,yy guns into action. The British
-gley replied. but failed to silence
IN Lord Methuen thereupon drew
forces out Of range and c0ncen-
zled at Modder river"
0Tsprs have been issued at Woolwich
pr0are another siege train 10 90
.t with the seventh division
| Nodder nyer dispatch dated on
"Wednesday. December 18th, says: Am
uances started early yesterday morn
|, under a flag OF truce to collect the
snied and bury the dead who fell
Magersfontoln. Brig, Gen. Wau-
s,pe who led the Highland brigade,
d found dead near the trenches. shot
!, ihe chest and thigh. A few wounded
ne found near the trenches, Several
o.nied Beers were taken TO the Brit
D. hospital.
| The side OF the Hill and the immedi-
e nelghborhood Of the Boer trenches
[h,Fel dead bodies all about one
rounded Boer Informed a correspon-
|stt Of the Associated Press that their
D. YES terrible The whole Scandi-
.hsdan contingent was destroyed.
Judging from information CLEANED
@.fun the B0er wounded and from pris-
5tnsH taken IN different parts Of the
{tsM, the Boer losses must exceed 100.
M destruction wrought by the naval
sls was enormous. Word was passed
Ling the Boer lines TO prepare to re-
|ifssi At nightfall. All confess that II
b, their greatest loss during the war.
The British troops have returned TO
|N3dsr river, owing TO the lack Of wa
b. near TIE position held yesterday"
| Ths war Office has received the fol-
oTing dispatch from Gen. Forester
Maker at Capetown;
| Gen French wires under date "
lfsnber 18th. reporting a sklrinlsh
y I Q'clocf In the morning with l,S00
bsfs who were advancing southwark
tsaid Naauwpoort. The sklrmishlng
|Ntilnuei all the morning, the Beers
isAilag on a front Of fourteen miles.
n. Enemy retired with loss Of forty
tled and wounded. our casualties
tFe 9le killed, seven wounded, includ-
/ ~ one officer, and two missing"
4 special dispatch received here from
Hhhen Natal dated Monday, De-
snotr llih, says that the Ladysmith
iHiNn had made a sortle and de-
|iryed the M0ddersprult bridge.
Lord Methuen's check, followed by
tiacres repulse." says the Capetown
Nne'pondent Of the Daily News, has
nae a most depressing effect upon the
A.kts who are by no means a grow
H. cody. They are filled with dark
i'oodihgs. Dutch disaffectlon is rap
|1y growing. A large section is rest
~ ana would need but little persua-
tg % join the Beers.
There are disturbing reports from
us eastern districts OF Cape Colony.
s,fe many secret meetings have been
Tie Imperial authorities are arming
~ loyal farmers in the Stutterhelm
ue helroad districts"
,staking at Unionist meeting in
n4kney London, this evening, Rear
elnlral Lord Charles Beresford said
10y be long ago told the secretary OF
-. 4e tol war Lord Lansdowne. that
|StY'eFnment was not sending enough
'.gps to the Transvaal.
Nfse endorsements TO all our aux
aanes Tor fighting" he continued,
-.s' De dispatched Immediately. and
~. SHIPS mus, be placed in commits
~ u order that Great Britain may
prepared for eventualities. The
80 are a mobile force and they have
10y modern artillery. We need more
V.kk'hflng guns.
! must say have never thought
were sending out enough men.
asa once It vas known that we had
'sad an army corps ! told Lord
s,.-lsloWne-as far back as November
-Wat he would not be sending
4 ign N the fire department, when Il
/, Moughi that four engines are needed
,T"pe with connagratlon, It Is a wise
AZ, s-n % send eight. The war office
n. .'id have acted on the same princi-
es war Is one OF the biggest upon
/, ' :. We have ever embarked. owing
'le surrounding political clrcum-
-, ,,-' 's and II necessary every mothers
sr.,t us must go 70 the front. British,
49, ana money will win, and then,
t,s eva rights for all. the British
~, must ly over the whole Of South
A. Wv York, Dec. ia dispatch to
ftiipune from London says
~, Si,s'lkefs aud pessimists have had the
~. tftr since IL WAS known that Gen,