Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-10-19
BOERS AND BRITONS
The English Have to Do Considerable
Guessing About the Intentions
Of the Enemy.
MAFEKING SIEGE A MYSTERY
Natives Complain That the Beers Rob
Them Command That Whipped the
Jameson Raiders the Flower of
the Army.

Ladysmith, Oct. 1s. delayed in trans
mission.)-A cavalry patrol below Tint
wa pass had brush with the enemy
yesterday evening. The Beers opened
with artil'ary, but retreated Oh the ad
vance of the 5th lancers.
| Cape Town, Oct. ia dispatch from
Kimberly dated October II, says: SAN
well here, Colonel Hore engaged the
Beers at Mafeking October IA, with
great success. Mafeking was still safe
October 15." A special to the Cape Ar
gus reiterates the statement that in
| lighting Mafeking Col. Hore repulsed
the Beers, intlicting loss Of 200 men.
The Cape Times publishes the follow
ing dispatch from Kimberly: Reliable
information from Mafeking says an ar
mored train accommodating north of the
town Saturday, engaged 500 Beers who
suffered heavily. Colonel Fitzclarence s
column followed the Beers, inficting se-
we're loss. The British casualties were
two killed, IA wounded.
Cape Town, October 19.-Complaints
Of Boer outrages upon natives continue
to arrive. These serve to further inflame
the Basutos and Zulus. Yesterday 15O
Basutos from johannesburg arrived at
Burghersdorp Cape Colony, and alleged
that the Beers robbed them by the
wholesale and fogged them with black
snakes.
Durham, Natal, October 18.-(Delayed
in transmission 1.-The following Off
cial note has been issued regarding the
Boer advance: "The Orange Free State
force, with a few guns, has moved
about ten miles down the Tintwas pass.
opening with artillery on some British
cavalry patrols. The range was very
distant and the shooting Indifferent.
The object may have been either
feint to draw our troops from the real
point of attack, or prelude to a Boer
concentration against Ladysmith.
Cape Town, October 19.-There is an
incessant procession Of applicants for
active military service, and the new
force of 5000 mounted infantry which
the imperial government sanctioned
will be quickly raised.
Premier Schreiner continues to issue
circulars to Dutch residents advising
them to maintain strict loyalty to the
imperial government The best author
tiles agree that the danger Of general
revolt is slight.
London, October 19.-Natal again
claims share of the attention which
n nj fba 10 Jlox hae hao fo
cused upon the beleaguered garrison at
Mafeking. The combined advance of
the Boer forces on positions held by the
British general commanding in Natal,
Sir George Stewart White, has already
occasioned sharp affairs at the outposts,
which has possibly since developed into
pitched battle. The Beers, according
to the latest Information, do not appear
to have been driven back. Perhaps,
however, their movements are only
part Of the general plan to isolate both
Ladysmith and Glencoe from the south.
Simultaneous Boer movements from
Acton on the west and Rorke's drift on
the Helpmakaar on the east may indi-
cate projected attack upon the rail-
way below Colenso. The movement
from the east also suggests an attack
on the railway at Waschbank, between
Ladysmith and Glencoe.
Military experts are inclined to the
opinion that the troops at Glencoe are
only to form rear guard left to attack
the force under Commandant General
Joubert while General Whites full
strength Is concentrated at Ladysmith
with view to attacking the Orange
Free State force while General Joubert
is still forty miles away.
Stories of British successes in the
Mafeking district are so persistent that
in the absence Of contradiction from
Boer sources they may be accepted as
true in many cases, although the al
legged killing Of 800 Beers is discredited.
General Cronjes' forces are regarded
as the flower of the Transvaal forces,
and decisive fighting must occur on the
| western border
A dispatch from Pretoria asserts that
the Transvaal government cabled Jo-
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i sepn -. ~. m 'anS oha irrna ~ of tho south
NINE OWNER anu o'anan n =. JIG $50, ~
AFRICAN BANKING company nov III
London, to return to Johannesburg on
pain of confiscation Of his property.
Robinson characterizes the alleged
threat ridiculous.
London, Oct. 19.-Almost everything
is in readiness lor the departure OF o,ooU
troops from southampton LOT oouth
Africa tomorrow IN hve transports.