Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-11

| LoNpoN, Nov lit is said that
General Butler never expected to com.
launce the campaign i'll South Africa be-
! fee C-iri,U Umas. and it now looks Us
| thou: n this viii be the case. Certainly
| no artillery can reach Durbln before
| Nov. IL, and, without additional guns,
| an advance from Estcourt would be i'm.
| possible. No doubt, as Lord Salisbury
| said III a recent speech, England will
''muddle through it, and yet another
illustration of muddling has become ap-
parent ill the fact that gunnery instruc.
tors have only just arrived at Wooiwich
arsenal for instructions i'll siege-uain
duties. Although hurried preparations
are being made TO prepare the siege
| trains, the fact that the men are at Dew
enport and the guns at Woolwich seems
TO show that the idea of the siege train
was quite an afterthought.
The Morning Post says:
"What will come of such muddhng,
if we ever come to fighting foe able to
turn TO advantage? some radical reforms
| rangements.
the British guns do not reply to the Boer
artillery because the concrete beds for
the guns have not yet hardened is inter-
preted Ill some quarters to mean simply
that the British are outstanding their
ammunition, as the Boer fire is only u
trick to get the British to waste shells.
Among the few items that have ar
rived from the Cape is one saying that
| hills surrounding Jadysmith. All the
correspondents in the beleaguered town
are safe and anxious to reopen commu-
nicatiOn.
A gentleman who visited Nicholson's 8
Mex after the engagement counted 90
in killed and 10 wounded.
The latest advices from Kimberley,
dated Nov. 2, say that all was well
there then. An explosion had been
heard and the supposition was that the
Beers had blown up the railway Gull
vert south of Dronfeld.
LONDON, Nov. 1.-THE British war
Office received from General Butler the
following dispatch:
''Cape Town, Thursday evening, Nov.
9@rHave received by pigeon post from
General White today the following:
1.-the bombardment at long range
by heavy guns continues daily. A few
casualties are occurring, but no serious
harm is being done.
"'The Beers sent in today number
of refugees from the Transvaal under
flag of truth. a flag of truce from
Lady smith met them outside the pickets.
When the party separated the Boer
guns fired on it before it reached our
pickets.
Major Gale, of the Royal engineers
was wounded today while sending a
message.
"sThe entertainments are daily grow
ing strong and the supply of provisions
is ample.
The war Office issued the following:
"From Butler, Cape Town, 12:40
p. NJ, by message from Buluwayo dated
Nov 3.-A small convoy and escort un-
der Spreckiey of Phmer's force was at
tackled by Beers Nov. 2. Six men miss
ing and lost convoy"
The war Office also issued the follow
ing: "A report having appeared in the
South African papers that our artillery
fired oil the Geneva flag General Butler
telegraphs tho following account of the
incident given The Standard and Dig.
gers News by the Rev. Mr.. Martens, q
Dutch clergyman with che Beers: 'Di-
rectly after the first cannon shot the
English thought our men were at the
railway station and fired there. They
were not, but one of the shots went
through an ambulance. As soon as they
found their mistake they ceased firing
THE ambulance, in accordance with
the usages, should have been three miles
from the field OF battle, so the ambu-
lance cannot claim the English broke
the usages of civilized warfare. but I
do not think the English would have
fred on them had they known this. 1t
was tlninteptiOnal -