The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1899-11-02
The Next Big Battle Will Likely
Be Fought in the Vicinity
of Ladysmith.
The BOERs OUTNUMBER The BRITISH.
The Former Have 1900 Men as
Against $4,000 of the Latter,
With Better ArtilIe, y.
The Delay in the Boer Attack Reported to
Be Due to the Non-Arrivai of
Commandant Gen. Jou-
berps Column.

LONDON, Oct. 3O.-The position at
Ladysmith, without being alarming, is
sufficiently dangerous to excite anx-
iety. Evidently the Beers are trying
to repeat their Dundee tactics.
Roughly estimated they have II, 900
men as against $4,000 British.
Gen. Sir George Stewart White has
the better artillery, but his is of lesser
range. The delay in the Boer attack
is reported to be due to the non-arrival
of Commandant Gen. Joubert's col
umn. This has given the British
much needed respite after their recent
exertions.
Everything, it is now considered,
hinges upon Gen. Whites resource and
judgment. Nothing is known regard
ing the progress of defensive works
for the protection of Ladysmith. The
censorship is more active than ever.
According to the Daily Chronicles
correspondent, ''the new regulations
limit the number of words allowed for
press messages to one-fourth the mum.
ber allowable before"
Farmers in the neighborhood of
Ladysmith have left their farms and
stock at the mercy of the Beers and
are congregated in the town. The two
guns the Beers have mounted are pow
ertul weapons. They are the ones
used in shelling Dundee, and 1T is a
matter of considerable surprise how
they managed to transport such heavy
pieces.
Again it is reported that President
Kruger accompanied Gen. Joubert to
the front in splendidly fitted travel
ing wagon.
The Standards correspondent at
Ladysmith telegraphing Saturday.
sends a statement that the Beers have
captured 800 mules, loss that must
seriously inconvenience British trans
port.
The wife of Gen. Jan Kock has ar
rived at Ladysnith under a flag of
truce to nurse her wounded hus sband.
All the unwounded Boer prisoners
any attempt at rescue.
The explanation of the alleged Boer
massacre at Dundee appears to be that
portion of the town guard, although
fairly warned by Gen. Yuie before his
retirement, continued to carry arms,
and 80 of them were shot before the
Beers discovered who they were.
The body of Sir William Symons
was buried without coffin, shrouded
in the union jack Among the papers
found upon him was telegram from
Lady Symons congratulating him upon
his success.
Late accounts of thetirst battle and
the evacuation of Dundee do not give
these affairs a roster hue. Owing to
the shelling of Glencoe camp the tele.
graph operators were compelled TO
scamper with numerous unforwarded
dispatches.
When the Beers entered Dundee
they indulged in general looting OF
stores but apparently did not other.
wise modest the populace.
In the first battle the Beers captured
the Maxim of the 18th hussars, but
only after the entire crew of the gun
with one exception, had been disabled.
The survivor effectually damaged
the gun. Only two officers of the staff
of Gen. Symons came Off without q
wound.
Again it is asserted the moment the
Royal Dublin Fusiliers reached the
summit Of the kopje at Glencoe the
Beers showed white flag and asked
truce to bury their dead. The Brit.
ish artillery was ordered to cease firing
and the Beers took advantage of tho
opportunity to retreat en- masse. Other
wise they would have been decimatec
by the British cannon.
The special correspondent of tn,
Daily Mail at Ladysmith, telegraph
ing Sunday, describes the arrival o
the war balloon there on Saturday
1t was welcomed, he said, with wil(
dances by the Kaffirs, who regard it a
deity. Gen. White and Gen. Sir Arch
ibald Hunter both assembled on Sunday
and reconnoitered the enemy's position
LADYsMTH, Oct. 80 The Beers ar
gradually closing around Ladysmith
They have mounted two big guns II
Tinta Ingoni $500 yards from th'
British camp. An attack is expected
Voted in Favor of Nicaragua Canal
ATLANTA, Ca, Oct 27.-The conven
ton of the Cotton States Commission
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