The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-11-04
THREE BOER COLUMNS CLOSING
ON THE CITY.
Big Battle Should Have Taken Place
October 29th-Boers Repulsed Before
Kimberly-Rhodes Views Fight

the Tribune from London says; The
center of interest has been shifted from
Natal to Kimberly and in lesser de-
gree farther north, where the border of |
the Transvaal merges with Rhodesia.
The Kimberly garrison has made a |
brilliant sOrtie, under COlOnels ScCtt- !
Turner and Murray. As in the Natal |
battles an artillery duel was followed |
by a charge with bayonets in which the |
men of the Royal North Lancashire |
regiment distinguished themselves as /
notably as the Gordons, Kings Royal |
Rifles and Irish Fusileers did at Glencoe |
and Glands Laagte. At trining cost to |
this garrison a considerable Boer force |
was swept away with the loss of many |
men, including their leader Comman-
der Botha.
Thus, whatever lies in reserve for the |
town, cut off from the military base |
and surrounded by the enemy in over |
whelming strength, Kimberly was still |
holding ont last Tuesday. Th egarrison |
was In excellent spirits, and various
ladies, including Lady Sarah Churchill, |
aunt by marriage of the Duchess of |
Marlborough, We're working Cheerfully |
as nurses. There was even gossip about !
a wedding in the camp.
From Rhodesia it is reported that the |
Beers twice crossed LimpopO river
during the last week. Their object is, |
no doubt, to defeat or occupy Colonel |
Plumer, and so prevent his advance to
the relief of Mafeking There was a
sharp skirnish near Tuli and the Beers
retreated.
Boer messages received at LorenzoI
Marques and the remarks of their pris-
oners imply an admission of serious and
unlooked-fOr reverses. Everything that
can be CLEANED from various sources
makes il plain that the hospitals of
Johannesburg and elsewhere in the
TransVaal are being severely strained
to accommodate the large numbers of
Boer wounded. Nevertheless, until it'll
is known that General White has struck
decisive blow in Natal and that Kim
berley and Mafeking have been relieved
or else abandoned by their assailants
uneasiness here must continue.
1t is presumed in Natal that the Beers
are reconstructing their plans and that
the English are resting, but kilograms
from Ladysmith at express rates still
occupy forty eight hours in transmits
sion to London. and therefore it is not
| impossible that something is happen
ing.
1t is asserted that Colonel Baden
PoWeiL, the British commander at Mafe-
king, is aware that Pretoria has given
General CrOnje orders to stay his hand.
as already there is quite enough to EN-
ploy the Beers in Natal
NEW YORK, October 27.-A special
to the Journal from Cape Town says:
The meeting of the British and Beers
in decisive battle viii probably come
sunday. The battle-ground will be in
British territory, and the Beers will be
the attacking force. Three columns OF
Beers are now advancing upon Lady
smith. One column of the Transvaal
soldiers under General JOubert is des-
Cending from Glencoe by Waschbank
| Vessels Mex and Glands Laagte, and a
second column, also of the Transvaal
/ troops, is moving southwark from Dun
/ dee, taking the road by which General
| Yule escaped in the night.
/ The first column is at Vessels Mex
/ only five miles north of Glands Laagte.
/ The second column, after taking pro-
/ visions from stores at Dundee. advan-
ced to Beth and looted the stores at
that place, but used no violence against
any person. These two columns may
join. They are approaching Ladysmith
| from the northeast.
The third column, composed of
! Orange Free State men, is moving
along the Harrismith road, pointing at
Ladysmith from the northwest. This
force has passed Besters and Walkers
Hoch Station and is within ten miles
of Ladysmith.
The purpose evidently is to close i'm
upon Ladysmith from the north, and,
though no direct information of any
line of communication between the
TTansvaal columns and the Orange
Free State column is contained in mes
sages received here from correspond
ents at the front yet the precision of
the movements of the Boer forces indi-
Gates that one head is directing the ad-
vance of the three columns.
Scouts report that General JOubert is
unexpectedly strong in artillery. While
tack, General White is receiving rein
forcements from Durham and Pieter-
| maritZburg. His force at Ladysmith is
now about $4,000 men, including the
men of General Yule's command that
retired from Dundee.
The British wounded left at Dundee
by General Yule when he withdrew in
haste are reported as receiving good
care from the Beers, whose surgeons
are attending them,
LONDON, October 2S.-News from
the front does not enlighten the situa-
ton in Natal. F'ragmentary details are
arriving of the occupation of Dundee
by the Beers. 1t is alleged that twenty
men of the town guard occupied an out.
post a couple of miles from the town
when a Boer shell dislodged them and
the men fled to a neighbOring hill,
where 300 Beers surrounded them and
shot the majority. The Beers then en-
tered Dundee, dragged several civilians
ont Of their houses and pistoIcd them IN
the streets.
As a pendant to the above is a story
from Cape Town TO the effect that sew
eTal cases of dumdum bullets were
found by the Beers at Dundee, which
the British abandoned in their flight
Some of the Beers wanted to use the
dumdum bullets, but President Kruger
vetoed this, saying:
no, it must not be so. Whatever Ia,
British are, We Beers are at least hu-
name"
The bullets We're then destroyed.
Dispatches from sydney and Mel
bourne record the departure of the
Australian Coutingents for the wal
Z amid wild scenes of enthusiasm
Dutch ambulance corps has also starteC
from Amsterdam tu" Lorenzo Mar
queS.
NEW LIVERY.
Stylish livery rigs at the new Kinl