Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-29
HEAVY LOSSES OF BRITISH.
Gen. Methuen's Advance Made at Great
Sacrifice Of Life.
THE MARINES SUFFERED GREAT
LY-FOR A TIME THERE WAS
FEAR THAT THE NINTH Lane
ERS HAD BEEN CAPTURED, BUT
THEY APPEAR TO HAVE ES-
CAPED-THE BRITISH AD-
VANCE COLUMN MOVING FOR
WARD IN NATAL.

Ter, giving list Of casualties among
the troops engaged in what was hith-
erto known here as the battle of Gfas
Pan, but which is now officially desig-
as anticipated, that the British success
was heavily bought. The losses an
nounced to-day added to the naval
brigade casualties previously notified,
make grand total Of 1913 as the cost
of Gen. Methuen's second battle. The
Yorkshires apparently bore with the
naval brigade the brunt of the fighting
as there were, in addition to three Off
GERS, 48 of the rank and file killed,
wounded and missing.
The fact that the list contains the
casualties of the Ninth Lancers seems
/ to dispose Of the fears that the cav
airy was surrounded and captured, es-
pecially as none of the Lancers are
reported missing.
1 Apparently the government is mon
| OpUllZluS lu6 olHSlS SdDlS WOinlAS "
South Africa, as up to two o'clock this
afternoon no news from the seat OF
war has been made public with the ex-
ception of Gen. Buffers dispatches. This
is particularly tantalizing at the pres
ent crucial moment.
Sharp fighting may be expected at
any time on the southern frontier. Pos
sibly Gen. Gatacres first battle will be
in the rough passes of the Stormberg
mountains.
1t is said that the French cabinet has
instructed the minister of war to re-
fuse all officers leave to go abroad, and
that the officers absenting themselves
in order to go to the Transvaal will do
/ so at the risk Of dismissal.
A corrected list of British casualties
at Gras Pan shows that Flag Captain
Reginald C. Prothero, of the Doris, and
Lieut.. of Marines Walter 7. c. Jones.
also of the Doris, previously reported
wounded, were killed.
The additional casualties telegraphed
by Gen. Butler appear to be the first
intimation of the acts of General
| Methuen's forces, who have not yet
been reported. AS the Ninth Lancers
participated in reconnaissance Sunday
| they must have safely returned from
| the pursuit of the Beers after the bat
| tie af Gras Pan.
A dispatch from Orange River, dated
Monday, November 27, and describing
| the battle of Endslin, says: 1.-THE Beers
successfully retreated. The Lancers at
| tempted to intercept and reached them,
| but a severe fire, opened from kopje
| (hilD, forced the Lancers to retreat.
Gen. Cronje was with the Beers.
Among the Boer prisoners are Al
derman Jeppe and Commandant Ressik,
who led the Boer force"
Gen. Forester Walker has sent the
following dispatch dated Cape Town to-
| day to the war Office:
"Kekewich reports from Kimberley,
| from November IS to November %,
some unimportant skirmishes with the
Beers. Wounded, Captain Bodley,
Lieut.. Hawker and three troopers; all
| doing well. The health of the garrison
is good and the water supply plentiful.
Native reports to Kekewich state
| that the enemy's camps to the south of
| Kimberley have been vacated and that
Cronje, with 1900 Beers, is marching
to the south. The Beers are disappear
ing from the vicinity of Kimberley. The
| enemy seemed restless.
"Later-Gatacre occupied Bushman's
Hook yesterday with a battalion of in
fantry. His main body is at Putter's
kraal. The enemy retired toward Mol
| teno."
| Gen. Buffers list of casualties shows
that among the wounded of the Second
Yorkshire light infantry were Capt c.
A. Yates, Lieut.. H. c. Fernyhough and
Lieut.. C. H. Ackroyd. The casualties
among the non-commissioned officers
and men of the various regiments en-
gagged were: Killed, 10; wounded, II;
missing, 9.
The war Office has received the fol-
lowing dispatch from Gen. Butler, dated
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, November %:
| "Our last news from Ladysmith, No
vember "a, said all well. An old mes
sage dated November 10, just arrived,
begins: 'J0ubert has explained firing
on one (Red Cross?) flag previously
reported. Have accepted explanation
as satisfactory. Lieut.. Lethbridge, rifle
brigade, died of wounds. Others wound
ed generally doing we'll. Health of
troops good. Six wounded Dublin Fus-
iliers, captured on armored train south
of Colenso, sent here to-day
ORANGE RIVER, Monday, November
27.-The British arms have achieved a
brilliant victory. The enemy, strongly
entrenched, held range of hills com
manding both sides Of the railway at
Rooi Laagte, near Gras Pan. The