The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-13

diminished, meat by half a pound and
probable long siege. Water, however,
was still plentiful.
The Beers fear the British bayonets
This is illustrated in the full accounts
now arriving of previous sortIes. 1t
seems that In Sir Archibald Hunters
sally from Ladysmith to capture the
Boer guns the British did not carry bay
onets While they were storming the
hill the Beers, suddenly aroused from
sleep, rushed to the edge and opened
destructive fire, but just before the Brit
lsh secured a footing on the hill, some>
one shouted: Fix bayonets, give them
cold steel" At this the Beers turned and
fed into the darkness.
The immediate need of the war Office IS
horses, but the loss in this respect has
been exceedingly heavy. Among the Of
f1cers twenty or more of their horses
have been shot under them, the Boer
tactics being first to shoot at the cf-
fcers' mounts and then at the officers
when dismounted.
Cen Gatacre's disaster at Stormberg
has been blamed for lack of knowledge
OF the country, but, according to the
Daily Telegraph, when the war began
there were no official maps available at
Cape Town and therefore, 1t is probable
that Gen. Gatacre Is still without them.
The Times, while praising Col Met
calfe's brilliant feat ct Ladysmith. ex-
presses the opinion that relief being so
near such sortie was rather perilous,
and 1t would be better for Gen. White to
avoid them so far as possible
The Morning Post again endeavors edi
torially to arouse the British people to a
realization of the serious nature of the
struggle and of the grave position in
Which matters now stand. 1t urges the
government to prepare at once to send
more troops to South Africa.
Lord Mayor Newton, the aldermen of
the city of London and other prominent
city officials will attend the memorial
service to be held in st. PauI's cathedral
for the men who have fallen in the war
LADY WILSON EXCHANGED.
A special dispatch from Lourenzo
Marques says:
"A Boer telegram from Mafeking an
nounces that Lady Sarah Wilson. aunt
of the Duke of Marlborough, who was
captured by the Beers while acting as
correspondent for the London Daily
News, has been exchanged for Boer
woman, who was a prisoner at Mafe-
| king
BRITONS CAPTURE A GUN.
The war office publishes the Following
| dispatch from Gen. Butler:
Dispatch from Gen. White, dated Dec
II, says: Last night Col Metcalf and 500
of the Second rifle brigade SERTED to
capture Boer howitzer on a hill. They
reached the crest without being discov-
cred, drove the enemy off ana then
destroyed the howitzer with gun cot
ten -
When returning, Metcalf found his re-
treat barred by the Beers, but he forced
MS way through, using the bayonet free
~. The Boer losses were considerable
Inc British losses were the following:
Lieut.. Ferguson and eleven men killed !:
three officers and forty-one men wound
ed; six men captured
HAY DEFENDS MACRIJM
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-Adelbert s. Hay.
son of Secretary Hay and consul by an
pointment to Pretoria, is among the
guests at the Holland house, waiting to-
morrow's departure of the st. Louis
for Southampton. Mr.. Hay goes to Pre-
toria in place of Consul Macrum.
There has been a tendency to exag-