Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1899-12-21

TAKEN BN BULLER.
Reported TO Have Captured 10000
Beers.

Beers.
London. Dec. 16.-A special dispatch
from Pietermaritzburg says Generals
Butler and Clery have entered Lady
smith and have captured 10000 Beers.
The war office is still without news
from Ladysmith other than that al
ready published. The general belief
is that the large Boer forces Lord
Methuen encountered at Magersfontein
were partly draNr from Natal and
that Gen Butler will strike blow be-
fore they have time to return.
The newspapers are calling upon the
government to employ the CunarderS
as we'll as the White Star liners as
transports, seeing the urgent need of
getting men to the Cape as speedily
as possible. Forty thousand men could
still be sent from England without
calling upon the militia for service.
That body contains 100000. and from
this body 10000 carefully selected
could be spared for South Africa.
Moreover the colonies are again Offer
ing assistance. The greatest need,
therefore is speedy transports.
| Sir Charles Warren, who arrived at
Cape Town yesterday will possibly
| join Lord Methuen and take command
of the combined forces. A Chronicles
MoGder River dispatch, which is at
variance with all other accounts, re
ports Lord Methuen's force as retiring
on Alodder River as the result of more
artillery firing during the day. Or
ders have been issued ut Woolwich to
prepare another siege train to go out
| with the Seventh division.
Boer Loss Exceeds 700.
Modder River. Dec. 16.-Ambulances
started early yesterday morning under
a flag of truce to collect the wounded
and bury the dead who fella Mayors
fontein. Brig. Gen. Wauchepe, who
led the Highland brigade, was found
dead near the trenches, shot in the
chest and thigh. A few wounded were
found near the trenches. Several
wounded Beers were taken to the Brit
ish hospital. The side of the hill and
the INN cdiate neighborhood of the
Boer trenches showed dead bodies all
about. One wounded Boer Informed
correspondent of the Associated Press
that their loss was terrible. The whole
Scandinavian corps was destroyed.
Judging from information gathered
from the Boer wounded and from pris-
| OuC1S ldheu Nl1CIGul pil1lo VI IIC
field the Boer loss must exceed 700.
The destruction wrought by the navy
guns W as enormous. Word was passed
treat at nightfall. All confess that it
was their greatest loss during the war.
The British troops have returned to
Modder River owing to the lack Of
water near the position held yesterday.
Beers Forced Back.
London, Dec. 1G.-The war office has
received the following from Gen. For
estier-Walker at Cape Town: Gen.
French wires. under date of Dec. 10,
reporting a skirmsh at 4 o'clock in
were advancing southwark toward
Nauawpoort. The skirmishing CON
tinued all the morning, the Beers fight
ing on front of fourteen miles. The
enemy retired with a loss of forty
killed and wounded Our casualties
were one killed, seven wounded, in
Guiding one officer, and two missing"
Bad Effect on COlOnists.
London, Dec. 16.-"Metheun's check,
following Gatacre's reverse says the
Cape Town correspondent of the Daily
News, 'has had bad effect upon the
colonists, which are by no means q
growing body. The reverses has
stirred up the Dutch. Many secret
meetings have been held. The impe-
rial authorities are arming the loyal
farmers in the Stutterheim and Ker-
road districts"
| Churchill Escapes.
LourenZo MarqneZ, Dec. 49, = Win
ston Churchill, the newspaper CORE.
spondent and former officer Of the
Fourth hussars who was captured at
the time of the armored train disaster
near Esrcourt, Nov. 49, has escaped
from Pretoria.