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been proclaimed throughout Natal. A
transport has arrived with battalion
Of the Rifle Brigade.
ARRIVAL OF ARTILLERY.

chinery, has arrived with battery and
a half of field artillery.
Her sister transport, with IN equal
FORCE which has been similarly de-
iayed, Is daily expected.
UNSATISFACTORY REPORTS.
London. Oct. 2G.-The dispatches from
the front are so diversified and contra
dictory that it is difficult to outline the
situation With any degree of precision
Three or four main facts, however,
stand out prominently. General Sy-
mons's fight at Glencoe was not any
thing like the decisive victory at first
alleged, and General Yulc would pro-
badly have been annlhilatcd or met
with the same fate as the captured
HuazarS if lie had not retreatcd
General Whites artillery duel' at
Ieietfontein was - very severe engage
ment in which the rifle did great exc
cution, and where success was only
bombardment of Mafeking Inns COM
luenced, with unknown result, and the
Boers have got their Huzzar prisoners
safely to Pretoria.
Altogether the campaign Is being
pushed by the Beers so strenuo,fsly
and on such sound strategetical lines
mat the situation of the british must
in all probability give them cause for
deep anxiety for some time to come.
WITHOUT OFFICERS.
1t Is difficult to see how the concen-
trated force at Ladysmith will be able
TO take the aggressive Immediately.
Apart from the fatigue. regiments like
the Gordon Highlanders and Royal
Rifles have been practically without Of
flcers since the fights, and one hun
dred and thirty-fivc additional officers
have been ordered to leave England as
speedily as possible.
~ REPORT CONTRADICTED.
London, Oct. -2G.-In the House OF
Commons to-day Mr.. Wyndham,. the
Parliamentary Secretary OF the War
Irish Nationalist, declared that the
British troops were not using expand
Ing bullets, and had no such bullets.
FRIDAYS FIGHT AT DUNDEE.
London, Oct. PA batch of delayed
dispatches arrived here this morning
via Lourenzo. NlarquiZ. They are as
follows:
Pretoria. Oct. 2t-Tridays fight ut
Dundee started at five in the morning
and lasted until two In the afternoon.
The Burghers, under General Lucas
Meyer, took up q strong position, but
were compelled to retire to their larger
after capturing a Maxim. The fight
Ing WAS resumed at ten this morning
in the neighborhood OF Glencoe and
gagged. The firing was distinctly heard
at Dannhauser."
PROCLAMATION TO BASUTOS.
Pretoria, October 81 = President
Steyn, of the Orange Free State, has
issued n proclamation to the Basuto ma
ton, explaining the reasons for the war,
and also stating that I5oer forces have
been placed near the Basutoland Dor
der. He makes known that the republic
is at peace with the Basutos and wishes
to continue so, adding that no injury
will be done TO Basutos remaining quiet
and not assisting the British"
MANY BRITISH PRISONERS.
Pretoria. October 22.-The British
prisoners captured Friday near Dun
dee were entrained at Dannhauser
They filled zen trucks. The officers trav-
elcd first GLASS and n separate van was
provided for two wounded officers.
An enormous crowd assembled at the
station here to witness their arrival
but there was no demonstration. When
they alighted the prisoners were receiv-
ed with funereal silence upon the part
OF the crowd. The greatest order and
itifp titty wrre IT II
versing the streets. The wounded were
taken to q hospital, While the other Of
ficers and men were marched to the
race course, escorted by mounted
Burghers, and were encamped on the
spot where Jameson's troopers were
confined. The officers Hieutenant Colo
mel Moller, Major Grevilfc and Captain
Pollock of the Eighteenth HuzZars,
and Captain Lonsdals, Lieutenant Lee
Mesurier, Lieutenant Garvlce, Lieu
tenant Grlmshaw. Lieutenant Majendie
and Lieutenant Shore, Of the Dublin
Fusileers) looked in good health. They
are quartered in n building apart from
the men. On giving their parole they
will be allowed the freedom of the
whole enclosure. The men appear in
different and spend most of their time
smoking. They sleep on the grand
stand"
THE RIETFONTEIN FIGHT.
Details of the fighting at Rietfontein
are coming in slowly. a special dis
gath. filed after the fight, says:
"On discovery that the Boers were
masscd ITO the westward OF the main
road to Dundee an attempt was made
by train to recover the body OF Col
onel Scott Chisholme, killed at Glands
laagte: The train was fired upon and
Obliged to retire and General White
moved out to attack the Beers, believed
10 be Free Staters. who should have
Joined the Transvaalers at Glands
iaggtc. General White commanded
personally. The Fifth Lancers were
placed on either flank. They first came
in touch with the Boers below Mod
derspruit. where $500 Burghers occu-
pied n strong ridge, whence they open
ed fire at 1.200 yards. hitting several
OF the British. In the meantime, the
Erders and Natal Carbineers advanced
unscathed through an opening in the
ridge under the fire of Boer gun,
while the Imperial Light Horse took
part of the crest of the ridge, the Boee;
retiring. At about nine, however a
Boer gun stationed on the crest Of
Matawanasliop opened fire. With great
accuracy on the British force, which