The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-04

LONDON, Nov 3-The Daily Mail pub
fishes the following dispatch from Lady
smith:
Matters today are quiet. The Beers
are apparently mounting more heavy
guns to the north and northeast, which
are likely to give us trouble. Boer
contingent, 1900 strong, and clearly Vls-
ible from the camp, is streaming away 10
the south The inhabitants Of Ladysmlth
continue to leave the town"
The Cape Town correspondent Of the
Daily Chronicle says:
There is not the slightest indication
here of Afrikander disloyalty.
GEN. WHITES CLOSE CALL.
There is very little fresh intelligence to-
day. but 1t is believed that the Delagoa
bav route, if not already restored, speed
lily will be, thus giving quicker communl-
cation with the Cape. The situation IS
sltll hopeful
The accounts that continue to arrive re-
garding the fighting on Farquhar's Farm
onlv confirm its serious nature, and the
narrow. escape Gen. White had. On this
point the Morning Post remarks:
Nothing tells such a tale of battle as
the list of the missing. When the missing
exceed the killed, it is almost safe TO
write defeat across the story, because
.'missing'. means abandonment or sur
render
II now appears as if it were only the
arrival of the naval contingent from the
Powerful which prevented worse as
aster. It seems that when 1t was seen
that retirement was imperative, TWO Nd
tai cavalrymen volunteered to convey
disnatch across the Boer lines to Maj
Adye, ordering him to retire, but the FISK
was considered too great, and flag signal
Ing was employed instead The distance
was too great and the ground too rough
for cavalry to so to his assistance
According to dispatches filed on Tues
day. defensive works were being con-
structed on the hills around Ladysmith,
and it was expected there that the Dig
nava! guns would be mounted the follow
Ing day. The Beers were threatening to
attack the town in force on Wednesday
and Thursday, and the women and chill
dren and other non-combatants were be-
ing sent by train to the South. Lady
smith is provisioned for two months
A dispatch from Colesburg, dated Nov.
/ announces that six police who We're sta
toned at Colesburg Bridge were sur
rounded and captured. This is probably
the origin of the story that the Beers had
occupied Colesburg.
Paris and Berlin continue to supply
statements of British reverses, the latest
being that Mafeking has fallen. The
Paris correspondent of the Daily News as
serts that since the war began the Boer
secret service fund has increased to $0,-
900 monthly, and that pro-Boer journalists
are bribed wholesale. None of these ru-
mors is yet confirmed, and little attention
is paid to them.
BOERS GET GOOD TIPS.
The Standard publishes dispatch from
Luxemburg, which says:
Until within a very few days DR..
Leyds has been in teIegraphic communi-
cation with Pretoria, through an Indirect
" diplomatic channel, by means of which
he has been able to inform the Transvaal
Of the supposed British plan to advance
upon the Orange Free State With a view
of anticipating this move the Beers will
endeavor to capture or isolate Ladysmith
and then to press on to Durham, where
they would be able to prevent a British
dekarkation while the main BOer army
would hastily retrace steps to defend the
line of the Orange river"
At Plymouth it is rumored that the
channel squadron will be ordered to the
Cape where a great naval force is to
be collected with a view of establishing
a Gordon from the mouth of the Orange
river to Delagoa bay, to prevent the land
ing of supplies for the Boer army. and
with view also, if necessary, of land
ing guns to assist the British forces
LOSSES AT FARQUHARs.
The list of casualties among the non
commissioned officers and men at Far
Quhar's farm shows the Gloucesters lost
30 killed and 43 wounded; the fusileers Il
killed and Al wounded, and the Tenth
mountain battery 2 wounded before they
surrendered. The captured, who are
given under the head of missing, are di-
vided as follows: Gloucesters, 19 officers
and $50 men; Tenth mountain battery
officers and 81 men; fusileers, not yet re-
ported.
The Royal Irish fusileers, No. 10 noun.
tain battery, is what is called in the Brit.
ish army a mule battery, because ami.
mails of this class supply the motive pow.
er for the light guns which are carried ii
this branch of the service. The title un
der which the regiment now operates is
one given a few years ago, when the ter.
ritorial organization of the queens forces
was effected. Different battalions NJ
@OSAAAAOAASS "SAC oCiAI " COIOllldl posses
sions controlled by the crown and there
reorganized.
. The First battalion of the regiment il
question prior to this territorial organiza.
ton was the Eighty-seventh regiment in.
fantry, or foot regiment, as designated by
Victorias army officers. The Second bat.
talon was part of the old Eighty-seventt
regiment, foot. The regimental district