The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-30

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| sufficiently dangerous to excite anxiety.
Evidently the Beers are trying to re-
peat their Dundee tactics, Roughly es>
timated they have 1900 men as against
Il, 900 British. =
| General Sir George Stewart White
has the better artillery, but his is of
| lesser range. The delay in the Boer
attack is reported to be due to the non
arrival Of Commandant General Jou-
bert's column. This has given the Brit
ish a much needed respite after their
recent exertions
| Everything, it Is now considered
hinges on General Whites resource and
Judgment. Nothing is known regard
ing the progress of defensive works for
the protection of Ladysmith
| The censorship is more active than
ever. According to the Daily Chroni-
cle's correspondent. "the new regula-
tions limit the number of words allowed
for press messages to one-fourth the
I number allowable before"
| Farmers in the neighborhood of Lady
smith have left their farms and stock
/ at the mercy Of the Beers and are con-
gregated in the town. Two guns the
| Beers have mounted are powerful
weapons. They are the ones used in
shelling Dundee and it is MATER of
considerable surprise how they man
aged to use such pieces.
Again it Is reported that President
Kruger accompanied General Joubert 10
the front in a splendidly fitted travelling
| wagon.
| The Standards correspondent at
Ladysmith. telegraphins Saturday
! sends q statement that the Beers have
captured 1,500 mules. a loss that must
| seriously Inconvenience British trans
| portation.
The attempt of the Beers to cut the
| railroad at Peters was frustrated by
British cavalry. -
The wife Of General Jankeck has ar
rived at Ladysmith under a flag Of truce
to nurse her wounded husband.
All the unwounded Boer prisoners
have been sent to Durham to prevent
any attempt at rescue. The explana-
ton of the alleged Boer massacre at
Dundee appears to be that portion
of the town guard, althougn larry
warned by General Yule before his re-
tirement, continued to carry arms and
80 of them were shot before the Beers
discovered who they were.
The body Of General Symons was
buried without coffin. shrouded in the
| union jack Among the papers found
on him was telegram from Lady
Symon congratulating him upon MS
success.
Later accounts of the first battle and
the evacuation of Dundee do not give
those affairs roster hue. Owing to
the shellng of Glencoe camp, the tele-
graph operators We're compelled to
scamper with numerous unforwarded
dispatches
When the Beers entered the Dun
dee they indulged in general looting OF
stores, but apparently did not other
wise molest the populace.
In the first battle the Beers captured
the Maxim Of the 18th Hussars, but
only after the entire crew of the gun.
with one exception, had been disabled.
The survivor effectually damaged the
gun. Only two officers of the staff of
General Symons came off without Il
wound.
Again 1t is asserted that the mo-
ment the Royal Dublin fusilers reach
ed the summit Of the kopje at Glen
coe, the Beers showed a white flag
and asked truce to bury their dead.
The British artillery was ordered to
cease firing and the Beers took advan-
tage of the opportunity to retreat en-
masse. Otherwise they would have
been decimated by the British can
non.
The special correspondent of the
Daily Mail at Ladysmith. telegraphins
Sunday, describes the arrival of the
war balloon there on Saturday. 1t
was welcomed, he said. with wild
dances by the Kaffirs, who regard it
as a deity General White and Cen
eral Archibald Hunter both reconnoit-
cred the enemy's position.
According to the latest reports from
Cape Town, General Joubert has ioin-
ed hands with the Free State forces
and there has been some outpost
fighting. President Kruger has arriv-
ed at Glencoe.
Cecil Rhodes has mounted and fully
equipped town guard of 400 men at
a cost Of G15,000.
The Durham correspondent of the
Daily Mail says:
"It is reported by the British resi-
dents in Pondoland that the Pondos
are in constant communication with
Durham and that they are anxious to
help. The household guard, it is an
nounced, have received orders to form
a composite regiment for South Afri-
ca, including the first life guards,
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Lockhard COM
manding, quartered at Windsor, and
detachments of the second life guards,
Colonel Thearlof- -Bundon commanding,
and the royal horse guards, Lieutenant
Colonel Brocklenhurst commanding.
The medical examination was begun
yesterday and 1t is expected that the
regiment will embark in about a week.
Emperor William wired a farewell
message to the royal dragons. of
which regiment he is honorary colonel,
saying:
May you all return unscathed and
WE'LL"
The Standard voices the general anx-
lety regarding Sir George Whites po-
sition by rema rking the adaptability
and able strategy of the Boers,s for
whlch they had hitherto not been given
credit. 1t goes on to say:
fheir strategy is so well planned
that 1t is impossible to doubt that it