The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-28
FRENCH WARsHIPs SAIL FOR DEL
AGOA BAY UNDER SEALED Or .
DERS FROM TOULON
RUSSIAN SHIPS TO FOLLOW
INTERNATIONAL COMPLICATIONS IN
ZEN THE HORIZON
FRENCH NAVY GROWS ACTIVE

Five Cruisers at Port of Athens In
structed to Prepare to Go to the
CaDe-Forces I'm Natal Resting on
Their Arms-Fighting in the Vi
cinity of Kimberley Disastrous to
the Boers-ParIiament PrOrOgued.
PARIS, Oct. PA dispatch to the Petit
Journal from Toulon says:
Two of the fastest cruisers have been
ordered to go to Delagoa bay, and Rus
sian warships will follow them"
1he Figaro, while pointing cut the con-
trary rumors on the subject from Toulon
of the dispatch of a fleet from the south
east coast, says.
ut is certain that the cruiser Cassard
sailed from Toulon for Port Said on the
receipt of an important telegram tnclos-
ing sealed orders"
The Journal asserts that five cruisers
of the French squadron now at the Pi-
raeus, the port of Athens, have been or
dered to place themselves in readiness to
go to the Cape.
RESTING ON ARMS.
LONDON. Oct. 2S-The war situation
this morning presents no new features.
1t is presumed in Natal that the Beers
are reconstructing their plans and that
the English are resting, but kilograms
from Ladysmfth, at express rates, still
continue forty hours in transmission to
London. therefore 1t is not impossible
that something is happening.
The dispatches assert that Col. Baden
Powell, the British commander at Mafe-
king, is aware that Pretoria has given
Gen. COME orders to stay his hand, as
already there is quite enough to employ
the Beers in Natal.
The government has chartered the City
of Rome as a hospital ship.
According to a later ..ccount Of the first
battle at Glencoe, the Boer army amount
ed to 1000 men, and about noon another
army, almost as large, under Command
ant General Joubert, advanced within 100
yards of Glencoe camp, and then retired.
The Boer losses were very heavy-fully
800
BOERS MAY PROVOKE NATIVES.
CAPE TOWN, Oct. IA telegram
from Bulowayo dated Monday says:
IA Boer force is threatening Chief Kama
and Chief Lienwa, who are loyal to Great
Britain. The two chiefs country lies at
the extreme northwest of the Transvaal
and includes Bechuanaland 1t seems a
gross mistake for the Beers to provoke
war among the natives. The probable
explanation is that the Beers force in
tends to destroy the railway to Bulo-
wayo, which runs through Kama's coun-
try, and thus prevent any attempt of
Col. Plummers column going to the re-
lief of Mafeking. Already there is talk
of a Rhodesia armored train encounter
ing Beers some distance north of Mafe-
king"
FIGHT AT KIMBERLEY.
CAPE TOWN, Oct. 27.-According to
further advices from Kimberley the
Beers removed their killed and wound
ed in carts. No reliable estimate Of their
loss has been made. Mr.. Rhodes rode out
to the scene of the fight The men,
women and children Of the town mounted
the trenches to witness the engagement.
Rain has fallen heavily and grass is
ABUNDANT.
BOERS TEST A FORD.
COLESBERG, Cape Colony, Oct. G.-A
detachment of twenty-four Free State
burghers crossed and recrossed the
Orange river at Alleman's Drift yesterday
for the purpose Of studying the ford,
which has caused the circulation Of ru-
mors Of an Intended invasion of the
colony from that point
TREACHERY FEARED
CAPE TOWN, Oct 27.-Great indigna-
tion has been caused by the announce
ment that DR.. German, member of the
Cape house of assembly, with a party Of
assistants, is going to the Transvaal to
do ambulance work. 1t is supposed that
he will give information to the enemy
SPIES TO BE SHOT