The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-20
THE BOER FORCES ARE CLOSING.
IN UPON ESTCOURT FROM
EVERY DIRECTION
WAITING on An ASSAULT
ENGLISH PREPARED TO RESIST
WHEN THE ADVANCE IN
FORCE TAKES PLACE
FIGHTING HAS BEEN SEVERE

detailed Stories of engagements in
Front of LRdysm1th in Which the
British Claim to Have Had the
Advantage - Message From Gen.
Builer Describing the Situation
Posted by War Office at I.ondo,
LONDON. Nov 19.-The war office most.
ed the following telegram TODAY from
! Gen. Sir Redvers Butler to the Maron,s
of Lansdowne:
foIi Gape iaD; ~! Town. y, Nov, 18 OBS D. m)-Ths
ing at Pietermaritzburg:
ra1Sfnc p9day at o'clock the officer COM
thatu!hg tba1 ing our northern outposts reported
asdvanSlng across the whole counfrV
4TOIn ION Gourton road to Ulandi. moving on
oIHtoourt' oTtnoStI MY force stood to arms. The
soa sSo@atpos5S 20 5So reported various bodies, from
Gvo Syo 10 loo strong. advancing on Estcourt-
party G 500 affr5nwestery sfr6n direction One
way bridge, half a mile northwest ~
Estcourt. -i'i west VI
Our o,qtoosts fired on the enemy. and
one or the naval guns fired a shell Of
5000 yards range the shell burstinp nIoee
10 the enemy. who then hurriedIy retired
Al II o'clock reports were received
from three pickets that a large numheI
or Beers was in sight on a hin ah0T,A
Leslie,s homestead. The troops have re-
turned to camp
QUIET SUNDAY.
A special dispatch from Estcourt. dated
Sunday, Nov. 10, says: "AIl is quiet here.
The enemy is believed to be encamped
six miles away. Our position is good
and our forces are sufficiently strong to
repulse attack"
THREE MEN MISSING.
The following additional dispatch was
received from Gen. Butler at 6 O'Clock this
evening:
Cape Town, Sunday $3.50 p. m.).-In con-
tinuation of my telegram Of Nov. 1e. re-
ferring to the armored train at Estcourt.
have to report that three more men of
the Royal Dublin fusileers are missing.
namely, Lance Corporal Brady and Pri-
Yates ]. Fitzgerald and E. Mcguire.
TOWNS TAKEN.
|. CAPE TOWN, Nov. 19.-The Beers oc-
cupied Burghersdorp on tuesday, Nov. IA,
and 1t is believed that they We're then on
! the way to seize stormburg Junction.
| Advices just received here show that on
Thursday, Nov Is. a combined force of
Free State and TransvaaI burghers oc-
cupied Colesburg, Cape Colony, without
| opposition by the residents. and proclaim
ed the district to be Free State territory
The British troopship Manila has arrived
at Durham.
Sir Alfred Miner, governor of Cape
| Colony and British high commissioner,
has issued a proclamation declaring that
| the Boer proclamatiOns annexing terri
| tory, impresSing men or selling goods are
null and void, and should not be obeyed
He promises full recognition of and fair
| compensation for actual injury resulting
from loyal adherence to British allegi-
! ance.
w. P. schreiner. the premier, has in
structed all civil commissioners to an
nCunce that there is no intention to call
out the burgher forces in the colony. as
the colonial government considers the mil
itary forces of the crown sufficient to pre-
serve order and repel inva sion
Ordinary citizens" the premier de-
clares, are only expected to remain loyal
and not to give countenance to the
enemy"
Judging from present indications, so far
from there being a prospect of a Dutch
rising the fact Is that many of the Cape
Dutch are so incensed at the loss of their
property and the destruction of railways
ami bridges that they are even beginning
to favor the annexation or the two re-
publics. One prominent politician goes so
far as to say it may possibly happen that
the outlanders will be the chief opponents
of annexation
TOWN ANNEXED
QUEENSTOWN, Cape Colony, Nov. 49,
-CCmmandant Oliver with a portion of
the Rockville commando, has occupied
jamestown, hOisted the hags of the
Orange Free State and annexed the town.
Maj. Gen. William Forbes Gatrier, with
his staff and Irish rifles, arrived here to-
day.
ATTACK ON KIMBERLEY.
LOURENZO MARQUES, Nov. 1S-The
following dispatch has been received here
from Pretoria, dated Nov 16:
The statement that the Boer artillery
is otticered by Germans Is denied here 1t
is asserted officially that all the Boer
artillery officers were born in the Trans
vaal, although two were trained in
Europe. The British prisoners of the rank
and file have received new outfits from