The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-11-10

~ A<oANOu SaiySss zen. JOu-
bert's movement to cut Off Gen. White
at Ladysmith from .Colenso is being
carried out, and it is probable that.
Pietermaritsburg, the capital of Ma.
tai, Will fall into Gen. Joubert's hands,
before Gen. Butler and reinforcemants
can arrive.
Inc South African situa ton is again
causing the deepest alarm. The.
silence of the war Office, which re-
ce1ved several dispatches from Cane.
Town and Durham, the holding back Of
the list OF casualties ut Ladysmith.
ana, finally, the announcement of the.
mobilization of the second army corps
on the 10th Of this month, all combine
10 show that the position of British
power in South Africa is one of gray
est peril.
The World correspondent learns that
the Dutch rising in Northern Cane
colony has assumed menacing proper
tons, owing to the Boer successes.
while the native unrest all along the
Transvaal and Orange Free State.
borders has become most menacing.
Threatening Ladysmith:
London. Nov. 4.-According to dis
patches filed on Tuesday defensive.
works were being constructed OH the
hills around Ladysmith. and 1t was ex--
pected there that the big naval guns
would I've mounted the following day.
Ihe. Beers We're threatening TO attack
the town in force Wednesday AMI
thursday, and the women and chill
dren and other nOn-cOmbatants were
being sent by train to the south. Lady
smith is provis:oned for two months.
There is very little fresh intelligence.
to-day, but it is believed that il the
Delagoa bay route Is not already re-
stored, speedily will be, thus giving:
quicker communication with the Cape.
The situation is still hopeful. The ac-.
courts that continue to arrive regard
ing the fighting ON Farquhar's farm
only confirm it's serious nature and the
narrow escape Gen. White had. On
this point the Morning Post remarks:
Nothing tells such tale of battle as
the list of the missing. When the
missing exceeded the killed it is al
most safe to write defeat across the
story, because missing" means ADAM
donment or rurrendercd."
A dispatch from Colesburg. dated
Nov. 1. announces that six police who
We're stationed at Colcsburg bridge
We're surrounded 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 has fallen.
London. Nov. 1.-The special cores
pendent of the Daily Mail at Mafekins,
under date of Oct. %, says: Gen.
o,1v &c N1nf
was monotoneus. The Beers fred
whole town. even the ladies. laughing
forty-pounder from Pretoria. Cronjes-
says he is sorry for the women's sake
that he shelled the town. but that it
was not playing the game to send
dynamite truck among his men. Fiji
teen hundred Of his command have
since departed to the southwark.
small parties of our garrison nightly
harras the Boer outposts. hear that
the Daily News correspondent ut Leo
batsi is prisoner in the hands of the
Beers.
The Boers Fell I'm Piles.
New York. Nov. "A Journal spe-
cial from London states that Lady
smith dispatch. dated Tuesday. says:
Although Monday is not a good day for
us. it was awful for the enemy. Our
artillery fire was appalling. The Beers
lest hundreds, killed and wounded,
where lyddite shells from the naval
guns raiped upon them. They fell i'll
heaps. The havoc was SO great that
Joubert sent a formal written protest
to Gen. White against the use of
lyddite as inhuman The British long
range guns are vastly superior to those
Of the Beers. The captured column ex
ceedls 500, We. are confident that we
can hold cur own.
Afrikanders Not Disl0ynl.
London. Nov. 4. = The Cape Town.
correspondent of the Daily Chronicle
says: There is not the slightest indi-:
c::ticn here of Afrikander disloyalty.
Lady Churchill as a Nurse. t
London, Nov. f. = The Outlook an
nounces that Lady Randolph Church
ill is going to the Cape to attend to-
the w0rnGed.
wHALER's SUCCESS.
Large Quantity of Amebrgris ms.
Well as OIL Secured.