Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1899-11-16
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
BOER-BRITISH WAR.

The situation of the British army at
Ladysmith is believed to be precarious.
The total of British losses at Lady
smith is now admitted to be nearly 500.
Pietermaritzberg, capital of Natal, is
reported in danger of capture by the
beers.
Reports that Ladysmith has sur
rendered are persistently circulated in
Europe.
Lord Rosebery and other British
liberals in public speeches supported the
government.
Paris expects beers to organize pri-
watering expeditions against English
merchant ships.
A society to recruit and equip volun-
teers for the Transvaal has been or
ganized in Paris.
The British in south Africa will use
lyddite shells each of which is capable
of killing 300 men.
| The annexation of the upper Tugela
division of Natal to the Orange Free
State is proclaimed
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British to do police duty in Delagos
bay, a Portuguese port.
The Transvaal government is said tt
have issued letters of marque anC
American ship owners offer privateers
While the beers were Smelling Lady
smith one of their camps was surprised
and captured by British detachment
The beers and Free Staters got much
of their ordnance from France, havinf
placed large orders before the war be
gan.
The Ladysmith garrison is reported
short Of supplies. Butler will have
10000 fresh troops by the end of the
week.
President Steyn's proclamation call
ing on Orange Free State beers to sup
port the Transvaal charged the Eng
lish with bad faith, and said resistance
is necessary.
Gen. Sir Redvers Butler has lef
Cape Town for Durham, Natal, and il
is supposed that he will proceed to the
front.
The French war officials believe the
beers plan is to crush White, and ther
go to Durham and prevent the landing
of troops.
The government gave permission tC
Britain to compress Canadian hay il
New York and Boston for shipment t
south Africa.
Gen. Brialmont of Belgium says i
will take 10000 men six months to re
duce the Transvaal to anything like {
condition of subjugation.
Gen. White wired a further officia
report Of the catastrophe at Ladysmitl
in which he attributed it to the STAN
peding of the mountain battery mules
Lieut.. Winston Churchill, a war cor
respondent who accompanied Gen
Bueller to Africa, cables that the boerl
are advancing southwark into Cap,
Colony.
1t was rumored at Capt Town that
second battle was in progress a few
miles from Ladysmith and that severa
boer shells had dropped in the town. NJ
later news was received in London.
Gen. White reported that the roya
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and the Worcestershire regiment, sur
rounded by beers, had surrendered
This was about one-sixth of his force
He said he was at fault.
London is without news, waiting
for another carrier pigeon to arrive
Whites sorties last week show that he
is holding his own. Another sortie is
reported Thursday, with battle al
Tatham's farm, in which the beers
lost 800 men. Joubert supposed to be
on his way to Pietermaritzburg. Lon
don claims ample defenses, but said the
same of Colenso. Residents of Est
court, chief town on the way to PETER
maritzburg are warned to leave. The
situation as known is: White is iso-
lated at Ladysmith, beers control the
only railway; Mafeking and Kimberley
are besieged Free State beers crossed
the Orange river; beers are invading
zululand; the Basutos are on the verge
of rising; uprising of Cape Colony
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