The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-11-27
NINTH LANCERS MISSING.
METHUEN SEEMS TO HAVE FAR.
ED LIKE GEN, WHITE.
Beers Reereated Co Belmont. We're Pur'
sued by the Laneers and Now This
ReGinent 10 MissInG-Joubert Now
Writes concernInR Campaign.

AOuOOA: NOt. <O.-haV6 the 0luLQ
fancers met the same fate at Graspan
az the eighteenth hussars at Dundee
and the Gloucesters at Nichoison's
Mex? This is the question being ask
tonight, and it IS feared the answer
must be IN the affirmative. The in
terrogation is being echoed only af-
ter the receipt Of Gen. Methuen's in
complete dispatch, reporting Satur-
days battle near Belmont, his second
on the way to relieve Kimberley.
Gen. Methuen has not even re-
ported his losses and it is almost cer-
tain they were immense.
Admiral Harris reported serious
losses in officers of the naval brig
ade, and if the same proportion 10
maintained among the land forces
the British casualties must have been
sadly heavy. The lancers dashed in
&C pursuit of the Beers after the in
fantry had forced them out of their
position just as the hussars did at
Dundee and fell into a trap set by
the willy Beers.
Gen. Methuen says he has not re-
ceived any report of their operations,
| 30 it is inferred that they had not
returDed to camp when the message
was sent on Saturday night. Gen.
Methuen is finding the advance to
Kimberley pretty tough job. Ae
stated few days ago, it will be
fighting, and hard fighting every mile
of the way.
The so-called great British victory
at Belmont last Thursday was not
great enough to prevent the Beers
from making another stand at Gras-
pan, only seven miles further back.
From the meager reports at hand
this fight was less decisive than the
previous. Still, Gen. Methuen is q
hard fighter and means to push on
few miles every day. While his
force is small, as he only has 1900
men, it is the flower of the British
army, and, like Grant, he is going
to fight it out on this line if it takes
all summer.l
Things are looking up bit for the
British in Natal. They had laid a
nice trap for the Beers who ventured
further south, but the shrewd Dutch
found it out long in advance. When
the British woke up on Saturday
morning they discovered that the
Beers they had expected to catch
mapping had silently slipped away.
There is no definite news as to
whether Gen. Joubert has seriously
fallen back or is working a ruse pre-
paratory to flank movement. Com
municstion has been re-established
with Estcourt and Ladysmith. 1t
was reported by courier last Thurs
day that the camp was still holding
out.
In the middle division of the
British relief forces Gen. Gatacre has
most difficult task on account of
strong Boer sympathy by the resi-
dents of that part of the colony.
They are constantly cutting the tele-
graph wires around him and inter
fering with the railway service. He
has not made much progress north
ward.
Many colonists are joining the
Beers in the northern provinces and
there is more:danger of an uprising
now than before.
Berlin, Nov. 26.-The Deutschs
Zeitung publishes a letter purporting
dated at Ladysmith Oct. 81. in which
the writer says:
"Even if we do not succeed in pre-
venting the concentration of Gan
Buffers troops, the British army viii
be weakened from natural ca1sei
to such an extent that not more thar
s5 900 efficient troops, or 10000 a
the outside, can take the field. Tht
others must be employed to protec
communications. In this connection
it is to be borne IN mind that no
only Natal, but Cape Colony, will
a base of operations covering 43
miles, must be considered.
"Our bases of supply are at home
and organized on the relay system il
three directions. To protect thes'
does not require 500 men. II ont
base should be seriously threatened
the supplies will be destroyed.
A war of defense, of which we Rees
not think for a considerable time
would present far greater advantages
than m offensive war. We are a
home in the highlands Of the Trans
vaal and the Orange Free State. Th'
British viii have to contest ever,