Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-16
FEAR FOR MAFEkING.
Believed That Beers VIII A tack the
ToWn-Newsts Not Confirined

Believed That Beers VIII Attack the
Town-News is Not Confirmed.
London, Oct. 16.-A dispatch received
There yesterday from Cape Town, dated
Saturday and delayed in transmission,
says:
While it is the general belief that
the Beers are attacking Mafeking, there
| is still no confirmat ton of the reports.
If the Beers had met with any success
it would surely have been announced.
as the only telegraphic communication
| is in the hands of the burghers. The alb
sence of news, therefore, is regarded as
a good sign"
The government had received no
news of fighting in South Africa at .
O'Clock last evening, and did not expect
any. No battle is probable except at
Mafeking, for which place considerable
anxiety is felt. Elsewhere, however. it
is believed the British will remain on
| the defensive.
The railway telegraph officials have
abandoned Maribogo. says Cape
Town dispatch. The nearest British
point of communication to Mafeking,
therefore, is understood to be Setlago-
| Ill, sixty miles away
The German consul general at Cape
Town has issued a proclamation of neu
trality, commanding all Germans to
hold aloof from hostilities.
Adyices received from Durham under
date of yesterday morning say that.
owing to the rigorous censorship main
tanned, news from the front Is greatly
delayed and reaches there in disjointed
dispatches.
1T is learned from an authentic
source" the cablegram adds. that
large number of troops, including cav
airy, artillery and infantry, left Lady
smith early Friday morning with wag
ons, going in the direction of Acton
Homes, where the Beers are reported to
be encamped. The Dublin Fusiliers ar
rived from Glencoe by train al IL o'clock
and proceeded in the same direction.
There has been no engagement, the
Beers retreating The British troops
remain at point ten miles from Lady
smith, with the exception of the Dublin
Fusiliers. who returned to Glencoe,
Cen Sir William Symons having wired
that an attack was expected there Sat
urday morning.
The Beers possess Brakwell Station,
twenty-five miles west of Ladysmith,
and detachments have also been seen
by carbineers at Besters. two stations
nearer. The carbineers retired and the
Beers retreated in the direction OF
Brakwell.
Aliwal North dispatches received at
Cape Town say that Frere bridge,
which heretofore has been great aid
to Boer spies, is now closed and guard
ed by Cape police. 1t is rumored that
the Beestekraal commando, strength
ened by 500 Beers from Smithheld. is
menacing Aliwal North. Cape Town dis
patches add:
There is still no reliable news from
either Ladysmith or Glencoe, except
that patrol from the latter place ex-
changed shots with small body of
Beers on the road to Helpmakaor.
"All reports agree that the Beers now
occupy Newcastle.
"Boer tents have been discovered eight
miles southeast of Kimberley. Great
clouds of dust seen ten miles to the
eastward of Kimberley Sunday MORN
ing seem to indicate the movement of
large body of troops with wagons Two
imperial officers at midday also discov-.
cred column Of 400 Beers going In the