The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-12-27
B0ERS SHELL LADYSMITH
SEDITION SPREADING THROUGH
CAPE COLONY.
8 MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT IMPLICATED
One Said to be Recruiting For the Beers. An.
other Presents a Commando Free
State Flag. Kitchener Arrives
at Gibraltar.

London, Dec. 27.-t4:50 a. m.-Wed-
esday.)-Dispatches from South Africa
are still. delayed. But they are arriving
more freely, which shows that the CEN
sorship has been relaxed
There appears to be no great change
in the situation.
\ dispatch from Lourenzo Marques,
dated Thursday. December 21st, gives
the following from the Boer head laager,
dated Tuesday, December 18TH
'The British naval guns at Colenso
have been cannonadng Bulwer Bridge.
over the Tugela river, with a view of
smashing it,
''The bombardment Of Ladysmith is
proceeding slowly. General Joubert has
arrived here and been accorded hearty
welcome. He addressed the burgheIs on
December 10th.
More British prisoners have been
sent to Pretoria, including Colonel Bull
lock, Major Walters, Major Bajlwark
Major Foster Captain Dick, Captain
Nortern, Captain Fitzerbert, Captain
Ford, Captain Hutchinson, Lieutenant
Bonham, Lieutenant Smythers, Lieuten-
ant Thourne, Lieutenant OAConneyghy,
Lieutenant hunbauld, Lieutenant Chris
tian, Lieutenant Brigg, Lieutenant Hal-
ford, Lieutenant Tarbull and Lieutenant
Jones'
a dispatch to the Daily News from
Ladysmith. dated Friday, December, IL,
by heliograph, says:
Another sortie last night. General
Hunter, with 800 volunteers. DESTROYED
one six-inch Creuz gun, one Howitzer
and one Maxim. One Briton killed The
Boer gtlnners fed
There is an idea in same quarters here
that General Buffers destruction of the
that General Buffers destruction of the
off the Beers now south of the river, but
the general opinion is that the British
will not make any serious move pending
the arrival of Lord Roberts.
Dispatches from various points indi-
cate the steady growth of Dutch dis
affection. The Cape Town correspon-
dent of the Daily Chronicle reports the
discovery of a plot to connive at the
escape of Boer prisoners. The Times
advises stern treatment of the disaffect-
ed Dutch colonists and the enforcement
of the penalties OF treason against per-
sons and property.
The Sixteenth Lancers will go to
South Africa from India at the special
request Of Lord Roberts, even after the
Government had decided that no more
troops should be withdrawn from In
dia. The War Office has nominated Sir
William Stokes as consulting surgeon to
the South African forces. He will leave
Dublin for the Cape in a fpw days.
Lord Somerset write TO the Times
urging the seizure of Lourenzo Marques
and its retention. If necessary, until
the end of the war, in order to prevent
the landing of war material for the
Beers.
The transport Tantallon Castle has
arrived at Cape Town with a number
of Howitzer's and quick firers which
General Butler urgently needs
A dispatch from Modder River dated
Thursday December 21st, reports that
intermittent firing was continuing on
both Sides although the Boer shells fell
short. \ number of Free State burgh-
ers had surrendered There is an un-
confirmed report that the Canadian
picket was cut off near Belmont 1t is
also asserted that fever is raging among
the Beers.
The tests Of wireless telegraphy at
Modder River have been highly success
ful, communication over distance of
10 miles being perfectly established. ST.
MarcOni instruments, intended for the
Beers have been seized at Cape Town.
4 dispatch from Chieveley Camp dated
Thursday, December 21St says:
''Lyddite shells are daily thrown into
the Beer camp to prevent them work
ing at the trenches. The firing Of big
guns is heard daily from the direction OF
Ladysmith."
Commandant DeMeill0n who was cap
tured at Elandsiaagte and brought to
Simontown, where he succeed in
making his escape from the British
cruiser Penelope, has been re-captured.
SPREAD OF SEDITION.
London Dee. 2G--A cable dispatch
from Cape Town. dated Wednesday, De
cember Goth, says that CHAMBERS has
broken out among the American mules
of which there are 1,100 at the Stellen-
bosch Remount farm. I'wenty-siX OF
the mules have been destroyed and rs
have been isolated. The dispatch says
sedition is spreading in Cape Colony.
Three members of the Cape Parliament
are alleged to be implicated. and one of
them is said to have presented a Free
State flag to n Boer commando, at the
same time expressing the hope that lie
would carry it to glory and victory. An