The record-union., 1899-12-08

" ADdnQOn the attempt TO stem IeA-
eral Methuen's advance are unfounded.
The British have shifted their camp
few hundred yards away from the
battlefield, and are settling down for a
week. There are some cases of fever
among the troops. Much depends on
General Gatacre's advance. There is
undoubtedly a large concentration of
Beers ahead of General Methuen. Prac-
tically the whole of their Mafeking
forces have joined the Kimberley be-
SiegerS.
An official account of the sortie at
Kimberley, November 18th, when the
British casualties, as cabled yesterday,
occurred, says:
The British demonstrated toward
Wimbledon Rifle Range. The enemy S
| guns were positioned from the ridge at
Spitzkop to Wimbledon siding. Major
Scott-Turner, with the mounted troops,
attacked the enemy's right flank, cap
turing a lager and three redoubts.
The enemy, in a fourth redoubt, made a
stubborn resistance, when Major Scott
Turner was killed. The British captur-
ed many shells and destroyed other
stores"
The same dispatch gives reports from
Colonel Kekewich, dated December Sd
| and 4th, showing that the Beers were
| increasing in numbers around Kimber-
ley. The Boer advance in the north
eastern part of Cape Colony is becom-
ing remarkable. The local farmers are
fiocking to the Boer laagers, the towns
/ people, in many instances, welcoming
the invaders with every demonstration
OF JOY. The annexation of British ter
| ritory proceeds daily The reported
Boer successes have made a great i'm
| preston among the Basutos.
Adv1ces from Pretoria say the Gov
| eminent has allowed two cable mes
sages to reach Winston Churchill. The
| mint at Pretoria is coming 100000 SOW
ereigns monthly.
The War Office has been notified that
the British had five killed and twenty
1--WE wounded in the sortie from Kim
berley November 10Th, including three
colonial officers.
Special dispatches from Lourenzo
Marques, dated Tuesday, December 9TH
say PRESIDENT Kruger is only prevented
from going to the front by the obiec-
tons Of members of the Executive
council. Mrs. Kruger, it is added is
| i'll.
Inc announcement is made in a spe-
clal dispatch from Bloemfontein. dated
sunday, December Sd, that President
steyn OF the Orange Free State has
joined the Boer forces of the Modder
Rlver. His appearance, the dispatch
says, caused great enthusiasm among
| the Beers.
1t is reported from Orange River to-
| Gay that lot dead Beers were taken to
kaffirskop after the battle of Belmont
| BOER LOSS AT MODDER RIVER
| LONDON, Dec. S.-The DAILY Mail,'
publishes a dispatch from Julian PALM
at Modder River, who says:
| The Kimberley people are troubled
| oy the necessity of feeding 10000
Basutos in the diamond fields. whom
the Beers refuse to allow to depart. and
who, should they fail to get enough
meat, become disconnected and restless
On. the night of the battle at Mod
der River, Kimberley, missing the ac-
| customed signals from here was in
| great anxiety, fearing that we had
been defeated. The fact was that we
did not use our searchlight for fear the
Boer guns would wreck the apparatus
Five hundred and thirty Beers were
killed or wounded in the battle here.
| That number has already been ac-
counted for, and the enemy's losses
We're probably much heavier"
A special dispatch from Kimberley.
| dated Wednesday, November 29th,
says:
"As result of signals from the re-
lief force to the south, and of certain
movements on the part of the Beers.
| Colonel Kekewich determined to make
| sortfe with a view of keeping a large
| force of Beers employed here
Yesterday afternoon portion CT the
| garrison, with artillery under Major
| Chamier and mounted troops under
Major Scott-Turner, advanced south
west toward the Boer positions, and
captured Carriers farm, which COM
! pleted the line it was intended to hold
! in view of Lord Methuen's early ap-
| proach.
Major Scott-Turner then turned his
| attention to the Boer lager, which he
captured in fine style, in spite of the
enemy's heavy fire. All the camp
| equipments were captured or destroyed
Finally the British stormed the ridge,
and captured three redoubts, after Sc
we're fighting.
In leading the men who We're storm
ing the fourth redoubt Major Scott
| Turner and Lieutenant Wright were
killed. 1t is alleged they were struck
by explosive bullets. The death of
Major Scott-Turner compelled the Brit
ish to retire upon Carriers farm, the
whole affair having lasted four hours. -
QUIET AT KIMBERLEY.
KIMBERLEY, Monday. Dec 4, via
Modder River.-Everything has been
| quiet here during the last three days.
| The theater and the convent have been
| fitted up as hospitals A number of
our cattle have been captured by the
! enemy.
NEWS FROM BoER SOURCES. =
/ PRETORIA, Wednesday, Dec. g.
| Official dispatches received here from
the different Boer forces say all is quiet
except at Kimberley, where an armored
| train made sortie this morning.
The Orange Free State has pro-
claimed the annexation of Dordrecht.
about fifty miles north of Queenstown.
Cape Colony
The Tugela bridge, it is also an
| nounced, is so completely ruined that it
will be a work of great magnitude for
either belligerent to restore it, The
British fired on some Republican scouts
! south of Tugela this morning. There
We're no casualties.
A newspaper correspondent named
Lynch, who entered the Boer mines at
Ladysmith on Monday, with the al
legged purpose of exchanging newspa-
perS has been made a. prisoner md will