The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-26
CoNCEALING THE FACTS.
Real. Situation, in, the Trnnsvnal Is
Not Yet Known.

LONDON, Oct. 25.-With unconscious
hun or a Cape Town correspondent tele
graphed yesterday
THE censorship which is always deli
cate matter, is working smoothly and
without hitch
This exactly hits off the state of affairs
today An ominous veil is still drawn
over the movements of Sir George Stwart
White and Gen. Yule Beyond an indef-
mite dispatch concerning fight at Lady
sn4ith the British public is left to con-
lecture over cooked" war office dis
patches.
The officials of the war office said last
evening that very few dispatches had ar
rived, and nothing further was to be eX-
pected until morning.
Since it is now practically certain that
Gen Yule has effected a junction with
Gen White, though this junction was not
brought about Tuesday night, as an
nounced by the Daily Mail. but some time
on Wednesday, and is now in a place Of
safety. conjecture is made as to the cause
of his retreat Was it hasty? Was it dis
orderly? Was any considerable camp
eGuipage abandoned? Was there any
fighting on the way? Such questions and
others like them the pubic is anxiously
asking Since the receipt Of Gen. Whites
curious first description of the Ladysmth
II.
little reliance can be placed on the official
dispatches.
While the concealment of the facts re-
garding Gen. Yule's retreat can r" amply
justified on the ground of keeping the
Intelligence from the Beers, the hiding
oG the news respecting the Hussafs and
Fusileers. who were apparently cornered
In the battle at Glencoe, is severely
criticised, no intimation even taving been
rrlVp officers
The heavy loss of British troops in
facing only some 5000 Beers are com
mented upon as showing what rifle fire
means today in the hands of even IN
disciplined men who can shoot fairly
straight and stand their ground. Com
parisons are made with the first employ
ment of the magazine rife in the Hispano
war, and it is considered that the Amer
lean losses at Ell Caney and San Juan
would have been much heavier if the
SpaniaFds had doggedly stood their
ground like the Beers.
Cen Sir Redvers Butler is expected to
arrive at the Cape early next week, and
the indications are that some troops have
already arrived at the front, and been
fighting, whose arrival has not been an
nounced There is every proba bility
that renforcements are even now moving
up. This is calculated to hasten Com
mandant Gen. Joubert's attack upon
Ladysmith, and news of battle is
hourly expected.
Half a complete army corps is now
aAoat, and lull has occurred in dis
patching the remainder of Gen. Buffers
force, owing to some difficulty In OBJ
tanning transports. The mobilization and
enbarkation of 1000 men, however have
proceeded with the utmost smoothness
and completeness, extorting admiration
from even the severest critics of war
office organization
Although news has arrived that Gen. Sir
William Symons is doing well, there is
no indication of his whereabouts 1t is
presumed that he is at Dundee, in the
hands of the Beers
Speaking at Dundee last night to the
Scotch troops, Gen. Lord Frederick Rob
erts, of Kandahar said that however
important previous campaigns in South
Africa had appeared at the time, they
dwindled into insignificance when com
pared with the great event in which the
British troops were about to engage