Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-15

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British bombarded the positions
around Colenso. but the Beers did
not reply.
London, Dec. 15.-The war Office
this afternoon received an unim-
portant dispatch from Butler under
todays date This Indirectly gives
quietus to the rumor of the relief
Of Ladysmith.
London, Dec. 15.-The war office has
received the following from the officer
commanding at Orange River, dated
yesterday:
Yesterday part of the mounted in
fantry, under Captain Bradshaw, and
THE Yorkshires and Lancashire guides
patrolled in the direction of Ramah and
! Zoutshan drift, ten miles east of
| Orange river, to reconnoiter and report
| the strength of the enemy reported to
be holding the drift. The mounted in
4 fantry found strong detachment of
the enemy at the drift and a sharp en-
gagement ensued. The enemy ultimate
/ ly retreated to Goenansberg. Capt.
4 Lieut.. Gregson, of the East Kents. and
j seven men We're wounded. The Beers
had five killed and several wounded
The news of the fall of Ladysmith
i which agitated the city yesterday after
noon turns out to be a most foolish in
A vention. 1t even failed of its purpose
in influencing the stock exchange,
4 which remains depressed to the utmost
s point, indeed. almost on the verge of a
panic.
The special correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph sends this dispatch: "Chieve-
|py Camp (via Frere), Tuesday-It is all
ways the unexpected that happens. The
Beers have not fired a shot today. but
Y have kept dead silence along their
strong lines on the hills north of the Tu
lgela river, including Grobier's kloof.
We could see bodies of mounted men
|.riding about and wagons breaking over
the hills to their camps. Yet the Beers
must and clearly did see our forces. An
attempt was made to draw them out by
sending men close to the river but IL
failed. Evidently the enemy desire to
mask their battery until our infantry
begins to move. Firing still continues
: l. from Bulwana against Ladysmith."
The Daily Telegraph publishes this
. dispatch from its special correspondent;
i Arundel, Cape Colony. Tussday-Twc
expeditiens-one to seize Naalkop, tbs
. scene OF yesterdays affair, and the 9th
t er to punish Lieut.. Coils assallants
: were sent out today. The latter force
of n
n Sprbt oe the Sixth dragoon guards an,
: the carbiniers, comprised the lnnjskil
: ling dragons, carbiners and section
e of royal horse artillery, with mounte'
e infantry as escort They We're ordsre,
! TO shall a farm house five miles east o
e the enemy's position, Which was oecu
n pied by Beers, who had frequently fire.
on our patrols from it. Nothing what
a ever was to be risked. The force pro
il ceedad within two miles of the farm.
d The artillery. escorted by troop 0
= carabiniers, went forward and shelle
r the building. After Smelling for som
time the carbiniers surrounded tn
T. house and found the body of Serg1
: Freeman inside. They were about t
" make prisoners of nine Beers ther,
ST when from the Boers' main position
d |long Tom opened hre. necessitating re
10 tirement Our troops withdrew steadil,
. under heavy she'll fire. the carabiniei
re sticking closely to the guns. The Vaa
o. kop expedition found five Boer pos
a: tions had been evacuated and tn
a; laager destroyed by yesterdays shell
" ing
r. The later kilograms do not add me-
a. terially to the knowledge of details
of the Magersfontein disaster, but tx
H. facts are clear. The Highland brigad
of flower of the British infantry, VIII
MT quarter column. the closest formatie
A. possible, blundered into the open ar
TIL within $50 yards of the Boer intrenci
H. ments, in complete Ignorance of II
o; presence of the enemy. The Second a
n tillery's fire, even with lyddite shell
.et failed to drive the Boer riflemen fro
of their intrenchments, and the Boe
OF maintained deadly rifle fire all Il
ief time the British artillery was doing
les utmost.
20; The appalling list of casualties HI
D.; shocked the entire community.