Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-01
GEN. METHUEN EN'%yss Sc " ' >
Bullet Inhicts Flesh Wound in Thigh at
Modder River Battle.
COLONEL NoRTHCoTT AMONG THE KILLED
Major Count Olechen, Relative Of the
Queen in List of Wounded
WAR OFFICE HEARS FROM MAfEKlNG
Colonel Badsn-Powell Reports CroDje Has
Moved Force to Riceters.
WAR OFFICE HEARS FROM MAFEKING
BoM8ARDM3NT OF TOWN CONTINUES
Boers' Ninety-Four Founder Becomes
Damaged, nut IL is Replaced by
Another That il More
Efficient.

Efficient.
LONDON, Nov. 3O.-The Post military ex-
pert says: Save for the list of casualties
there is still no news from General Methuen
lie was among the wounded which may in a
measure account for the prolonged uncer-
tainty as to his present position. 1t is diff
ficult to account for his description OF the
fighting as desperate and hard, II the river
divided the combatants. 1t is hoped the
wound which General Methuen has suffered
is not sufficiently important TO deprive him
OF bia command.
News from Mafekng brings our knowl-
edge of the investment up to November "a,
and despite a somewhat Respondent telegram
that supplied our latest previous Information,
we are convinced that Mafeking has in 1t
still good deal OF fight. The government
has at last decided to mobilize the second
division Of the second army corps and it will
doubtless be despatched as speedily as pos
sible. We are living in state of suppressed
Interrogation. Every man has his little
question to put at the proper time and at
some one whom he desires to see pilloried.
Before putting the question with which he at
present is choking, let each man ask him
self, when cavilling at our unpreparedness,
whether he would willingly pay the price Of
being prepared.
English Repair the Railway.
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FRERE CAMP, Nov. 27.--5:O5 p. m.-(New
York World Cablegram-Special Telegram.)
The Beers are now reported having been
10000 strong around Mooi river,
where they vacated their position Friday
night half going east, while the others went
west, where they had previously formed
q large camp.
An armored train with a company of in
fantry, with railway supplies and plate
layers, went out Saturday and found six
sections OF rails torn up mile north of
Highlands station They repaired the rails
and telegraph connection was resumed Sun
day The line is now open to Frere, twelve
miles north OF Estcourt. 1t is hoped that
Ladysmith will soon be relieved.
The British loss Thursday at Beacon hill,
near Estcourt is stated to be fifteen killed
and seventy-one wounded. The Boer loss
Is unknown but must have been severe.
LONDON, Nov. 30.-It is officially an
nounced that General Methuen was among
those wounded at the battle of Modder
river.
General Methuen, it developed later, was
slightly wounded by bullet which inflicted
a flesh wound in the thigh.
Lieutenant Long of the Second Yorkstiree
is another officer killed. The following Of
fcers were also wounded:
Captain Won Hugel, engineers; Lieutenant
Travers, Third Grenadiers; ELVES and Hill,
Scots Guards; Flint, Lancashires; Majors
Earl and Ottley and Lieutenant Fox Second
Yorkshres; Lieutenants Baker, Carr and
Nelson, Argyle Highlanders.
The war Office has received from the gen.
eral commanding at Captown this:
Received from Modder river, November
30: Killed: staff. Colonel II. p. Northcott;
Second Coldstreams, Lieutenant Colonel H.
h. Stopford Captain s. Earle.
Wounded: Artillery, Major w. Lindsay
Captain Farrell. Lieutenant Dunlop, Lieu
tenant Furse; Third Grenadiers, Major Count
Gleichen. Lieutenant Hon. E. H. Lyon;
Coldstreams, Lieutenant Viscount Acheson;
medical corps, Captain G. A. Moore.
"The casualties among the officers of the
Ninth brigade and the men of the division
will follow"
Colonel Northcott participated in the
Shenbro expedition, West Africa, in 1888,
where he was desperately wounded in the
Zulu war, the Ashantee expedition and the
Karagwe expedition 1898. for which he was
made n Companion OF the Bath. Recently
he commanded in the northern gold coast
territories
Lieutenant Colonel Stopford had not seen
any active service.
Major Count Cleichen is relative of the
queen. Count Gleichen is a major of the
Grenader Guards and is the oldest son of
the late Prince Victor OF Hohenohe- Lang
genburg. He took part In the Nile exped-
tion, 1SSi-S5; was attached to Sir West
ridge Ways mission to Morocco 1898; did
special service in the Soudan, 1896 and was
attached to Mr., Rodds mission to Abyssinia,
1897. He was staif captain of the intell-
gence division of the war Office since 1895.
News from Mafeking.
Colonel Baden Powell, under date of Mate-
king, November 80, has sent the following
Walker at Capetown:
IAN well here CroUie has gone with a
commando and with about twenty wagons
to Riceters Transyaal, leaving most OF the
guns here with the Marco and Lchtenberg
contlngents with orders TO shell us into sub
mission. Bombardment and sniping continue
with very small results
THE enemy's sentries drew us out satur-
day by making show of going away and
leaving a big gun, apparently in a state OF
being dismantled. Our scouts found the
enemy hidden in force, so we sat tight. The
enemy's ninety-four- FOUNDER became dam
aged and has been replaced by another more
efficient. ! am daily pushing out our ad-
vance work with good effect. The health
of the garrison is good. No casualties to
report"