The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-15
NOTHING NEW
IN REGARD TO
SOUTH AFRICA.
Two Opposing Generals Dispute Over
the use Of Dynamite
Mines.
BOFRS ARE VERY UNGALLANT.
Hav. no use for Rad Cross Society.
News from British Strong
holds lEsagre.

LONDON. Nov. Is, 1880 .; ms There
/, no additional news regarding the
ryopress OF hostllities In South Africa
his morning except a dispatch from
Matching, forwarded by runner,
dated october 81. which says that DUR
,nr the afternoon General Cronje, the
Boer commander. sent an envoy to
Colonel Baden-Powell under a nag OF
truce. TO declare that he did not cone
sIder the Geneva convention authorised
the nag Of the Red Cross Society to fly
from several buildings at once In the
town, and that in his opinion the em-
ployment OF natives against whites and
the use Of dynamite mines were both
opposed to the rules OF war.
colonel Baden Powell replied that the
Geneva convention did not stipulate as
to the number Of Red Cross stations
permlssable, and that the Beers were
only required to respect the convent.
the hospital and the women's laageT, all
Of which were beyond the town limits.
The British commander also pointed
out that mines were recognized ad-
junct: of civilized warfare, and that
the defenses Of Pretoria were exten-
siyely mined. Moreover he reminded
General Cronje that the Beers had fred
upon natives, burned their lsraals and
raided their cattle and the natives
only defended their lives ana property.
Despite three warnings from Colonel
Baden-PowelI, the Beers continued to
deliberately shell the hospital and the
women's laager. The sending OF the
Boer envoy was regarded, the dispatch
says, as mere pretext for penetrate
ing the British lines at Matching. Ac-
cording to the latest reports, the town
Is confident Of its ability to hold out
until the end of the campaign.
So far as Kimberley is concerned, the
mental condition Of the British there
may be Judged Of by the fact that
three weddings have taken place since
the siege began, the last having been
celebrated on November
m me absence Of fresh news, the
morning papers are driven to Discus
Lord sallsbury's letter regarding mis-
interpretations Of his utterances at the
lord mayors banquet and President
Kruger's threat to execute British of
ficers now in his hands unless Nathan
Marks, a supposed Boer spy IS releas-
ed by Sir George White. The premier's
delIverance meets with universal ap-
pFoval, although the explanation was in
no way necessary, as outside the Daily
Chronicle no one had supposed his
words could bear the meaning which
Boer sympathisers had been endeavor-
ing to read into them.
President Kruger's threat has excited
widespread indignation. Tho Daily
News demands that his friends should
promptly inform him that his own neck
and that Of Or. Reltz. the Trausvaal
state secretary, will be held response
bic for any such violation Of tho ele-
mentary rules OF civilized waVare.
For once the censorship Is blamed on
account Of laxlty. It Is asserted that
the censor ought to have suppressed
the story Of Father Matthews regard
ing the surrender at Nlcholdon's Mex,
which, while too vague to be considered
evident, must cause uneaslness. The
feeling is that. until the facts can be
ascertained, It would have been wiser
not to circulate mere gossip.
The great delay on South African ca
bles, now amounting precisely to hve
days. and the lack of any definite news
from Ladysmith, give rise to some APP
prehenslon which is only relieved by the
fact that no adverse tdings have come
from either British or Boer sources.
Nothing Ia known as to the where
abouts OF General Redvers Butler, H.
NJ. S. Powerful has arrived at simons
Bay from Durham and begun to coal.
The cruiser WIN return to Durham im-
mediately with more guns. Lord
George Hamilton, secretary Of state for
India, announced in a speech last even
Ing that arellef force would Immediate
ly be sent to Labyrinth, but beyond
that nothing is known of the British
plan Of campaign and equal secrecy
Snrouds the movements Of the Boers.
The Morning Post. which complains
that was ,inwIse tactics on the part Of
the British officers to leave the railway
intact in their retirement to Ladysmith
says;
1T is another Illustration Of British
contempt for Beers that they treated
retirement as though 1t was an advance
and preserved the encmy's line Of COM
municatlon as carefully as II It had
been our own"
DR.. jameson, the hero of the raid,
left Cape Town for England last Thurs
day. The Cape authorities have seized
II wireless telegraph plant found on
board vessel destined for DelagOa
Bay