The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-30
L1DYSM|TH IS TO BE- The
SCENE OF GREAT BAT TLE
Beers Have 10000 Men Who Are BeSieging $4,000
English Troops Under General White.
President Kruger Is At the Front and This May Be the De-
cSive Engagement of War.

London. Oct. 3O.-The position at
Ladysmith, without being alarming, is
sufficiently dangerous to excite anxiety.
Evidently the Beers are trying to repeat
their Dundee tactics. Roughly estimat-
ed. they have 1000 men as against
1900 British.
General sir George Stewart White
has the better artillery. but his is OF
lesser range. The delay in the Boer
attack is reported to be due to the
non-arrival of Commandment General
Jouber6s column. This has given the
British much needed respite after
their recent eXertions.
Everything it is now considered
hinges on General Whites resources
and judgment. Nothing is known re
garding the progress OF defensive WORKS
for the protection Of Ladysmith.
The censorship is more active IMAM
ever. According to the Daily Chronl-
cle's correspondent, the new regulations
limit the number of words allowed Tor
press MESA ges TO one-fourth the NAM
Der before.
Farmers in the neighborhood of
IadSsmith have left their farms and
stock at the mercy of the Beers and
are congregated in the town. Two
guns the Beers have mounted are
nowerful weapons They are the ones
used in shelling Dundee. and it is j
matter of considerable surprise how
they managed to transport such heavy
pieces.
Kruger to the Front.
Again it is reported that President
Kruger accompanied General JoupeTu
10 the front in a splendidly fitted travel
ing wagon.
The Standards correspondent at Lady
smith. telegraphing Saturday, sends
statement that the Beers have cap
tured 1.50C mules, a loss that must Sc
riously inconvenience British trans
portation. The attempt of the Beers
to cut the railway ct Pieters was
frustrated by British cavalry.
The wife of General Jan Hock has
arrived at Ladysmth under flag OF
truce to nurse her wounded husband
All the unwounded BOer prisoners have
been sent to Durham to prevent any at
tempt at rescue.
The explanation of the alleged Boer
massacre at Dundee appears 10 be that
a portion of the town guard. although
fairly. warned by General Yule before
his retirement continued to carry arms
and thirty of them were shot before the
Beers discovered who they We're
symon's Body Buried Without Coffin.
The body of Sir William Symons was
buried without a coffin. shrouded in the
union Jack. Among the papers found
upou him was a telegram from Lady
Symons concentrating him upon his
success.
Later accounts of the first battle and
the evacuation of Dundee do not give
those affairs a roster hue. Owing to the
Smelling of Glencoe camp, the telegraph
operators were compelled to scamper
with numerous unforwarded dispatches.
When the Beers entered Dundee they
indulged in general footing of stores.
but apparently did not otherwise modest
the p0pulace.
In the first battle the Beers captured
the Maxim of the Eighteenth hussars
but only after the entire crew OF the
gun. with one exception. had been dis
abled. The survivor effectually dam
aged the gun. Only two officers of the
staff of General Symons came off with
out a wound.
Trickery of the Beers.
Again. it is asserted the moment the
ROYAL Dublin Fusileers reached the
summit of the konie at Glencoe. the
Beers showed a white flag and asked
for truce to bury their dead. The
British artillery was ordered to cease
firing and the Beers took advantage of
otherwise they would have been deci-
mated by the British cannon.
The special correspondent Of the
Daily Mail at I.adysmith Jelegraphing
Sunday. describes TIE arrival of the
war balloon there on Saturday. 1t was
welcomed, he said. with wild dances by
the Kaffirs. who regard it as a deity.
General White and General Archibald
Hunter both assembled on Sunday and
reconnoitered the enemy's position.
According 10 the latest reports from
Cape Town. General Joubert has joined
hands with the Free State forces and
there has been some outpost fighting.
President Kruger has arrived at Glen
coe.
There is no fresh news from the west
ern frontier. The miners are still work
ing al Kimberley where there are pro-
visions enough to last nine months.
Cecil Rhodes has mounted and fully
equipped town guard of 400 men at
cost Of e15000.
Pondos Anxious to Help.
The Durham correspondent of the
Daily Mail says: 1t is reported on the
authority of the British residents in
Pondoland that the Pondos are in con-
slant communication with Durham,
AID that they arc anxious to help The
Household Guard it is announced,
have received orders to form COM
posite regiment for South Africa, in