The record-union., 1899-10-27
Officially Announced to Have Joined
Whites Forces.
Only the lRcapaeity Of Intelligence Depart,
nent Of the Beers,
However, Saved Yu1e and His
Troops From a Great Disaster, if
Not AnnihiIation-Gen Sir
William Penn SymonS Dies of
His Wounds, and Was Buried at
nTndaa

LONDON, Oct. 27.-The official an
nouncement of the joining of General
White and General Yule has come as a
great relief, and all the more So in
view of the fact that later dispatches
have shown that only the incapacity OF
the intelligence department of the
Eoers saved General Yule's column
from great disaster.
II seems that on Friday night Dun
dee was full of alarms. Heavy firing
was heard at l o'clock, and again at
4. A severe thunder storm soon after
stopped the Boer cannonade. Satur-
day passed in the same anxious man
ner, in mOmentary expectation of an
attack. The British finally evacuated,
taking all that they could, but leav-
ing plenty behind for the Beers to loot.
The appointments of the Boer hos
pital at Dundee are described as very
primitive. The Beers themselves, in
the absence Of a nursing staff, got only
scant attention.
1t is reported that General Sir Will
lam Penn Symons died on Wednesday,
not on Thursday, and was buried at
Dundee yesterday.
General Yule's column had very ex-
hausting march, chiefly, it is believed,
by night The reason of a night march
is not given. but it was probably a fear
Of Boer surprises. The heavy rains
and mist hampered the march, but
were perhaps the means of saving Gen
eral Yule from mOlestation. 1t took
the column twenty-four hours to cover
the last sixteen miles
of a more detailed account of the bat
ties already reported. A correspond
ent who has visited the hospital at
Ladysmith, where the Beers wounded
az Glands Laagte who were captured
are being tended, reports that General
Jan Kock, who was badly wounded in
the thigh and shoulder, said the 2 =
Fance OF the patrol under Commandant
Pienar, without guns, was simply with
the object of cutting the railway, and
that this body was subsequently rein
forced without General Joubert's ord
ers, General Viljoen accompanying
them. The latter was killed early in
the fight
According to another correspondent
the Beers say that General Kock, dur
ing the battle, read his Bible and
prayed for victory. His brother, two
sons and a nephew We're all wounded
and taken prisoners. Colonel Schiel
of the German corps, and Commandant
Pretorius were both severely wounded.
Many prominent Beers are not yet ac-
counted for.
Philip Kock says the Beers suffered
most from soldiers in little clothes
half men and half mountaineering
the Gordon Highlanders, and in the
charge Of the Fifth Lancers. They say
also that the firing guns captured by
the Devonshire Regiment are those that
were taken from the Jameson raiders.
Colonel Schiel assured a correspond
ent that nothing could stand against
the accuracy of the British field guns
which repeatedly drove the Transvaa1
gunners from their embrasures. The
British infantry fire was also, he said
q complete surprise to the Beers, who
were confident Of their ability to mas
ter any infantry attack.
One Glands Laagte correspondent ex.
presses the belief that the British killed
fewer Beers than might have been ex-
,pected, considering the heavy fire ot
the British artillery. The bullet of the
Boer Mausers, it appears. makes g
clean, healthy wound where it passa:
out. No operations for extraction
have been necessary at the Ladysmitf
hospital.
With regard to the western frontier
it is reported that President Steyn re-
Gently visited a force Of 1000 Boar.
encamped ten miles south of Kimberly
The war is having it's natural effec
in Cape Colony. Everything is at fam
inc prices. and horse flesh is at a ire
mendous premium.
A Dutch circular is being secretly cir.
culated in the Burghersdorp district
appealing to the Dutch to stant
shoulder to shoulder against the "ty.
rant who never keeps faith"
NOT THE BRITISH VICTORIES RE
PORTED.
LONDON. Oct. 26.-The dispatches
sent from the front are so diversified
and contradictory that it is difficult
to outline the situation with any de-
gree of precision. Three or four mair
facts, however, stand out prominently
General Symons' fight at Glencoe was
not anything like the decisive victory "a
first alleged, and General Yule would
in all prODaDlIlIy nave DSGI annlnllaIeC
or have met with the same fate as the
captured Hussars if he had not re
treated.
General Whites artillery duel a
Reftfontein was a very severe engage
ment, in which the rifle did great exc
cution and which success was alsC
achieved at a distressing cost.
The bombardment of Mafeking ha
commenced with unknown result ESnC
the Beers have got their Hussar pris
oners safely to Pretoria.
Altogether. the campaign is beint
pushed by the Beers so strenuously anC
on such sound strategical lines that tn,
situation of the British must in al
probability give them cause for anx
iety for some time to come.
1t is difficult to see how the concen
trated force at Ladysmith will be abl
to take the aggressive Immediately
Apart from the fatigue, regiments lik'
the Gordon Highlanders and Roya
Rifles have been practically without Of
ficers since the fights, and 135 addi