Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1899-10-19

shall suffer unnecessary injury
London, Oct. II. Dispatches from tn
Cape include an important message
from Glencoe camp announcing that TN
Boer commanders, which invaded Nata
through Laing's Mex and after occu
plying Newcastle advanced to Damn
hauser, retired on Ingagane Sunday
evening, their transport service being
reported defective. This will delay in
definitely the anticipated and hoped
for assault on the strong British posi-
ton at Glencoe.
Another dispatch reports activity or
the part OF the Free State commando
in the neighborhood of Aliwal North
on the southern frontier. The Beers
advance patrol, the dispatch says, &c
to the frontier bridge nightly to keep
watch, firing shots at intervals as sig
nails 1t is believed the enemy intends
shortly to try to rush the railway sta
ton, with the help of artillery posted
on a ridge commanding the town.
There are rumors that the Beers have
been repulsed at Mafeking and are at
lacking Vryburg.
A Cape Town paper has a dispatch
from the Orange river stating that the
telegraph wires have been cut between
vryburg and Kimberly and it is be-
lieved that the Beers are taking adj
vantage OF the presence of large
gathering Of disloyal farmers at Vry-
burg celebrating Nachtmaal to attack
the town, hoping that the farmers will
assist them against the British.
The same dispatch says that the
British force at Kimberly is confident
of It's ability to hold out, but urges the
immediate dispatch of a relief force.
BY its constant refusal to send a force
of volunteer artillery thither. Many
residents of Cape Town have relatives
at Vryburg and they are furious with
Messrs. Merriman and Sauer, respec-
lively colonial treasurer and commits
sioner of public works, and the minis
tiers are mobbed whenever they appear
in public. Mr.. Hotfmeyr, the Afri-
kander leader, has gone to the coun-
try to escape the outbursts OF indigna-
ton. On Sunday night the streets
were filed with angry citizens and it
was feared that rioting would occur
This combined with the pressure OF
the imperial government, brought the
Schreiner government to a sense OF its
peril as well as Of its duty and moved
IL to decide to call out the volunteers.
The volunteers are 1000 strong and
have-il pieces of artillery.
The Natal invasion was made in
three columns at dawn on October II,
through Bothas pass, Laing's Mex and
from Wakkerstroom, the objective
point of the invaders being Newcastle.
The Beers utilized several thousand
natives who were tramping from the
Rand to drive their heavy guns up
Laing's Mex.
Precautions are being taken for the
defense Of Pietermalitzburg and Dur.
ban, in the remote contingency that
the enemy may elude the vigilance of
the British at the Ladysmith and Glen
coe camps.
The calling out of the Cape Colony
volunteers is supplemented by deci-
sion to raise 1000 more volunteers in
Cape Colony and 1000 in Natal. Thus
the total strength OF the volunteer
forces in both places will amount to
IL, 800 men.
Martial law has been proclaimed at
Mafeking, vryburg, Taungs, Herbert
and Barkley West.
Dispatches from Dundee say that ac-
cording to the report of refugees the
Boer invaders Of Natal are estimated
at 10, 900. All the non-combatants and
women and children have been sent
from Dundee.
The news that the Beers had ar
rived nj Dannhauser raised hopes that
they would risk an engagement in the
open, but 1t is now ascertained that
the detachment which reached there
was only small advance body Of
Commandment General Joubert's main
column. The advance Of the Beers
was accompanied by some looting Of
stores at Newcastle and lngagane.