The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-10-26
PUBLIC IN DARK
A Rigid Censorship
Occasions Much
Anxiety.
JULES JUNCTION WITH WHITE.
News Of New Battle Ex-
pected Every
Day.
JULES JUNCTION WITH WHITE.

London, Oct. 25.-The Cape Town cor
respondent telegraphs: THE censor
ship, which is always a delicate matter,
is working smoothly and without a
hitch"
This exactly hits off the state of af-
fairs today. An ominous veil is still
drawn over the movements of Gen. Sir
George Stewart White and Gen. Yule.
Beyond belated Ladysmith dispatches
concerning the Elandslsagte fight,
which are still hltering in, the British
public is left in complete darkness and
to conjecture over Cooked war dis
patches. The officials of the war office
last evening said that very few dis
patches had arrived and that nothing
further was to be expected until morn
ing.
Since it is practically certain that
Gen. Yule has now effected a conjunc-
ton with Gen White, although this
was not brought about Tuesday night,
as announced by the Dail1 Mail but
some time on Wednesday, and as both
are now in position of safety, con-
lecture concerns itself chiefly with the
movement of Gen. Yule's retreat. Was
it disorderly? Was any considerable
camp equipment abandoned? Was
there any fighting on the way?
Such questions and others like them
the public is anXiously asking. Since
the receipt of Gen. Whites curious first
description of the Ladysmith fight, in
which the British lost 100 men, little
reliance can be placed on the official
dispatches. While the concealment of
the facts regarding Gen. Yule's retreat
can be amply justified on the ground
of keeping the intelligence from the
Beers, the hiding of the news respect
| ing the hussars and fusileers who We're
apparently captured in the battle at
Glencoe. is severely criticized, no in
timation even having been given that
the officers were missing.
The heavy losses of the British troops
| in facing only some 5000 Beers are COM
| mented on as what rifle fire means to-
! day in the hands of even undisclplined
| men, who can shoot fairly straight and
stand their ground. Comparisons are
made with the first EN- Jloymen OF the
| magazine rife in the Hispano-Amcrican
! war, where the American losses would
have been much heavier if the. Span
| iards had tioggedly stood their q found
at El Caney and San Juan, like the Bo-
ers did at Glencoe.
Sir RGdvers Butler is expected 10
reach the Cape some time next week.
There is every probability, therefore,
| that achievements are now moving
! up. This is calculated 70 hasten Com
mandanC Gen. Joubert's attack on La
! dysmith, and news of big battle is
daily expected.
| About half a complete army corps is
now afloat, and lull has occurred in
| dispatching the remainder of Ger. Bull
ler's forces, owing to some difficulty in
obtaining transports. The mobilization
and embarkation Of 21,000 men, how
ever, have proceeded with the utmost
smoothness and completeness, exciting
the admiration of even the severest
critics Of the war office.
Although news has arrived that Gen.
Symens is doing well, there is no in
dication as to his whereabouts. II 10
presumed that he is at Dundee, in the
hands of the Beers.
Speaking at Dublin yesterday to The
departing troops, Gen. Lord Frederick
Roberts of Kandahar said that, how
ever important previous campaigns in
South Africa had appeared at the time,
they dwindled into insignificance when
compared with the great event in which
the British troops We're now to engage.