The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-11-11
of the Beleaguered
Town Still in Progress Thursday
Evening, but Little Damage Done.
TREACHEROUS ACT OF BOERS
FLAG OF TRUCE VIOLATED BY GEN.
iOUBERT's SOLDIERS.
Buffers Official Dispatches-Dr. LeydS
the Transvaal Agent, Warned by
the Belgian Government.

LONDON. Nov. II, 4:so a. Incomplete
silence has again fallen upon affairs in
South Africa. The British public must per-
force be content with the brief, stereotyped
report which the censor allows to filter
through from s2ape Town. That this con-
dition of things is no longer due TO pressure
of work or defective cables has been amply
proved. The Eastern Telegraph Company
is about two days. 1t is evident. therefore.
that the censorship is responsible for the
other two days of delay which seems TO be-
fall all the dispatches Moreover, the Daily
Telegraph announces that its "appro-
priated" dispatch from Iadysmith. dated
Monday, which the War Office published on
Tuesday. was not delivered in Fleet street
until yesterday (Friday) morning. 1t is be-
lieyed that the War Office received further
dispatches last evening. but nothing has
been published.
warned DR.. Leyds. whose headquarters is at
Brussels, that Belgium is a neutral coun-
try.
A rumor emanating from Amsterdam
sources says a British regiment was deci-
minated Friday by Free Staters. 1t is added
that six hundred OF the British soldiers
were killed or wounded and that three hun
dred horses were captured. There is moth
ing to confirm the rumor.
At banquet in the city OF London yes
terday the Duke Of Cambridge. speaking OF
the war, said: 1--WE ought never to have al
lowed ourselves to be in the position in
which the outbreak Of war found u.s. could
cry over the valuable lives which might
have been spared had we been better pre-
pared"
1t is said that General Butler never ex-
pected to commence the campaign before
Christmas and IL now looks as though this
would be TIE case. Certainly no artillery
can reach Durham before Nov. IL. and with
out additional guns an advance from Est
court would be impossible. No doubt, as
Lord Salisbury said in a recent speech,
England will "muddle through H." and Yet
another illustration OF muddling has be-
come apparent in the fact that gunnery
instructors have only just arrived at WOOL
witch Arsenal for instruction in siege-train
duties. Although hurried preparations are
being made to prepare the siege trains the
fact that the men are at Davenport and
the guns at Woolwich seems TO show that
the idea OF the siege train was quite an
after thought
The Morning Post says: What will como
of such muddling, IL We ever come TO fight
ing a foe able TO turn II TO advantagef
Some radical reforms are still needed In
our mobilization arrangements"
A corps OF engineers from Gibraltar will
accompany the siege train TO the Cape, and
the men will be used In mounting the heavI-
est guns In embrasures. Two battalions OF
mounted infantry, every man selected for
his riding and shooting qualities, will be
sent to the front.
The statement from Ladysmith that the
British guns do not reply to the guns OF
the Beers artillery because the concrete
beds for the guns have not yet hardened
is interpreted I'm some quarters TO mean
simply that the British are outstanding
their ammunition. as the Boer fire is only
trick to get the British 10 waste shells
Among the few items that have arrived
from the Cape to-day is one saying that
the Beers are planting more guns I'm tho
hills surrounding Ladysmith. All the CORE
spondents in the beleaguered town are safe
and anxious to reopen communication
gentleman who visited Nicholson's Mex
after the engagement counted twenty-five
killed and seventy wounded.
The latest advices from Kimberley. dated
Nov. 2. say that al was well there then
An explosion had been heard and the suppo-
sition was that the Beers had blown up
the railway culvert south OF Dronfield.