The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-11-08
ANOTHER BRITISH
VICTORY REPORTED
Fight at LadySmith Results in
Capture of 1000 Beers.
ENGLISH GARRISON ACTIVE
General Joubert Has Drawn in His
Line and Now Has Only Outposts
at Colesno- Details of Fri
ENGLISH GARRISON ACTIVE


tailed reports of General Whites doings at
Ladysmith must be received before the
public will be able to form clear idea of
what has happened. Reports from various
sources show that another important re-
connoisance or engagement occurred on
Saturday south of Ladysmith and a Cape
town newspaper reports that 1000 Beers
were captured there.
The suggestion of Sir Redvers Butler in
his dispatch to the war office on Sunday
that the name of General French had been
given by mistake for that of Colonel
Broeklehurst in dispatch to him pigeon
post from Durham is now explained by the
dispatch from Pietermaritzburg which says
that General French has left Durham for
Cape Colony. Evidently General Butler
was aware of this
The Daily Telegraph publishes the fol-
lowing dispatch from Pietermaritzburg
dated Sunday evening: "Since their occu-
patton of Colenso the Beers have attempted
no advance further south. Estcourt is now
becoming a strong and growing camp.
Major Wolfe Murray is in temporary COM
mand.
1.-THE enemy bombarded Colenso on Thurs
day until sunset at the extreme range of
his nine centimetre Krupp guns.
Confirmation has been obtained of the
report that General Schalkberger is the
Boer commander at Vryburg. A general
Boer advance is not thought probable.
Means have been taken to secure PETER
maritzburg against any possible attack and
also to relieve Ladysmith before the enemy
can come further.
widespread rumors of both Dutch and
native origin have been current since yes
| terday that during a reconnaissance at La
| dysmith northward toward Mattawanshok
| and Nicholsons Mex, the British troops en-
gagged the enemy. 1t is said that Lyddite
| battery drove the Beers into valley
where the British cavalry charged through
them. The Boer losses in this engagement
are said to have reached 1000, the British
| losses being only about 100.
ut is a fact that General Joubert drew
| in his line today, and the Beers have only
| outposts at Colenso. Runners are bringing
| the names of the Beers who were killed
| and wounded outside Ladysmith, and their
| reports have caused much mourning among
| their relatives"
Tonight's welcome dispatches from the
| front have rent the veil of gloom envelop-
| ing Ladysmith, showing the British garri-
| son not merely standing on the logged de-
| fensive, but executing a series of brilliant
sorties. Accounts from different sources
| agree that the laconic official description
of Thursdays engagement as ian effective
Smelling of the Boer lager" unduly
modest 1t appears that General Sir George
Stewart White sent a strong force of cav
airy and infantry to attack the Beers at
Tathma Farm, about ten miles to the
northwest, near Bestors, and apparently
achieved a surprise, the Beers being caught
on the open veldt and cut to pieces and
their camp captured. Encouraged by this
success General White decided to risk an
even more important engagement of the
following day, which was again justified
| by success.
Ladysmith had been isolated and a Boer
force had intercepted the railway between
| Ladysmith and Colenso. This force on FRI
day had descended upon Colenso, and, as
shown by the dispatches from Escourt, had
compelled a hurried abandonment of Colen-
| so and a retirement of the British to Est
court.
General White had ascertained that the
Beers were attacking Colenso, but he was
| not aware of the British retirement He
had determined, therefore, to attack the
| Beers in the rear, thus hoping to accom-
pish the double object of drawing off an
| attack upon the weak garrison of Colenso
and possibly of re-opening communication
| southwark
| The Beers had advanced southwark until
they had occupied the hills north of Tugela
| ri Od tbo
side of the stream. The hills slopes to a
plain that reaches to the banks of the
Tugela.