Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-10-24

Who Is fastening to South Africa
With an Army Corps.
and was concentrating spat Glencoe
junction. In this operation we gath
cred III the wounded and medical at
tendants left at Dundee.
s''General White was i'll possession
at Ladysmith and is being reinforced
from PietermarirtZburg.
'''The enemy appears ID be i'll large
numerical superiority.
The Pretoria dispatch giving the re-
port of General Joubert to the govern
ment evidently refers to the first battle
at Glencoe, and the reasons why Com
mandaut Erasmus failed to come to the
assistance of Commandant Meyer can
not be fathomed. Had he done so. the
British victory might have been still
more dearly bought. Probably Com
mandant Meyer opened attack without
waiting for the others. If SO, the
Beers suffered badly because of his
hastiness.
1t appears certain, however, that the
brilliant victory at Elandslaagte was
productive of no effect for the relief of
Glencoe and the very reticence and
brevity of Lord Wolseley's communities.
tion are only too ominous. 1t seems to
be worded to prepare the public for bad
news an it is only too likely that Gen.
eral Yule has been compelled to aban-
don the wounded and the prisoners at
Dundee, because his force is too weak
to hold the four and half miles separ-
atlng Dundee from Glencoe.
Probably General Yule believes he
can better protect Dundee from an
enemy advancing from the northwest
by concentrating all his available
strength at Glencoe, where there are
now $500 men and three batteries. In
the meantime efforts will be made to
reopen the railway and TO get reinforce
ments from Ladysmith.
1t is expected that Commandant Eras-
mus has by this time joined Command
ant General .joubert and that their
combined columns amounts to some
10000 OF ll,G0U men, while the Free
State Beers, now threatening Lady
smith from the east, and column re-
reported to be coming through Zululand
must also be reckoned with.
In short, General Sir George Stewart
White has been unable to follow up his
successes and is obliged to remain at
Ladysmith without being able To re-
store railway communication, which is
probably broken at other points besides
Eianttslaagte
Thus the enemy. although their orig
inal plan, which is supposed to have
been Colonel Schiel's, failed, may fairly
be credited with having isolated Gen
eral lule's brigade and divided the
British forces in Natal. General Yule
may find himself III a tight place, need
ing all mis- experience ill Indian and
Burmese fighting to extricate himself.
A private message from Ladysmith
says that a messenger who has just ar
rived there from Pretoria says the
women there We're weeping and wall
ing on the market place. Three trains
have been dispatched from Xlerksdorp
to fetch the wounded from Mafeking.
1t is estimated there are 700 killed and
wounded, and it is stated at Pretoria
that the British casualties are only l9.
An amended list of the British casual
ties at the battle of Elandslaagte places
the number of officers killed at and
wounded 30, and the number of non
commissioned officers and men killed at
81 and wounded at l75, the total num-
Der of casualties being 247. Ten men
are missing.
PRETORIA, Oct. 21.-Delayed in
transmission. 1.-The Transyaal govern.
ment received this morning the follow.
ing dispatch from Commandant Cen
eral Piet Joubert:
"Commandant Lucas Meyer has had
an engagement at Dundee. He made
plan of campaign with Commandant
Erasmus by messenger. Erasmus.