The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-17
JOUBERT is NOT DEAD
The Runor From Durham Is Discredited.
Beers Suffer a Heavy LOSS in an At
tack on Ladysmith-TheyA Are Hurry
ing Troops to the Besleged City - De-
Libsrate Their Forces

London, Nov. 17-5 a. m.-Misfort-
une steadfastly pursues British employ
ment Of armored trains, the fascina-
tion for which has given the Beers their
first and last victories. On this last oc-
casion the British seem to have walked
into deliberate trap, with the result
that, according to the best accounts,
80 men are either killed, wounded or
missing. OF these the fusiiers claim 80
and the Durham infantry 40. 1t is be-
lieved that few escaped and the others
are prisoners in the hands of the Beers.
Many of the wounded were brought
back on the locomotive and tender of
the armored train. Captain Haldane
of the Gordon IIighanders was at
tached to the fusiliers and other officers
were with them. The list of casualties
is awaited with great anxiety. In time
of trouble Lieutenant Winston Church
i'll has proved himself more soldier
than correspondent. and his gal
lantry is highly praised on all sides.
The rumor of the death of General
Joubert is discredited. 1t is understood
that the war office has news that he is
still directing affairs. 1t is also rumor-
ed from Pietermaritzburg that the Boer
losses at Ladysmith on Thursday were
heavy and included General Lucas
Meyer, who was either killed or wound
ed. The report as to General Joubert
probably arose from the fact that his
wife has left the Boer camp at Lady
smith for the Free State.
According to the Pietermaritzburg
correspondent of the London Outlook,
rumors are current in the Natal capi-
tai that the Beers contemplate a re-
is however T.
tach Importance to such reports, which
are spread, in all probability, in the
hope of luring General White, if pos
sible, to abandon his defensive atti
tude. Similar rumors are current re-
garding the Beers at Mafeking and are
spread ndustriously by native spies.
Special dispatches from Lorenzo
Marquee say that the Transvaal gov
ernment is exercising a severe censor
ship over all war news and will not al-
low newspapers to leave the country.
One correspondent says the Bores are
hurrying new commands to Lady
smith and are declaring that the place
must fall speedily in order to liberate
their forces so that these may so to
| meet General Buffers advance.
The latest dispatches from Estcourt
regarding the armored train engage
| ment say that the train was capsized
by an explosion, presumably of dyna-
| mite. Inc engine returned TO ESlCOuTl
| with two dead fusliers and the follow
| ing wounded; Captain Wylie, thrae
on-commissioned officers and nine pri-
Yates, all belonging to the Durham vol
| unteerS.
| Another Estcourt correspondent says:
"a Boer contingent of 300 men came
south of Frere on Wednesday and two
| companies of mounted troops of the I'm
perial light horse and Natal carbineers
| engaged them eight miles from Est
! court. The Beers occupied a strong
position on a kopje. The carbineers
worked around on their right and drove
| the enemy back, whereupon the I'm
| perial light horse opened a brisk fire
| at medium range, killing several One
man of the Imperial light horse was
wounded.
1.-THE West Yorkshire regiment, the
| Prince of Wales Own. commanded by
! Colonel Kitchener, brother of Lord
| Kitchener of Khartoum, has arrived at
Estcourt from Durham. The troops
there sleep in their boots,' and the ut
most vigilance is maintained, and it is
rumored that some important move
ment is imminent"
According to a special dispatch from
Lorenzo Marques, General Lucas Meyer
has gone to Pretoria for his health
However, a difference of opinion exists
among the commanders. The Boer mill
| tary council wants the army moved
elsewhere, but General Joubert insists
that Ladysmith must fall first.
The postal authorities at Durham open
| and inspect all letters from Delagoa
| Bay.