The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-10-19
THE SEIGE OF MA FEKING.
No Credit Given Report About the Flag
of Truce.

London, Oct. 19.-There is still no au-
thentic news from Mafeking, but all re-
ports tend to confirm the belief that
Colonel Baden-Powell is holding his
own and no credit is given to the vague
Tumors that a flag of truce had been
displayed.
A considerable engagement is antici-
pated in the vicinity of Ladysmith to-
day. The combined advance of Boer
and Free State troops in this direction
has been executed with not inconsdera-
BILE skill and shows clear appreciation
of the British position. General Sir
George Stewart White has $4,000 men
and forty-six guns available, besides
considerable force of volunteers to hold
Ladysmith, and no anxiety is felt, on
his account, for the Natal country
where the engagement is expected is
fairly open, and, although the work of
moving them would be difficult, the
guns are likely to do good work
The country is not favorable for Boer
tactics, and it will be very difficult for
them to avoid the exposure of their
Hanks to attack by a vigorous and mo-
bile enemy already occupying useful po-
sitions; that is, supposing they really
mean to fight and not merely to at
tempt to draw General White further
out with a view of surrounding him.
General White has large body of ex-
cellept cavalry, which will be put to
good use.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail says: 1.-THE authorities at
johannesburg have announced that
they will make a house to house search
on Monday and will compel every Brit
fish subject to leave the town. The i'm
perial authorities have impounded 150,
600 sovereigns which arrived by steam
er to-day for the Transvaal. The money
will be kept here until the war is ended.
Conyngham Greene and Lady Greene
sailed for England to-day An enthu-
siastic crowd assembled to bid them
farewell. Dispatches from Beira, dated
Saturday, state that the Beers advanc-
ing northward were repulsed at Lobatsi
station This doubtless means that Col
onel Plumer's force, advancing to the
relief of Mafeking, had encountered the
Beers"
The Times Lobatsi correspondent,
telegraphing under date of October IA
says: THE Beers were around us all
day yesterday and broke up the line in
several places between Pitsani and
Mafeking. They were attacked and de-
feated by party of our men from
Mafeking.\ Thirty Beers were killed
during the night Another lot broke up
the line mile north of Lobatsi, cut
ting the wires. The station master and |
all of us here set to work and have |
iust restored communication. A run
ner has arrived bringing news of Col |
pnel Baden -Powell's success in keeping |
the enemy at bay"
The Daily Telegraph's correspondent !
at Ladysmith says no newspaper re- |
ports are allowed to proceed from there |
either to Bester's Station or Acton |
Homes and adds that General Joubert's
forces are moving against Glencoe and |
Besters Station on the Harrismith-
Lynch line. According to the same au
thority some volunteers who had just
come into Ladysmith from Bester's
station and Acton Homes before this
dispatch was sent report that 300 Beers
tried ineffectually to cut off small par