Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1899-10-20

Cape Town The Orange Free State
troops have cut the telegraph wires
and destroyed the railroad track at
Norval'1 Point, just across the Free
state southern border. A dispatch
from Dundee, Natal, says that Boer
command estimated at 2, 900 men, with
sixteen field guns, has reached Damn
huser, northeast of Dunde, with the
probable intention of surrounding Dun
dee and cutting off the garrison from
communication with Glencoe and Lady
smith.
1t is supposed that this force is COM
manded by Commandant Villejon and
comprises the German gunners.
The rest of the Boer forces from New
Castle is believed to he marching
around Glencoe to sever its connection
with Ladysmi tn. As the refugees IN
Caps Town threaten to become trouble
some and have hooted and mobbed a
number of leading Dutchmen there Is
expectation that martial law will be
proclaimed.
Kimberly and Dundee Threatened.
London. The gradual cutting off Of
outlying points at the scene Of hostlii-
ties in South Africa from Geographic
communication reduces tho accurate
news obtainable to minimum. Thus
far, however no reliable information
has been received of any actual fgnt-
ing outside of the affair at Kraapin
and occasional exchanges Of shots at
various outposts. There is on lack of
circumstantial stories regarding fight
ing at various points but these are
scarcely published before they are de-
MED.
The only salient facts in Mondays
kilograms are that the Beers have adj
vanced beyond New Castle and formed
laager near Dannhauser, about twelve
miles north of Dundee, and that KIM
berly is isolated and probably invested.
Kimberly has thus become the inn
mediate centre of interest. The last
message from Kimberly prior to the
cutting of the telegraph and the rail-
road by the Beers, said:
''All the troops at Kimberly are
we'll"
As there are 3, 900 troops there, there
is little anxiety for the safety OF the
town, especially as the Boer force Is
said to be only OF about the same
strength. Many stories of brisk fight
ing at that point are in circulation
but although the forces are likely to
have come in to contact, all alleged
details must be regarded as premature
and speculative, especially If the report
be true that the Orange Free State
troops are now IN complete possession
of the railway from Kimberley to
Orange river, seventy miles away. The
alleged virulence of the Boer attacks
upon Mafeking and Kimberly can read
ily be understood when it is realized
that Becuanaland is to the Beers what
Alsace Lorraine is to France.
1t is, therefore, probable that both
towns will be forced to undergo long
and dreary Investment before the
British are in position to send re-
lievlng column.
On the other side of the country, the
Doors are closing around the British
outposts and have already come into
touch with them and exchanged shots.
Therefore, more stirring news is ex-
pected. Advices from Cape Town re-
late that excitement is kept up there
by ceaseless reports OF battles but,
that little uneasiness is visible in off
cial circles, where the opinion pre-
walls that the Beers are not likely to
attack Vyrburg; in Bechunalaand.
owing to the fact that the population
of that district is largely Dutch. 1t
is assumed that the refusal of tho
Beers to accept battle in Natal last
week, when Gen. SIR George Stewart
White advanced and endeavored to
draw them through Van Keenan, Pass,
indicates their unwilllngness to com
mence hostiHties.
On the other hand the Beers are
too astute to play the Brit
ish game at the risk of an engage
ment of the ground where artillery
could be brought into play and cav