Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1899-11-01

WILL Tie DUETS lueEc OCt. ~, WIS Olu-
cially announced in the house of COM
mons.
The war office has received the fol-
lowing dispatch from General White
dated Ladysmith, Oct 26.
General Yules column has just
marched in here after very hard
march during night of exceptionally
heavy rain. The men. though done up,
are in good spirits and only want
rest. The enemy did not modest
them"
The parliamentary secretary of the
war office, Mr.. Wyndham. in announc-
ing the death of General Symons, said:
'The news was considerably sent to
General White by General Joubert,
which confirms the impression that
General Yule had to leave his wounded
at Dundee. We hope to have shortly
full information on the dispositions.
made by General Yule for his wounded
before leaving. The house will be glad
to know" he added, that we have q
further report from Mafeking which
was all right on Oct. 81. AS the estab-
lishment of the Eighteenth hussars
was complete, there is no explanation
why infantry officers fell into the enc.
my's hands at the same time, and 1t Ia
assumed they were mounted infan-
try"
The Fight at Glencoe.
The dispatches from the front are
80 diversified and contrary that 1t Ia
difficult to outline the situation with
any degree of precision. Three or four
main facts, however, stand out promi-
nently. General Symons' fight at
Glencoe was not anything like the de-
cisive victory at first alleged, and Gen.
eral Yule would in all probability have
been annihilated or have met with the
same fate as the captured huzzars IL
he had not retreated.
General Whites ARTILLERY duel" at
Rietfontein was very severe engage
ment in which the rifle did great exc.
cution and which success was also
achieved at distressing cost. The
bombardment of Nafeking has COM
menced, with unknown result, and the
Beers have got their hussar prisoners
safely at Pretoria Altogether, the
campaign is being pushed by the Beers
SO strenuously and in such sound
strategical lines that the situation OF
the British must in all probability give
them cause for deep anxiety for some
time to come.
An official British account Of the
fighting at Rietfontein, given out at
Cape Town, says:
1.-THE enemy posted a battery two
miles south of Modderspruit and
opened with infantry fire at long range
on the British advance guard, consist
ing of the Nineteenth hussars. This
was followed by artillery fire directed
with considerable accuracy against the
British guns. An action lasting six
hours ensued at Rietfontein Friday.
The enemy were driven from the hills
commanding the roads. Sir George
Whites object being accomplished, the
column ret ned to Ladysmith The
enemy is believed to have suffered.
Several Beers own officially that they
lost over 100 killed at Elandslaagte.
Three hundred prisoner, wounded and
unwounded, are in the hands of the
British. including several of high POSI-
ton. The Transvaal force defeated at
Elandsgaate was the Johannesburg
corps"
Other accounts dwell on the severity
of the rifle fire at Reitfonteln They
say that when the Beers finally retreat.
ed the Lancers cut them off from
their horses and inflicted severe loss
on them. The retreat. 1t is added, end.
ed in a general rout.
1t is announced in dispatch from
Ladysmith, dated Oct. %, that strong
achievements of infantry and artil-
lery have arrived there from Pieter-
maritzburg. 1t was also reported that
the Beers were again massing near
Elandslaagte and that Free State
force several thousand strong. was oc-
cupying Besters Station. Advices from
Cape Town show that the assembly at
Hutiatu river was attended by all the
principal Basuto chiefs. The resident
commissioner, Sir Godfrey Lagden,
was present.
London, Oct. 2s.-During the mo-
mentary lull in the fighting in Natal
comes news from the western border
which temporarily shifts the scene Of
chief interest to the beleaguered Brit
lsh force at Kimberley. The sharp
struggle there Tuesday appears to
have been the result of a sortie, with
the view of breaking the Gordon sur
rounding the place. The British, ap-
parently 500 strong, met 700 Beers,
and, according to the official and other
accounts, routed them after severe
fighting, in which the armored trains
appear to have done valuable service.
The Beers were entrenchel strongly
seven miles northward, and the British
brilliantly carried the enemy's position
without serious loss. 1t 10 said that
thu Doers twice unfairly used white