Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1899-11-01

with the Beers there Oct. 20, was off.
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 a very hard
march during night of exceptionally
heavy rain. The men. though done up,
are In good spirits and only want q
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 a
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 ene-
my's hands at the same time, and it is
assumed they We're mounted infan-
try"
The Fight at Glencoe.
The dispatches from the front are
so diversified and contrary that it is
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 Cen
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 duer' at
Rietfontein was very severe engage
ment In which the rifle did great exc
cuti0n and which success was also
achieved at a distressing cost. The
b0mbardment Of Mafeking 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 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 We're driven from the hills
commanding the roads. Sir George
Whites object being accomplished. the
column returned 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 mt
Elandsgaate was the Johannesburg
corps"
Other accounts dwell on the severity
of the rife fire Mt Reitfontein. They
say that whom 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 general rout.
1t is announced In dispatch from