The record-union., 1899-11-15

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State for India, announced in a speech
last evening that a relief force would
be Immediately sent to Ladysmith, but
beyond that nothing is known of the
British campaign, and equal secrecy
shrouds the movements Of the Beers
The Morning Post" which conn
plains that 1t was unwise tactics on the
| part of the British officers to leave tbs
railway intact in their retirement to
Ladysmith, says: 1T is another illus
/ tration of British contempt for the
Beers that they treated the regiment
as though it were an advance, and pre-
served the enemy's line of communica-
ton as carefully as if it had been our
own
| DR.. Jameson, the hero of the raid, left
Cape Town for England last Thursday.
The Cape authorities have seized
wireless telegraph plant found on
board vessel destined for Delagoa
Bay
THE REITZ STORY DOUBTED.
| LONDON, Nov 14.-Nothing is
known either at the War Office or the
Colonial Office here regarding the al
legged official statement cabled from
Cape Town saying State Secretary
Reitz, in behalf of the Transvaal Gov
eminent, has demanded that General
White Immediately release Nathan
Marks, a supposed spy, who is confined
at Ladysnith, the dispatch adding that
President Kruger threatens if Marks is
executed to retaliate by shooting six
British officers in the hands of the
| Beers.
| ic- how. rfod fr~art 70 Tla
that Marks entered Ladysmith after
the investment of that place, with the
supposed object of obtaining informa-
ton for the Beers. and one version OF
the story is that the Transvaal authori-
ties have threatened to execute six
British officers if the supposed spy is
not released, to which General Butler
is said to have replied that the British
were entitled to retain the man until
he should render a. satisfactory account
of himself.
Both stories, it is asserted, bear the
imprint of improbability, as there is no
reason to think the Beers would be
guilty of such a complete change from
their previous correct attitude aud
manner of conducting hostilities. New
ertheless, the sensational afternoon pa
pers here are already demanding that
President Kruger and all the members
of the Executive Council be ruthlessly
handled, as the only fitting reprisal in
the event of State Secretary Reitz's
threat being carried out.
There is no doubt that the lombard
ment of Ladysmith has increased in in
tensity during the last few days, and
though all messages from there speak
of the confidence of the defenders,
load of anxiety will be removed from
the country when unrestrained COM
munication with the beleaguered town
is re-established.
The allegations of Father Matthews
have made a painful impression, and
there is a disposition TO discredit them
as being merely the excited view of
non combatant ignorant of real mill
tary requirements. Nevertheless, his
story has added immensely to the anx-
iety of those who had relatives at the
battle of Nicholsons Mex, as a result
of the dishonoring exposure.
It is reported that officials at Cape
Town are now stopping all official for
eign kilograms, whether in code or 9TH
erwise, except messages to the Gov
1 ernor of Portuguese East Africa and
Portugal.
Later in the day the Eastern Tele-
graph Company formally announced
that in accordance with the instruc-
tons of the Postmaster General of
Cape Colony no foreign official dis
patches, either in secret code or cipher.
can be transmitted via the Cape ex-
cept messages between Portugal and
LIT - T q p
quez
LITTLE ALARM AT KIMBERLEY.
HOPE TOWN, Nov. 10.-(Afternoon.)
An undated dispatch received from
Kimberley says:
1.-The Beers ceased Smelling November
It'll, about Z p. M, having fired at in
tervals all day long some seventy shells,
a majority of them falling in debris
heaps and open spaces. The average
range was $50 yards. One cooking
pot was injured. There was a brisk
market for fragments. choice specimens
bringing e. The Beers, apparently.
were Smelling at the extreme range of
their guns. Yesterdays attempt was
regarded as ludicrous. The weather
was splendid. The bombardment was
continued briskly all the morning of
november StQ. OHe smell 0dTfOWly
missed the Dutch church. There We're
no casualties. The shells are of a very
inferior quality, and seemingly fired by
amateurs. One, almost intact, was
picked up. 1t weighs eight and quar-
ter pounds. The Beers have been fir
ing from three positions. So far the
Boer activity causes little alarm
REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVING.
! LONDON, Nov. 14.-It was officially
announced this afternoon that the
troopship Britannia has arrived at Cape
Town, and that the troopship Lismore
Castle and the Yorkshire have arrived
at Durham.
! 1t was also officially announced that
the troopship Oriental, which left Lon
don October Goth, had sailed from Cape
Town for Durham. and the Donald
Currie line steamer Carisbrook Castle,
which sailed from London October 9th
with the cavalry brigade staff and ma
val reinforcements on board, had ar
rived at Cape Town.
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