The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17
He TRANSVAAL WAR.
Daily Record Of the Great Events That are Trans
piring inSOuth Africa.

troopship Armenian, with three bat
teries of artillery and an ammunition
/ column, and the troopship Nubia, with
the Scots guards and half battalion
of the Northamptonshir regiment.
This brings the total number of reinE
forcements to IL, SO2 of which 5000 are
already on their way to Durham. The
Armenian and Nubia, whose troops be-
long to the First division, will proba-
bly, also be ordered to proceed. Nine
troopships, carrying 1000 men, are
due at Cape Town to-day.
THE STORY or THE SURRENDER.
Lorenzo Marques, Nov. 9.-Father
Matthews, who has arrived here from
Pretoria, says with reference to the
surrender of the Irish fusiliers and the
Worcestershire troops at Nicholson's
Mex that after the mules stampeded,
the force got hard pressed by the enemy.
They would have held out, however,
but some subordinate, without in
structions, hoisted flag of truce on
his own responsibility. Nothing then
remained but to surrender. The sur
render was great blunder caused by
a misunderstanding.
London, Nov. 15.-There is no addi-
tional news regarding the progress OF
hostilities in South Africa this morning
except dispatch from Mafeking, for
warded by a runner, dated October 81,
which says that during the afternoon
Gen. Cronie, the Boer commander, sent
an envoy to Col. BadenPowell, under
flag of truce, to declare that he did
not consider the Geneva convention
authorized the flag of the Red Cross
society to fly from several buildings at
once in the town, and that in his opin-
ion the employment of natives against
whites and the use of dynamite mines
were both opposed to the rules of war.
Col. Baden-Powell replied that the
Geneva convention did not stipulate as
to the number of Red Cross stations
permissible and that the Beers were
only required to respect the convent.
the hospital and the women's lager,
all of which were beyond the town
limits. The British commander also
pointed out that mines were recognized
adjuncts of civilized warfare and the
defenses of Pretoria were extensively
mined. Moreover, he reminded Gen.
Cronje that the Beers had fired upon
natives burned their kraals and re-
leased their cattle and that the natives
only defended their lives and property.
Despite three warnings from Col.
Baden-Powell the Beers continued de-
liberately to shell the hospital and the
woman's lager. The sending of the
Boer envoy was regarded, the dispatch
says, as mere pretext for penetrating
the British lines at Mafeking. Accord
ing to the latest reports, the town is
confident of it's ability to hold out un
til the end of the campaign.
So far as imberleyis concerned, the
mental condition of the British there
may be good from the fact that three
weddings have taken place since the
siege began, the last having been
celebrated on November s.
In the absence of fresh news the
morning papers are driven to discuss
Lord alisoury', let e. r'garding mis-
interpretations of his utterances at the
lord mayors banquet and President
Krugers threat to execute British OIL
GERS now in his hands unless Nathan
Marks, "A supposed Boer spy, is released
10y Sir George White. The premier's
deliverancc meets with universal APP
prevail although the explanation was
in no way necessary, as, outside the
Daily Chrenicle, no one had supposed
his words could bear the meaning
which Boer sympathizcrs had been en-
deavoring to read into them.
President Kruger's threat has eX-
cited widespread Indignation. The
Daily News demands that his friends
should promptly inform him that his
own neck and that of DR.. Reitz, the
Transvaal state secretary will be held
responsible for any such violation OF
the elementary rules of civilized war
fare.
The great delay on South African
cables, now amounting practically to
five days, and the lack of any definite
news from Ladysmith give rise TO some
apprehension, which is only relieved
by the fact that no adverse tidings
have come from either British or BoeI
sources.
Nothing is known as to the where
abouts, of Gen. Sir Redvers Butler. III.
NJ. S. Powerful has arrived at Simon's
bay from Durham and begun to coal
The cruiser will return to Durham i'm
mediately with more guns. Lord
George Hamilton, secretary of state
for India, announced in a speech Mon
day evening that relief force would
Immediately be sent to Ladysmith, but
hevond that nothing is known of the
British campaign and equal secrecy
surrounds the movements of the
Beers.
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