El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-30
Beers Are Massing Around
Ladysmith and Outnum-
Der The British BY
FIVE THOUSAND MEN
The Successful Forces Will
Have Control OF All The
Northern Natal
Country.

PARIS, Oct. 3O.-Prominent mem,
here held meeting today for the pur-
pose of providing way to render
material aid to the Beers.
LONDON, Oct. 3O.-Bulletins an
nouncing the beginning of battle at
Lsdysmith have created intense excite
ment here. 1t will be a great bat
tie.
loss of allN Northern Natal to the British.
For days the Boer commanders have
been drawing nearer to the town from
the northeast and west. To the north
ward the plain is black with Beers
who can be plainly seen about the
town.
It is evident that the Beers do not
intend giving the British the advan-
tage that they did at Dundee by allow
ing them to tackle one column at q
time. This time they will strike all
together. Hence the delay in begin
ming the engagement. The Beers out
number the British by about 5000.
Artillery will figure prominently In
the battle at LaGysmith. The Beers
have brought up long range guns with
which they will open on the town. The
British have already stationed their
guns 80 as to command the approaches
to the town from the north.
All the ridges around town are oc-
cupied by the British to prevent the
Beers from gaining them.
Ladysmith lies at the foot of a semi
circle of hills. To the west is a broad
plain making q splendid field for bat
tie
The Boer forces number about H.
900. Tne British under Sir George
Stewart White number about 1900
and consist of the Fifth, Nineteenth
and what is left OF the Fig hteenth
Hussars; the Natal mounted volunteers
Highlanders, the First Kings Rifles,
the Second Dublin Fusileers, the Roy
al Irish Fusileers and the Liverpool.
Devonshire, Gloucestershire and Lei
cestershire regiments: several COM
panies of mounted infantry, the Twen-
ty-third company of Royal Engineers
and hospital corps.
ENGLISH AT KIMBERLY WELL
PROvISIONED.
LONDON, Oct. 3O.-A dispatch from
says: "We have provisions
enough to last us for nine months.
whatever. We are in no hurry to be
relieved"
BOERS GIVE A "SMOKER" TO THEIR
ENGLISH PRISONERS.
CAPETOWN, Oct. 30.-The British |
prisoners who escaped from the Beers |
report that the Beers gave "smoker"
in honor of the British prisoners and |
Joined them in singing "God Save the
Queen"
JAMESON AT DURHAM.
LONDON, Oct. 30.-A dispatch from
Durham says that DIR. Jameson has ar
rived there.
BOERS DEFEATED.
LONDON, Oct. 30.-Gen. White re-
ports that he has engaged the Boer
column under JOubert and driven the
Beers back several miles.
POSITION OF THE TROOPS.
LONDON, Oct. 3O.-A dispatch from
sent before the firing began
gives something definite regarding the
position of the British and Boer troops.
White is at Ladysmith with the main
body of British. General French is at
is few miles to the east,
With five battalions of in
Isntry, six battalions of
artillery and considerable cavalry.
The British cavalry forces are strung
out to the southeast and southwest to
defect the Beers sent to cut of the
British retreat southwark. Near
French's forces, is the Boer General
Lucas Mayer, with 1000 men.
At Matawnsk0n Tn the north !