Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-11-11
SOUTH AFRICAN WAR
COMPLETE SILENCE AGAIN FALLS
OVER AFFAIRS.
CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN CHRISTMAS.
This is Said to Have been Bullcr's
Programme from the first-EnG-
land Expected TO "lIuddie Through
It."

! LONDON, November 4.-i.'v ~ W.
Complete silence has again fallen upon
affairs in South Africa. The British pub
! lie must perforce be content with tho
brief. stereotyped report which the CEN
! sor allows 10 filter through from Cape
Town. That this condition Of things is
no longer due 10 pressure OF work or de-
| fective cables has been amply proven.
! The Eastern Telegraph Company reckons
! that the real delay I'm transmission is
about two days. IT is evident there
fore. that the censorship is responsible
| for the other two days Of delay which
seems TO befau all the dispatches.
Moreover. the Daily Telegraph an
nounces that its appropriated dispatch
from I.adysmth, dated Monday. which
the war once published on Tuesday
! was not delivered in Fleet street until
yesterday Thursday morning. it Is be-
neved the War Office received further
dispatches yesterday afternoon, but none
! have been published.
CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN XMAS.
If is said that General Butler never ex-
pected TO commence the campaign be-
tore Christmas. and fl now looks as
!
though this will be the case. Certainly
no artillery can reach Durham before NO
vember l4th. and without additional guns
an advance from Estc0urt would De lm-
! possible.
No doubt, rs Lord Salisbury said in
recent speech, England Will muadie
through it." and yet another illustra-
ton Of muddling has become apparent
in the fact that gunncry instructors nave
! only Just arrived az WOOlwich Arsenal
| tor instruction IN siose-train duties AL
though hurried preparations are belhs
| made TO prepare the sicee-trains, inc
fact that the men are at Devonport ana
the guns at WOOiWich seems 90 show
that the idea Of the sicsc-traln was quite
/ an afterthought
The Morning Post says; what VIII
come Of such muddlng, IL we ever como
10 fighting a foe abe to turn it TO adj
vantage2 Some radical reforms are still
needed I'm our mobilization arrange
ments."
/ BRITISH OUTSTANDING AMMUNITION
The statement from Ladysmith that
! the British guns do not reply To the BOer
artillery. because the concrete beds Tor
| the guns have not yet hardened is In
/ terpreted i'm some quarters 90 mean Slim
ply that the British are Outstanding their
ammunition, as the Boer fire is only 4
]
Among the few items that have arrived
from the Cape to-day Is one saying that
/ the Beers are planting more guns on tho
! hills surrounding Ladysmith. All the cor
respondents in the beeaguered town are
safe. and anxious TO reopen communica-
/ ton.
A gentleman who visited Nicholson Mex
| after the engagement counted twenty-five
| killed and seventy wounded.
ALL WELL AT KIMBERLEY.
The latest advices from Kimberley
dated November ~, say that all was well
! there then. An explosion had been heard.
and the supposition was that the Beers
had blown mp the railroad culvert south
/ Of Dronfeld.
LEYDS ASKED OUT OF BELGIUM
The Belgian Government, it is said, has
warned Dr. LeyGs, whose headquarters
are AT Brussels, that Belgium is ncu-
tral country.
| SUPPLEMENTARY RESERVES OR
DERED OUT.
LONDON. November 11.-Orders for the
necessary reserves for the supplementary
| division called for by Lord WOlseley were
issued tonight.
WAR LOAN THRICE SUBSCRIBED.
LONDON. November defenders for
|
ment OF the war fund, were opened to-
day. The total Of the applications amount
ed TO &l0,72l,000
The issue was allotted as follows:
ezOpOO0O at six months and 100000 at
twelve months The average rates per
cent were GO. 1885,. 81. for the six-month
bills, and g. 5s., Cd. for the twelve-month
/ bills
CONVOY LOST.
LONDON. November l0.-The War Of
flee this evening issued the following:
From Butler, Cape Town, November
-. 1910 +. NJ. by message from Bulu-
wayo. dated November "a small convoy
and escort, under Spreckey, or Plumer
force. was attacked by Beers November
ID Six men missing and convoy lost. "
The War Office has also issued the fol-
lowing:
"a report having appeared IN the South
African papers that our artillery fired on
the Geneva flag. General Butler tele-
graphs the following account of the in
cident. given in the Standard and Dig
| gers News by the Rev. Mr.. Martens. q
! Dutch clergyman with the Beers:
SHOT THROUGH AN AMBULANCE.
Directly after the first cannon-shot,
the English thought our men We're at the
railway station, and fired on the railway.
They were not, but one Of the shots
went through an ambulance. AS soon as
they found their mistake they ceased
| firing
The ambulance I'm accordance with
| usages. should have been three miles
| from the field Of battle, SO that the am
| bulance cannot claim that the English
broke the usages Of civilized warfare.
! But / DO not think the English woWd
have fred on them had they known this.
II was unintentional.'
ALLEGED BRITISH DISASTER.
LONDON, November l0-Another ru-
NOR. emanating from Amsterdam sources
| SAYS that "a British regiment was deci-
mated Friady by Free Staters." 10 Is add
} cd that coo of the British soldiers were
! killed or wounded. and that 300 horses
were captured
BOMBARDMENT,4 CONTINUES.
LONDON. November lo.-The British
| War once has received from General
| Butler the following dispatch:
cape rown. Thursday evening, No
vember Slave received by pigeon post
from General White, to-day. the follow
| ing:
q The bombardmont ~ long range by
heavy guns continues daily. a few casu-
alties are occurring, but mo- serious harm
Is being done.
REFUGEES FROM TRNNsNAAL.
1.-THE Beers sent IN to-day a number OF
/ refugees from the Transyaal under 4 nag
Of truce. a flag Of truce from Ladysmito