The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-07
PLANS OF GENERAL JouBERT.
Will Probably Try to overwhelm
White With Superior Force.

New York. Nov. "a dispatch to the
Tribune from London says: With the
war Office reduced to the extremity of
holding back important information and
announcing from mouse to house that
there is no news, and with the war cor
respondents, in the PHRASE applied -
Grant to Butler, "bulled up and tight
ly corked, South Africa remained until
midnight Darkest Africa There
We're splinters of belated news regard
/ ing Thursdays artillery duel at Lady
smith, in which a Boer forty-pounder
was wrecked and also a suspiciously
| brief account of 3 brilliant cavalry sor-
tie by which Boer camp was surprised
at Bester's Hill. Later came a mes
sage by pigeon post, forwarded by Gen
eral Butler. showing the town holding
out on Friday, and hard fighting going
on. There was also a. brief reference to
Boer attack upon Colenso, the Sc
quence of which had already come in
tidings from the Colonial office that the
British garrison has fallen back and
abandoned the defense of the brigade
over the Tugela.
General Joubert's object was appar-
entity secured in breaking communica-
ton with the coast and preventing the
movement of reinforcements to Lady
smith, but some military men were
predicting that he would set large
force in motion for Pietermaritzburg
and Durham, and complete the conquest
of Natal before the arrival of the Brit
ish army corps.
This would be a holder and more
reckless movement than Sherman's
march to Savannah. since the British
fleet commands the seacoast The more
probable theory is that Joubert has
closed in on Ladysmith after driving
the English out of Colenso, and is maxi
ing strenuous efforts to overwhelm
Whites army with his superior force.
a rumor of a general uprising of
BasutOs against the Orange Free State
had not been officially confirmed at
midnight. Their chief has force of
$4,000 well mounted well trained war
riors, which is capable not only of plac-
ing the Free State in defense. but also
of rousing the Swasis, Zulus. Kaffirs
and other black races, and setting all
South Africa afiame as far as the
Zambesi river. This black menace adds
new terror 10 the darkness nov,
brooding over the camps and garrisons
OF the two warning white races The
Orange Free State is the traditional foe
or BaSutoland, and those most familiar
with the conditions of race resentment
in South Africa have feared from the
outset that Miners agents may not be
able TO hold under restraint this tribe.
once all powerful, under Chief Moshe-
ish.
Public anxiety has been increased bv |
the invasion of Cape Colony at two /
points where the population is entirely /
Dutch. and therefore suspects of dis |
affection. This seems to have been done /
with larger force than earlier reports |
indicated. and De Aar Junction. where |
q me British base of supplies has already |
oeen established, is thought by timor- /
Gus military writers to be in danger. of I
a sudden attack. The latest informa-
ton tends TO minimize these raids. The
keener critics perceive that the Dutch
allies are scattering their forces. and
oy menaclng too many points on the
eastern border the southern frontier
and in Natal. are wasting the advan-
lage derived from their superior
strength 'o'
Englishmen who are irritated nv tba
war Offices contempt for public opinion
may fairiy be said to be counting the
hours before the arrival cf the fresh
pattalons of the army corps Ten
transports are scheduled TO reach
days '"iee
The rear guard of the English repre-
sl.,ss ives OF mining companies of the
fand mas struggled into London by the
asst steamship arriving from Cane
Town It's leaders give fantastic and /,
iramatic accounts of the closing
scenes at johannesburg when the
mining camps, crushing mills and the
scid hunters city were abandoned by
he English rear guard of confidential
laNissrs and trusted employees of
very great mining corporation was
ordered to CO.
The richest gold fields in the world
With the costlieSt mechanism for
rushing and chemical treatment of the
andstone conglOmerate and deep level
mining were left under charge of for
ign underlings and native servants. ]