Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-10-25
MILE REAC1IEs WHITE.

YUI.E REACHES WHITE.
LONDON. October 25.-The Cape Town
correspondent OF the Daily Mail, tele-
graphing at 9:25 p. II. yesterday, says:
General Yuie has performed brilliant
strategical movement. BY a swift march
10 the southwark, leaving Glencoe empty,
no has effected a junction Of his forces
with those Of Sir George Stewart White,
slightly to the northward Of Ladysmith.
The TWO are now in position of offer bat
tie
FIRST ATTACK ON FREE STATE
FORCE.
II believe the first attack will be made
on the large Free state force which en-
tered Natal by way Of Tntwa Pass, and
which has since been harassing Lady
smith. The military authorities decided
that by Joining their forces the two gen.
erals would be better able to cope with
ono large force at a time, than, by having
two small attachments. to oppose sinful
taneously two big Boer forces.
Accordingly, after defeating the Free
State troops. they will offer battle 10
Comma ndant- General Joubert.
only forty miles now separate the two
Boer forces. hence the need for swift and
telling action.
HARD FIGHTING SOON.
"Tho two sections Of the Boer army to-
gether outnumber the entire British force
six 10 one. Hard fighting Is Certain at
very early date. Our men are confident,
and there Is much enthusiasm.
"The fighting to-day outside Ladysnith
was q mere brush. The losses on either
side were insignificant II was merely an
artillery duel. and one IN which the Beers
came off decidedly the worse
BOERS MINIMIZING LOSSES.
CAPE TOWN, October pa private
telegram from Delagoa Bay says man
who has just arrived there from Jo-
hannesburg asserts that the Transvaal
Government has appropriated SO beds in
private houses in Johannesburg Tor
wounded troops from tie from.
The Boer organs. according 20 this in
formant are doing every hing to mimi
mize the Boer losses. and all s'rts OF mis-
statements and Misrepresentation are
employed.
CHECK TO RUSSIA.
LONDON. October 2jth.-It is rumored
at Plymouth that the Admiralty IS about
to mobilize a reserve fleet in home ports,
and that this and other naval undertake
ings are due TO the intention Of Russia
t. seize port in the Persian Gulf.
APPEAL TO BRITISH VOTERS.
LONDON, October A.-Alr. Arthur J.
Balfour First Lord Of the Treasury, ana
government leader in the House Of Com
mons, writing to the Conservative cam
didate for Parliament in Bow, makes IT
perfectly clear that the government asks
the support Of the electorate at the pres
ent juncture on patriotic grounds. He
says:
"Al subjects Of merely domestic inter
est are dwarfed by the stirring events in
South Africa. There we find our troops,
both British and Colonial, from the neces-
sites Of the case, divided and isolated,
ana for the moment greatly outnumbered,
yet resisting with the utmost herOisn an
unprOvoked invasion of the Queens do
minions.
our Imperial destinies are now beng
decided in Natal and Cape Colony. Con-
sIutents that are called on at such
crisis to elect representatives, III Parlia-
ment cannot remain idle spectators Of a
contest which. though it be waged six
thousand miles away, does most nearly
touch us all. They have an exceptional
share Of the national responsibilities, and
for my part / cannot doubt that the
electors. whose sui1rages we are asking.
will feel that their first duty is 10
strengthen the hands OF those TO whom,
under conditions of peculiar difficulty.
have been entrusted the maintenance Of
the empire
STEYN ANNEXING TERRITORY.
LONDON. October 24-The Colonial Of
ice has received a cablegram stating that
President Steyn, Of the Orange Free
State, has issued a proclamation annex
ing that part of Cape Colony which is
north Of the Vaal river. This means Girl
lualand. West, and Bechuanaland, and
IS apparently in consequence of the Free
state forces having seized the railway
and all stations north OF Kimberley eX-
,ept Mafeking, unless Mafeking has fallen
since the last news from there, when Is
4 week old.
CRONJE ADVANCING ON KIM
BERLEY.
LONDON. October 25.-The Daily Tele-
graph has the following from DeAar,
Cape Colony dated Monday evening;
"The Transyaal Governments are
about issuing a proclamation, declaring
The district north of the Vaal river, and
Bechuanaland, 10 be Boer ter
ritory.
"Commandant Cronje. who has been
twice repulsed at Mafeking, is said 10 be
ADVANCING Oh lAliiliti'Sf anu ~ w tAf
pressing men and seizing stores and
munitions in British territory. lie left a
small force investing Mafeking. The Free
state Beers are moving westward. Ia
order 10 join him fCr an attack on KIM
Derley.
DARING DEEDS.
"The dispatch riders VINO are coming
dow, 10 the Orange river from Kimber-
ev are performing thrilling feats. They
-ide through the Bosr lines under cover
II darkness. and get 10 the Orange river
without taking any rest, save Tor a
mango of horses. The distance is sixty
miles.
zone rider who got into Kimberley last
Friday was chased seventeen miles by
Roers narrowly escaping with his life.
cbe same man returned safely with dis
patches 10 Orange river to-day. When
le reached point thirty miles from
(inberlev his horse fell and Kicked two
If his fingers against a rock but despite
his painful wound. the gallant Fellow
made n good Journey here.
BOERS AFRAID TO ATTACK.
Gle reuorts that the Beers are three
niles from Kimberley, but are afraid TO
,ttack the place, and are awaiting the
arrival OF Commandant CronJe. NO
soers are to be seen south OF Belmont.
which is twenty miles north OF the
orange river. =,
"Thc defeats In Natal are taking gu