Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-11-04
Number Of Missing Men Tells the
Story Of Defeat
PLAN OF THE TRANSyAAL.
WIN be to Isolate Ladysmitb, aud
Press on TO Durban-u Matching
reported captured.

London. Nov. Z. fio5 n. m.-rhcre u
very little fresh intelligence today. but 1
Il IL believed that the Dcngo1 bay |
route. u not already restored. speedily |
viii be. thus giving quicker communi-
cation with the Cape. The situation IL |
stnl hopeful. The accounts that con-
ilnuc 60 arrive regarding the lighting |
al Farquhara farm only confirm its |
serious nature and the narrow escape |
Gen. white had. ON this point the |
Morning Post romarkai
Nothing tells such tale Of battle
as the iat Of the missing. when the
missing exceed the killed. Il IL almost
safe to write defeat across the story
because missing means abandonment
Or surrender"
II now appears as II It were only the
arrival ~ the naval contingent from
the Powerful which prevented a
worse disaster. II seems that. when 1t
was seen that retirement was impera-
tive. two naval cavairymen volunteered
/ 20 convey dispatch across the Boor
lines TO Mai. Adyo. ordering him 10 re-
/ tire. but the risk was considered too
great and fiaE signaling was employed
/ instead. The distance was too great
ana the ground too rough for cavalry
TO 80 10 his assistance.
According to dispatches nled on
Tuesday. defensive works were being
constructed on tho hills around Lady
smith. ana 10 was expected there that
tho big naval guns would b. mounted
| the following day. The Beers were
| threatening Co attack the town In force
on Wednesday and Thursday. and the
/ women, children and other non-com-
| hatanta were being sent By train 90
the south. Ladysmlth is provialoncd
! Tor two months.
a dispatch from Colcsburg. dated
! November Let. announces that ak poo
! lice who were stationed at coleshurg
| bridge We're surrounded and captured.
| This u probably the origin of the story
that the Beers had occupied Colesburg
Paris ana Berlin continue 20 supply
niatcments of british roveraea the lat
!, AT brlnE that NlfcklnE has fallen.
The Paris Correspondent OF the Daily
News asHcrta that since the war began
the Hoer secret service fund has In
creased 10 ci0.O00 monthly. and that
pro-Bocr journalists arc brihca az
Wholesale. None OF these rumoru "
yet confirmed. ana little attention "
paid to them.
The standard publishes q dispatch
from Luxembourg, which says. Until
! within few days. nr. Leyds has been
In tclcgraphlc communication with Pre-
toria. through an Indirect diplomatic
channel, boy means OF which he has hecn
able 10 inform the Tranavual of the sup
posed British plan TO advance through
the Orange Free state with Wow of
anticipating this movement the Beers
viii ondruyor 60 captuf" or Isolate
Ludyumlth. and then 10 press ON %
Durham, where they would be able TO
prevent a British daharkntIon, while the
main nocr army would hastily rctrace
sicps To defend the line Of the orange
river"
Al Plymouth it ln rumorcd that tho
Channel squadron viii be- ordered TO
the Cape. whcrc q great naval force IL
to be concentrated with View Of cs-
tabllshlng q Gordon from the mouth OF
the orange river Co pclngoa bay 20 pre-
vent the landing Of supplies for the
enemy ana with d view also, u ncces-
aary. N landing guns 10 assist the Brit
ish .orccH.
d The Paris correspondent Of the Daily
| Mail snys; - learn the Trausvanl ana
! | Free state governments, b fore the war.
d placed large orders with the gunmnkcra
Z at l., CrcusOt, but that not all the wvh-
pona could be- delivered. owing TO tho
, suddennoas with which hostllilea tegan.
The guns the Beers are actually using
are CrouSorn 7a-milllmetcr kuick hrcra,
and lal-mlliin .s itig ana snIilsoh
"a
e and adapted In every possible way TOT
use over muddy roads,
% They had two montha' firing prac-
q tice under competent CrouHpt agents
n they could have added another
munth'n practice no European nrlller-
ist could have withatood them"
The special correspondent. OF the
a Daily Mall at Mafelgiug, under date Of
Is | october 22nd says. Gen 1ronlef
"a ! bouabnrdmcut OF MufDklnE was munOt'
] a.r,,,.s ush, Iosra fired HiNtv-tNo ahoiis
4 but aid no harm, the whole town. ever
the ladies laughing az the anair IL
= threatens 90 bring forty-poundel
h from Pretoria.
"Cronic says he 10 sorry for the wo'
3 mems sake that he ahclled the town
but that 10 was not playing the gam'
/. 10 send dynamite trucks among MI
n men. Fifteen hundred az his com
IL mand have since departed TO the south
'r ward.
"smnn parties Of our garrison Issue
forth nightly and harnss HOcr outposta
i hear the Daily Malls correspondent
al Lobaisi Is prisoner In the hands o.
II a dispatch from Capetown. date,
~ November lat. says the Cape Time
10 says Il has reliable Information tina
y there have been no casualties hmoni
g the British nt Mafeking since ortobe
t. 18th After the heavy homhardmcn
~ Gen Cronlc asked the town 20 surren
j. der. Col. Baden Powell was asleel
D. when the messenger arrived but on be
d, ng awakened received him hospimbl|
ID ana politely replied. II will let yol
J. know when we have had enough
Dc The Daily Mal publishes the follow
s. ing dispatch from L.ndysmith. date
= Wednesday morning; Matters todh'
4 are quiet Tho Boors are apparently
90 Mounting more heavy guns 20 the mort
i and northeast. which are likely 10 CIV
~ ua trouble a nocr contingent 100
~ strong and clearly visible from N
y, camp. IL streaming away 20 the soutf
X The inhabitants of Ladysmltn ooutlnu
le 20 leave the town.
Does Not Trust Europe,
D. London, Nov. "A special dispato
r. from Washington asserts that a