Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-26

ARDING WHAT is ACTUALLY
GOING ON IN SOUTH AFRICA.
PRACTICALLY CERTAIN THAT
GENERAL YULE HAS EFFECT
ED A JUNCTION WITH GEN.
ERAI. WHITE, AND THAT
HEAVY WORK MAY BE Elk
PECTED SOON GENERAL Bull
LER TO REACH SOUTH AFRICA
NEXT WEEK.
LONDON, October 26.-With uneon-
scimls humor, a Cape Town CORES
pondent telegraphed yesterday:
THE censorship, which is always a
delicate matter is working smoothly
and without hitch
This exactly hits off the state of af-
fairs to-day. An ominous veil is still
drawn over the movements of Gen.
Sir George Stewart White and Gen.
Yule Beyond belated Ladysnith dis
patches concerning the Elandslaagte
fight, which are still filtering in, the
British public is left in complete dark
ness and to conjecture over cooked
war Office dispatches. The officials of
the war Office last evening said that
very few dispatches have arrived and
that nothing further was to be expect
ed until morning.
Ci,oa II l. r,raot;co1Ixy oerfain that
Gen. Yule has now effected junction
with Gen. White-although this was
not brought about Tuesday night, as
announced by the Daily Mail, but some
time on Wednesday-an as both are
now in a position of safety, conjecture
concerns itself chiefly with the manner
Of Gen. Yule's retreat. That it was
hasty is evident. Was it disorderly?
Was any considerable camp equipment
abandoned Was there any fighting on
the way? Such questions and others
like them, the public is anxiously ask
ing.
Since the receipt Of General Whites
curious first description Of the Lady
smith fight, in which the British lost
a hundred men, little reliance can be
placed in the official dispatches. While
the concealment OF the facts regarding
General Yule's retreat can be amply
justified on the ground OF keeping the
Intelligence from the Beers, the hiding
Of the news respecting the hussars and
fusiliers, who were apparently captured
Z in the battle at Glencoe. is severely
criticized, no intimation even having
been given that the officers were miss
Ing.
The heavy losses of the British troops
in facing only some 5000 Beers are
commented upon as what rifle fire
means to-day in the hands of even I'M
disciplined men who can shoot fairly
s.raigh. and stand their ground. Com
TSafiscns are made with the first e=.-
pigment Of the magazine rifle in the
Disqualification war, and it is con-
eidered that the American losses at Ell
Caney and San Juan would have been
much heavier if the Spaniards had dog
gedly stood their ground like the Beers.
Gen. Sir Redyers Butler Is expected
TO arrive at the Cape early next week
and the indications are that some troops
have already arrived at the front, and
been in the fighting whose arrival has
not yet been announced. There is ev-
cry probability therefore that reinforce
ments are now moving up This is
calculated to hasten Commandant Cen
eral Joubert's attack on Ladysmith
and news OF big battle is daily ex-
pected.
About half complete army corps
is now adoat, and a lull has occurred
in dispatching the remainder of Gen.
Buller's forces, owing to some diff
Eulty in obtaining transports. The
lobilizaton and embarkment Of 81
20 men, however, have proceeded with
2 utmost smoothness and complete
s, extorting admiration from even
severest critics of war Office organ
pm.
Iough news has arrived that Gen.
IN. Penn Symons is progressing
ere is no news as to his where
esumed that he is at Dundee
pds Of Beers. Speaking at
Sterday to the departing
Lord Frederick Roberts, of
I'd that however important
lpaigns in South Africa
I'd at the time, they
lsignifcance when compar-
event in which the Brit
about to engage.
hing incidents of the field
(Peyton. of the Manches-
was wounded at Glands
IS Is swounded had to lie on
Ield throughout the bitterly cold night,
arenched by the rain. One man in his reg
lment placed his arms around Captain
Peyton through the whole night to give
him the warmth of his body.
1t appears that Gordon Highlanders and
the ManchesterS bore themselves with