Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-10-19
MORE men.
Queens Purpose to Call Out Militia
Announced In Parliament.
THE NEWS FROM THE FRONT.
Beers Claim Victory Has Attended
Their Arms Sc Far. Though They
Admit They Have Lost
Number Of Men.

Number of Men.
London, Oct 10.--The following mes
sage from the queen was presented In the
house of commons by Dir. Balfour:
THE state of affairs In South Africa
having constituted, in the opinion of her
majesty, case of great emergency with
in the meaning of the act Of parliament,
her majesty deems it proper to provide
additional means for military service. She
has therefore thought 1t right to commu.
nicate to the house that her majesty Is,
by proclamation, about to order the EN-.
bodiment Of the militia and to call out
thereof as her majesty may think neces-
sary, for permanent service"
The calling out of the militia and the
military reserves has occasioned wide
spread wonderment. Old stories of prep
arntions against continental combinations
the government is determined to demon
strate to Europe that the British army Is
not a negligible quantity.
lIOUuDlS UUtu lut ulLluut VI lIulOpc
and that of the natives In South Africa
have something to do with this move
ment, and the lavish display Of force is
intended doubtless not only to check the
ill will apparent on both sides of the
Rhine and beyond the Vistula, but also
to guard against the black peril"
According to the statistics published
this year. the militia, including the per-
mnncnt staff and the militia reserve, num-
berS H., iJ3
1t Is not believed that the militia are to
be sent to South Africa. Presumably
they will replenish the denuded British
garrison towns and thus permit the gov
eminent to send to the Cape all the regu-
lurs rendered necessary by developments
in South Africa.
More Money Needed Too.
A supplementary army estimate has
been issued asking the house of commons
to vote an additional $4,000 men and
f10,0O0,00O ($5O,0OO,O00) in consequence
of the situation In South Africa.
1t is explained that the $4,000 men rep
resent the probable maximum excess be-
yond the establishments fixed for the
year $780, 800, and is In consequence Of
the calling out of the reserves and of the
temporary transfer of troops from the
Indian to the British establishment.
With the additional E10,000,OOO the total
army estimates are f30,617 200.
The war Office has issued the following
statement:
"News has been received from General
Sir George Stewart White, the general
commanding in Natal, that the anticipated
mo of RnoI tho
Drakensberg, already reported from sew
eral quarters, was likely to be continued
in which case some of them might be eX-
pected to arrive at Boaan bank and prob
ably to come into contact with our cav
airy between Ladysmith and the passes
of the Drakensberg.
"On the north the Boer forces from
Ingagane are advancing, accompanied by
few batteries of artillery. On the Buff
falo river the Beers from Vryheid are
moving toward Wants and Rorke's drifts.
"Our cavalry remains In observation
and reports movements In the Orange
Free State. The Basutos are said to
manifest an attitude hostile to the Beers,
and they may neutralize a certain num-
Der Of the Boer forces"
The Mnfeking Fight.
No confirmation has been received Of
the report of serious Boer losses at MAIZE
king, but stories are arriving from vari-
Gus points so persistently and circum-
stantially that 1t appears probable the
burghers have met with some measure
Of reverse.
Accounts of the action at Mafeking are
now beginning to arrive from Pretoria.
Therefore, if the Beers had any success,
it is bound soon to be known.
As was foretold they have succeeded
in cutting off the water supply at MAIZE
king but it is said that there are suffi-
cient wells in the town to supply the In
habitants.
A delayed dispatch from Pretoria, dat.
ed Monday, says: General Cronje, after
warning the women and children to leave
Mafeking opened fire upon the town
with cannon this afternoon. No response
was made"
Other advices from Pretoria, summa.
rizing the reports to the Transvaal gov
eminent from General Cronje, in com.
mand ut the chief lager on the west
side, announce that the Marico and Rus
tenburg commanders, with field tele-
graph, occupied Burmann's Drift, near
the outskirts of Mafeking, on Monday
and took possession Of fountain in the
neighborhood thus cutting off the water
supply of the town. The Boer artillery
then began Smelling, but the British did
not reply. A Boer account Of the Skin
mish with the British armored train
south of Kimberley says:
1.-THE train came upon the burghers
while they were destroying the railway
GrnI tho froiy, with
Mausers Enthusiastically with artillery
The third shot hit truck, and the train
then steamed off, after which the burgh.
ers continued the work of destroying the
| line"
Beers Occupy Taung's.
| Another dispatch from Pretoria says
that the burghers have occupied Taung's
south of Mafeking, and Lobari, to the
northward, without opposition.
| A dispatch from Durham says that
refugees who arrived there from Pretoris
declare that the Beers at the Transvaa
capital admitted a Boer repulse at Ma
feking, eight burghers being killed and 6
number wounded.
A dispatch from Ladysmith says thai
the native tribe Of Barolongs, under CHIEF
Vessels, is reported to be cooperating
in the defense of Mafeking, undertaking
outpost duty.
With regard to Norval's pont, it ap
pears that the Cape railway officials de
stroyed the bridge on their line on thu
Orange Free State side and then aban
doned the station. The Orange Free
State troops have destroyed the Modds
river bridge without opposition.
The following dispatch from Pretori'
| A.c hon,, rocoivod.