Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-24
BO[RS RENEW ATTACK
Main Column Of Transvaal Forces
Thought to Be Engaged at
Glencoe.
Gen. Yule Said to Have Retreated
To Find Better Position Of
Defense.
English Anxious to Hear Outcome
Of the Attack Gen. Wolseley's
Statement.

nounced that Field Marshal Lord
Wolseley, commander-in-ch chief, sums
up the situation in Natal today as fol-
lows:
Gen. Yule has fallen back to effect
juncture with Gen. White. He
camped yesterday evening sixteen miles
south of Dundee without seeing any
thing of the enemy. He has since re-
ported all we'll at Wasehbank river.
White fought a successful action with
Orange Free State forces today on the
road between Ladysmith and New Cas-
tie and should join Yule this evening.
The last message from Kimberley, Oc-
tober %, reported all well.''
A native rumor says that Col.
Plumer, at Tuli defeated the Beers
BoERs STILL AGGRESSIVE.
Confirmation of the Report That
Second Attnck Was Made at Glen
coc.
London, Oct. 24.@The correspondent
of the Daily Mail at Durham, Natal,
says an official of the Bonanza mine
who has just arrived from Pretoria de-
Col. Baden-Powell, the British COM
mander at Mafeking, had captured Gen.
Cronje and thirty other Beers and had
killed 500.
London, Oct. 24.-From the scanty
news Of the day regarding operations in
Natal one thing is certain and another
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Gen. Yule, Gen. Symons' successor in
command, have fallen back and are
concentrating all available strength on
the defense of Glencoe, while 1t was
practically certain that no second fight
had taken place at Glencoe up to last
evening. The rumor of a second victory,
however, has reused London to a pitch
OF enthusiasm unknown in this genera
tion. Men stop on the street, clasp
hands and slap one another on the
shoulder as they congratulate them
selves on the latest alleged news from
the seat OF war.
In military circles the announcement
of Gen. Yule's abandonment of his
hardly won position has caused more or
less apprehension for Gen. Joubert's
main column has yet to give an account
of itself, while the British force has
two points-Glencoe and Ladysmith-
to defend, and is wearied by fighting to
boot. 1t is agreed that the work Of the
British up to this point has been brill
liant. The task set them now is to
hold on. Will the Beers make their
tactics equal to their strategy when
Joubert strikes the next blow?
1t is evident that the Beers up TO this
point have fallen victims TO the very
plan by which they hoped to drive the
British forces in Natal back to the sea.
BY the brilliant counter strokes deliv-
cred they have been beaten in detail.
The latest accounts speak in high terms
Of tfleis. courage and determination.
but their fatal defect, in the execution
of their skillful plan of campaign. ap-
pears to have lain in their inability to
act from different directions in combi-
nation.
According to the latest information,
Mafeking is making a successful de-
Tense, though 1t is to be remembered
that Gen. Cronje has not attacked that
position with his full force. The latest
news from Afrikander sources regard
Ing Mafeking is clearly unreliable. The
Beers admit that three of their guns
have been captured, but add the
astounding information that not Boer
has been so much as wounded, though
a great number of British have been
slaughtered.
OF piece with this report is the dis
patch from Pretoria giving an account
of the battle of Talana Hill. This cable,
dated Saturday. gives the following as
Gen. Joubert's statement:
"Commandant Lucas Meyer has had
an engagement at Dundee. He made a
plan of campaign by messenger with
Commandant Erasmus, but Erasmus
failed to appear. 1t is estimated that
the British lost heavily. Our forces
suffered, but owing to the mist it has
been Impossible to get all details. II il
reported that ten of our force were
killed and twenty-five wounded
In the meantime the Gordon is being
steadily drawn around Kimberley and
news of action in that neighborhood is
daily expected, as is also movement
on the part of the Orange Free Staters
against the British post on the Orange
river. Owing, however, to ample pre-
cautions taken for the defense of this
point, including the erection of bat
teries in a commanding position, it is
unlikely that the Beers will be able to
invest the place.
The question is now raised here,
What Will be the moral effect of these
initial British victories as regards
Europe? Already the continental press
affords evidence of change of tone.
The Cologne Gazette, for instance, has
converted it's former Ill concealed hos
tility into benevolent neutrality and
now asserts that German interests will
not permit the annihilation of England
by any other power or powers. The
majority of the French papers still re-
main unfriendly, but that is only to be
expected.
Day of Gloom In London.
London, Oct. "a Yesterday for Lon
don began in reasonable elation and
( closed In doubt and some suspense.
The anxiety was due to the sudden and
unlocked for silence from Glencoe, and
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