The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-18


sIve-BOer COmmandant Sends
Four Thousand Men Toward Est
court to Intercept BritOns Going
to Relief of Ladysmith.
LONDON, Nov 1S.-Special dispatches
from Pietermaritzburg and Lourenzo
Marques say that Ladysmith is lombard
I'd night and day and hard pressed
On Nov. 9, having during the night
placed men close to the town. the Beers
after heavy bombardment, began an as
Eault, but were repulsed at every point
with heavy losses.
The Beers have destroyed one of the
bridges over the Tugela river.
The absence of news from Ladysmith
seems to show that the Beers are repeat
Ing the strategy adopted by them at
Dundee, when they appeared in front and
endeavored to effect surrounding move
ment. This seems TO have been their OBJ
ject regarding Estcourt, and, since it is
impossible that relief should reach for
some days to come, it is not unlikely that
a further retiring movement on Mooi
river will be made.
TO INTERCEPT BRITISH.
A dispatch from Lourenzo Marques
says:
"A Pretoria newspaper announced last
Wednesday that 1900 bUrghers had left
Gen. Jouberts force around I.adysmith
TO jim Commandant Bothna's force, near
Estcourt, with view to assisting to in
tercept the British advance to the relief
of Ladysmith.
Gen. Lucas Meyer, the Free State
commander. has asserted in the course of
Rn interview that he is convinced that the
battle of Elaudslaagte will be the first
Pnd last Boer defeat of the year"
BULLER's PLANS CHANGED.
From the difficulty experienced in con-
centrating divisions at the original points
1t seems clear that the plans of Gen.
Butler have been entirely changed. Not
the slightest word regarding the new
plans have been allowed to escape. The
first object was supposed to be the send
ing of British column to relieve Kim
berley, but this seems incorrect all the
accounts regarding the movement at
present In the light of a reconnaissance.
1t seems, however, that arrangements for
an advance from Durham are in for
ward state. if an advance has not already
commenced. Kimberley was all right on
Friday, Nov. 10.
The burghers at Aliwal North have
hoisted the flag of the Orange Free State
and declared the town in the possession
C. De Free State.
Conditions would seem to point to the
necessity of protecting the column
marching to the relief of Kimberley from
attack from this direction, or from
Bloemfontein. Owing to the retcence of
Gen. Butler it is almost useless to speak
of the likelihood of the reported move
ment to relieve Kimberley. 1t can only
hp int lad
possible, from Natal.
BASUTOS ARE RESTLESS.
Advices from Maseru, Basutoland.
dated Wednesday, Nov 8, say that Chief
Joet, terrorized by false Boer assertions.
that the British have been beaten IN
every engagement and are being driven
out OF South Africa IS preparing to join
the BoerS, believing theirs the winning
side The Beers are said to have sum
phed him with guns which they have
accompanied with specious promises
Ihose who are aware of the Basuto his
tory know that Chief Joet and Chief JON
athan had a quarrel in their earlier years
and have never been on the same side,
Chief Jonathan having committed him
self to British interests
Sir Godfrey Layden, resident British
commissioner in Basutoland, according TO
these advices left Maseru on Nov. 7 in
order to meet Chief Torthodi, the prin-
cipal chief of the Basutos, who is Ill and
unable to travel. Sir Godfrey was ex
pected to use every effort to prevent
Chlef Joet taking an adverse step. The
advtceS go on to say:
The country is full or reports of won
dertuI Boer successes, and color is lent
10 lhese pY the absence of reliable in
formation of British victories but the
chiefs rely on the word of the govern
ment officials who declare that a dav of
reckoning is coming, and disloyalty will
be punished 1t is possible that the Beers
will proclaim strip of Basuto territory
to the north to be their own
BRITISH REINFORCEMENTs.
The admiralty announced this evening
the arrival at Cape Town today of the
troopship Aurania, with a battery of ar
tfllery and the Scots Highlanders Prin-
cess Loulse's) regiment, bring the re-
lnforcements up to 1880, of which 400
have already disembarked at Durham.
with eighteen field guns number of
machine guns, engineers and hosni+oI
troops, as well as 700 mules This force
with that already between Estcourt ana
Durham, is considered sufficient to enablo
Gen. Hildyard to advance and to take
the aggressive against the Beers south of
Ladysmith.
According to the latest advices. LADY.
smith is holding out satisfactorily, every-
thing having been Well up to Wednes-
day. In view of the Boer destruction of
bridges, the war Office has issued orders
for the shipment of a quantity of bridge
work between this and the end of the
year.
MISSING BRITONS.
An official dispatch confirms the state
ment that Capt. ]. A. Haldane of The
Gordon Highlanders, attached to the
Dublin Fusiliers, and Lieut. T. H. Frank
land and thirty-seYen non-commissioned
officers and men of the Dublin Fusiliers
are missing. Capt. Haldane distinguished
himself by his services in India for which
he received the D. S. o. Companion Of
the Distinguished Service Order). He was
also wounded at Elandslaagte
ZULUs GROW INsOLENT.
Advices from Zululand testify to the
growing uneasiness- of British residents
whose stores are looted by the Boers
with the result that the Zulus themselves
are growing insolent, giving rise to fear
that they may attack the unarned Rrit-
ish population.
PRISONERS WE'LL TREATED.
DURHAM, Nov. 16.-A gentleman who
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