The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-11-03
COOKED WAR NEWS.

COOKED WAR NEWS.
10 Being Dished up dy the British
officials.
London, Oct. 27.-With unconscious
humor Cape Town correspondent
telegraphed yesterday: 1.-THE censor
ship. which is always a delicate mat
ter, is working smoothly and without
o hitch" This exactly hits of the
state of affairs. An om,nols veil is
still drawn over the movements of Sir
George Stewart White and Gen. Yule.
Beyond an indefinite dispatch concern
ing Il fight Mt Ladysmith the British
public is left to conjecture over
cooked war office dispatches. ''.
The officials of the war office said
last evening that very few dispatches
had arrived and nothing further was
to be expected until morning. Since 1t
is now practically certain that Gen.
Yule has effected a junction with Gen.
Write. though this juncturc was not
brought about Tuesday night, rs an
nounced by the Daily Mail, but some
time Wednesday, and is now in a place
of safety, conjecture is made to the
cause Of his retreat. Was 1t hasty!
Was it disorderly? Was any consider
able camp equippage abandoned? Was
there any fighting on the way? Such
questions and others like them the
public is ahXiolsly asking. Since the
receipt of Gen. Whites first descrip.
ton of the Ladysmith fight, in which
the British lost 100 men, little reliance
can be placed on the official dis.
patches. While the concealment of
the facts regarding Gen. Yule's re-
treat can be amply justified on the
ground of keeping the intelligence
from the Beers. the hiding of the news
respecting the Hussars and Fusilecrs,
who We're apparently cornered in the
battle ut Glencoe. is severely criti-
ciZed, no intimation even has been
given that the officers We're missing.
The heavy losses of the British
troops in facing only 5000 Beers are
commented upon as showing what
rifle fire means to-day in the hands of
even undisciplined men who can shoot
fairly straight and stand their ground.
Gen. Sir Redvers 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 fighting whose arrival
has not been announced. There is
every probability that reinforcements
are even now moving up. This is cal
culated to hasten Commandant Gen.
Joubert's attack upon Ladysmith, and
Half a complete army corps is now
a md 1,HI II ind tn fC-
patching the remainder of Gen. Bull
er's force. owing to some difficulty in
obtaining transports. The mobilization
ever. have proceeded with the utmost
smootlness and completeness, extort.
ing admiration from even the severest
critics of war office organization.
Although news has arrived that Gen.
Sir William Symons is doing we'll,
there is no indication of his wherca-
bouts. 1t is presumed that he is ut
Dundee in the hands of the Beers.
A Running Fight.
London. Oct. GA dispatch to the
Daily Mail from Ladysmith. dated
Monday. says: "Thc detachment of
Eighteenth Hussars who We're sent
from Glencoe to intercept the retreat
of the Beers from Elandslaagte, were
cut off by the enemy. Under Sergt.
Baldery they brilliantly fought their
way across the Biggarsberg, the enc
my pursuing and firing at them at
range of 300 yards along the pass.
They drrived here at 10 o'clock this
morning. Three of the troop are miss
ing. owing to the breakdown of their
horses. The Beers used Maxim. a
lieutenant of the Hussars, with party
was driven back to Glencoe. The Hus-
sars We're fired at as far down as
Moddcrspruit.'
Total British Casualties.
London, Oct. 27.-The war office re-
turns show that the total British cas-
ualties since the beginning of HOSTILE
ties reach 597, eighteen officers having
s ss5P ~ n IL e'% zI;a H s:d 4ss
wounded. There nc thirteen unac-
counted for This fetal. however, does
not include the squadron nj the
Eighteenth 1Iussars which went astray
near Dundee and the officers of the
Dublin Fusilecrs. The report of heavy
losses sent from Reitfontein came as
an unpleasant surprise. as Gen.
Whites telegram to the war office
yesterday gave the impression that
there was merely brush.
Beers Smelling Dundee.
Ladysmith, Natal, Oct. 27.-Dclaycd
in Transmission. B0er artillery is
Smelling Dundee and the former Brit
ish camp. Our troops are now occu-
pying an intrenchcd camp Our
troops are now occupying an i'll
trencEed camp. The Boer artillery is
firing ut very long range and the shells
are ineffective. Communication with
DuEdec is severed. The Boer wound
cd and prisoners arc still coming in
and the former are receiving every at
tenticn. Gen. Ben Viljoen is wounded
and Il prisoner.
MORAVIAN RIOTS.