Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-30

LONDON, October 3O.-The position
at Ladysmith without being alarming
is sufficiently dangerous to excite an
xiety. Evidently the Beers are try
ing to repeat their Dundee tactics.
Roughly estimated they have 1900
us1n as against 10000 British.
Gen. Sir George Stewart White has
the better artillery but his is of lesser
range. The delay in the Boer attack
is reported to be due to the non-arrival
of Commandant General Joubert's col
umn This has given the the British
a much needed respite after their recent
exertions
Everything, it is now considered,
hinges upon Gen. Whites resource and
Judgment. Nothing is known regard
ing the progress of defensive works for
the protection of Ladysmith.
The censorship is more active than
ever. According to the Daily Chroni-
cle's correspondent, 'the new regula-
lions limit the number of words allow
ed for press messages to one-fourth
the number allowable before"
Farmers in the neighborhood Of
Ladysmith have left their farms and
stock at the mercy of the Beers and
are now congregated in the town. The
two guns the Beers have mounted are
powerful weapons. They are the ones
used in Smelling Dundee, and it is
matter of considerable surprise how
they managed to transport such heavy
pieces.
Again, it is reported that President
Kruger accompanied Gen. Joubert 20
the front in a splendidly fitted travel
ing wagon.
The Standards correspondent at
Ladysmith telegraphing Saturday
sends a statement that the Beers have
captured fifteen hundred mules, loss
that must seriously inconvenience
British transports.
The attempt of the Beers to cut the
railway at Peters was frustrated by
British cavalry.
The wife of General Jan Kock has ar
rived at Ladysmith under a flag of
truce to nurse her wounded husband.
All the unwounded Boer prisoners have
been sent to Durham to prevent any at
tempt at rescue.
The explanation of the alleged Boer
massacre at Dundee appears to be that
a portion of the town guard, although
fairly warned by General Yule before
his retirement, continued to carry arms
and 80 of them were shot before the
Beers discovered who they were.
The body of Sir William Symons was
buried without a coffin, shrouded in the
union jack. Among the papers found
upon him was a telegram from Lady
Symons congratulating him upon his
success.
Later accounts of the first battle and
the evacuation of Dundee do not give
those affairs a roster hue. Owing to
the Smelling of Glencoe camp the tele-
graph operators were compelled to
scamper with numerous unforwarded
Dundee they INDUCED in general loot
ing of stores, but apparently did not
otherwise modest the populace.
In the first battle the Beers captured
the Maxim of the Eighteenth Hussars,
but only after the entire crew of the
gun, with one exception, had been dis
abled. The survivor effectually dam
aged the gun. Only two officers of the
staff of General Symons came out with
out wound.
Again it is asserted that the moment
the Royal Dublin Fusiliers reached the
summit of the Kopje at Glencoe the
Beers showed a white flag and asked
truce to bury their dead. The British
artillery was ordered to cease firing.
and the Beers took advantage of the op-
portunity to retreat en- masse. Other
wise they would have been decimated
by the British cannon. The special
correspondent of the Daily Mail at
Ladysmith, telegraphing Sunday, de-
scribes the arrival of the war balloon
there on Saturday. 1t was welcomed,
he said, with wild dances by the KAT
frs. who regard it as deity General
White and General Sir Archibald
Hunter both assembled on Sunday and
reeonnoitered the enemys position.
According to the latest reports from
Cape Town General Joubert has joined
hands with the Free State forces and
there has been some outpost fighting.