Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-07
Was NeceSSitiated by Affairs
in Natal.
TROOPS LAND DURHAM
instead of CapetOWn as at First Ar
ranged--The Evacuation of Colenso
and St0rmberg- BOer Invasion is
Not Considered Serious Matter.

london, Nov. Z, 4:3O a. m.-This morn
lhgs news carries public knowledge
Win respect to hostilities in South Afri-
ca very little further han the eyacua-
'ioh OF Colenso and Stormberg. These
movements, taken together with the adj
iilralty announcement that the public
must not be disappointed should the
transports not reach their destination on
the dates indicated in the published lists.
may indicate some change of plan neces-
STATED by the bad position of affairs IN
Natal. IL was expected that the army
corps would land at Capetown for an
INVASION OF the Transvaal through the
orange free State, but the landing NAV
now De diverted to Durham, Natal. whith-
er IL is fully expected Lieutenant General
olf EULER Will go within a week to inyes-
t1Sale the situation for himself. There
IS ALSO a possibility of a movement
'nloush Delasoa bay, M the admiralty
SIMPLY means in all likelihood that the
news OF their movements is to be sum-
pressed.
HtoIn1perg was understood to be the
oepot where stores. tents, guns, ammuni-
tloh ana all the commissariat detail Of
the third division, that under Sir William
Gatacre, We're in process OF accumulation.
Inc stores have have removed to Oueans.
.oMn ana an obvious explanation of their
from Bothulie n Alival North.
IN view OF the near approach of Rrit-
lsn relnlorcements, the Boer invasion of
APE Colony could hardly have been re-
garded very seriously. There may be-,
therefore,, another reason for the with
draWal and the stores destined by renute
Tor queenstown may be intended for East
LONDON or Durham. 1t may be General
Buller,s intention to send on Colonel Lord
Paul Metthuen's division. of
suaru ana British brigades, to the inn
mediate assistance of Natal. For the
use OF that division, a diversion NAV be
intended OF some Of the stores of the
third division, which are in the handiest
positions to be forwarded.
Reports that Rosemeade and Naauw-
pooft are also to be evacuated seem to
corroborate the idea that General Buffers
first business will be to relieve Sir George
Stewart White.
1t is believed that the Orange Free
State commanders now have II. 900 men
concentrated against Kimberley and on
the Free State southern frontier. Op-
posed to them are only 1000 British troops.
The towns which lie open to their attack
are AllWal North. Burghersdorp, Steyn-
burg, Barley and Moletto.
A dispatch from Pietermaritzburg dat
ed Friday report that railway commune
cation with Ladysmith is severed, the
Beers having effected a Judgment at Mol
thorpe, south of Ladysmith about seven
miles. Among those invested at LADY,
smith are Colonel Rhodes, brother of Ce-
Gil Rhodes, Sir John Willughby and, it
is believed, DR.. Jameson, as we'll as most
of the press correspondents and prob
ably the Earl of Ava, son of the Marquis
of Dufferin and Ave.
All the Cape railways are now in the
hands of the military authorities. Five
hundred tons Of food stuffs We're seized
on board the steamship Maria at Durham
consigned to Delagoa bay for the Trans
vaal. Twenty missionaries have arriv-
ed at Durham from Swaziland after many
narrow escapes.
1t is reported from the Boer sources that
has hoped to demolish Mafeking is not
a success. 1t is believed to be Schneider
Camel gun Weighing, with the cartridges
about 10 tons. The recoil is so tremen-
dous as to throw the gun out of gear
every time it is fired. After using the
weapon two days the Beers gave it up.
The Morning Post hears from Mas
cru, Basutoland, that the Boer ATTEMPT
to incite the Basutos against the British
has failed.
1t is understood that when the time
comes to arrange terms of peace, Natal
will claim an apportionment of territory
which, beside recompensing the colony
for losses sustained, will place it in a
position less open to attack in the future.
There are renewed rumors of another
engagement at Elandslaagte with Sc
we're Roer losses.
man steamer Zanzibar. bound for Zanzi,-
bar. arrived at Port Said without pass
engers. and that, having embarked 30
there, she sailed. followed and watched
by he British cruiser Fearless.