The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-04
EpARlNC FOR 4 BIC
FIGHT At LnDYSMITH
Beers Are MasSing and English Are Throwing Up
Defensive Works About the Town.
Women and Children Being Sent Places of Safety-Brt-
ISL at Nlafeking Ridcue Besegers

pletely invested. or Colenso captured.
appears TO be justified. as this morning
1t was asserted THAI the RAILROAD is stnt
open. though traffic has been Conducted
with the greatest caution What how
ever was only a rUmOr yesterday
evening may, it is claimed. be a reality
at any moment. as General Joubert.
! with a large and wonderfully noble
force, is expected 20 detach force Of
several thousand men and make a dash
at the railroad.
RumOrs Of all kinds are springing up
here. 1t is even asserted that General
White has been compelled TO fall back
on Pietermaritzburg. leaving his
wounded behind. Probably such ru-
mors have their origin in the recollec-
ton OF the OminOus silence which pre-
coded the evacuation CT Dundee. But
on the other hand, ii is asserted that
the conditions are altered. and the
British guns now seem more than equal
70 the artillery of the Beers. thus en-
HANGING the difficulty of any assault on
The British lines.
A Cape Town dispatch reports a re-
pulse CT the Beers by the British yes
terday.
While there is a habit here TO assume
that news of BOer Victories emanatlng
from the continent cannot be true be-
cause of the censorship. the fact is
forgotten that foreign governments are
fully privileged 10 send and receive
cipher messages to ard from their rep
resentatives in South Africa.
As matter of fact. the rumOrs Of
the capture of the hussars, the Oceu-
patton of Dundee and the disaster of
Monday came first from Berlin. from
which city also came the first news u
the jameson raid. So the tidings of any
British reverse are as likely TO come
from there as anywhere. General
Whites position is Acknowledged TO be
50 precarious thar the landing of a big
naval brigade TO so TO his assistance IS
being advocated
While yesterdays rumors OF Boer and
British victories are taken here 10 i'll
dicate that some serious operations
have been carried out IT is generally
recognized that most Of the news at
present is largely surmise. and must b
accepted with great carlton
The rumOrs Of continental anti
British coalition Continues 70 occupy
the French papers. Referring 20 the'
alleged AnglO-American understanding
said to be an outcome of the HispaHc-
American war. the Figaro says: ~
The Washington cabinet is cox
WINGED that had it not been fcr fhs>
resolute attitude II Great Britain. the
Mckinley administration would have
had to face a European coalition in
SpGin's behalf TO deprive the United,
States os victOry
The English played so well on this
string that at the present moment il
Europe did not remlin in a position 81.
strict neutrality It would not be lois
before a United States fiset showed its
flag on the eastern and southern coast
of Africa. That is the enlptrcr's nigat-
mare, and it will be used as an assu-
ment in favor OF an increase of the
German navy.
The English hope tnat the increase
viii be made, with the Viaw of a con-
clusiOn Of an alliance between Great
Britain. Germany and the United