The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-24

/
bert Manages to Check Advance
| OF Seventeen Thousand British
Troops and Yet Invest Ladysmtth,
Kimberley and Mafeking Boep
Army Greater Than Estimated.
| LONDON, Nov 23-The secretary ~
| war has received the following dispatch
through Gen. Forrester-Walker from Gen
Methuen. dated Belmont, Nov %:
| Attacked the enemy at daybreak this
| morning. He was in a strong position.
1hree ridges were carried in succession
the last attack being prepared by shrap.
mel. infantry behaved splendidly and re.
celved support from the naval brigade
and artillery. The enemy fought with
courage and skill. Had I attacked later
should have had far heavier loss.
Our victory was complete. Have taken
| forty prisoners. Am burying a good numA
Der of the Beers but the greater mart
| OF the enemy's killed and wounded were
removed by their comrades. Have can
tured large number of horses and cows
ana destroyed large quantity of ammu-
| n1tion
SeEeTelY
wounded in the shoulder and Lieut.. Col.
Crapo' Oh the Grenadier guards, is re-
ported wounded
Our other casualties are the followingI
Grenadier guards, Third battalion, Lieut..
Frier, wounded; Lieut.. BlundeI danger.
ously; Grenadier guards. Second bats
talon, wounded, Lieut. Leslie. Lieut..
Vaughan, Lieut.. Guerdon-Rebo and Lieut.,
Russell; reported wounded, Lieuts Lyon
and Cameron; Grenadier guards. rank
and file, killed &C. wounded SO, missing 10;
| Coldstream guards, First battalion.
wounded, Lieut.. Grant; Coldstream
| guards, Second battalion, wounded. Lieut..
Hon. C. Willoughby and Lieut. Burton,
the latter severely; Coldstream guards,
rank and file killed s, wounded %, miss.
| ing 3; SCOTS guards, First battalion.
wounded. Maj. Hon. North DaIrymple-
Hamilton, severely; Lieuts. BuIkeley and
| Alexander; SCOTS guards, rank and file.
| killed 9, wounded 81; Northumberland
! fusileers, First battalion, killed, Capt.
Eager and Lieut.. Brine; wounded. Maj,
| Dashwood and Lieut.. Testing. danger.
| ously; Capt Saple and Lieut. Fishbourne.
severely; Northumberland fusileers, rank
and file, killed u, wounded 80; North
amptonshire regiment Second battalion,
wounded, Capt. Freedland and Lieut.,
| Button, severely; Yorkshire regiment,
| Second battalion, rank and file, wound.
| ed 1S."
| SECOND ELANDSLAAGTE
Before anxiety as to the situation in
| Natal has been relieved there comes news
| of a great battle at Belmont. This
| has happened sooner than. was expected,
hn al gs
! but so far as can be gathered the fighting
| appears to have been almost a rspeti-
! ton of the battle of Elandslaagte A dis
| patch of the previous day estimated that
| the Beers in that vicinity numbered 1000,
! and that they had five guns and judging
| from the absence Of any statement to the
| contrary in the official report, it Is be-
| lieved that the British were slightly su-
| perior in number to the enemy. The
| Beers had chosen a position with their
| customary skill, and were strongly in
| trenched. The British were obliged to
carry three ridges in succession. APP
parently the guards bore the blunt in
! carrying the last ridge by a bayonet
| charge, after its defenders had been
shaken with shrapnel.
| Nothing is said to whether the posi-
tions so gained were held and the de-
! struction of ammunition seems to iEdi-
| cate that the contrary was the case.
| While Gen. Metheun can be congratu-
lated upon brilliant victory, it is again
at the cost of a heavy loss of officers and
men.
The diary of events at Mafeking up to
Nov. II has arrived 1t gives little that is
new. At that date Col. Baden-Powen
had no idea of being relieved for a fort
night or perhaps a month. Both Mafe-
king and Kimberley. however seem to
be quiet
Later details regarding the Arundel re-
no
engaged in destroying the railway. One
account says that after the retirement
an ambulance train with dOtors was sent
out from Naauwpoort. If this were so
the British casualties must have exceed
ed three
DISQUIETING REPORTS.
The situation In Natal remains obscure,
Fighting was reported at both Estcourt
and Ladysmith 1t was at first reported
that heavy firing had been heard in the
direction of Willow Grange, leading to a
belief that Gen Hildyard had made a
sortie. Later dispatches announce that
Gen. White SORTED from Ladysmith and
inflicted q demoralizing defeat upon the
Beers. 1t would be premature to give full
credence to either report. What is quite
certain is that Ladysmith, Estcourt and
Mooi River station are all Isolated. and
the Beers seem able, after detaching
enough troops to hold three British forces
aggregating Il, 900 men, to push on toward
Pietermaritzburg with some 1000 men.
A disquieting feature of the whole
campaign is the fact that all the advance
ing columns report meeting the Beers in
force. After the brilliant success of Gen,
Joubert In partially parlyzing the re-
lleving columns, the question is asked
what would have had happened had he
at the outset of the war, instead of sit-
ting down before Ladysmith, pushed on
toward Pietermaritzburg?
BOERS AND BASUTOS.
An official dispatch from Sir Alfred Mill
ner to Mr. Chamberlain reports that thus
far the efforts of the Beers to provoke
an uprising among the Basutos, or to
start civil war have been unsuccessful
The governor of Cape Colony says:
"The Beers informed Chief Jonathan
that If he would join them he would be
defended. If he remained neutral they
told him he would not be molested but
they declared that he must expel the
British magistrate and allow his fellow
tribesmen to pass freely into the Orange
Free State, whose government In return
would guarantee Basutoland to the Basu-
tos in perpetuity. The great concern Of
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