Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-11-08
AN OFFICIAL DISPATCH
From General Butler Describing the Situs-
ton a Lady

AN OE lOlhu DsDI A4On
From General Butler Describing the Situa-
tion at I.adysmith.
LONDON, November THE follow
ing is the text of a dispatch from Gen.
Butler from Cape Town. dated No
vember I. 1885 p. M:
The following dispatch has been re-
ceiFed from the general commanding
| ct Estcourt, dated November 6:
, Since Friday there has been a ces-
sation of hostilities. A note was sent
that day to Gen. Joubert by Gen. White,
at the request of the mayor. asking
permission for the non-combatants, sick
and wounded, to go south. Gen. Jcu-
bert refused the request, but agreed 10
allow them to so TO a special camp
four miles from Ladysmith. The towns
people refused to accept this offer. The
sick and wounded and few OF the in
habitants were moved yesterday A
shots were exchanged yesterday at the
outposts. Fridays bombardng was
heavy. Shells fell in the hospital and
one burst in hotel during luncheon.
No one was injured. The only casualty
in the town from the shells thus lar is
& Kaffir killed.
There was smart action Friday
towards Dewdrop. The troops under
Gen. Broeklehurst drove the Beers back
| considerable distance and disabled a
gun.
There was also fighting near Bull
| wano. Our loss altogether is eight
killed and about twenty wounded.
Ninety-eight Dundee wounded arrived.
They were sent here Saturday. All are
! doing well.
The position here is now believed
to be entirely safe. 1t has been greatly
strengthened during the past "A hours.
The people have deserted their dwell
ings and are living in bomb-proof
places safe from shell fire There is
plenty of good stores of all kinds.
Captain Knappmand Lieut. Brabant
were killed in Fridays action.
The foregoing is an exact copy of
a press censor telegram brought here
by Kafir runner. There is no other
official news"
HOPE TOWN, Cape Colony, Satur-
day, November A dispatch which
has been received here from Kimberley
dated November /, says:
Apparently the Beer reinforcements
from Mafeking have arrived as the
Burghers are more numerous and clos
er all around Kimberley. About 1900
Of them made demonstration three
miles eastward at Premier mine to-day
and opened fire on the de Beers carts,
but no damage was done.
The explosion of the dynamite mag
azine caused by the Beers firing the
y>Io ht,f- 81
thirty-five tons of dynamite valued at
$500 pounds.
"All the wounded were progressing
satisfactorily.
"A committee to regulate the supply
and prices of food is being formed.
"Mr Rhodes is making an avenue a
mile long at Kenilworth, to be called
Siege avenue. A double row Of orange
trees and vines will be planted on eth
er side with pepper trees forming the
background
DURHAM, Natal, Sunday evening,
November 5.-The Beers have invaded
Ingwavuma, zululand, and looted and
burned the public buildings and stores.
The magistrate police and other IN
habitants fed toward Eshowe.
LONDON, November Triumphant
from the ordeal through which 1t is
now passing. the Maine will sail for
the Cape on November % with Lazy
Randolph Churchill on board.
1t is now virtually decided TO send
another division Of 10000 men to South
Africa as soon as possible. For this
purpose a second and third army corps
will be modified. The second will con-
sist Of 10000 men, OF whom 10000 VIII
go to Africa, the rest being coneentra-
ted at Aldershot in readiness for emer-
gencies. The third corps, nominal
affair, will number $4,000 men, who will
be used for garrison purposes at home
Thus the entire British army will vir-
tually be modified, which will be an
| unprecedented occurrence.
LONDON, November S.-Eyidently
more detailed reports Of Gen. Whites
doings at Ladysmith must &c received
before the public will be able to form
clear idea of what has happened.
Reports from various sources show that
another important reconnaissance or
engagement occurred on Saturday 70
the south of Ladys NTH, and Cape
Town newspaper reports that 1000
Beers were captured there.
The Daily Telegraph publishes the
following dispatch from Pietermaritz-
gurg, dated Saturday evening:
"Since their occupation OF Colenso
the Beers have attempted no advance
further South. Estcourt Is now be-
coming a strong and growing camp.
Major Wolfe Murray is in temporary
command.
The enemy bombarded Colenso on
Thursday until sunset at the extreme
range of his nine eentimeter Krupp
guns.
widespread rumors Of both Dutch
and native origin have been current
since yesterday that, during a recon
naissance from -Ladysmith northward,
toward Matawan's Hook and Nichol-
sons Mex, the British troops engaged
the enemy. II is said that a Lyddite
battery drove the Beers into valley.
where the British cavalry charged