The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1899-12-22
TAKEN ny nULLEn.
Reported to Have Captured 10000
Beers.

Beers.
London. Dec. 16.-A special dispatch
from Pietermaritzburg says Generals
Butler and Clery have entered Lady
smith and have captured 10000 Beers.
The war office is still without news
from Ladysmith other than that al
ready published. The general belief
is that the large Roer forces Lord
Aethucn encountered at Magersfontein
were partly draHD from Natal and
that Gen. Butler will strike blow be-
fore they have time to return.
The newspapers are calling upon the
government to employ the Crnarders
as we'll as the White Star liners as
Transports, seeing the urgent need OF
getting men to the Cape as speedily
as possible. Forty thousand men could
still be sent from England without
calling upon the militia for service.
That body contains 100000. and from
this body 10000 carefully selected
could be spared for South Africa.
Moreover the colonies are again offer.
ing assistance. The greatest need,
therefore is speedy transports.
Sir Charles Warren, who arrived at
Cape Town yesterday, will possibly
join lord Mcthuen and take command
Of the combined forces. a Chronicles
Modder River dispatch, which is at
variance with all other accounts, re-
ports Lord Methucn's force as retiring
en- Modder River as the result Of more
artillery firing during the day. Or
ders have been issued at Woolwich to
prepare another siege train to so out
with the Seventh division.
Bocr Loss Exceeds 700.
Modder River. Dec. 16.-Ambulances
started early yesterday morning under
Il flag Of truce to collect the wounded
and bury the dead who fella t Mayors.
fontein. Brig. Gen. Wauchepe. who
led the Highland brigade, was found
dead near the trenches. shot in the
chest and thigh. a few wounded were
found near the trenches. Several
wounded Beers were taken to the Brit
isll hospital The side of the hill and
the INN ediate neighborhood Of the
Boer trenches showed dead bodies all
about. One wounded Boer informed a
correspondent of the Associated Press
that their loss was terrible. The whole
Scandinavian corps was destroyed.
Judging from information gathered
from the Boer wounded and from pris-
oners taken ut different parts of the
field the Eoer loss must exceed 700.
The destruction wrought by the navy
guns was enormous. Word was passed
along the Boer lines to prepare to re-
treat ut nightfall. All confess that it
was their greatest loss during the war.
The British troops have returned to
Modder River owing to the lack Of
water near the position held yesterday.
Boers Forced Back.
London. Dec. 16.-,rhe war office has
received the following from Gen For.
estier-Walker at Cape Town: Gen.
French wires. under date of Dec. IL.
reporting skirnsh at 4 o'clock in
the morning With 1880 Beers who
were advancing southwark toward
Nauawpocrt. The diminishing con-
tinted all the morning. the Beers fight
ing Oh front Of fourteen miles. The
enemy retired with a loss OF forty
killed and wounded. Our casualties
We're one killed. seven wounded. in
Guiding one officer. and two missing"
Dad Effect on Colonists.
London. Dec. 1G.-"Metheun's check,
following Gatacre's reverse" says the
Cape Town correspondent of the Daily
News, has had a bad effect upon the /,
colonists, which are by no means ~
growing body. The reverscs has
stirred up the Dutch. Many secret
meetings have been held. The impe.
rial authorities are arming the loyal
farmers in the Stutterheim and Ker-
road Districts"
Churchill Escapes.
Lourenzo Marqnez, Dec. 16. - Win
StOn Churchill, the nawSnaner curra
spondent and former officer of the,
Fourth hussars who was captured at
the time OF the armored train disaster.
near Estcourt, Nov. 1G, has escaped
from Pretoria.