The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-11-16
|,.i BRITISH IN AFRICA.
early Fourteen Thousand Rein
brcements Arrive at Cape Town.
x THOUSAND OFF FOB DURHAM.

TX THOUSAND Uft fUk UUkbAN.
ho Beers as De Aar Have Got tho
Range OF the Mines aud Are Con.
tantly Throwing Shells at shs Dy.
tamits Huts. Doing Great Damage.
London. Nov. l4.-The paucity OF
kws from the front still leaves the
ief interest centered in the arrival
the reinforcements. Estcourt dis
tches say that heliograph communi-
tion has been established with Lady.
bith. but so far no news has been
ceived. the latest date being Nov.
which shows that the occupants OF
kdysmith had no news Of the outsid,
|orld since General French reached
etermaritzburg and that they were
Ezzled at the inactivity Of the Beers.
yeryone was confident and cheerful.
t all were suffering the inconveni-
ICE Of the siege, bread selling at three
billing per loaf.
Colonel Baden-Powell's dashing sor-
es at Mafeking encouraged the hope
at the British garrisons along the
estern border are all able to hold
It, Cecil Rhodes is employing 5000
len, black and white, at Kimberley
I road making, as remedy for des-
BUTTON.
According to q dispatch from De
ar the Beers at Kimberley have got
e exact range of the mines and are
Instantly throwing shells AZ the
mantle huts. Several Of the latter
I've been blown up. and the damage
kne to the mines already amounts to
any thousands Of pounds.
Among the stories from Brussels "a
be that General Joubert and Sir
Gorge White have been endeavorins
negotiate for the capitulation o.
adysmith, but have failed to come to
rms.
The story of Father Matthews, cabled
ON Lorenzo Marques. regarding the
prrender at Nicholson's Mex. Is too
bgue to be very convincing. but In
ilitary circles 1t is considered un-
sasant reading, and 1t Will be int
pssible to learn the facts until the
Hcer concerned has been court mar
aled.
Father Matthews. who has Just ar
we'd at Lorenzo Marques from Pre-
ria, says with reference to the sur
nder of the Irish Fusileers and the
Worcestershire troops at Nicholson 8
sk, that after the mules stampeded
le force got hard pressed by the en-
by. They would have held out, how
Ter, but q young lieutenant, who
hought his batch of ten men were the
bic survivors. without instructions,
blsted q flag of truce on his own
sponsibility. Nothing then remain
but to surrender.
An armored train, with q company OF
10 Royal Dublin Fusileers. started
pm Estcourt yesterday afternoon and
kched the break in tha railway line
yout half mile from Colenso. with
accident. Captain Hensley. with
eyeral men, reconnoitered and met q
1tive who said the Beers were oc-
|pying the town. While the conver-
Zion was in progress the Beers open
" fire from Fort Wylie, but did no in
Dry. Captain Hensley thereupon re-
led on the train. after which the
usileers volleyed on the fort. As
|ere was no response the presump-
pn was that the Beers had retreated
be armored train returned to Est
burt at O'clock. Captain Hensley
armed from the native that the Beers
ere numerous on the Ladysmith side
Colenso.
A dispatch from Cape Town an
bunces the arrival there Of the troop
lips Armenian and Nubia. with ar.
(lery and infantry. This brings the
|tal number Of reinforcements to 12,'
O. Of which about 5000 are alread!
the way to Durham. Nine othe'
popships, carrying 1900 men. arr
|, at Cape Town today.