Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-10-26
They Were 0utnumbered at Glencoe
and Had to Go South to Join
Other Troops.
THEY LEFT THEIR WOUNDED
A Battle Is Raging at Mafeking Today and
the Outcome Is Doubtful-British
Regiments Almost Without
Officers,

The women and children We're givel
ample time to leave town
Pretoria, via Lorenzo MARQUEE, Octo
ber 25.-The shelling of Mafeking wa.
resumed at daybreak this morning. Sew.
eral houses are in flames.
London, October 27-The war office
has received the following dispatch
from General White:
''Ladysmith, October 26, 1O:4O p. M
General Yule's column has just marched
in here, after very hard march during
the night in exceptionally heavy rains
The men, though done up, are in goo6
spirits, and only want a rest. The ene-
my did not molest them"
London, October 26.-Dispatches from
South Africa are so contradictory it Is
difficult to outline the situation with
any precision. Three or four main facts
however, stand out prominently. Gen.
eral Symon's fight at Glencoe was not
anything like the decisive victory first
alleged. Yule would probably have been
annihilated or met with the same fate
retreated. General Whites artillery
duel" at Reitfontein was severe en-
gagement, in which the rifle did great
execution, and in which success was
also achieved at distressing cost. The
bombardment of Mafeking has COM
menced with unknown result, and the
Beers got their hussar prisoners safely
to Pretoria. Altogether the campaign
Is being pushed by the Beers SO siren
uously and on such sound strategical
lines that the situation of the British
must probably give them cause for
anxiety for some time to come.
1t is difficult to see how the concen-
trated force at Ladysmith will be able
to take the aggressive Immediately.
Apart from fatigue, regiments like the
Gordon Highlanders and the Royal Ri
fies have been practically without off,
GERS since the fights, and 1876 additional
officers have been ordered to leave En-
gland as speedily as possible.
The official British account Of the
fight at Retfontein given out at Cape
Town says the enemy posted battery
two miles south of Modderspruit and
opened with infantry fire at long range
on the British advance guard, consist
ing of the 18th hussars. This was fol-
lowed by artillery fire. directed with
considerable accuracy against the Brit
ish guns. The action lasted six hours
that apr,, ad o+ d lot ed UNri1,o1y "A
enemy were driven from the hills COM
mandIng the roads. Sir George Whites
object being accomplished, the column
returned to Ladysmith. The enemy Is
believed to have suffered. Several Beers
own officially that they lost over 100
killed at ElandsgaaIte. Three hundred
prisoners, wounded and unwounded, are
in the hands of the British, including
several Of high position. The Transvaal
force defeated at Elandslaagte was the
johannesburg corps. Other accounts
dwell on the severity Of the rifle fire at
Rettfontein. They say that when the
Beers finally retreated the lancers cut
them off from their horses, inEficting Sc
ended in general rout.
1t Is announced in a dispatch from
Ladysmith, dated October %, that
strong endorsements of infantry and
artillery arrived from Pietermarltz-
burg. 1t was also reported that the
Beers were again massing near Glands
laagte, and Free State force several
thousand strong occupies Bester's sta
ton.
London, October 26.-The death of
Gen. Sir William Symons, the Brit
ish commander at Glencoe, who was
shot In the stomach In a battle with the
Beers there October 20, was officially
announced in the house of commons to-
day.
The parliamentary secretary Of the
war office, Mr.. Wyndham, in announc-
ing the death of General Symons, said:
"The news was CONSIDERABLY sent to
General White by General Joubert
which confirms the impression that
General Yule had to leave the wounded
at Dundee. We hope to have shortly
full information on the dispositions
made by General Yule for the wounded
before leaving. The house." he added,
will be glad to know we have further
report from Mafeking, which was all
right October 21. As the establishment
there Of the 18th hussars was complete,
there Is no explanation why the infan-
try officers fell into the enemy's hands
at the same time, and It Is assumed they
were the mounted infantry"
Cape Town, October 26-According to
dispatch from Pretoria, in the en-
gagement between the British forces
under Colonel Plumer and the Beers at
Rourke's Drift, six Beers were killed
and four prisoners taken.
Advices from Cape Town show that
the assembly at the Putiatsu river was
attended by all the principal Basuto
chiefs. The action Of Paramount Chief
Lerothodi, pledging the nations loyalty
was emphatically confirmed by the
chiefs urging the claim that they should
be regarded as the queens soldiers and
allowed to share Great Britain's strug.
gle. Three cheers were given for the
queen by the natives. led by Lerothodi
The British commissioner discouraged
the .uea that the British needed assist.
ance, and babe the chiefs quell the ex.
citement.
There Is little news from the western
border. The Gordon around Kimberly II
drawing closer, but hopes are expressed
that flying squadron will shortly b
sent to its relief.