The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-26
Total Slain and Injured since HostiIi-
ties Began Nearly 600, and Thir-
teen Men Unaccounted For.
GALLANT WORK OF HUSSARS
SQUADRON SURROUNDED BY A LARGE
FORCE OF THE ENEMY.
Some Captured, hut others Cut Their
Way Through and Escaped
whites Latest Reports.

LONDON, Oct. 26.-With unconscious
humor :. Cape Town correspondent tele-
graphed yesterday:
'The censorship. which is always a deli
cate matter. is working smoothly and with
out hitch"
This exactly hits off the state of affairs
to-day. An ominous veil is still drawn over
the movements of Gen. Sir George Stewart
White and General Yule. Beyond 5elated
Ladysmith dispatches concerning the
Elandslaagte fight. which are still filtering
in. the British public Is left in complete
darkness and TO conjecture over cooked
War once dispatches The officials of the
War Office last evening said that very few
dispatches have arrived and that nothing
further was to be expected until morning.
Since 1t is practically certain that General
Yule has now effected a junction with Gen
eral White-although this was not brought
about Tuesday night, as announced by the
Daily Mail, but sometime on Wednesday,
and as both are now in position of safe
ty. conjecture concerns itself chiefly with
the manner Of General Yule's retreat. That
II was hasty Is evident. Was it disorderly :?
Was any considerable camp equipment
abandoned? Was there any fighting on the
way? Such questions and others like them
the public is anxiously asking. Since the
reception of General Whites curious first
description of the Ladysmth fight. in which
the British lost one hundred men, little re-
lance can be placed on the official dis
patches.
While the concealment OF the facts re-
garding General Yule's retreat can be amply
justified on the ground of keeping the in
telligence from the Beers, the hiding of the
news respecting the Hussars and Fusileers,
who were apparently captured in the bat
tie at Glencoe. is severely criticised, no in
timation. even. having been given that the
officers were missing.
The heavy losses of the British troops in
facing only some 5000 Beers are commented
on as what rife fire means to-day in the
shoot fairly straight and stand their ground
Comparisons are made with the first EN-.
ploynent OF the maeazine rifle in the His
pano-American war, and it is considered
that the American losses at Eel Caney and
San Juan would have been much heayie,
II the spaniards had stood their ground Iik,
the Beers.
Gen. Sir Redvers Butler is expected to ar
rive at the Cape early next week and the
indications are that some troops have al
ready arrived at the front and been in the
hghting, whose arrival has not yet beer
announced. There is every probability
therefore. that reinforcements are now NOV
ing up. This is calculated to hasten Com
mandant General Joubert's attack on Lady
smith. and news of big battle is daily ex
pected.
About half complete army corps is nov
afioat and there is a luil in dispatching I'll,
remainder of General Buffers forces, ow
ing TO some difficulty in obtaining trans
ports. The mobilization and embarkation o
twenty-one thousand men. however, hav
proceeded with the utmost smoothness an,
completeness. extorting admiration from
even the severest critics Of War Office or
ganization.
Although news has arrived that Gen
eral Sir william Penn Symons is doin
well. there Is no indication as TO his where
abouts. II is presumed that he is at Dundee
In the hands OF the Beers.
Among the touching incidents OF the iei,
related. Captain Peyton. OF the Mancheste
regiment. who was wounded at Glands
lsagte, says the wounded had 10 lie on tn
field throughout the bitterly cold night
drenched by the rain. One man in his regi
ment placed his arms around Captain Pey
ton through the whole night to give hin
the warmth Of his body.
1t appears that the Gordon Highlander
and the Manches.ers bore themselves wit