Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-10-25
MIKE DAYITT QUITS
The Irish Member Will Leave Par
lament Because He Dis
approves Of the War.
ANOTHER BATTLE IMMINENT
A Correspondent Declares Reports Of Bat
Ties are 0olored by Military Au-
thorities in London to Suit
Their Own PURPOSES,

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London, October 25.-Michael Davitt
the Irish Nationalist member from
South Mayo, announced in the house of
| commons to-day that he would resign
Tomorrow as a protest against the Boer
war. ~
Dayitt denounced the jingo press and
said the war was for the meanest and
most mercenary aims and would be
known as the greatest crime of the CEN
tury. He declared that If he had been
offered home rule and an Irish republic
| he would not have accepted them if ac-
companied by condition that he vote for
| the war. AS protest he would ask to
| be relieved from attendance on the
house. He had been in the house five
years trying to obtain justice for Ire
land, and he left it convinced that mo
cause of justice and right would have
the support of the house unless backed
by force"
During the debate on the second read
ing of the appropriation bill, James H.
Dalzie, Liberal, expressed an opinion
arriving at a settlement with President
Kruger had been that, rightly or wrong
ly, the president believed that Cham
berlain, British secretary of state for
the colonies, and Cecil Rhodes were
identical in intentions. He added that
Chamberlain had given grounds for this
belief by suppressing kilograms, where
upon the colonial secretary tartly inter
vened, saying: Il never suppressed
kilograms. have not got them"
Chamberlain also denied that he re-
fused to see Dr. Montague White agent
of the Transvaal, who, the colonial sec
retary added never applied for an au-
dience. The speaker declared all refer
ences to such matters We're out of order
Cape Town, October 25-Intelligence
received from Natal says the bullet has
been extracted from the wound of Gen
eral Symons, who was struck down
while leading the troops at the battle
of Glencoe. The patient is doing we'll.
Advices from Cape Colony, near the
Orange Free State border, announce
that the Beers have taken Kripdam,
near Barkly, north of Kimberly, and
Assistant Magistrate Harmsworth Is a
prisoner. 1t is supposed the Beers are
advancing on Douglas, further west.
London, October 25.-A dispatch to
the Morning Post from Kimberly dated
October 21, via Orange River October
"a, says: An armored train was en-
gagged this evening. One of our men
was killed, and two trucks of dynamite
that were removed from town for safe
ty were blown up by the Beers. The
Boer loss is uncertain. The Boer artil-
lery moved around, trying to draw our
force covering the town. There was a
small engagement. but nothing of con-
sequence happened. We are completely
Isolated and as safe as a bank. Oul
troops met the enemy cutting the line
to-day, and a maxim gun on the train
did good work and cleared away the
wreckers.
London, October 25-The commander
in-chief, Field Marshal Lord Wolseley,
mas apparently now been convicted of
doctoring onicial reports from the front.
There Is a strenuous demand on all
sides for a reversion to the earlier prac-
tice, when the reports of General Sir
Stewart White, the British commander
in Natal, were given out teXtually as
soon as they arrived. The commander
in-chiefs summary read in the house OF
commons yesterday spoke of General
White having fought successful ac-
ton, whereas Whites own account puts
an entirely different complexion on the
situation and reduces the movement to
its proper proportions, and shows that
further exciting intelligence may be ex-
pected from the same quarter any mo-
ment. It Is quite evident the war in Ma
tai has only commenced, and the Beers
are by no means discouraged at losing
the first two battles. Many experts are
satisfied that General Joubert is even
now close to the heels of the British,
and decisive action may be fought
to-day or tomorrow.
The main fact that the British were
forced to evacuajte the Natal triangle,
which the Beers naturally rightly claim
as a conspicuous success, and which
they may even emphasize by a procla-
nation annexing northern Natal, Is
proving an unpalatable pill to the pub
lie, whose appetite had been whetted by
previous successes which had been as
sumed to be greater than they really
were, as the determination and gallant
ry of the Beers enabled them to quickly
reorganize and achieve the desired OBJ
jects by other methods.
The later estimates of Boer losses at
Elandslaagte give 900 killed. Their
GOODNESS, bravery and good aim can be
judged from the fact that out of seven
teen or eighteen officers with half bat
TALON Of the Gordon Highlanders, four
were killed and thirteen wounded, while
the casualties amon0 the rank and file
were 27 per cent during less than three
hours of fighting. Lieutenant Campbell
Gordon of the Highlanders, has since
died Of his wounds.
"a dispatch from Cape Town to-day
says General White has engaged the
Orange Free State troops advancing on
Ladysmith, about seven miles north
ward, and 1t was believed the advance
had been repelled.
London, October 25.-A special dis
patch from Cape Town, dated this
morning, says there has been another
battle at Ladysmith and the Beers have
been repulsed. The British casualties
were four killed and seven wounded, all
of the rank and file.
General White telegraphed the war
Office from Rietfonteln, under date Of
October a. saying that in the fighting
near Ladysinith twelve British were