The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-20

let struck the horse Of Surgeon Mai Sui
livan. who. with trooper, whose horse
had stumbled and dissnoun,ed him. was
captured.
LONDON. Oct. ls.-TThe war office this
evening issued the following bulletin:
NO news If Importance has been re-
cetved from Natal today. The cavalry at
tached TO our forces at I-adysmith AMI
Dundee are engaged n observing The
enemy's movement
Steps have been taken 10 secure Pie,er-
maritzburg and Durham against raids on
the western frontier. There is no recent
reliable intelligence from Kimberley or
Mafeking. both places being cut off from
railway and telegraphic communication.
1t Is believed. however. that a skirrnish
took place on Sunday. six miles south of
Kimberley. and that the Beers were beat
en- Off with some loss by an armored train.
There was some ffghting AT Mafeking on
Friday or Saturday, ending with a repu,se
OF the attacking force
'Boers in considerable numbers are as
sembed opposite Aiiwal North and Beth
uiie. on the Orange river. Railway COM
munication with the Orange Free State
and the Transvaal has now ceased, the
to leave by way Of Delagoa bay.
vryburg surrenders to Beers.
The Cape Town correspondent OF the
Daily Mail. teIegraphing at 10 o'clock to-
night. says:
"Vryburg surrendered Sunday. To-
nights dispatches from kuruman, ten
miles east by south OF Vryburg. state that
the police have withdrawn from Vryburg.
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inhabitants fleeing in all directions, most
ly toward Kuruman. When the police
withdrew the Cape Beers notified that
fact to the enemy. thus inviting them TO
take possession. There was q fearful
panic. Tne British are wildly indignant
at this scuttling."
According TO private information re-
ceived from Bloemfontein, President Kru-
ger telegraphed An account TO President
Steyn OF the affair at kraipan wherein
forty Beers deraiIed and bombarded a
British armored train. carrying Capt.
Nesbitts party. Kruger said that Nes-
bitt and seven men were wounded. that
no one was killed and all prisoners were
we'll
Where Transports VIII Land.
The Associated Press learns that trans
ports which will convey army corps about
to start for South Africa will go neither
to Durham nor Cape Town. both of which
are already overcrowded with refugees,
but 10 Port Elizabeth, Port Alfred and
East London, from which points railroads
converge directly upon the Free State
border, where concentration will be ef-
fectsd somewhere In the neIghborhood OF
Norvafs Point. The advance will then
begin toward Pretoria.
The skirmishes In Natal.
Natal again claims a share OF attention
which during the past few days has been
focused upon the helaaguered garrison at
Mafekins The combined advance OF Boer
forces on positions held by the British gem
erai commanding in Natal Sir George
Stewart White. has already occasione1
sharp attack on outposts. which possibly
has since developed into pitched battle
The Beers. according to latest information
at hand. do not appear to have been driven
back. Perhaps, however, their movements
are only part OF a general plan to isolate
I.adysnith and Glencoe from the south.
Military experts are inclined 10 the cpin-
ION that the troops at Glencoe are only
TO form rear guard left TO attack the
force under Gen Jouhert, while Gen.
Whites full strength is concentrated at
Iadysmith. with A view OF attacking the
Orange Free State force while Gen. Jou-
bert is still forty miles away.
Stories Of British successes In MafekIng
district are so persistent that In the ab-
sence of contradiction from Boer sources
they may be accepted as true in the main,
although the alleged killing OF 6p Beers
Is discredited
Reported Boer Losses.
CAPE TOWN. oct IA dispatch from
Kimberley dated October II says:
"Afl IL well here Col Hora engaged
Beers at Mafeklng October "a with great
success Mafeking was s,il safe on Oc-
tober Is"
special dispatch 20 the Cape Argus
reitera,es the statement that In fghting
at Mafeking Cc4 Hore repulsed the Beers.
Initiating a loss Of 3s, men.
TIE Capa Times publishes the following
dis.aich from Kimberley:
Reliable Information from Ma.eking
says that an srTnorei train. while recon
raiierirg north or t1e town last Satur-
day, engaged SO Foers. who su1eresf heav-
fly. CoI Fi,zclsrencc's column followed
the Poers jnf7ictsrg ssYcrc loss The
British casualties we're two killed and
thirteen wounded Two severely"
Ontrsx~s on Basntos.
Complaints 81 Boer outfaSes upon ma
tsves continue 20 arrive These serve FUR
thar - fnrare he Bs~utos and Zulus-
Yesterday 80 Bas1tos rom johannes
burg arrived at Bu-Easrsforp. Cape Coi-
eny. ard alleged fha. TIE Beers hal rohhe
them wholesale and foggea them wita
''hlackxnAkes The party which !rci09-
81 q sor o. Chief r.erothof., was supplied
with provisions ard the Eas3tos ;hen ssart-
ei sou1ewart. cheering .or tAe queen ani
chanting gar s0nEs
Mounted Rsnes Nutfuy.
LAnTSNTTr. Or. : Delayed IN
Transmission. The Trnvotie mounted rife
corps. which Is largely recruite4 from the
Dutch coIoz.fxss has rng,irie3-
Swnsis wiz Attack Ro~rs-
LONDON. Oct - II ts reported sro.n
gtel=Eoa bay shat re- swat king Hana 's
collecting his sare~s. st;h sda object
presumably c. attacking ;ne Beers Il -