The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-10-29
LADlSMIiu LnaL.U FROM.
Patrol Shelled by Beers and 81 Force
sent Out TO Try and De-
strOy Them.


sent Out TO Try and De-
stroy Them
LONDON. Oct. 2s.-The luil in news
from Ladysmitu, Natal. which was begin
ming 10 he regarded as oniuou@, has at last
been broken by q Cape Town dispatch IN
der This mornings date. saying:
scouts from Moiderspruit having re
ported the Beers III force on the Help
fnaakar road Gen. Waite ordered out the
frontier force OF artillery, mounted intan-
tgy AMI cavalry. a small patrol Of mount
cd infantry was she.led by Beers nine
miles rom Ladysmijh and the Beers posi-
Jion MAS finally located three miles beyond
Modderspruit The British force is now
four miles from the Beers
The dispatch does not give the date OF the
above occurrence, bat il must have been
since Thursday, when the last news arrived
from I.Adysmi;n The Boer advance from
Dundee southwark and from Besters sta
ti0n eastward has evidently proceeded
steadily III the interim and the engagement
foreshadowed by the above dispatch may
already have been fought. The news from
Tie front does not enlighten the situation
in. Fragmentary details arrive Of the oc-
cupaiiou Of Dundee by the Beers.
1t is added 200 men Of the town guard
occupied an outpost couple of miles
from the town when a Boer shell dis
lodged them. and the men He'd to a neigh
boring hin, where 3oo Beers surrounded
them and shot the majority. The Beers
then entered Dundee. dragged several ci-
villains out of their houses and pistoled
them in the streets
Beers Report Use of Dumdums.
AS a pendant to the above is a story
from Cape Town to the effect that sew
eral cases Of dumdum bullets We're found
by the Beers at Dundee, which the Brit
ism abandoned In their flight Some of
the Beers wanted to use the durndum bull
lets. but President Kruger vetoed this.
saying: mo, it must not be SO. What
ever the British are. Beers are at
least humane" The bullets wers then
destroyed.
engagements in RhOdesia.
Further details from Buluwayo, Rho
tesia. show that the armored train from
there on October o. sent towards MAIZE
king under the command 81 Lieut. Lie
wel!yn. got within seven miles OF Lobatsi
when the British found the railroad bad
~ damaged Beers were visible on the
hills in the vicinity. Lobatsi had been
looted. The train encountered the Beers
three miles south OF Crocodile pass. and
the British opened fire with their Maxims
and drove the Beers back 10 the hills,
whence they had advanced. Besides eight
kill@d, the Beers lost eleven horses
Dispatches from Sydney and Melbourne
record the departure OF the Australian con-
t!ngent for the Transvaal amid scenes Of
enthusiasm.
Volunteer Nurses start Monday.
T. lesser Cooper. of London, has placed
his steam yacht Sunrise at the disposal Of
the government ana starts for South Afri-
Ga Monday with several volunteer nurses
and doctors.
sk,rmish Near Lomba Ri kop.
CAPE TOWN. Oct s, eyening-The
Gordon HiRhlantsrs. the Devoushire resl-
tneut the Manchesiers and Liyerpools the
Dublin fusileers. the Liverpool mounted IL
fantry. the lancers. The dragons ana the
Seventeenth hussars. the Natal volunteers.
the Tenth mountain battery ana the Thir-
teenth. Twen;y-arst, Fortv-second and
Fitty-third batteries proceeded to Lom-
5ardskop.
a squadron ~ the Eighteenth hussars 10
Gated the enemy. who opened fire with
shells and rifles Two horses were sho; ana
Il trooper was wounded. The enemy occu-
pied a strong position A DewaaIs farm.
ard the mountain infantry tried without
success 70 draw them out. As nothing was
70 pc gained ~ al afternoon attack. the
column hfvouackeA and NJ daylight ;ha
enemy retired - Reitf0ntatn.