The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-17


the cape are very meagre tonight, but
they include an important message
from Glencoe camp, dated S:S5 this
(Monday) afternoon announcing that
the Boer commanders which invaded
Natal through Laing's Neck and after
occupying Newcastle, advanced to
Pannhauser. retired ON Ingagene yes
terday evening, their transport service
being reported defective. This will de-
lay indefinitely the anticipated and
hcped-for assault on the strong Brit
ish position at Glencoe.
Another dispatch reports activity on
the part of the Free State commando
in the neighb0rfrGOd of AliwalnGFth, on
the southern frontier The Beers adj
vance patrol, the dispatch says, go TO
the frontier nightly to keep watch,
firing shots at intervals as signals.
1t is believed the enemy intends short
ly to try to rush the railway station
with the help of artillery posted on a
ridge commanding the town. There
are rrmors that the Beers have been
repulsed at Mafeking and are attack
ing Vryhurg.
A Cape Town paper has dispatch
from the Orange river stating that the
Vryburg and Kimberley and 1t is be-
lieved that the Beers are taking advan-
tage of the presence Of a large gather
ing of disloya1 farmers at Vryburg
celebrating Nachtmaal. to attack the
town, hoping that the farmers will as
sist them against the British.
Kimberley Wants Relief.
The same dispatch says that the Brit
i1~y, fe.f aru
it's ability to hold out, but urges the
immediate despatch of a relief force
This question of q possible rising OF
the Dutch farmers in the northern
portions of Cape Colony is very inn
portant.
The Daily Mails correspondent at
Colesburg has been inquiring regarding
the matter, and, on the whole, thinks
the chances are against a rising lie
bases his opinion on the prospect OIL
good crops after four lean years. which
he believes will predispose the farmers
to peace. Nevertheless there is serious
distrust and much anti British agita-
ton in thse districts, while the Free
Stat Beers sthreatengga an, immediate In
vasion of ColeSburg and Aliwalnortf-
The Daily Mails correspondent as
serts that Sir Alfred Milner is worked
to death and that Cape Town is surg
ing with bitter resentment at what IS
called the Schreiner cabinets betrayal
Of Mafeking by it's constant~refusal TO
send a volunteer force to its relief.
Officers Are Mobbed.
Many residents of Cape Town have
relatives at Vryburg and they are flu
rious with Messrs. Merriman and
Sauer, respectively colonial treasurer
and commissioner Of public works and
the ministers are m0bbed whenever
they appear in public. Mr.. HOfmeyer,
the Afrikander leader, has gone to the
country in order to escape the out
bursts of Indignation.
On Sunday night the streets were
filled with angry citizens, and it was
feared that Tioting would occur. This,
combined with the presence of the inn
peria1 government brought the Schrein-
err government to the sense of its peril
as we'll as it's duty and moved it to de-
eide to call out the volunteers The
ministerial party also worked it's hard
est to prevent the ovation to COnyTfg-
ham Greene on his arrival from 0re-
toria. but failed.
The volunteers are 1000 strong and
have eleven pieces of artillery. There
is no further news regarding the pres
ent position.
The Natal Invasion.
The Natal invasion was made in
three columns at dawn on Oct II,
through Bothas pass, Laing's Neck and
from .WakkeTstrcon, the objective
point of the invaders being Newcastle.
The Beers utilized several thousand
natives who were tramping from the
Rand to drive their heavy gums UP
Laing's Neck.
Precautions are being taken for the
defense of Pietermaritizburg and Dur
ban, in the remote contingency that the
enemy may elude the vigilance of the
British at the Ladysmith and Glencoe
! commands.
A dispatch from the latter place says
the partial closing down of the Natal
coal mines will not interrupt the sup
plies for the imperial transports at
Durham, as is imagined by the Beers,
large quantities of coal being already
on the water from India. Regular ship
ments will arrive from India until the
Natal mines open again.
Shipping of British Troops.
The Calling out of the Cape Colony
volunteers is supplemented by a de-
cision to raise 1900 more volunteers in
Cape Colony and 1000 in Natal. Thus
the total strength of the volunteer
! forces in both places will amount to
IL, 500 men.
According to the programme of EN-
barkations from Great Britain next
Friday and. the four following days,
which has been published, there Will
be shipped total of is ,000 troops of all
ranks and 1.600 horses. Among the
new chartered vessels are the White
Star steamer Britannia and the Ma
| tional liner America
Since the reports Of the fighting al
Kimberley and the Orange river bridge
| people are urging the immediate re-
moval of families from Demaar june
/ ton.
| The latest Kimberley and VrybuTe
reports were brought to- Orange River
by a dispatch rider. who succeeded in
getting through the BCer forces.