The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-11-29

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Among the Forces of Gen.
Methuen-BOers Retreated In
Good Order, Taking Their six
Cannon With Them.
| ORANGE RIVER, Monday, Nov. ~
The British arms have achieved a bril-
liant victory. The enemy, strongly in.
trenched, held range Of hills command.
ing both sides of the railway at Roof
| Laagte, near Gras Pan.
The Lancashires, under Lewis recon-
noitered in an armored train on Friday.
The Beers sheIled the train and killed
Lewis and a private.
Gen. Methuen then advanced. His COLI
umn made detour and bivouacked for
the night at Simon's Plains. three miles
from the Boer position. AT daybreak the
advance began, the guards forming the
reserve. The column debouched on the
plain eastward of the Boer kopjes. The
! Boer guns opened fire. Two batteries Of
British artillery, posted on each side,
| shelled the Beers, practice being good on
both sides.
The Beers stuck tenaciously to their
| positions, firing steadily and accurately.
The duel, which constantly became hot
| ter, lasted three hours. The Boer shells
wounded several men Of the naval
brigade
Finding it impossible to displace the
Beers by artillery, Gen. Methuen resolved
upon an infantry attack. A brigade Of in
! fantry including the Yorkshires, the
Ncrthamptons, the Northumberlands and
| the Lancashires, with the naval brigade
on the right, gallantly stormed the Boer
positions, in the face of a whitening fire,
and carried hill after hill. the brigade
position against a terrific fire, but suf-
fering severely.
The Beers were shelled during the final
retreat and must have loI heavily, but
they succeeded in getting away north
ward with their six guns. The British
were badly in need of more cavalry.
STRICT CENSORSHIP.
LONDON. Nov. 29.-Virtually the only
fresh news from ti.e 'front.' Is contained In
the dispatches of Gen. Forester Walker
to the war office. The cables continue
silent, presumably because of Gen Bull
ler's desire to prevent leakage of inn
portant movements now being carried on.
1t seems certain, however, that Lord
! Methuen continues to move forward
rapidly, and finding the railway much
damaged he has left 1t. When telegraph
communication is finally resumed it may
be possible to hear of four different en-
] gagements, MOdder river, Arundel Col
enso and COlesberg.
AS the Beers are reported from I[tni-
! berley to be retiring to the south, it is
not impossible Col Kekewich had already
left Kimberley with 1000 men to meet
Lord Methuen.
After relieving Kimberley Lord Meth
uen will march TO the relief of Nafeking,
about which considerable anxiety is felt.
Lord Charles Mansfield Clark, 1t is said,
will be the commander of the Sixth d.
vision.
The latest phase of the mobilization Of
the reserves has progressed as salts
factorily as have former calls. Out Of
/ 9,7S6 men summoned, 1888 have rejolned
! the colors.
BATTLE OF ENsLIN.
A dispatch from Orange river dated
Monday, Nov. q, and describing the bat
| tie of Enslin, says:
The Beers successfully retreated The
| lancers attempted to intercept and
reached them, but q severe fire opened
from kOpje {hilD forced the lanCers to
retreat. Gen. Cronje was with the Boers.
Among the BOer prisoners are Alderman
Jeppe and Commandant Ressik who led
! the Boer force"
BRITISH LOST HEAVILY.
A dispatch has been received here from
! Gen. Rulle- giving list of casualties
! among the troops engaged IN what was
I hitherto known here as the battle Of
! Gras Pan, but which IS now officially
designated the battle of Enslin 1t proves
us anticipated that the British success
was heavily bought. The losses an
! nOunced today added TO the naval brigade
/ casualties previously notified make q
! grand total of 19S as the cost Of Gen.
Methuen's second battle. The Yorkshires,
| apparently, bore with the naval brigade
the brunt of the fighting, as there were,
in addition to three officers, forty-eight
of the rank and file killed, wounded and
missing. The fact that the list contains
the casualties of the Ninth lancers seems
to dispose of the fears that the cavalry
was surrounded and captured.
BOERS ARE RESTLESS.
Gen Forestier-Walker has sent the fol-
lowing dispatch, dated Cape Town, today,
to the war office:
''Kekewich reports from Kimberley
from Nov. Is to Nov. % some unimpor-
tant sNrmishes with the Beers. Wound
ed, Capt. Bodley, Lieut.. Hawker and three
troopers. all doing we'll. The health Of
the garrison is good and the water sup
ply plentiful.
Native reports to Kekewich state that
| the enemy camps to the south of KIM
| berley have been evacuated and that
Cronje, with 1900 troops, is marching to
the south The Beers are disappearing
from the vicinity of Kimberley The en-
emy seems restless"
BRITISH TROOPS AT CAPE TOWN.
The transports Scott, with thirty-four Of
ficers and LOS men, and Bavaria, with
eighty-tive officers and $40 men, arrived
at Cape Town yesterday (Tuesday)
SYMPATHY FOR BOERS.
MARINETTE, Wis, Nov. 2S.-An en-
thusiastic pro-Boer meeting was held at
Escanaba,' Mich, on Sunday, which was
attended by about 100 prominent Irish
men from all parts of the upper peninsu-
la, including Judge O'Leary and ex-Chief
of Police Frawley. of Escanaba Reso-
lutions of sympathy for the Beers In
their South African struggle We're adopt
ed, and a movement was started which
will probably result in extending financial
support.
TO STRIKE VIGOROUS BLOWS.
BEREIN, Nov. 2S-The Deutsche Eel
tung publishes the following dispatch,
dated Pretoria, Nov. q, received through
Boer diplomatic channels:
President Kruger and President Steyn