The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-28
Large Number of the Enemy, IncIud-
ing the Famous Dutch Fighter,
Botha, Killed and Wounded.
CECIL RHODES CHEERFUL
WATCHING THE FIGHTING AND CIV
ING DINNER PARTIES DAILY.
BeIated Dispatches from Glencoe,
Durham and Other Points-Casual-
ties OF TransvaaIers Heavy.

LONDON. Oct. 2s.-The war situation this
morning presents no new features. 1t is
presumed in Natal that the Beers are recon-
structing their plans and that the English
are resting. but kilograms from Ladysmith
at express rates still occupy forty-eight
hours in transmission to London, and there
fore 1t Is not impossible that something is
happening.
The special dispatches assert that Colonel
Baden-Powell, the British commander at
Mafeking, is aware that Pretoria has given
General Cronje orders to stay his hand,
already there is quite enough to employ the
Beers In Natal.
There has been severe fighting near
Kimberley, in which the British were VIC
torious. Part of the defending force of the
town made a sortie and inflicted heavy loss
on the Beers. The Beers removed their
killed and wounded in carts. No reliable es-
innate of their losses has been made. Mr..
Rhodes rode out and watched the fight The
townspeople. including the women, mounted
the trenches, watching eagerly for the re-
turn of the troops. Mr.. Rhodes is cheerful
and gives dinner parties daily. at which
4laaxusiss are abundant.
The Daily Telegraph publishes the follow
ing dispatch from LAdysmith, dated Tues
day: General symons ordered his column
to march back to Ladysmith, and, under
his instructions, himself and all the wound
ed were placed in the hospitals at Dundee.
1t IS supposed the Beers, puzzled by the re-
tirement imagined that trick was being
prepared, and therefore remained at Dun
dee, watching their guns. instead of pur-
suing the British"
The Daily Telegraph has the following
from Ladysmith. dated Wednesday: "Our
cavalry patrols have been fired on this fore
noon and chased by the enemy near the
scene OF the Reitfontein engagement. The
Beers show signs of becoming aggressive.
We learned OF the capture of the Hussars
In response to a military wire sent to Com
mandant General Joubert.''
The Cape Town correspondent Of the
Daily Telegraph says he learns that Colonel
Schiel. the wounded and captured COM
mander OF the German contingent of the
acted as Cetewayo's military adviser In the
Zulu war. and who. after the battle of
ulundi. offered s1,oee as a reward for the
capture of the fugitive chief.
A telegram from Buluwayo, Rhodesia,
dated Monday, says: "a Boer force is
threatening Chief Khama and Chief Linch-
we. who are loyal to Great Britain. The
two chiefs country lies at the extreme
northwest OF the Transvaal and includes
Bechuanaland. IT seems a gross mistake
for the Beers to provoke war among the
natives. The probable explanation is that
the Boer force intends TO destroy the rail-
way to Buluwayo, which runs through
Khama's country. and thus prevent any at
tempt OF Colonel Plummer's Rhodesian
force to go to the relief of Mafeking Al
ready there have been stories OF Rhode
sian armored train engaging the Beers
some distance north OF Mafeking"
A dispatch from Durham. Natal dated
Oct. 4, delayed in transmission, says: MANY
spies have been arrested here. and some Of
them will be shot. On the strength OF rep
reservations by the mayor OF Durham the
governor OF Natal, Sir Walter Francis Hely-
Hutchinson, has prohibited the landing OF
all but British refugees. Undesirable per-
sons OF all nationahties will be rigidly ex-
ciuded. III Is reported tnat one or the IN
dian transports is being fitted out to convey
the Boer prisoners elsewhere"
Great indignation has been caused at
Cape Town by the announcement that DR..
Hoffman. member of the Cape House of
Assembly. with party OF assistants. is
going TO the Transvaal to do ambulance
work. II is suspected that he will give in
formation to the enemy.
AreOrdinC "a the oeco,pt of tba
first battle at Glencoe. the Boer army
amounted to 1000 men. and about noon an
other army, almost as large, under Com
mandant General Joubert. advanced within
5000 yards Of Glencoe camp and then re-
tired. The Boer losses were very heavy,
fully three hundred.
The government has chartered the City OF
Rome as hospital ship.