Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-10-31
Beers Advancing On the British
Left Flank at Ladysmith.
SEVERAL CANNON LOST
Mules Frightened by Firing Siam.
pcdo with ia british Batsory-Gcn-
crni white IIns Engagement with
Gonerni Jouberrs Troops aud To-
tires from, tho FloId-Bri,ish Dny-
onot RushNopulsod at MnfoklnE.

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Ladysmith October So.-11:5O a {:
m.-riring commenced ut $40 this ::
morning the Beers Smelling Lady {:
smith with forty Founders. !:
After seven shots the British !:
guns succeeded in silencing the
Boer fire. ::
A force Of Beers IS now advanc- ::
ing OH tho British left flank.
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London, October 3O.-A War ONCE
dispatch from Cape Town dated Octo-
Der 2Gth says:
''An hrmored train under Llewellyn,
got within 1900 yards of the Boer
laager, three miles south of Srokodlle
Poort- The Beers had driven in their
horses OH the approach of the train.
Three Maxim bolts were discharged
into the Bocrs. who must have had
considerable loss. They returned ten
shots with no effect. Colonel Plumers
outpost has had several skirmiShes on
the Crocodile river"
From later advices It was learned
that the Llewelyn train returned to
S1ochudi, one hundred miles north of
Mafeklng. Llcwelyn reports nil quiet
General Whites dispatch. which was
dated 1870 p. III. to-day reads:
MULES STAMPEDE WITH GUNS.
IT employed all tho troops here ex-
cept the obligatory garrison before the
works. l sent Il mountain battery the
Royal Irish FusilierS, and the Glouces-
tiers to take UP 81 position on the hills
to clear my left flank. The force
moved ut IL yesterday evening, and
during some night firing the battery
mules stnmDeded with some or the
guns, which, however, hope to re-
cover. These two ba'ttnlions have not
lint
evening.
ATTACKED BY BOERS.
II detailed two brigade divisions of
held artillery and five battalionS of in
fantry. aided by cavalry, under Gene
raj French. to attack n position upon
which the enemy yesterday mounted
guns. We found this position exacuat-
ed. but our force was attacked with
considerable vsor by what I believe
were General .loubcrts troops They
had many guns and showed in great
numbers. Our troops were all in action
and we pushed the enemy back sevc-
raj miles. but did not succeed In reach
Ing his leager Our losses are esti-
mated at between 30 and 100 but those
OF the enemy must have been much
greater. the fire of our guns appear
ing very effective.
BRITISH TROOPS WITHDRAW.
After being I'm action several hours
withdrew the troops and they re-
turned unmolested to their canton
ments. The enemy are in great num-
bcrs, and their guns range further than
our field guns.
now have some nnYal guns, which
have temporarily silenccd and, 7 hoDe
VIII permanently dominate tho enemy's
hest guns, with which he has bonn
barded tho town at a range Of over
5000 yards.
BRITISH AUTHORITIES RE
ASSURED.
London, Oct. 3o-Latest news from
the western border has apparently re-
assured the British authorities as TO
the ability OF Mafeking and Kimberley
TO- Withstand assaults.
a dispatch from Fort Tuli, for
warded during the evening of October
q, announces that Blackburn's forces
in the skiI1nish at Rhodes Drift. killed
twelve BoeTs. n Kafnr spy reported
that many more Beers were lying in
the drift, dying. Blackburn died Of his
wounds on returning to Fort Tull.
Scouts there report that the Beers are
concentrating strongly on the Rhode
sian border with maXims
THE BRITISH REPULSED.
zourenzo Marquee. Delegoa Bay, Oct.
30.-A dispatch received here today
from Pretoria. under date of October
2Sth, says General Cronie, the Boer
commander. announced there that the
British garrison at Mafeking made q
bayonet attack on Commandant Louw's
Larger, near Grandstand, but were re-
pulsed. leaving six dead on the field,
and 1t was believed that many of the
attacking party were wounded.
BOERS GRANT AN ARMIsTIcE.
The dispatch odds that Saturday
morning Colonel Baden-Powell asked
for an armisticc in order to bury the
dead. General Cronte consented to this,
the Beers assisting In placing the dead
in the wagon returning to Mafeking.
PROOF OF GERMANY'S NEUTRAL
ITY
Berlin. Oct. S0.-cmperor williams
farewell message to the British Royal
Dragons, of which regiment he is hon
,orary Colonel. on their departure for
South Africa, expressing his N1ajestys
hope that all might return "unscathcd
and WE'LL" Is generally taken as a proof
of Germanys official neutrality. One
of the evening papers, referring to the
dispatch points out It's high political
significance, and says 1t Is the best an
swer to "pan-American German
leagues. Anglo-Phobia and predictions
Of foreign Intervention In which Ger
many Is to play a leading part"
PORTUGUESE TROOPS ARRIVE
London. Oct sl.-A special dispatch
from LourenZo Marquee says n strong
force of PortOCIInSe troOns has arrived