Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-11-18

1 General Hildyard's Force to Be the Col
umn First Moving Toward Ladysmith-
Reports from Pretoria, One of Them a
| Week OId-Burgher General Meyer San
| guine of the Result of the war-Number
of British Prisoners at Pretoria.
Estcourt, Nov. 1.-THE Beers ell
deavored the 14th to make a closer
investigation, but were repulsed.
White followed this up with a sortie,
which drove the Beers from all posi-
tions, with considerable loss.
The Beers are reported seriously
short on provisions.
Lorenzo Marques, Delagoa Bay,
Nov. 1S.-Censored dispatches from
correspondent with the Beers near
Ladysmith has arrived here. He saws
Commandant Weilbach captured a
man who reported 1000 wounded in
the hospitals at Ladysmith.
There was heavy fighting between
the Orange Free State troops and the
British south of Ladysmith, the 18th.
The result is unknown.
A Lorenzo Marques official volksten
reports that the great bridge over the
Tugela river near Colenso was COM
pletely destroyed Wednesday.
Estcourt, Nov. IA runner from
Ladysmith bearing dispatches from
White, reports all we'll and that the
Boer shells had no effect. White re-
Gently made q sortie and drove the
Beers from their position. The Brit
ish did not lose n man. The town is
healthy.
London, Nov. 1S.-Buller cables
from Capetown: Reports from Kim
berley the 11th and from Ladysmith
the 18th and 18th, says that all are
well at those places"
London. Nov. 1S.-Special dispatches
from Pietermaritzburg and Lourenzo
bardcd night and day and hard pressed.
On Nov. 8, having during the night
placed men close TO the town, the
Beers after IA heavy bombardment be-
gan an assault. but were rcpulsed at
every point with heavy losses.
London. Nov. 1S-The admiralty an
nounced last evening the arrival at
Cape Town yesterday of the troopship
Arcana' with 4 battalion of the Argyll
and Sutherland HighllndeFS (the
Princess Louise's regimcnb. bringing
the reinforcementS up 10 23.500. of
which 1.290 have already disembarked |
at Durham, with eighteen fields guns, |
number of machine guns. engineers
and hospital troops. as we'll as 100 |
mules. This force. with that already
between EStcOurt ana Durham, is CON
sidered sufficient To enable General !
Hildyard to advance and to take the |
. aggressive against the Beers south OF |
LadySmith. According to the latest |
adviceS LadySmith is holding out salts |
factorily. everything having been well |
up to Wednesday.
Gen. Lucas Meyers View of the War.
London, Nov. 1S.-A dispatch from |
LOurenZo Marques says: A Pretoria |
announced last Wednesday |
that 1000 burghers had left General |
Joubert'S force around LadySmith to |
join Commandant Botha's force near |
EstcOuTt with a view of assisting To- |
intercept the British advance to the re- |
lief of LadySmith. General Lucas |
Meyer. the Free State commander. has |
asserted in the course of an interview |
that he is convinced that the battle of |
will be the first and last |
BOer defeat of the year.
Boer Account Of Battle.
Pretoria, Nov. f5.-ln an engagement |
morning south of LadySmith |
the British advanced with thirteen |
guns. attacking $50 burghers of the
\ big gun was fired on the
troops. who retired at o'clock to Il
kloof near LadySmith. The British |
loss is unknown. The Beers had one |
man killed and three wounded. In
addition they had thirteen horses |
killed and seven horses wounded.
Pretty Aged News from Pretoria.
Pretoria. Thursday, Nov. 9.-The fol-
lowing dispatch has been received
from the BOer camp at ElandslaaGte
under tOday'S date: ''LadySmith has
been completely encircled by the Boer
forces. Our second big gun was sue
.esSfully placed in position on Bulwan
lill in front of Ladysmith. The firing
IF heavy guns commenced early this
with no casualties to the |
Urghers up to the present Botha has |
from the south of Lady
smith that the British batteries opened |
heavy fire with big guns and con-
dropped shells into the works
around Ladysmith. The Pretoria force
vas in a tight place. having taken up n
position commanded by the British fire,