The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-24
THE SITUATION UNCERTAIN.
DESPITE VICTORIES. BRITISH HAVE
APPREHENSIONS.

WOIseIey's Summary Is Believed to
Indicate Troublesome Conditions.
Its Retfcence and BreVity
OminOus-GIencoe and Dundee Oc-
casiOn AIarm-White Unable to
Follow Up Victories-War once
Believed to Re Withholding News.
London, Oct. 24.-No news yet received
tends to dispel the apprehension caused
by Lord Wolseley's brief summary of the
situation. A Pietermaritzburg dispatch
says that the censor now permits no mes
sages to be sent from the front Other
dispatches represent the Beers as boast
ing that Dundee is absolutely cut Off, and
asserts that despite the British victories,
the situation is stin uncertain.
The Pretoria dispatch, giving the report
of Gen. Joubert to the government, evil
IDENTIFY refers to the first battle at Glen
coe, and the reasons why Commandant
Erasmus failed to come TO the assistance
of Commandant Meyer cannot be fathom-
ed. Had he done so, the British victory
might have been still more dearly bought
Xule's Position Troublesome.
brilliant victory at Elandslaagte was pro
ductive of no effect for the relief of Glen
coe, and the very reiicence and brevity of
Lord Wolseley's communication are only
too ominous. 1t seems TO be worded to
prepare the public for bad news, and 1t is
only too likely that Gen Yule has been
compelled TO abandon the wounded and the
prisoners at Dundee because his force is
too weak to hold the four and a half miles
separating Dundee from Glencoe.
Probably Gen. Yule believes he can bet
ter protect Dundee from an enemy ad-
vancing from the northwest by cOncentrat-
ing all his available strength at Glencoe
where there are now $500 men and three
batteries. In the meantime efforts will be
made to reopen the railway and to get
reinforcements from Ladysmth.
1t is expected that Commandant Eras-
mus has by this time joined Commandant
Gen. Joubert and that their combined col
umns amont to some 10000 or II coo men,
while the Free State Beers now threat
ening Ladysmith from the east and a
column reported to be coming through
Zululand must also be reckoned with.
Couldn't Follow Them Up.
In short, Gen. Sir George Stewart White
has been unable to follow up his successes
ana Is Obliged TO remain at LadySIn1th
without being able to restore railway COM
munication, which is probably broken at
other points beside Elandslaagte Thus
the enemy though their original plan,
which is supposed TO have been Col
Schiels failed, may be fairly credited with
having isolated Gen. Yules brigade and
divided the British forces in Natal
Gen. Yule may find himself in a tight
place, needing all his experience in In
dian and Burmese fighting, to extricate
himself.
1t is quite evident that the war office
has news which has been withheld from
the public, and if the situStion, as here
sketched, is confirmed, Boer divisions may
be expected at other frontier points. 1t
is regarded as not impossible that Gen.
White may yet be compelled to concen-
trate all the Natal forces at Ladysmith
and await the arrival of the army corps.
Beers Claim the Victory.
A dispatch to the Times from Colesburg,
Cape Colony, says:
THE situation to-day (Monday) is grave.
The Beers are $50 strong and will be re-
inforced from Driekop. No defense is
possible. The town guard viii retire on
Naauwooport on the appearance of the
enemy
"The Driekop force is estimated a 800
men. The report of the fighting at Glen
coe has been placarded al Bathulie, the
frontier town on the East London line, as
ariltaate l}oer victory