The Saint Paul globe., 1899-12-04


Related Report of the Battle ut
Belmont.
LONDON, Dec. 4-The war office pub
fishes the following dispatch from Cape
Town.
The transport IsmOre is ashore
on the rocks In st. Helena bay. The
troops have been safely landed, but
the horses are still on board. II.
Nj. $. Doris and NIObe, with the
transport Columbian, nave gone to
her assistance.
Col. KOI1Ovich reports under date
of Thursday, Nov. 80, that the Be-
chuana police captured the BOer
Iaager, west of Kimberley, Tuesday,
Nov. IS.
Communication by searchIIght
with Kimberley has been establish
ed from MOdder River.
DURHAM, Natal. Tuesday. Nov. 2S.-The
Natal Mercury publishes the following
dispatch from its correspondent at Frere:
The Beers have reconcentrated at their
old positions near Colenso, back of GrOb-
lers klopf, and everything points to de-
termined attempt to prevent the British
The reports of wanton destruction Of
property by Boer looters are confirmed.
BURGHERS DRIVEN BACK.
PRETORIA, Nov 27 (via Lourenzo
Marques, Dec. 2).-C6mmandant Delarey
has reported to President Kruger that
the burghers, in spite of their determined
defense at Gras Pan, Nov. %, were COM
pletely surrounded by the British and
Were compelled TO retire.
The Boer commander on the western
border reports that twelve bughers We're
killed and forty wounded in the fighting
at Belmont
Commandant Dutmot (probably Du-
toiD, sends the following report to the
council of war from Kimberley, under
date of Nov. 26:
/ Early yesterday the British made a
sortie supported by. cannon and MaXims.
! Under cover Of darkness they advanced
IN the direction of BIoemhof. Two hun
dred burghers encountered them and
NTought UP an additional gun. Nine
rghers were killed and seventeen
pund but an ambulance removed these.
Ihe Boer laager at Deriderport was at
tackled last Saturday by a strong force OF
Natal mounted police. Mr.. Barnard,
member of the volksraad, was killed.
MORE TROOPS ARRIVE.
CAPE TOWN, Tuesday, Nov 2S-The
( troopship Bayarian, from Queenstown,
Nov. TO- with Col. Herbert. assistant ad-
Jutant general for the home district, and
the foreign military attaches, together
with the Connaught rangers, the First
battalion OF the Royal Dublin fusileers
and a contingent of miscellaneous troops,
IN all more than two thousand men, ar
rived here today. Col. Herbert and the
military attaches Immediately landed
and the Be -rian proceeded with the
troops presumably to Durham.
SITUATION AT COLENsO.
FRERE CAMP, Natal, Nov. 2S--The re-
connoissance today by Gen Hildyard
gave an excellent opportunity Tor study
ing the country. On approaching Co
tenso, the British found on every side
scenes of devastation that testified to the
thOrOughness of Boer IOoting. The Will
ams farm and others had been ransack-
ed from end TO end. IN some cases the
contents OF every room of the farm
houses had been destroyed. The Beers
had evidently burned what they could
not carry off.
The wreck of the aTmored train, still
visible, showed that Boer shell had bro
ken an axle, which had obviously caused
the accident to one car that lay on it's
=. side. The other car was upright, but
both were completely riddled by the enc
mys bullets and artillery fire Two
graves near by bore the inscription: ITO
Fallen SoEdiers.''
The main Boer force is now gradually
getting near Chievelry station.
BOERs UNDERRATED.
LONDON, Dec. 4.-The week opens
without q word of news such as the Brit
ish public is so anXiously awaiting. With
a larger army in the field than the coun-
try has ever before mobilized it can be
said that the loss of $500 men, entailed
before the enemy's borders have been
crossed is q serious matter, and, while
there is no feeling of dependency as to
= the eventual result of the war, it is re-
gretfully admitted on all sides that the
strength of the Boer resistance has been
WOefully underTated
1t is now seen that the attempt to hold
a useless position at Mafeking was a
serious tactical mistake, as also was the
endeavOr to keep the large civil popula-
ton in Kimberley.
Perhaps the brightest spot for English
readers today is the announcement that
President Mckinley has designated the
son Of Secretary Hay to succeed Mr.
Macrum in Pretoria.
The Daily Telegraph says: 1.-THE ap.
pointment is a graceful concession or
the part Of the United States government
to British feeling. Our countrymen's in
terests viii be safe In the hands of the
new consul
NEWS SIX DAYS OLD.
South African news IS now six days II
arrears. The censorship does not YET
permit details cf the Modder River battle
to be transmitted. Some vague state
ments have been published in the Cape
Town papers, and according to those the
Beers numbered 5000 men and were in
trenched on both banks of the stream
although mostly on the northern bank
The British, according to those accounts
drove the enemy across the river, com
pelling them to retreat, and established
themselves on both banks These details
however. are too meager to enable an ac
ourate idea CT the engagement to b.
) formed.
A dispatch has been received IN Londol
that Lord Methuen is again In the field
and it is also said that Count Gleichen
who was wounded in the fighting at Mod
der River. was struck by bullet in tn,
nscI5
BORDER FOR BOERs.
Serious news comes from the northern
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