The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-10-26
BRITISH CASUALTIES
Since the Beginning Of Hostilities
in the Transvaal
COUNT UP NEARLY SIX HUNDRED.
OfThese Eighteen Officers and Fifty
five Men Have Been Killed, Accord-
ing to Onicial British Reports-Boer
GeneraI Kock VIII Recover.


five Men Have Been Killed, Accord.
ing to Omcial British Reports-Boer
General Kock VIII Recover.
London, Oct. 26.-The war Office re-
turns show that the total British
casualties since the beginning Of hos
tilities In the Transvaal reach 597, IL
officers having been killed and 81
wounded, and rs men killed and 435
wounded. There are Is unaccounted
for This total, however, does not in
clude the squadron Of the Eighteenth
Hussars, which went astray near DUN
dee, and the officers of the Dublin
Fusileers. The report Of heavy losses
sent from Rietfontein came as an UNI
pleasant surprise, as General Whites
telegram to the war office on Tuesday
gave the impression that there was
merely brush.
A dispatch to The Daily Telegraph
from Ladysmith, dated Monday, says:
Thirty of the Eighteenth Hussars, who
we're sent from Glencoe to intercept
the retreat of the Beers from Glands
laagte, were cut off by the enemy. I'm
der Sergeant Baldrey they brilliantly
fought their way across the Biggars-
berg, the enemy pursuing and firing
at them at a range of 800 yards along
the passes. They arrived here at 10
O'Clock this morning. Three OF the
troop are missing, owing to the break
down of their horses. The Beers used
a Maxim. A lieutenant Of the Hussars,
with a party, was driven back to Glen
coe.
The Daily Mail has the following
from Pietermaritzburg, Natal. dated
Oct. %: The proclamation Of martial
law throughout Natal has given great
satisfaction. Among the Boer prison
ers at Ladysmith are Wewitt Hamar,
member of the rand for Barberton, and
DR.. Van Leggele, public prosecutor at
Heidelberg. Among the killed was
Mr.. De Jong, secretary of the Trans
vaal educational department. 1t Is
now expected that General Jan Kock,
the Boer commander, who was report
ed dead from his wound, will recover.
General White gave him the option of
being taken to Pretoria or remaining
at Ladysmith, and he chose the latter.
A delayed dispatch from Ladysmith
says The Boer wounded and pris-
oners are still coming in, and the for
mer are receiving every attention.
General Ben Viiijoen is wounded and a
prisoner.
Since 1t Is practically certain that
General Yule has now affected juno
ton with General White, and as both
are now in a position of safety, con-
lecture concerns itself chiefly with the
manner of General Yules retreat from
Dundee. That it was hasty is evident.
Was 1t disorderly? Was any consider
able camp equipment abandoned? Was
there any fighting on the way? Such
questions, and others like them, the
public is anxiously asking. Since the
receipt of General Whites curious first
description of the Ladysmith fight, in
which the British lost hundred men,
little reliance can be placed on the
official dispatches. While the conceal
ment of the facts regarding General
Yules retreat can be amply justified
on the ground Of keeping the intelli-
gence from the Beers, the hiding of the
news respecting the Hussars and Fusil-
GERS, who were apparently captured in
the battle at Glencoe, is severely crit
icized, no intimation even having been
given that the officers were missing.
The British cruisers Furious, Pelorus
and Pactolus sailed from Queenstown
yesterday afternoon en- route to Cape
Clear, where they will meet eight bat
tleships and two cruisers of the chan
mel squadron, from the north of Ire
land. The fleet will then proceed o.
tensibly to Gibraltar, but it is thought
that possibly the fleets destination is
Spanish or Portuguese port, as the
vessels have taken out bills of health
from the consuls of these countries.
Dispatches from the continent to The
Daily Mail say that the French fleet
has received instructions to watch the
movements of the British Mediter-
ranean squadron, and that the Italian
fleet is under orders to concentrate
in the Bay of Spezia.
Although news has arrived that
General Sir William Penn Symons is
doing we'll, there is no indication as to
his whereabouts. 1t is presumed that
he is at Dundee. in the hands of the