The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-17

pltal ship Named Amer the Maine.
LONDON, oct 1S-The war once
Issued the following notice this after
noon, with respect to the situation in
South Africa:
eyhs dispatches received DO not
peInt to any material changs in Tie
military sltuatiop. Small bodies Of
Beers are reported to have crossed the
frontier at various points, and en-
strenchments are said to have been
thrown up at Van Rennen's Pass.
The gradual emitting OF Of outlying
points at the scene Of hoSuHtlss In
South Africa from telegraphlc commune
aication reduced the accurate news OBJ
taipable to a minimum. Thus far,
however, no reliable information Inns
been received Of any actual sighting
outside the afEaIF at Kraalpan, and oc.
oasional exchanges Of shots at various
points. There is no lack Of circup-
atahtial stories regarding fighting at
various points. but these are scarcely
published before they are denied.
The only salient facts In this morn-
ings kilograms are that the Beers have
advanced beyond New Castle, apt
formed lager near Dannhauser-
about twelve miles north Of Dundee,
and that Kimberley is isolated, and
probably invested.
kimberley has thus become the Inn
mediate center of interest. The last
message from Kimberley. prior to the
cutting of the telegraph and railway
by the Beers, said:
IAN the troops at Kimberley are
wsI.p
As there are three thousand troops
there. there is little anxiety for the
safety of the town, especially as tbs
Boer force is said to be only about the
same strength, Many stories OF brisk
lighting at that point are In circulation,
but although the forces are likely 10
have come into contact. all alleged de-
tails must be regarded as premature
and speculative. especially II the re-
ports be true that the Orange Free
State troops are now in complete pos
session OF the railway from AiInper-
ley to Orange river seventy miles
away.
The alleged virulenee Oh the soeFs
attacks upon Mafeking and klmDeFiey
can readily be understood when Il =
Beers what Alsaee-Lorralne Is 10
France.
i Is therefore probable that BOTH
towns viii be forced to undergo a long
and dreary Investment before inc brif-
fish are in position to send a relieving
committee.
on the other side of the country, tn
Roera are closing around the Hritlsa
outposts' and have already come into
touch with them, and exchanged sho's'
therefore more stirring news Is ex-
pected'
Advtees from Cape Town relate that
excitement is kept up there by cease
leas reports Of battles. but that lit.
lie uneasiness is. visible in Official cir
Giles, where the opinion prevails that
Mafeking and Kimberley are SAFE 1t
= thought too that the Beers are not
likely to attack Yryenrs in sechuana'
land, owing to the fact that the pop
uIation of that district is largely
Dutch.
Il is'assumed that the refusal Of the
Beers to accept battle in Natal last
week. when General Sir George Stew
art White advanced aid endeavored to
Indicates their unwllllngnesS to cont
mence hostilities. On the other hand
the Beers are probably too aatute to
play the British game. at the risk OF
an engagement on ground where ar
tllery could be brought into play and
cavalry moved rapidly
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