The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-10-31
THE Beers OUTNUMBER THE BRITISH.
The Former Have 1900 Men as
Against 10000 of the Latter,
With Better Artillery.
The Delay in the BOer Attack Reported to
Be Due to the Non-ArriVaI of
COmmandant Gen. Jou-
bert's Column.


iety. Evidently the Beers are trying
to repeat their Dundee tactics.
Roughly estimated they have II, O0O
men as against 10, 600 British.
Gen. Sir George Stewart White has
the better artillery, but his is of lesser
range. The delay in the Boer attack
is reported to be due to the non-arrival
of Commandant Gen. JOubert's col
umn. This has given the British a
much needed respite after their recent
eXertions.
Everything, it is now considered,
hinges upon Gen. Whites resource and
judgment. Nothing is known regard
ing the progress of defensive works
for the protection of Ladysmith. The
censorship is more active than ever.
According to the Daily Chronicles
correspondent, 1.-The new regulations
limit the number of words allowed for
press messages to one-fourth the num-
Der allowable before"
Farmers in the neighborhood of
Ladysmith have left their farms and
stock at the mercy of the Beers and
are congregated in the town. The two
guns the Beers have mounted are pow
ertul weapons. They are the ones
used in Smelling Dundee, and 1t is a
matter of considerable surprise how
they managed to transport such heavy
pieces.
Again it is reported that President
Kruger accompanied Gen. Joubert to
the front in a splendidly fitted travel
ing wagon.
The Standards correspondent at
Ladysmith telegraphing Saturday,
sends statement that the Beers have
captured i, 500 mules, a loss that must
seriously inconvenience British trans
port.
The wife of Gen. Jan Kocl1 has ar
rived at Ladysmith under a flag of
truce to nurse her wounded husband.
AIR the unwounded Boer prisoners
have been sent to Durham to prevent
any attempt at rescue.
The explanation of the alleged Boer
massacre at Dundee appears to be that
a portion of the town guard, although
fairly warned by Gen. Yule before his
retirement, continued to carry arms,
and 50 of them were shot before the
Beers discovered who they were.
The body of Sir William Symons
was buried without a coffin, shrouded
in the union jack. Among the papers
found upon him was a telegram from
Lady Symons congratulating him upon
his success.
Late accounts of thefrst battle and
the evacuation of Dundee do not give
these affairs roster hue. Owing to
the Smelling of Glencoe camp the tele-
graph operators were compelled to
scamper with numerous unforwarded
Gis atches.
When the Beers entered Dundee
they INDUCED in general looting of
stores but apparently did not other
wise modest the populace.
In the first battle the Beers captured
the Maxim of the 18th hussars, but
only after the entire crew of the gun
with one exception, had been disabled.
The survivor effectually damaged
the gun. Only two officers of the staff
of Gen. Symons came off without a
wound.
Royal Dublin Fusiliers reached the
summit of the kopje at Glencoe the
Beers showed a white flag and asked
truce to bury their dead. The Brit
ish artillery was ordered to cease firing
and the Beers took advantage of the
opportunity to retreat en- masse. Other
wise they would have been decimated
by the British cannon.
The special correspondent of the
Daily Mail at Ladysmith, telegraph
ing Sunday, describes the arrival of
the war balloon there on Saturday,
1t was welcomed. he said, with wilo
dances by the Kaffirs, who regard it as
a deity. Gen. White and Gen. Sir Arch
ibald Hunter both assembled on Sunday
and reconnoitered the enemy's posi-
ton. s.,
According to the LATEST eports from
Cape Town Gen. Joubert has joined
hands with the Free State forces. and
there has been some outpost fighting.
President Kruger has arrived at Glen
coe.
There is no fresh news from the
western frontier. The mines are still
working at Kimberley, where there
are provisions enough to last nine
months Cecil Rhodes has mounted and
fully equipped a town guard of 400
men at cost of els, 900.
LADYsMITH. Oct 80. The Beers are
gradually closing around Ladysmith.
They have mounted two big guns in
Tinta Ingoni 4,5OO yards from the
British camp. An attack is expected.