The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-11-02
ANXIETY OVER THE RESULT.
Kruger Has Army Of Seventeen thousand
to Face Twelve Thousand British.

London advices received Sunday
state that the situation at Ladysmith
without becoming alarming, is sufi.
GENTLY dangerous to excite anxiety.
Evidently the Beers are trying to re-
peat their Dundee tactics. Roughly
estimated they have 1900 as against
$4,000 British.
The delay in the Boer attack is re-
ported to be due to the on-arrival OF
Commander General Joubert's col
nmn. This has given the British a
much needed respite after their re-
cent exertions.
Everything, it is now considered,
hinges upon General Whites resource
and judgment. Nothing is known re-
garding the progress of defensive
works for the protection OF Lady
smith.
The censorship is more active than
ever. According to the London Daily
Chronicles correspondent, the new
regulations limit the number of words
allowed for press messages to one
fourth the number 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
powerful weapons. They are the ones
used in the shellinSsof Dundee, and it
q matter of considerable surprise how
they managed to support such heavy
pieces.
Kruger Goes to the Front.
Again it is reported that President
Kruger accompanied General Joubert
to the front in a splendidly fitted
wagon.
The Standards correspondent at
Ladysmith, telegraphing Saturday,
sends statement that the Beers have
captured 1000 mules. loss that most
seriously inconveniences the British
transportation facilities. The attempt
of the Bosrs to cut the railway at Pete
Pleters was frustrated by the British
cavalry.
The wife of General Jan Kock has
arrived at Ladysmith nnder flag Of
truce to nurse her wounded husband.
All 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
aportion of the town guard, although
fairly warned by General Rule before
his retirement, continued to carry arms
and thirty of them were shot before
the Beers discovered who they were.
The body of Sir William Synonds
was buried without coffin, shrouded
in the Union Jack. Among the papers
found upon him was telegram from
Lady Symonds congratulating him
upon his success.
Later accounts of the first battle and
the evacuation of Dundee do not give
these affairs q roster hue. Owing tc
the shelling of Glencoe camp the tele
graph offices were compelled to scam.
per with numerous uuforwarded dis
patches. Then when the Beers enter.
ed Dundee they indulged in general
looting of the stores, but apparently
did not otherwise molest the populace.
In the first battle the Beers captured
the Maxim of the Eighteenth Hussars,
but only after the entire crew OF the
gun, with one exception, had been dis
abled. The survivor effectuslly dam
aged the gun. Only two officers Of
the staff of General Symonds came OF
without wound.
Again 1t is asserted the moment the
Royal Dublin Fusiliers reached the
summit OF the kopje at Glencoe, the
Beers showed 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
Otherwise, they would have been de-
cimated by the British cannon.
The special correspondent OF The
Daily Mail at Ladysmith, telegraphine
Sunday, describes the arrival OF the wa