Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-28
LATEST NEWS
FROM BULLER'
Show That the Victory of Gras Pan
Cost the Lives of rlany
British.
MANY OFFICERS ARE IN THE LIST
The Yorksl,res and Marines Bore the Brunt Of the
Fighting-Three Forward Movements Are Being
rlade by the British and the Next Battle Will Prob
ably be Fought at Spytfontein--Ninth Lancers Not
Taken Prisoners the Dispatch Shows.

London. Nov 2s.--A dispatch has been
received here from General Butler giving
a list of the casualties among the troops
engaged in the battle of Gras Pan. but
which is now officially designated the
battle of Instin. It proves, as antci-
pated, that the British success was heav-
lily bought. The losses announced today.
added to the naval brigade casualties
previously notified, make grand total
Of 1913 as the cost of General Methuen's
second battle. The Yorkshires appar-
emily bore. with the naval brigade. the
brunt of the fighting as there were IN
addition to three officers. forty eight Of
the rank and file killed, wounded and
missing.
The fact that the list contained the cas-
ualties of the Ninth lancers seems to dis
pose of the fears that the cavalry was
surrounded and captured, especially as
none of the lancers are reported missing.
General Buffers fist of casualties show
that among the wounded of the Second
Yorkshire light infantry were Captain
Yates, Lieutenant Ferneyhough and
Lieutenant Ackroid.
The casualties among the non-commis-
stoned officers and men of the various
regiments engaged We're: Killed, TO-;
wounded, II: missing, 9.
The war office has received the follow
ing dispatch from General Butler: Our
last news from Ladysmith Nov. "a, said
all WE'LL"
Butler also reports Casualties in the
reconnaissance Of the armored train Nov.
"a were: Killed. Lieutenant Lewis.
Bombay infantry, one private; wounded
one.
"In the reconnaissance Of Nov. &c, Ninth
laneers, wounded Lieutenant Sterling and
one trooper.
"A corrected list of British casualties
at Gras Pan shows that Flag Captain
Prothero of the Doris and Lieutenant of
Marines Jones, also of the Doris. previ-
ously reported wounded, were killed.
The additional casualties telegraphed
by Butler appear to be the first intima-
tion of an action of General Methuens
forces which has not yet been reported.
Apparently the government is monop-
olizing the single cable working to south
Africa as up to O'Clock this afternoon
no news from the seat of war was made
public with the exception of Buffers dis
patches This Is particularly tantalizing
at the present crucial moment While
the latest news is of fairly re-assuring
character from the British point of view,
much of it is assumed to be true on in
sufficient evidence. For instance the
reported capture of Honey Nest, of which
there is no confirma ton, while the stories
of the rapid retirement of the Beers in
Natal must be received with caution.
The fact appears to be thai the British
scouts have lost touch of the burghers a
portion of which force after withdrawing
out of reach of the observers may it is
claimed, make detour with the object
Of interrupting the British line of COM
munication.
Sharp fighting may be expected at any
time on the southern frontier. Pos
sibly General Gatacre's first battle will
be in the rough passes of Storberg mount
aims.
It is said the French cabinet instruct
ed the minister of war to refuse all off,
GERS leave to go aboard and that officers
absenting themselves In order to go to
the Transvaal will do SO a. the risk Of
dismissal.