The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1899-11-09

New York. Nov. "a dispatch TO the
| World from London says: Gen. Jou-
bert's movement to cut off Gen. White
MT Ladysmith from Colenso is being
carried out. and it is probable that
fredericksburg, the capital of Ma
| tai will fall into Gen. Joubert's hands
before Gen. Butler and reinforcements
ran arrive
The South African situation is again
causing the deepest alarm. The
silence of the war office, which re-
ceived several dispatches from Cape
Town and Durham. the holding back of
| The list of casualties ut Ladysmith,
| and, finally. the announcement of the
mobilization of the second army corps
On the 10th Of this month, all combine
TO show that the position of British
power in South Africa is one of gray
est peril.
The World correspondent learns that
The Dutch rising in Northern Cape
Colony has assumed menacing proper.
tons, owing to the Beer successes,
while the native unrest all along the
Transvaal and Orange Free State
DOTupES HIS Dccolllc UlUSt lltuitluS.
Threatening Ladysmith.
London. Nov. 5.-According to dis.
patches filed on Tuesday defensive
works were being constructed on the
hills around Ladysmith, ard il was ex-
pected there that the big naval guns
would be mounted the following day.
The Beers were threatening TO attack
the town In force Wednesday and
THURSDAY. and the women and chill
dren and ether non-combatants were
being sent by train 10 the south. Lady
smith is provls oned for two months.
There is very little fresh intelligence
to~Gay, but it is believed that IL the
Delagoa bay route is not already re-
stored, speedily will be, thus giving
quicker communication with the Cape.
The situation is st II hopeful. The ac-
cCuLtS that continue 20 arrive regard.
| ing the fighting on Farquhars farm
only confirm its serious nature and the
rarrCw escape Gen. White had. On
this point the Morning Post remarks:
/ Nothing tells such a tale of battle as
/ the list OF the missing. When the
m'ssiEg exceeded the killed IL is al
nest sAfe 70 write defeat across the
| story. b cause missing" means aban-
Comment CT surrendered"
| a dispatch from Colesburg. dated
Nov. 1. anIounc that six police who
were stationed ut Colesburg bridge
were surrOunded and captured. This
is probably the origin of the story that
| the b ers hal occupied Colesburg
Paris and Berlin continue to supply
| statements of British reverses. the
latest be ng that Mafeking has fallen.
Merriment at MafekinE.
! LonCcn, Nov 5-The special cores.
pendent of the Daily Mail at Mafeking.
under date of Oct. %. says: Gen.
| CroEjes' b mbardment of Mafeking
Twas monutcn"us. The Beers fred
Isixty-two shells but did no harm. the
whCle town. even the ladies. laughing
at the affair He threatens to bring n
forty FOUNDER from Pretoria. Cronjes
says he is sorry for the womens sake
that he shelled the town. but that it
was rot aging the game to send
dynamite truck among his men. Fiji
teen hundred Of his command have
stree departed to the southwark.
small parties CT cur garrison nightly
harras the Boer outposts. / hear that
the Daily News correspondent mt Leo
batsi is Il prisoner in the hands of the
Beers.
The Beers Fell I'm piles.
New York, Nov "a Journal spe-
cial from London states that a Lady
| smith dispatch. dated Tuesday, says:
Although Monday is not n good day for
us, it was awful for the enemy Our
ARTILLERY fire was appalling. The Beers
lost hundreds, killed and wounded
| where lyGdite shells from the naval
guns raired upon them. They fell In
heaps. The havoc was SO great that
Joubert sent formal written protest
to Gen. White against the use OF
llyddite as inhuman The British long
orange guns are vastly superior to those
Of the Beers. The captured column ex-
ceeds 800. We are confident that we
can hold our own.
Afrikanders Not DisloyaI.
London, Nov. .. The Cape Town
| correspondent Of the Daily Chronicle
| says: There is not the slightest indi-
| cation here of Afrikander disloyalty.
Lady Churchill ms "A Nurse.
London. Nov. :. The Outlook an
nources that Lady Ran lolph Church
i'll is gCing to the Cape to attend to
the w0rnGed