Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-11-04
DelagOa Cable Broke and Tele-
graph Lines MonopOlized by
Government and Officers.
NOTHING FURTHER FROM SOUTH AFRICA
Queen Victoria Is Credited With Ex-
pressing Sincere Pity for Gen. Sir
George Stewart White.
The Government Onicials Are in Nowiso
Inclined TO Judge Him IIarshly--The
Public, However, Still Severely
Criticize the General.

CAPE Town, Nov. 3.-Grave anxiety
is felt here regarding the situation at
Ladysmith. A telegram Wednesday
night announced that the Beers were
threatening Colenso, 20 miles south,
where there is big railroad bridge.
Gen. White would abandon Ladysmtth
If it were not that about half the Brit
ish stores in South Africa were placed
there.
LONDON, Nov. 3.-The fear that Lady
smith had been entirely cut off has
been to some extent relieved by an Off
cial dispatch received from Lady
smith, under Thursdays date. The
telegram says the bombardment of the
city is continuing, and that Lieut..
Egerton, OF the cruiser Powerful, has
been wounded by she'll.
The war Office received a telegram
dispatched from Ladysmith at 9:25
Thursday morning, saying that Gen.
White was we'll and holding his posi-.
ton.
Nothing is known here of the report
circulated in New York of a great
British victory at Ladysmith.
A special dispatch from Ladysmith
says 20 British dead and 100 wounded
have been counted on the scene of
Mondays disaster, while $40 prisoners
were sent to Pretoria.
Another list of casualties at Dundee
was issued by the war Office Thursday.
1t gives 50 non-commissioned Off .ers
and men of the Dublin Fusiliers miss
ing, indicating that the Beers cap-
tured as many Fusiliers as they did
Hussars.
PIETERMARITzBURG, Natal, Nov. g.
1t is reported that the Beers are occu-
pying parts of Zululand, and that they
have taken Pomeroy, 80 miles from
Greytown.
LONDON, Nov. S.-The breakdown of
the Delagoa cable route combined with
the monopolization OF the available
telegraph lines by the government and
British staff officers, is responsible for
the fact that nothing further has ar.
rived from South Africa. The govern
meut has received dispatches rectifying
the casualty lists, These will be
published Wednesday. Up to midnight
nothing has been received concerning
Mondays casualties. The war office
officials are working under great
strain. Capt. Perriot, staff captain to
the military secretary, has just died,
his end being hastened by anxiety and
overwork.
The queen is credited with express.
ing sincere pity for Sir George Stewart
White, and the officials are in nowise
inclined to judge him harshly. So far
as the public is concerned, however,
while qualification is felt at the
manner in which the isolated
battalions surrendered, there is still
severe criticism for Gen. White and
Lieut.. Col. Carleton for allowing the
column to get out of touch, for the abb
Sence of proper scouting and for not
retiring when the ammunition was
lost. In favor of Lieut.. Col. Carleton,
the explanation is hazarded that h ,
believed it was imperative to the sue
cess of Gen. Whites operations that he
should hold the position at Nichols 1n's
Mex.
HOPE TowN, Cape Colony, Nov. g.
Harmsworth has arrived
from K1ipdam and reports that there
are 5000 Beers around Kimberly and
all the roads are strictly patrolled.