The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-12-13

4AaQyAHlttHl WHICH tH6 AHV4AAH9 RARF4 ?
are unanimous In regarding as bril-
liant piece Of work, there are no fur
ther advlces from the seat OF war. A
war office dispatch reports that Mafe-
king was Bnfe up to December 4 but
that the Dcars have been shelllng the
town since November 81 with increased
eject. Rntiuns have been considerably
reduced, meat by half a pound and
bread by quarter Of a pound, In view
of probable long siege. Water, how-
ever, was still plentiful.
LONDON. Dec. 1.-THE almost CONS
plete absence OF news from the theatre
OF war up to $3.50 o'clock this afternoon
increases public anxiety, SO deeply stir
red by Saturdays disaster. Such scam
ty news as has dribbled through seem
to Indicate that preparations are about
completed for simultaneous attacks ut
Tugela river and Modder river. the dis
patches showing that the British and
Beers were in touch in both directions
Monday.
a message from Naauwpoort, dated
Monday, December II, shows that Gem
erai French has apparently no inclln-
alton to withdraw his advanced troops
at Arundel. us 1t was feared might be
the result of General Gatacres defeat
General French reports that his artil-
Iery on December il forced an advance
post of the Beers. south of colesberg,
to evacuate its position and seek refuge
behind vaalkop.
There Is great Indignation in Great
Britain at the ignorance the British in-
telllgence department is displaying in
estimating the Boer strength In Cape
Colony. Experts aver that $4,000 Beers
win have to be driven out Of the colony
before the passage OF the Orange river
can be commenced
The Rhodeslan force, advancing to
the relief Of Mnfeklng. reached Caber-
ones Fort, December q and found the
RasTy had gvacualed the place. The
ithodesiaps are repairing the railroad
as they advance.
The latest news from Mafeking shows
that Colonel Baden-Powell has been
forced to reduce the rations Of the gar
rison and inhabitants, but water is
plentiful there.
The war office has received the fol-
lowing from General Forester
Walker:
CAPE TOWN, Monday, Dec. IL
Gatacre reports as follows: THE idea
to attack stormberg seemed to promise
certain success, but the distance was
underestimated by myself and the local
guides. A policeman took US around
some miles, and consequently we were
marching from $3.50 p. m. TIL 4 a. m'.
and were landed In an impossible po-
sltlon. do not consider the error in
territorial. The Beers commenced fir-
ing from the top of an unscGlable hill.
and wounded great many OF our men
while in the open field. The Second
Northumberland tried to turn out the
enemy but failed. The Second Irish
fusIlIers seized kopje near and held
on. supported by the mounted infantry
and Cape police. The guns, under JEFF
freys. could not have been better hand
led. But 1 regret to say that one gun
was overturned in deep mullah and
another sank in qulcksand Neither
could be extrlcated in the time avail
able.
seeing the situation / sent dis
patch rider to Molteno with the news
/ collected and withdrew our force from
ridge TO ridge for about nino miles.
The Boer guns were remarkably well
served. They carried accurately 5000
yards. am holding Busman's Hoek
and cyphergat. Am sending the Irish
rides and Northeumberlands to sterlts-
troom to recuperate. The wounded
proceed to Queenstown. The missing
Northumberlands number Sed not sos
ms previously reported"
LONDON, Dec, l3.-The war office
publishes the following dispatch from
General Butler: "a dispatch from GEN
ernl White, dated December II, says;
Last night Colonel Metealfe and 600 Of
the second Rifle brigade SORTED to cap-
ture a Boer howiuer on hill They
renehed the crest without being dis
covered, drove Off the enemy and then
destroyed the howItSer with gun cot
ton.
"When returning Metcalie found his
retirement buried by the Beers, but
he forced his way through, using the
bayonet freely The Boer losses were
considerable. The British losses were
the following: Lieutenant Ferguson
and eleven killed, three officers and
forty-one men wounnded, and six men
captured"
A special from Lourenso Marques
says a Boer telegram from MafekinE
announces that Lady Sarah Wilson.
aunt OF the duke OF Marlborough who
was captured by the Beers while act
ing as a correspondent To- the London
Daily Mail, has been EXCHANGED for n
Boer woman who was u prisoner at
MaCcNng
PRETORIA, Dec. lg. = President
stopn has 1cut the following details OF
the aght at stormberg Junction.; The
british, with six cannon. attacked the