The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-10-08
ARE THE Beers
ABOUT To YIELD 2
They Are Returning TO Their
Homes, They Say.
M INVASION Of NATAL
NO INVASION OF NATAL
THIS. AT LEAST, MAY BE COUNT
ED ON.
GRANTING THE DISPATCHES ARE TRUE
Parliament Summoned to Meet on the Seven
teenth. Royal Authority Given to Call
Out the Reserves Barbarties
Charged Against Beers.

London, Oct. Most important news
comes from the Transvaal tonight,
which, if true, probably indicates that
the South African Republic is about
to yield, or, in amy case, that the Beers
have abandoned all idea Of invading
Natal.
The news is comprised in q cablegram
from New Castle, Natal, which says that
the Buffalo River state That the Beers
are returning to their homes, leaving
patrols along the river. The cOmman-
doors still remain ON the Free State Dor
der.
The dispatch also says that the feel
ing at Newcastle now is that the Beers
do not intend to attack that place, and
that the evacuation of the town WAS
premature.
A dispatch from Durham also says that
the excitement there has abated, the
Beers holding back from the frontier
The retirement of the Beers is what
the British war authorities have expect
Ell, rs their defective commissaTiat would
prevent them from long remaining mass
cd along the border.
kilograms received here recently hag e
made frequent reference to the scarcity
Of forage and supplies in the Boer laag
crs, and have stated that many of those
i'm the camps were inclined to strike out
for their homes unless active operations
were undertaken Immediately
The dispatch from Newcastle looks as
though they had done as they threatened
and had abandoned the idea of fighting.
Meanwhile further transports from IN
dia with two field hospitals and hussars
have arrived at Dul'Oan and the men
and material were forwarded to Lady
smith Immediately.
A royal proclamation summOning Par
nament to meet on October 18th, and
authorizing the calling out of the re-
series was signed this morning.
Her Majesty in privy coun-
oil ait Balmoral this morning.
assented to the calling of Par
Lament, the mobilization of the reserves,
and the continuance in the army of all
soldiers now serving who, I'M ordinary
circumstances would be entitled to dis
charge or transfer to the reserve.
The War Office announces that, under
the proclamation calling out the reserves,
$4,000 men will be summoned.
The field force for service in South
Africa, the War Office announces, will
commence mobilization next Monday.
The Evening News publishes the fol
lowing dispatch from Cape Town:
THE reports of the barbarfc excuses
committed by the Beers on refugees
have caused Il thrill Of horror here. In
one instance seventy women and chill
dren were packed in a cattle truck so
tightly that they were unable to sit
and were thus kept side tracked for
thirty hours, without food or water
When they attempted to leave the truck
they We're driven back with blows.
Every train load of refugees brings
narrowing accounts of the barbarities of
the Beers of the Orange Free State.
\ train arrived here today that had been
96 hours EN- route. The sufferings of
the women were dreadful Several
births occurred ON the way-one in
cattle truck containing twenty men,"