The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-12-21
ALARM IN ENGLAND
Thought That News from MethQGn
is Suppressed.
AGUIkALD0 is IN DISGUISE
He is Fugitive in the Mountains
Navy Cable Surveys
Other Notes.

LONDON, Dec. 13.-The War Office
has received the following dispatch
from General Me5huen, dated Tuesday
December -:
Our artillery shelled a very strong
position held by the enemy in long.
high kopje from until dusk Sunday.
II rained hard last night
The Highland Brigade attacked at
daybreak on Monday the south end of
the kopje The attack was properly
timed, but failed. The Guards were
ordered to protect the Highlands right
and rear. The cavalry and mounted
infantry, with a Howitzer artillery bat
terry, attacked the enemy on the left,
and the Guards on the right, supported
by held artillery and HowitZer artil-
lery. They shelled the position from
daybreak, and at lis | sent the Cor
dOnS to support the Highland Brigade
The troops held their own in front of
the enemy's entertainments until dusk.
the position extending, including the
kopje, for distance of six miles to the
Modder river. Today I am holding my
position, and entrenching myself |
had to face at least 10000 men Our
loss was great"
MAJOR GENERAL KILLED.
LONDON, Dee. 13.-The War Office
has received the following dispatch
from General Forester Walker:
Cape Town, Tuesday = Methuen
wires that General Wauchope was kill
ed in action yesterday"
Is (M9iOr-Gnnero1 NTo,,
chope, G. B., c. NJ G., entered the army
in 1865, was promoted to be colonel in
1888; he served in the Ashanti war in
1873; in the Egyptian war of 1882; in
the Soudan expedition of 1884, and in
the Nile expedition Of 1S84-S5. He was
in command Of the First Brigade of the
Egyptian eXpeditionary force in 1898
General Wauchope had been wounded
four times, three times severely
BOERS REPORT PRISONERS.
PRETORIA, Monday, Dee. 11.-An
official report says:
"A battle at Modder River began
yesterday Wion cannon firing, heavy
fighting proceeding from $3.50 o'clock
in the morning until $3.50 O'Clock, with
cannon, Maxims and rifles A bonn
bardment began at 80 o'clock. and
the fighting still continues. A balloon |
has just arisen above the British po-
where it remained ten minutes
and descended. There were heavy |
rains during the night
AT 8 o'clock this morning a dispatch |
'ider brought word that all the Boer
positions have been maintained, and |
hat IL British prisoners had been |
aiken. At $50 o'clock it was reported |
hat the heavy cannon fire had some
what abated. The British are con-
'tantly using their balloon.
The fighting was still going on ait
loon.
Kimberley is still quiet
THREE HUNDRED WOUNDED.
ORANGE RIVER, Cape Colony, Dec.
3-Three hundred and twenty wound
ID, including twenty-seven officers.
lave arrived here from the Modder
river.
FOR METHUEN'S ARMY.
LONDON, Dec. 13.-General Me-
hllen, as was expected, has followed
% his artillery attacks with a general
ssault on the BOer positions Monday,
nd his report shows that the anxiety
f the public regarding the result oc-
dSlOutu 10y liIc oIISlltc vi IlIcE
Var Office was amply justified.
The engagement was evidently of
magnitude and the list of
illed and wounded will be proportion-I
te without the compensation which
victory would have brought, if, in
eed the affair does not turn out to be
more serious defeat than General
Iethuen admits. The Highlanders, it
believed, must have stormed the
,oer position more than once, while
ne fact that the Guards were ordered |
, support the Highlanders' rear looks
S though the Beers may even have
ltf1anked their attackers. One report
lys that General Cronje attacked the
ritish
The only compensation the British
ave been able TO discover in the dis t
story is in General Methu
as statement that he maintains his /
1sition close to the Beers, arOusing {
lpe that he will retrieve the position. !
is apparent that the bOmbardnent :
/ Saturday and Sunday did nCft shake :
le Beers grip on their position, and
seems certain that they merely
ithdrew their guns and rifemen un- l
er cover while General Methuen ip |
1lged in the usual artillery prelimi- !
Ir-IQn thc