Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

LONDON, November 25-The news
of the death of the Khalifa and the
final defeat of the Dervishes has been
received here with great joy as a well
come set-off to the serious situation in
South Africa.
The gravest news from Cape Town
to-day comes from the northern part
of the colony, where, it is now evident,
numbers of Dutch farmers have risen
and joined the invading Free State
forces in the Herschell and Barkly-East
districts
A dispatch from Queenstown, Cape
Colony, Gen. Gatacre's headquarters,
announces that -four hundred colonial
rebels, including an ex-magistrate of
Barley East, have Joined the enemy"
at the latter place, and that the whole
force is reported to be marching on
Dordrecht, whence it can operate and
possibly intercept Gen. Gatacre's adj
vance to re-occupy Stromberg Junction,
a strategic point from which Gen. Cat
acre can get in direct touch through
Naauwpoort, and thus with the British
base at De Aar.
Another dispatch says that refugees
arriving from Queenstown assert that
Ladygrey has been occupied by the CO.
lonial farmers and that it is feared
there that there is a general movement
in favor of the Beers.
Further dispatches from Belmont,
confirming the treacherous use of the
white flag by the Beers are arousing
Indignation. The troops engaged are
bitterly complaining and it is feared
the result will be refusal to give the
Beers quarter.
An incident similar to the one which
occurred at the battle of Glencoe when
an officer was shot by a wounded Boer
is reported by the London Times cor
respondent at Belmont who says that
Lieut.. Blundell, of the Grenadier guards
was shot by a wounded Boer who he
was attending. Such statements APP
pear increditable, but they are now con-
firmed officially by the protest of Gen.
Methuen, who has sent a message to
the Boer commander saying:
Il must ask you to warn your wound
ed not to shoot our officers. l must
warn you not to use dum-dum bullets
or use the flag of truce treacherously.
Such action is cowardly in the extreme
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All accounts confirm the splendid
charging of the British infantry. the
Scots Guards entering the fight with
drums beating and flies playing.
The second ridge was the strongest
position. The Beers there were shell
tered behind ramparts of boulders.
Nevertheless the Guards advanced
steadily, many Of them coolly smok-
ing.
E. F. Knight, well known war cor
respondent, who went to Havana dur
ing the Spanish-American war, was
wounded in the arm by dum-dum bull
let.
The hospital train arrived at Orange
River in the nick of time from Cape
Town and was sent to Belmont. The
train was constructed on the corridor
system, with beds ranged in tiers on
either side. On it's return to Orange
River with the wounded it was found
that a number of them were able to
walk, but there were many stretcher
cases. Troops in camp lined the route
from the station to the hospital. The
wounded were cheerful, and, as they
1imped al0nc summarized nv m pdipa1 Or
derlies, exchanged chaff with soldiers in
the crowd.
Got any loot?" asked soldier.
YES" was the grim reply from the
manned man, "in my bloomin' leg"
In the meanwhile the news from Ma
tai is not encouraging. Estcourt and
the MOOT River camp are both hard
pressed, and it seems almost a joke to
regard the garrisons are forming part
of the relief force for Ladysmith.
The reported determination of the
United States to compel President Kru-
ger to allow Consul General Macrum to
exercise his rights as British agent at
Pretoria, has created an excellent i'm
preston here and has called out various
expressions of satisfaction and graft
tude. The Pail Mall Gazette says:
THE United States government is not
going to stand any nonsense from Pres
ident Kruger. 1t was the British rep
resentative who kept an eye on Hob
sons captivity at Santiago, and it was
British Representatives who did similar
services for captured Americans every
where in Cuba and the Philippines.
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