The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1899-11-03
Two Thousand British, With Six
Large Cannon, Forced to Sur
render to the Beers.
WERE OUTGENERALED BY JOUBERT
queen Victoria Is Credited With Ex-
pressing Sincere Pity for Gen. Sir
George Stewart White.
The Government Officials Are in Nowise
Inclined to Judge Him Harshly-The
Public, However, Still Severely
Criticize the General.

LONDON, Nov. There was a con-
tinuous stream of callers at the war
office until a late hour, everybody anx-
lously inquiring regarding Mondays
casualties, but the war Office declared
that nothing had been received since
Sir George Whites dispatch communi-
eating the news of the capture of the
Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Glouces-
tershire regiment.
The disaster has caused a feeling
akin to constern alton in, Gloucester
shire and the north of Ireland. where
the captured regiments were recruited,
the blacklist gloom prevails fami-
lies awaiting with beating hearts the
names of the killed and wounded,
which are fully expected to reach
high figure. Many homes are already
N mourning in consequence of losses
sustained by these regiments in pre-
vious engagements.
Public anxiety was increased by a
special dispatch from Ladysmith, pub
don afternoon papers to the effect that
before darkness Monday the Beers re-
occupied the old position held by their
heavy artillery which Gen. White had
reported silenced by the guns of the
naval brigade from the Powerful and
had opened fire again. The dispatch
further says:
THE enemy are again closing in and
the situation is one of grave anxiety.
Beyond doubt the Boer retirement
Monday was ruse to draw Gen.
White into the hilly country and away
from the British camp"
This last sentence is significant and
confirms the opinion of military ex-
perts that Gen. White is allowing him
self to be outgeneraled by Command
ant Gen. Joubert.
From the scanty advices received up
to IL o'clock p. m. it seems tolerably
certain that the disaster was a simple
repetition of the battle of Majuba hill,
though on a larger scale. The two
regiments were allowed to march into
a trap set for them. 1t is simply a
case of Boer spider and British fly. In
fact, the whole engagement of Mon
day seems to have been brought on by
Commandant Gen. Joubert, who skill
fully conceived a>gigantic trap out of
which, as the official dispatch shows,
Sir George White only escaped with
difficulty.
Gen. White advanced with the idea
OF driving the Beers from the hill,
seven miles out, which Gen. Joubert
made an ostentatious show of fortify-
ing on Sunday.
The Boer commander left a force suf-
fcient to draw Gen. w hite on while the
mass of the Beers he moved stealthily
round the British right to deliver a
flank attack and to endeavor to cut of
Gen. White from Aadysmith. The
British commander succeeded in beat
ing off the attack, but only with great
difficulty, and during the turning
movements his troops suffered from a
fanking fire.
Harsh things are said in military
circles of the British tactics, which
have made possible the ambush of the
18th Hussars at Glencoe and now the
loss of two fine regiments.
LONDON. Nov. 2.-The breakdown OF
the Delagoa ca BILE route, combined with
the monopolization of the available
telegraph lines by the government and
British staff officers, is responsible fol
the fact that nothing further has ar
rived from South Africa.
An unconirmed statment is publish
ed that Gen. Sir Redvers Butler ha:
left Cape Town for Ladysmith.
The queen is credited with express
ing sincere pity for Sir George Stewar
White, and the officials are in nowise
inclined to judge him harshly. So fai
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 anC
Lieut.. Col Carleton for allowing the
column to get out of touch, for the alb
sence of proper scouting and for not
retiring when the ammunition was
lost. In favor of Lieut.. Col. Carleton,
the explanation is hazarded that he
believed it was imperative to the sue
cess of Gen. Whites operations that he
should hold the position at Nicholson;
Mex. >--.- ----
Loving Cuu tn Follow.
New YORK, Nov. 2.-Sir Thomas Lip