The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-10-27
YULE's RETREAT
Averted Great Disaster to the English
Troops.

Averted a Great Disaster to the English
Troops.
London, Oct. 26.-The official an
nouncement Of the joining of General
White and General Yule has come as
great relief, and all the more so in
view Of the fact that later dispatches
have shown that only the incapacity
Of the intelligence department of the
Beers saved General Yule's column
from great disaster 1t seems that
on Friday night Dundee was full Of
alarms. Heavy firing was heard at l
o clock, and again at 4. A severe
thunder storm soon after stopped the
Eoer cannonade.
Saturday passed in the same anx-
lous manner in momentary eXpecta-
tion of an attack. The British finally
evacuated, taking all that they could
| but leaving plenty behind for the
Beers to loot. The appointments of
the Beers hospital at Dundee are re-
ported as very primitive. The Beers
IN absence Of nursing staff get only
scant attention.
1t is reported General Sir William
Penn Symons died on Sunday and
was buried at Dundee yesterday.
General Yule's column had very
exciting march, mostly by night. The
reason for night march is not given,
but 1t is believed it was fear of I3oer
surprises. Heavy rains have hamper
ed the march, but We're the means of
saving General Yule from molestatfon.
1t took the column "a hours to cover
the last 16 miles.
The only news this morning con-
s1sts of more detailed account of the
battles already reported. A CORE
spondent who visited the hospital at
Ladysmith. where the Beers wounded
at Elandslaagte who We're captured
are being attended, reports that Cen
eral Kock who was badly wounded
in the thigh and shoulder, said tha
advance of the patrol under Com
mandant Pienar without guns .-as
simply with the object of cutting the
railway. and that this body was sub
sequently reinforced without General
Jouberts orders. General Viljoen ac-
company1ng them. The latter was
killed early in the fight.
According to another correspondent,
the Beers say that General Kock dur
ing the battle read his Bible and prayed
for victory. His brother, two sons and
nephew were all wounded and taken
prisoners. Colonel schiel OF the Ger
man corps and Commandant Pretorius
We're both severely wounded. Many
prominent Beers are not yet accounted
for Philip Kocl says the Beers .uf-
fered most from soldiers in little
clothes-half men and half women
meaning the Gordon Highlanders, and
in the charge of the 5th lancers They
say also that the two quick-firing guns
captured by the Devonshre regiment
are those that We're taken from the
Jameson raiders.
Colonel Schiel assured a correspond
ent that nothing could stand against
the accuracy of the British field guns.
which repeatedly drove the Transvaal
gunners from their embrasures The
British infantry fire was also, he said,
complete surprise to the Beers, who
We're confident of their ability to master
any infantry attack. One Flandsaasts
correspondent expresses the belief that
the British killed fewer Beers than
might have been expected, considering
the heavy fire of the British artillery.
The bullet OF the Boer Mausers, it
appears, makes a clean, healthy wound
where it passes out. No operations for
extraction have been necessary at the
Ladysmith hospital.
With regard to the Western frontier,
it is reported that President Steyn
recently visited a force of 1000 Beers
encamped 10 miles south of Kimberley.
The war is having its natural effect
in Cape Colony. Everything is at fam
inc prices and horsetiesh is at tre-
mendous premium.
A Dutch circular is being secretly
circulated in the Burghersdorp district
to the Dutch to stand shoul-
der to shoulder against the "tyrant
who never keeps faith,
Six Beers Killed.
Cape Town, Oct. 26.-According to a
received here from Pretoria,
in the engagement between the Brit
ish forces under Colonel Peuer and
the Beers at Rhodes drift, six Beers
were killed and four prisoners taken.
No Expansive Bullets.
London, Oct. 26.-In the house of
commons to-day, replying to John Dill
lon. Irish nationalist member for East
Mayo, Mr. Wyndham declared the
British troops We're net using expand |
ing bullets and had no such bullets.
Under Martial Law.
Durham. Oct. 26.-Martial law has been |
proclaimed throughout Natal. A trans
port has arrived with battalion of the
rifle brigade.