Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-02
England in the Dark Re-
garding TranSvaal.
CRITICISM OF GEN. WHITE
For Allowing Some of His Forces to
be Cut Off From the Main Body
British Losses Since the Outbreak
of HOstilities Enumerated.

London, Nov. 2.-The break down of
the Delagoa bay cable route. combined
with the monopolization of the avail
able telegraph lines by the government
AND British staff officers. is responsible
for the fact that nothing further has ar
rived from South Africa. The govern
ment has received dispatches rectify-
ing the casualty lists. These will be
published to-day. Up to midnight MOTH
ing had been received concerning Mon
days casualties. The war office Off
Gals are working under great strain.
Captain Perriott, staff captain to the
military secretary, has just died, his
end being FASTENED by ankle ty and over
work. An uneJnirlned statement is
published that General Redvers Butler
has left Capetown for Ladysmith.
A belated dispatch from Ladysmith.
describing Mondays fight says: "A
couple of %souadrons of hussars had a
narrow escape from disaster early in the
day. They found themselves suddenly
Jonfronted Within easy range by an
overwhelming force of Beers who SEEM
ed to spring from the bowels of the
earth. The hussars were splendidly
one mar wounded"
The queen is credited with expressing
pity for Sir George Stewart White and
the officials are in nuwise disposed to
judge him harshly. ST. far as the public
is concerned, however. while gratifca-
ton is felt at the manner in which the
Eattalions We're compelled to sur
render. they criticize Colonel Carlton for
allowing the column to get out of touch.
In favor Of Colonel Carlton the explana-
ton is hazarded that he believed it was
imperative to the success of General
Whites operations that he should hold
the position at Nicholgon's Mex.
The Morning Post comments severy
upon the British contempt for the enc
my, as shown by the belief that the large
Boer force at Acton Homes could be
held in check by Cartoons column. 1t
points out that even if the British there
been supplied with ammunition they
could have held out only for a few hours
1nasmuch as they We're in the
most complete sense detached and be-
cause nobody apparently at Ladysmith
lad any idea of their distress or took
my measures to rescue them. The
was sacrificed" says the Morning
Post, because it was sent into action
and blindfolded. 1t had neither
scout nor patrol. Twelve hundred men
We're thrown away for lack of cavalry
would not have been missed from
another part of the field"
The Standard, which comments in SINH
49, ~ Af'Ai NAG Ao' llol &tClkS "a
made no effort to eXtricate the
column from the impossible situation in
to which he nd thrust it, draws a sad
picture OF the men hoping for relief
and then realizing with bitterness of
that someone had blunaered, tina
they had been forgotten by their general
and his staff and that nothing was left
but surrender n Imprisonment at Pre-
toria until the end OF the war"
The Daily Chronicle says: 1T is evil
dent that somebody blundered, but more
details are required before the blame can
De ap~portioned.'
The Times says: The dangers Of Sir
George Whites plans are patent even
to civilians, but it is not impossible that
the Cape boys in charge Of the mountain
battery have been tempered With by the
Beers. OotherWise such a large and
comprehensive stampede is d very extra
ordinary occurrence from such Il slight
cause. General Whites 50
far as it can be understood from present
information is open to CRITICISM, especi-
ally in the complete absence of commu-
nication With the main body
The morning papers comment with the
greatest satisfaction upon Canada's sud-
den regard in sending a second regiment
to South Africa.
A careful calculation of the British
losses in ali the ENGAGEMENTS since the
outbreak OF the war, excluding the cas-
ualties among the ron-commissined
officers and men in Mondays disaster at
Iadysmith, which are thus far unknown
here, gives a total of ais, to which prob
ably 200 will be added when fthe details
regarding the Ladysmith reverse are re-
cetived. This total is made up as fol-
lows: Officers, 1873; IS being killed, 81
wounded and IS captured: men, 1913, 173
being killed, 1913 wounded and 154 cap
tured.