The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-20
BOER ADVANCE
on Natal Now Claiming a Share
OF Attention
THAT HAS BEEN FOCUSED
on the Beleaguered Garrison Rt
Slafsking-Ac According to Early Dls-
patches Received in London tho
TlhnSvasl Troops do Not Appear to
Have Been Driven Back.

HAVE Been Driven BACK.
LONDON Oct. le.-Natai +, again
claips share OF the attention which
during the last, few days has been
focused upon the belsaguerfd garrison
at Bafeking. The combined advance Of
the Boer forces on the positions held
by he British general commanding IN
Natat. Sit George Stewart White, haS
already ocCislonea a sharp aahir Of
outpOsta which possibly has since de-
veloped into pitched battle.
The BoerS, according to the latest In
formation at hand. do not appear to
have been driven back. Perhaps. how
ever, their movements are only pan OF
general plan to Isolate both Lady
smith and Glencoe from the south.
The simultaneous Boer movements from
Acton Homes from the west and from
Rockies Drift ana HeipmakaAr from the
east may indicate a projected attack
upon the railway below colenSo. The
movement from the east also suggests
an attack upon the railway at Wasch-
bsnk between Ladysmlth and Glencoe.
Military experts are inclined to the
opinion that the! ttoops At Glencoe are
only a small rear guard left to attract
the force under eommsndant-Ge General
Joubert, while General Whites full
strength is concentrated at Labyrinth
with view Of attacking the Orange
Free State force while General Joubert
Is still forty miles away. Stories Of
British succesSss in the Mafeklng dis
tricts are so persistent that in the alb
ssnce Of contradiction from BOer
sources they may be accepted as true
Ia the main, although the alleged kill
Ing Of 300 Beers is dlscredlted.
General Comics troops are regarded
as the dover OF the Transvaal forces
ana decisive lighting must occur on the
western border. II. as was Intmated
IN last, nightS dispatches, rsliefs are
approaching from RhodesIa, It will
probably not be long delayed.
Apart from their desire to gain an In
itlal; advantage BY capturing MafeklRg
ana thereby attracting lie Dutch colon,
istk the object OF the Beers IN mRssing
In Bechuanaland Is due. doubtless to
the fact that this splendid stock coun-
tty Is fun OF cattle. and as & only
sparcely settled, would give the TFans-
wal q route BY which TO import arms
and munitions by way Of Walasch bay,
Damaraland, on the West African
coast.
4 dispatch from Pretoria asserts that
the Pretoria government has telegraph
ed to Joseph Benjamin Robinson, the
millionaire gold mine owner and chair
man OF the Robinson South African
Banking Company. who is now in Lon
don. to return to johannesburg on pain
OF conhscation of his property Mr..
Robinson characteriles the alleged
threat as ridiculous.
He says he IL British subject; that
the Transvaal government has no right
to demand his return and that his prop
erty has not been and cannot be confs-
Gated.
PeStpgal according to Dispatch
from Berlin. has given distinct assur-
aness OF her neutrality. A continuance
Of commerce with the Transvqal. by
way Of Delasoa bay Is therefore Sc
cured.
= A1-,o.. o,,n.,,.htrs, Il, rou In rea1I.
ness for the great departure OF troops
from southampton tomorrow when Ave-
truopsAips. each carrying thousana
men with ofiicePs will start for South
Africa The first will sail at 1880 p. M.
the others following at intervals of half
an hour.
According TO private Information re-
colVed here from Bloemfontein, capital
ol The Orange Free State PreAidsAt
KFuReg telegraphed an account
to President stynt. OF the affsif
at FtEaalpan, WHERE the Beers derailed
and hombarded the British armared
train. carrying Captain Nesbltt's party.
Mr.. Kruger said that Eesbltt and seven
men were seriously wounded. that no
one Was killed and that all the prison.
eSs were Wetl
According to the same ndvlces, a
Dutch farmer, living In one Of the bOr-
der towns has received a letter from u
fEienA In the TransvaN. referring to the
MeIOking aftalr a. bad business"
TIE. Associated Press leans that the
transports which will convey the army
corps about to start for South AfrIc.t
win 20 neither 70 Durham nor Cape
Town. both Of which are already over
crowded with refugees. but to Port
Elizabeth, Port Alfred and East Lon
dor, from which points railroads con-
verge directly upon the Free state bor-
DER. where concentration win be eject
a somewhere In the nelghborhoOd Of
NoEVals Point. TIE advance Will then
begin toward Pretoria. straight through
The Free State,
DETAILS SCANTY