The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-17
BIG BATTLE RUNORED .
Beers Said to Have Been Re-
pulsed at Mafeking.
ARE NOW THREATENING DUNDEE.

ARE NOW THREATENING DUNDEE.
Dom Paul's Troops Congres.iting Before
| the City to Attack It--Britisl, Com
manders Order Evacuation, Which is at
Once Complied With by Nonco,nbatants.
LONDON, Oct. 17.-Dispatohes from
the Cape are very meagre, but they in
clude an important message from Glen
coe camp, dated 1886 Monday afternoon,
announcing that the Beers commanders
which invaded Natal and after occupy
ing Newcastle, advanced to Pannhauser,
retired in Ingagane Sunday evening,
their transport service being reported
defective. This will delay indefinitely
the hoped for assault OH the strong Brit.
ish position at Glencoe. Another dis
patch reports activity on the part of the
Free State commandoin the neighbor-
hood of Alliwal North, on the southern
frontier. The Beers advance patrol,
the dispatch adds, go to the frontier
bridge nightly to keep watch, firing
shots at intervals as signals. It is be-
lleved the enemy intends to shortly
rush the railway station, with the aid
OF artillery posted on a commanding
ridge. There are rumors that the Beers
have been repulsed at Mafeking and are
attacking Vryburg.
Dundee is now practically empty.
Special trains have brought down 5000
persons, mostly women and children.
A military order to evacuate was re-
ceived in Dundee at o'clock this
morning. Private reports say that a
Boer column is advancing from De-
jagers direct against Dundee, with
about $4,000 men, but this number is
greatly exaggerated. Probably there
are only about Z 200.
The Daily Nails Cape Town corre.
spondent Monday, II p. M, telegraphs:
ga report has reached here from native
sources that the Beers have been re-
pulsed at Mafeking with heavy loss.
The news at present lacks confirma-
tian -
ominous Signs of a Dutch Rising.
A Cape Town paper has dispatch
from the Orange river stating that the
telegraph wires have been cut between
Vryburg and Kimberley and it is ex-.
pected the Beers are taking advantage
of a large gathering of disloyal farmers
at Vryburg celebrating Nachtmal to at
tack the town, hoping that the farmers
will assist them against the British.
The same dispatch says the British
force at. Kimberley is confident of it's
ability to hold out, but urges the i'm
mediate dispatch Of a relief force. This
question OF q possible rising of the
Dutch farmers in the northern part of
Cape Colony is very important. There
is serious disloyalty and much anti
British agitation in these districts,
while the Free State Beers threaten an
immediate invasion of Colesburg.
The Daily Mail s correspondent asserts
that Sir Alfred Miner is worked to
death and that Cape Town is surging
with bitter resentment at what is called
the Schreiner cabinets betrayal Of MAIZE
king, by its constant refusal to send a
| volunteer force to it's relief. Many resi-
dents Of Cape Town have relatives at
Vryburg and they. are furious with
Messrs. Merriman and Sauer, respect
| lively colonial treasurer and commits
sioner Of public works, and the minis
ters are mobbed when they appear in
public.
There is no further news regarding
| the present position. The Natal inva-
sion was made In three columns at
dawn Oct. ID, through Bothas pass,
4 Laing's Mex and Fran Wakkerserom,
| the objective point of the invaders
| being Newcastle. The Beers utilized
several Thousand natives who were
tramping from the rand to drive their
heavy guns up Laing's Mex. Precau-
tions are being taken for the defense Of
Pietermaritzburg and Durham in the re-
mote contingency that the enemy may
elude the vigilance of the British at
Iadysmith and Glencoe camp.
The calling out Of the Cape Colony
volunteers is supplemented by decis-
ion to raise 1000 more volunteer in
Cape Colony and 1000 in Natal. Thus
the volunteer strength will amount to
1880 men.
1 According to the program OF embarka
tions from Great Britain next Friday
and the four following days, which has
been published, there will be shipped a
total of $4,000 troops Of all ranks and
$500 horses. Among the char tered YES
sells are the White Star liner Britannia
and the National liner America.
| Since the reports of the fighting a
Kimberley and the Orange river bridge
people are urging the immediate re-.
moval of families from Deaar Junction
The latest Kimberley and Vryburs
reports were brought to Orange boat by
dispatch riders, who succeeded in get
ting through the Boer forces.
1t is estimated from 1900 to 1900
Free State Beers are watching tn,
passes in Drakonberg range from Oil
vier's hook to Collins pass. They hav'
pushed few pickets down the berg
but hitherto the main force has not de
bouched in the actual passage, which i
being entrenched.
Commandment General Joubert i
heavily fortifying Laing's Mex.
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