The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-29
VICTORY WAS DEARLY BOUGHT
General Butler Reports Heavy Loss
of Life In Battle of Gras Pan.

London, Nov ga dispatch has
been received here from General Butler
giving a list of casualties among the
troops engaged in the battle of Gras
Pan. but which is now officially desig-
mated as the battle of Instin. 1t proves.
as anticipated. that the British success
was heavily bought. The losses an
nounced today, added to the naval bril-
gade casualties previously notified,
make a grand total of 19S as the cost
of General Methuen's second battle.
The Yorkshires apparently bore with
the naval brigade the brunt of the
fighting, as there were, in addition to
three officers, forty-eight of the rank
and file killed, wounded and missing.
The fact that the list contained the
casualties of the Ninth Lancers seems
to dispose of the fears that the caval-
ry was surrounded and captured. es-
pecially as none of the lancers is re-
ported missing.
General Buffers list Of casualties
shows that among the wounded of the
Second Yorkshire light infantry were
Captain c. A Yates, Lieuteant II. G.
Fernyhough and Lieutenant Ackroid.
The casualties among the non-commis-
stoned officers and men of the various
regiments engaged were: Killed, ten;
wounded, seventy-one; missing. nine.
The war office has received the fol-
lowing dispatch from General Butler.
dated Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Nov.
2S:
Our last news from Ladysmith, Nov.
"a, said all well. An old message, dated
Nov. 10. just arrived, begins:
'Joubert has explained firing on one
Cred Cross flag previously reported.
Have accepted explanation as satisfac-
tory. Lieutenant Lethbridge, rifle bril-
gade. died of wounds; other wounded
generally doing well. Health of troops
good.
Six wounded Dublin fusiliers cap
tured on armored train south of Colen-
so. sent here today"
The casualties in the reconnaissance
of the armored train Friday, Nov. "a.
We're: Killed: Lieutenant F. Owen
Lewis, Bombay infantry, and one pri-
vate; wounded. one.
In the reconnaissance of Sunday,
Nov. 26. Ninth Lancers: Wounded,
lieutenant ]. G. Sterling and one
trooper.
A corrected list of the British casual
ties at GraS Pan shows that Flag Cap
tain Reginald c. Prothero of the Do
ris, and Lieutenant of Marines Walter
T. c. Jones, also of the Doris, previ-
ously reported wounded. were killed.
The additional casualties telegraphed
intimation of the actions of General
Methuen's forces, which have not yet
been reported. As the Ninth I4ancers
participated in a reconnaissance on
Sunday they must have safely returned
from the pursuit of the Beers after the
battle of Gras Pan.
Apparently the government is mo-
nopolizing the single cable working to
South AfricS as up to ? O'Clock this az
ternoon no news from the seat of war
has been made public, with the excep-
ton Of General Buffers dispatches.
This is particularly tantaliZing at the
present critical moment
While the latest news is of a fairly
reassuring character from the British
point of view, much of it is assumed to
be true on INSULT evidence. For
instance. the reported capture of Honey
Nest Klof, of which there is no confirm
alton, while. the stories of the rapid re-
tiresnent of the Beers in Natal must be
received with caution.
The fact appeparsi to be that the Brit
ian scouts have lost touch with the
burghers. portions of whose force after
withdrawing cut of the reach of observ-
ere may. 1t is claimed, made a detour
with the object of interrupting the
British line of communication.
Sharp fighting may be expected at
any time on the southern frontier. Pos
sibly General Gatacre's first battle will
be in the rough basses Of the Storm
burg mountains. The particular serv-
ice squadron of the British feet has
been ordered to proceed 10 Gibralta.
Dec. >. 1t will probably replace the
channel squadron, which is coming
home for Christmas leave.
1t is said that the French cabinet
has instructed the minister of war to
refuse all officers leave to go abroad
and that officers absenting themselves
in order to go to the Transyaal will do
so at the risk of dismissal