Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-11-10

who were killed and wounded outside
Ladysmith. and their reports have
caused much mourning among the Te!a-
tives.
According TO special dispatches from
Estcourt the Beers on Thursday asked
days armistice. General White agreed
to this. on condition that they would
make no moeement. The British mill
tAry balloon. however. detected the Beers
massing to the south. and General White
thereupon renewed the attack.
Beer reports have reached Cape Town
10 the effect that on the arrival at JO-
hanneshurg Of the news of the Beer re-
verse at Elandslaagte the whole Rand
special police force was sent to the front
with guns from johannesburg fort, the
fortress being left with only one gun and
a garrison of 20 men.
The men of the Eighteenth Hussars
who were captured at Dundee first took
refuge in a kafTir kraal, where they
fought stubbornly. only surrcrderirg
after four Krupp shells had exploded IN
the kraal.
A large Boer force has been sent 20
reinforce General Schalk Burger on the
Tuli border. The Beers have repaired
the railway between NolksIust aLi
Newcastle.
While the British have retired from
Stormbcrg Junction they appear to have
no intention Of giving up Naauw PoOrt
at the junction Of the lines from De Aar
and CUlesberg, for it would be a practi-
cal remuneration Of an advance into the
Orange Free State directly from the
south. On the whole, it would appear
that an entirely new plan OF campaign
from that originally intended will have
been necessitated by the unexEectt
turn the war has taken in Natal and the
uncertainty respecting the attitude Of
the Cape Colony Afrikanders.
AS was to be expected the British after
having evacuated ColerZo aye preparing
to make a stand at Estcourt, covering
the railway issuing from the pass
through the M,oi range Of hills north Of
Pie,ermarit2hurg; but it appears
doubtful thai the Beers wiz make fur
ther advance southwark while Lady
smith holds out The country bctW zen
the TuEela and the Mooi hills is COM
parativcly open and favorable to the
operations of cava.ry ard light artillery,
which the Boers are not in position &c
expose themselves to; they will there
fore probably Contire themselves to the
defense of the lire of the upper TugeIa,
which the proclamation OF the President
Of the Orange Free State arT eNirE north.
/ ern Natal makes the southern boundary
/ of the annexed territory
The principal immediate danger the
Beers in Natal have to fear, according
to the latest reports. is an eruption of
. BasUtOS from tho mountains on their
right flank. Should the British gov
ernment decide to let the Basutos loose
1t would be possible to relieve Ladysnith
and perhaps push the Transvaal Beers
back across the Buffalo river. and uT
! into the northwest angle of Natal to thei,
main line OF defense. and compel the
! Free Staters to withdraw to the line Of
the DrokensburE.
The tmpotrv Of the proceeding, how,
ever, Is manifest for IL the BasutDs once
get il into ~ heads that they haG
saved the + sh it would not be long
before there N,uld be trouble with them
1t would besides Justify the Beers ir
arming tn" /u.us and Matabcl s anC
lctti.G tine latter loose on l.hudcsa. T. k
ing this view, it would seem probabl,
that the contest will continue to b,
waged by the present cOmbatants,