Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-11-13
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
BOER-BRITISH WAR.

A boer proclamation annexes a part
of Natal to the Orange Free State.
The French society for the relief Of
the beers is collecting $1,000 day.
Beers, thought to be from Mafeking,
reinforced those investing Kimberley.
The situation of the British army at
Ladysmith is believed to be precarious.
The total of British losses at Lady
smith is now admitted to be nearly 800.
Pietermaritzberg, capital of Natal, is
reported in danger of capture by the
beers.
Reports that Ladysmith has sur
rendered are persistently circulated in
Europe.
Lord Rosebery and other British
liberals in public speeches supported the
government.
Paris expects beers to organize pri-
Watering expeditions against English
merchant ships.
A society to recruit and equip volun-
teers for the Transvaal has been or
ganized in Paris.
The British in south Africa will use
Iyddite shells each of which is capable
of killing 300 men.
The annexation of the upper Tugela
division of Natal to the Orange Free
State is proclaimed
Portugal questions the right of the
British to do police duty in Delagoa
bay, Portuguese port.
The Transvaal government is said to
have issued letters of marque and
American ship owners offer privateers.
While the beers were Smelling Lady
smith one of their camps was surprised
and captured by British detachment.
The beers and Free Staters got much
of their ordnance from France, having
placed large orders before the war be-
gan.
The Ladysmith garrison is reported
short of supplies. Butler will have
10000 fresh troops by the end of the
week.
President Steyn's proclamation call
ing on Orange Free State beers to sup
port the Transvaal charged the Eng
Iish with bad faith, and said resistance
is necessary.
Gen. Sir Redvers Butler has left
Cape Town for Durham, Natal, and it
is supposed that he will proceed to the
front.
The French war officials believe the
beers plan is to crush White, and then
go to Durham and prevent the landing
of troops.
The government gave permission to
Britain to compress Canadian hay in
New York and Boston for shipment to
south Africa.
Gen. Brialmont of Belgium says it
will take 10000 men six months to re-
duce the Transvaal to anything like a
condition of subjugation.
Gen. White wired further official
report of the catastrophe at Ladysmith
in which he attributed it to the SIAM
peding of the mOuntain-battery mules.
Lieut.. Winston Churchill, war cor
respondent who accompanied Gen.
Bueller to Africa, cables that the beers
are advancing southwark into Cape
Colony.
It was rumored at Capt Town that
second battle was in progress a few
miles from Ladysmith and that several
boer shells had dropped in the town. No
later news was received in London.
Gen. White reported that the royal
Irish fusiliers, No. 10 Mountain battery
and the Worcestershire regiment, sur
rounded by beers, had surrendered.
This was about one-sixth of his force.
He said he was at fault
London is without news, waiting
for another carrier pigeon to arrive"
Whites sorties last week show that he
is holding his own. Another sortie is
reported Thursday, with battle at
Tatham's farm, in which the beers
lost 800 men, Joubert supposed to be
on his way to Pietermaritzburg Lon
don claims ample defenses, but said the
same of Colenso. Residents of Est
court, chief town on the way to PETER
maritzburg are warned to leave. The
situation as known is: White is iso-
lated at Ladysmith, beers control the
only railway; Mafeking and Kimberley
are besieged; Free State beers crossed
the Orange river; beers are invading
ZuluIand the Basutos are on the verge
IF rising; uprising of Cape Colony
Dutch threatened.