The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-10-27

SAA Nie worst Tears. General Yu1e
Hds not only Dundee, but
Glencoe also, and so far as pre~ent news
WOUND indicate, he has neither ioined
.TeneTaI White nor reached Ladysmith.
General Whites successful action"
announced in Parliament by Mr.. wind
nam, seems to have resolved Itself into
q mere engaging Of the attention OF
Yufe is slipping southwark.
LII is evident from the official dis
patches that both Commandment Cen
eral column on the north and
the Orange Free State troops on the
west now occupy strong positions and
that nothing hinders the Beers from
Following up Genera Yule's retirement
and getting around Ladysmtuh from the
southeast. Until reinforcements arrive
1t seems that General White is obliged
to concentrate on Ladysmfth.
IL ID believed the government has
n dispatches that have not yet been
published. The secretary of state for
war left Mr.. Choate's residence imme-
diately at the end of h banquet to
General Harrison and proceeded to the
war office, where, even after midnight,
there was considerable activity, many
visitors calling to inquire for informa-
ton, among them a sister of General
Sir Archibald Hunter.
Cape Town, October PA private
telegram from Delagoa Bay says a
man just arrived there from Johannes
burg assersts that the Transvaal gov
has appropriated $50 beds in
private houses in johannesburg for
wounded troops from the front.
The Boer organs, according to EEs in
forman are doing everything to mimi
mize the Boer losses and all sorts Of
mIStatements and misrepres entations
are employed.
ADVANCING ON KIMBERLEY.
London, October 25.-The Daily Tele-
graph has the following from De Aar.
Cape Colony, dated Monday evening:
The Transvaal government are
about issuing a proclamation declaring
the district north of the Vaal river,
and including B~echuanaland to be Boer
territory.
"Commandant Cronje, who has been
twice repulsed at Mafeking is said to
be advancing on Kimberley and to be
impressing men and Selling stores n
munitions in British territory. He left
a small force investing Mafeking. The
Free State Beers are moving westward
in order to join him for an attack on
Kimberley.
THE dispatch riders Who are coming
down to the Orange river from kim
berley are performing thrilling feats.
They ride through the Boer lines under
cover of arkne and get to the Or
ange river without taking any rest,
save for a change of horses. The dis
lance is sixty miles"
1.-THE Beers are three miles from Kim
berley, but are afraid to attack the
place and are awaiting the arrival Of
Commandant Cronje. No Beers are to
be seen south of Belmont, which is
twenty miles north of the Orange river.
The defeats in Natal are taking all the
fight out of them, and they will not
attack the British troops, though they
may defend a few positions. Indeed, it
is believed here that the heaviest fight
ing of the war is over except for a bat
tie neal Pretoria"
| ENGLAND'S FRUITLESS VICTO-
RIES.
london, October 25.-Although there
is no reason to doubt the accuracy Of
! the dispatch from Cape Town to The
Daily Mail regarding General Yule's
movement, it is curious that General
Whites telegram to the war office,
which is also dated at 9 p. m, makes
no mention of joining of forces. When
the war office dispatch was issued just
| after midnight the officials announced
that nothing would be
until Wednesday morning so that it is
impossible to confirm or deny the news.
General Yule had'a heavy march Mon
day over the Stratford slopes and the
Zurfontein table, both over 5000 feet
nigh, II arrived after DUSK at Beth,
which is half way between Rorkes
drift and Waschbank. He had a still
heavy march and was hardly expected
to join General White at L%adysmith
until today.
His movements were actuated by
sound judgment, since he soon would
have been surrounded and in a, desper-
ate position. The combined forces at
Ladysmith, now amounting to some
10000 men, will be amply sufficient to
act on the defensive. A few more vic
tories like Glencoe and Elandslaagte,
however, would leave the British troops
without officers.
While the Beers have failed to take
advantage of their strategic position,
owing to the incompetence or haste OF
their leaders, the British have no cause
for congratulations over the results OF
the Natal operations. They have suf.
fered heavy losses in men, and theil
victories have practically o n fol
nothing, the whole of northern Nata
being now abandoned to the Beers.
1t would have been better to have
concentrated on Ladysmith in the frs
instance, but General White and Gen
eral SymOns had to yield to politica
exigencies and to the local reluctanc,
to abandon an inch of territory NOR
than was necessary. 1t is not expected
that the wounded left at Dundee will
suffer, except in being prisoners of war
SOUTHERN MUSIC TIE CHEERS.
NInnf In atlanta To Lorn, NFrIoi