The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-01-02
COLESBERG CAPTURED
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men with four guns, accompanied by
capt. Montmorency's scouts. sailed on
of Dordrecht during the morning of Dec
81 to relieve Lieut. Turner and twenty
seven men left over night at Labu-
schangnes Mex. The Beers were driv-
en- back and Lieut.. Turner's party was
rescued Eight Beers and thirteen horses
are known to have been killed.
The Times in it's second edition pub
fishes dispatch from Sterkstrom, dated
Dec. 81, which says:
capt. Montmorency's scouts were cut
on owing to their refusal to leave a
wounded officer. Lieut. Warren, of Pra-
bant's Horse. These men. under Lieuts
Milford and Turner, of the frontier
mounted rifles, defended themselves
most CALAMITY against the repeated at
tacks of 800 Beers. The enemy resorted
to snipirg during the night, but were
repulsed with loss. At 5:15 this morn
ing Capt. Gollsworthy, with the Cape
mounted rifles, arrived, and the enemy
Immediately fled to the hills. Turner's
party, whose horses had nearly all been
killed, were rescued They displayed
splendid pluck, and the brilliant manner
In which Capt. Goldsworthy effected
their relief on his own responsibility is
loss was two men wounded. The Beers
lost about thirty men, including eight
men killed"
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Another account says: 1.-The success
of this little party will arrest the prog
ress of the enemy's recruiting in that
vicinity
A dispatch from the Modder river
says:
On Dec 81, the naval guns planted a
few excellent shells without reply. The
enemy's position on the left is apparently
considerably weakened.
But neither from the Modder river nor
from Frere comes any news tending to
show an impending change in the existing
impasse, nor confirming the impression
created by yesterdays dispatches that
Gen. Butler meditated an immediate for
ward movement
Count Gleichen, of the Grenadier
guards, and distant relative of Queen
Victoria, who was wounded IT the battle
of the Modder river, has recovered from
his wound and has left Cape Town for
the front
WAITING ON ROBERTS.
A Cape Town dispatch dated Sunday,
Dec 81, published in the second edition Of
the Times, says:
For the moment there is general lull in
active military operations, pending the
hoped that he will, for some time at least
direct the operations from here. The abb
sence of Gen. Butler has left the colony
without that central organization and
vigorous control at headquarters essential
to the conduct Of campaign along so
vast frontier.
In view of the fact that DR.. Leyds and
other Boer agents seem able to cable
freely to Pretoria, the British censorship
will be even stricter henceforth
A De Aar dispatch dated Dec. 81 says a
mounted patrol has gone from there and
that other arrangements have been made
to prevent looting in that neighborhood
by small Boer forces.
LONDON RELIEVED.
LONDON, Jan. 1.-The second edition
of the Times publishes a dispatch from
st. Johns, N. F., dated Dec. 81, say
ing:
"All the political parties agree that
a renewal of the modus vivendi for an
other year is a measure which will pass
unanimously in both houses about April
Is. All the colonists are united in a
desire to ass st the empire by every
possible means"
The fear that Newfoundland would re-
fuse to renew the modus vivendi has
been a bugbear of the imperial govern
ment, many of the authorities declar-
ing that it constituted the gravest pos
sibility of complications with France.
Thus the news that the modus vivend
will be renewed has been received with
the greatest relief.
BOER SPIES.
Alleged Boer spies, it has been dis
covered, have enlisted in the yeomanry
A representative of Lord Gresham, who
T., Of f1aO or1Tx
says that the officials of this arm of the
service are being pestered by agents of
DR.. Leyds, the European plenipotentiary
of the South African government. He
adds that two of them were actually &C
cepted, but that they were afterwards
discovered. He declares that the same
thing occurred in Thorneycroft's Horse,
seven spies being discovered in that
body. He says, continuing:
1--WE Lave given word to all our COM
manding officers to keep sharp look
out for traitors"
No steps have been taken thus far
to punish the alleged spies.
DIVISION COMPLETE
The Standards correspondent at Frere
camp, telegraphing on Jan. l, says:
"Sir Charles Warren's division is now
nearly complete Its headquarters will be
r u.
that were captured from Gen. Butler at
Colenso have been mounted In the hills,
commanding the drift in the Tugela river
at Springfield. The Beers, 1t appears,
captured 62O rounds of shrapnel when they
took the guns.
"Gen Buffers difficulties have been I'M
measurably increased by the enforced de-
Law since the last action. He has now be-
fore him water and hills running six
teen miles along the line of the Tugela.
These are swarming with the enemy,
posted in positions Of great strength and
bristling with guns, while the river in
front is In full flood. The coming battle
will certainly be the stiffest and probably
the most momentous Of the entire cam
paign."
PUBLIC WITH BOERS.
The Lisbon correspondent of the Stand
ard says: ut is currently reported that
| the speech of King Carlos in the cortes
tomorrow (Tuesday) will refer at some
| length to the situation in South Africa
| but 1t is doubtful whether the speech will
| be more friendly to England than to the
| Transvaal
1.-THE public is with the Beers and the
papers generally fear British designs
| upon Delagoa bay. The Portuguese gov
eminent says 1t has done everything t
preserve neutrality