The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-11-08
BOERS STILL
VICTORIOUS.
.LNERAL BRITISH OUTPOSTS
lAPIlkk AND MANY
bklIlSHkkS WERE
BAGGED.
GtEtRAlS 0EWeT AND STEM DETER
MINED TO WIN OR DIE.

..p south African War NoI over B,,.r,
Dp"d Fighting Trim Successful
I...I, 10 Natal.
late dispatch from London SAYS:
The military situation In South
africa IL nearly rs bad as can be
Imagined, from the British point OF
View" Tho Beers have scored an
uuIrOken series Of considerable sue
..-7 In every corner OF the theatre
war, and gravest OF all ia the ev.
.lence OF their ability to Isolate
cap" Colony from the north.
YIN attempt to send British on
'.r.ements from BloemfonteIn to
strengthen the lines Of cOmmuni.
cation In the Southern part OF the
urAnge Free State has failed. There
has been persistent sniping as far
south a. the Fraserburg road.
fhe determination to display q
7oIldarity OF race feeling puts enor
nous difficulties In the way OF
Lord Roberts in his work OF sup
pressing guerrillas with a severe
hand
The Cape Dutch practically say:
Mess you treat the Beers as hon
Orablo belligerents we Will make
your soldiers suffor."
Tho Beers Will be- able TO light for
months among their trackless high
lands and easily trap and destroy
parties of stronger troops, II an at
tempt Ia made to burn and raze re-
mote homeStCAds.
General DeWot and his brave
Generals are giving the British
plenty Of trouble in the Orange
Free State and Natal.
In a recent engagement between
DeWet's forces and the British Gen.
Barton's column, twelve British
were killed, and three officers and
twenty-five mon were wounded.
Lieutenant Chapman ana fifty cav
alrymen wore ambushCd by the
Boors near Springfontein, and only
BeVon escaped.
The Boers arc Taiding in Natal,
burning railway stations, cutting
communication ard harrasslng the
British outposts.
A Cape Town dispatch of Nov. |.
says
"lt was learned to-day that
BOer commando captured British
outpost OF ninety men In the vacin-
ity Of Geneva, Oct 2S, and after
ward held up n Cape Town mail
train, looted the passengers and
carriages, destroyed the mails, set
fire to the train and decamped on
the approach Of an armored train.
Not wishing to be hampered, the
Boors later released the prisoners
they had captured
A London special dated Nov. ., says {:
activity of the Beers continues On
October 26th commando Of $40 cap
tured y garrison Of 30 men at Kedders
burg, but after ward released them.
Trains from the south tn Pretoria are
attacked by the Beers almost daily. On
October 24th, the Burghers occupied
huftyfontein ON the other hand Gen
eral Hewpt'- forces near Parvs. captu-
ring two guns, one ot them weapon
lost hy the British in the Sanna4 20
affair.
THE daily totgI of British Casualtie
is heavy. Dnring the month OF OctO-
Der the British lost l67 killed in action
including fifteen officers. II who died
Of wounds, 1857 who died OF disease, q
who died of accidents and 81 captured
or mIs-ing, total Almost equal to the
monthly average for the duration OF
the war.
=" he u, lily Express publishes sensa'
tional statement that the BOer revival
Of hostilities ~ more serious than has
hitherto b en- believed, and that in con
sequence ord Roberts return Is likely
10 be still further delayed 1t says a'sC
that no considerable party of troops
will return before January or Februa-
ry, while the regimental drafts from
England wi continue, and that nv
thousand horses W II be sent out. In
paper definitely declares that the Boer
are we'll armed and abundantly sup
piled with ammunition, and that the
campaign is likely to last another 81
months