Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-01-02
Lack of Important News Brings
the Dordrecht Affair to
the Front.
Nothing Tending to Show Any
Immediate Forward Move
of British.
Capture of the Bunde desrath Likely
to Prove Of considerable
Importance. @


of news from important points, interest
{ IN the war centers on the comparatively
Sunimp portant skirmishing near Dord-
recht, Captain Montmo morency's sortie,
with patrol of 120 men of the Twenty
first Lancers, and his retreat, Dec. 30,
were followed the next day by sue
cessful British engagement and the res
cue of a small party supposed to be
men Captain Montm orency left behind
him. Under Captain Go,dsWorthy, d
force of 10 men with four guns ac-
companied by Captain MoDtmorency's
scouts sailed ont of Dordrecht, during
the morning Of Dec. 81, to relieve
Lieutenant Turner and 81 men left
over night at Labnschagn Mex. The
Beers were driven back and Lieutenant
Turner'S party was rescued. Eight
Beers and 18 horses are known to have
been killed. The Times in its. second:
edition, publishes a dispatch from
Sterkstrom, dated Dec. 3 31, which says:
Captain Mont tmorency's scouts were
cnt Of, owing to their refusal to leave
q wounded officer, Lieutenant Warren
of Brabant's horse. hess men, under
Lieutenants Milford and Turner, of the
frontier mounted rifles, defended them
selves most gallantly against the re-
peated attacks Of some 800 Beers. The
enemy Tesorted to shipping during the
night, but were repulsed with loss.
Boers Lost Thirty. s$
At 5:15 this morning, Captain Colds
worthy, with the Cape mounted rifles,
arrived, and the enemy imm ediately
fled to tho hills, Turner's party, whose
horses had nearly been killed, were
rescued. They displaye ed splendid pluck
and the brilliant manner in which
Captain Gold dsworthy effected n their
relief on his own responsib bility is de-
serving Of the highest praise. Our loss
was 2men wounded. The Beers lost
about 30 men, including s men killed. q
Another account says: The success
Of this little party viii arrest the prog
ress of the enemy's recruiting in that
vicinity
A dispatch from the Modder river
says:
Dec. 81. the naval guns planted a
few excellent shells without reply.
The enemy's positio on the left is ap-
parently consid derably weakened. z
But neither from the Modder river
nor from Frere comes any news tend
ing tosshow an impending change in
the existing impasse nor confirming the
impression created by yesterdays dis
patches that General Butler meditated
an imm ediate forward movement. s$
Count Gleichen Of the Grenadier
Guards, and a distant relative Of Queen
Victoria, who was wounded at the bat
tie of the Modd Ter River, has recovered
from his wound and has left Cape
Town for the front.
w aitinE for Roberts. aSS 5s9
a Cape Town dispatch dated Sunday,
Dec. 81, published in the second edi-
ton sof The Times says: For the mo-
ment there is general lull in active
military operations, pending the ar
rival Of General Roberts. 1t is gener-
ally hoped that he will for some time at
least direct the operations from here;
The absence Of General Butler, how.
ever unavoidable, has left the colony
without that central organization and
vigorous control at headquarters essen
tial to the conduct Of q campaign along
50 vast q frontage
The same correspond dent says:
In viewof the fact that DR.. Leyds
and other Bosr agents seem able to
cable freely to Pretoria, the British
censorship will beseven strictsr hence
forth