The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1899, Page 1

The Call SLTE - Wwuny o JirD NS e s VOLUME LXXXVI—NO. 142, SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1899. PRICE FIVE CENTS. FIFTEEN HUNDRED BOERS REPORTED KILLED AT MAFEKING. VRYBURG SURRENDERED CAPE TOWN, Oct, 19.-=It is rumored here that news has reached De Aar Junction and been communicated to the troops there to the effect that when the Boers were repulsed at Mafeking, the defenders, seeing the ehemy in retreat, followed up their advantage and pursued them for some distance. Then a fei of th OND nt was made and they ribly. commenced to fall back upon the town, allowing them-= selves to be driven by the enemy. retrieve their position, again advanced to the attack and ' were drawn over the lyddite mines which had been laid for the defense of the town. The Boers, eager to The invaders suftered ter- It is reported that 1500 of them were Killed. The Mafe- King armored train also has been doing great execution. . y (b + ————— @ Police Retire and Boers Take Possession| : . . ¢ e Town—Fighting Progresses at | ¢ Several Places and the Usual i I s 5 ¢ Repulses ™ Are Reported. B 3 ON, Oct. 20. — The| Boers numbered 2000. The vol- : wn correspondent | unteers at, one moment were in| & e Daily Mail tele-| great peril, being nearly cut off,| { . ' loe “hursdav | 2 3 ? 10 o'clock Thursday | but the officers handled their men | ¢ e splendidly, and the Maxims ef- f lered Sunday.| g i;vely stopped the Boers'| ¢ 1es from Kuru- e S f . | e .| rushes. The Boer shooting was| es east by south of| ¢ o . {wretched. The volunteers lost ¢ that the police| o ) ' e fiot rawn from Veyburg. | their Kit, anc nlm;{et her the fight ¢ surrendered to the| Was a pretty trying one. he| ¥ inhabitants fleeing in|Men were in the saddle 11.11'ee days| o 10stly toward Ku-| .fl:\d two nights f\'xth lmr(ll.\: arest. . ¢ police with- H.lc Basuto natives were fighting | : with the Boers. It is reported| ¢ ; that sixteen Boers were killed.| | Lieutenant Gallemy, who is re-| ¢ a0 | ported missing, is the eldest son| ! Gane Toon of Sir M. H. Gallemy, Chief Jus-| ¢ LS F: oW . £ AT » A 3 p : | tice of Natal. He is supposed to| ] t savs that a re - v 1 Fisg r be in hiding and searlhing par-| = NAmStOWnN| {es have been sent out to try to b S IS atrain| find him. The cavalry are still| ¢ g ot Mon-| hivouackir g out and slight skirm- b ) ‘i\]n\' are frequent. I learn offi-| Every avail-| ¢ ally that Commandant General | ¢ nce, the retugee says, | Joubert has moved his headquar-| § into requisition to take| ters to Dannhauser. 2 and -® 1 men to the hospital.| 71t is reported from Delagoa that| Bay that the Swazi King Bunu rom| s collecting his forces, with the . object presumably of attacking i t is stated that the Portuguese forces at Delagoa will zburg corre-| the Boers. Mail in a| “hursday say < at Best- be raised to war strength. LE MAP OF UPPER NATAL. the fic north, ?1d of movement from Estcourt on the south to New- nd from Tintwa and Van Reenans passes on the south- ¢ Drift on the northeast, with the positions of the opposing the lines of communication, AEh g S SR S ADUD SO S G S D DA O S O It is announced from Pretoria| 11 his that an eccentric person k”n“n‘GENERAL BATTLE HAS was sus- °r pat as Baron Deginsberg has been risk. The| court-martialed and shot as a spy. | YO D PR DD DU S S D S S Y Boeedeieie Party of British Lancers Reconnoitering Toward Van Reenans Pass. -3 v * * . 8+ | PI ans of the local forts were found possession. . NOT YET OCCURRED | N, Oc 20.—The general avflnn‘ terday to the westward of | has not yet occurred. nm»ra-] ions have been confined to outpost ,kyr.’ it e et bap e el oss 9f | only to form a rear guard left to attack ration. Tt 1 said the Toors with|the force under Commandant General od several Britleh otisers caveins | Joubert, ~while General White's full dysmith to Dundee. £ | strength is concentrated at Ladysmith Th publishes the fol. | With & View of attacking the Orange Frae : : |8 e while General Joubert is idysmith late Thursday | S SRl i """"'r::;;:‘"“}'){f')"“"““ Stor of British successes in the | left | There were In it sev- | ers and a few men, besides civ g to Glencoe or Dundee. For- | tunately the 10:30 up train, which con- | tained one of your correspondents, got | through. The enemy has cut the wires, | severing telegraphic’ communication with | Glencoe.” The Ladysmith Times, und correspondent of the date of Wednesday evening, tuation on the east border developing a mcre s spect. ryheid and Utrecht ndos, =] = > | comma | looting on the Zulu border, are reported | to be in the Umsinga district, threatening | communication between here and Dundee. | The situation at the front is reported to after cute.” | be growing more | SIGNIFICANCE OF THE BOER MOVEMENTS LONDON, Oct. 19.—Natal again claims a share of the attention which, during the last few days, has been focused upon the beleaguered garrison at Mafeking. The combined advance of the Boer forces on the positions held by the British gen- eral commanding Natal, Sir George Stew art White, has already occasioned a harp affair of outposts, which possibly is since developed into a pitched battle. The Boers, according to the latest in- | formation at hand, do not appear to have | ’O?.O 880k 2308 . BRI There {s no recent reliable intelli graphic communication. on the Orange River. SVSEOSIO ST 2210 83 0RO | In Bechuanaland is doubtless due to the S e S S S S S S DS S S been driven back. Perhaps, however, thelr movements are only part of a gen- eral plan to isolate both Ladysmith and | Glencoe from the south. The simultaneous Boer movements | from Acton Homes on the west and from | Rorkes Drift and Helpmakaar from the | east, may Indicate a projected attack upon the railway below Colenso. The movement from the east also suggests an attack on the raflway at Waschbank, be- tween Ladysmith encoe. Military expert inclined to the opinion that the troops at Glencoe are 1 G are Mafeking district are so persistent that, in the absence of contradiction from Boer | sources, they may be accepted as true in | the main, although the alleged killing of 300 Bo is discredited. General Cronje’s troops are regarded as the flower of the Transvaal forces and decislve fighting must occur on the west- ern border. If, as was Intimated in last night’s dispatches, rellefs are approach- ing from Rhodesia, it will probably not be long delayed. Apart from their desire to gain an initial advantage by capturing Mafeking and thereby attracting the Dutch colon- ists, the object of the Boers in massing fact that this splendid stock country is full of cattle, and as it is only sparsely settled, would give the Transvaal a rou by which to import arms and munitions by way of Walfisch Bay, Damaraland, on the Western African coast. VICTORIA ADDRESSES GORDON HIGHLANDERS LONDON, Oct. 20.—The Queen drove from Bamoral Castle to the ball at the barracks vesterday to bid farewell to the Gordon Highlanders, who are going to the Cape. After reviewing the troops the Queen addressed them as follows: ased to see you looking so well The cavalry att: ermaritzburg and Durban against raids on gence from Kimberley or Mafeking, both places being cut off from railway and tele- It is believed. however, that a skirmish took place on Sunday that the Boers were beaten off with some loss by an armored train. ending with a repulse of the attacking force. There was some fighting at Mafeking on Saturday, Boers In considerable number are assembled at Aliwal North and Bethalie, Rallway communication with the Orange Free State and the Transvaal has now ceased, the re- maining refugees having been warned to leave by way of Delagoa Bay. [ e e e e o o S o S o SICRS SOSD SO W DA SO S Sy S e S e ' ] D S e S S R S SO S W NP Y DO O and fit for duty. You are going on foreign service, and I wish you all a godspeed. I hope you will return safe and well.” The officers were then presented to her Majesty, the men cheering and the Queen bowing. —_— - STORY OF KILLING OF MANY BOERS REPEATED CAPE TOWN, Oct. 19.—A dispatch from Kimberley dated October 17 says: *“All is well here. Colonel Hore engaged the Boers at Mafeking on October 14 with great success. Mafeking was still safe on October special h to the Cape Argus ates the statement that in the fight- ing in Mafeking Colonel Hore repulsed the Boers, inflicting a loss of 300 men. The Cape Times publishes the following dispatch from Kimberley: Reliable in- formation from Mafeking says that an armored train, while reconnoitering north of the town last Saturday engaged 500 Boers, who suffered heavily. Colonel Fitzclarence’'s column foiled the Boers, in- flicting severe loss. The British casualties were two killed and fourteen wounded, two severely.” Complaints of Boer outrages upon the natives continue to arrive. These serve further to inflame the Basutos and Zuius. Yesterday 150 Basutos from Johannesburg arrived at Burgherdorp, Cape Colony, and alleged that the Roers had robbed them whole e and flogged them with black- snakes. The party, which includes a son of Lerothodi, was supplied with provisions, and the Basutos then started homeward, cheering the Queen and chanting war songs. BRIDGES BLCWN UP CAPE TOWN, Oct. 19.—The Boers have blown up the bridges at Fourteen Streams and the Modder River, the former north and the latter south pf Kimberle: GLENCOE CAMP, Oct. 18. 7:3 p. m. | (delay in transmission).—The British | troops have been under fire. A strong | Boer patrol was encountered elght miles from the camp, and was repulsed, the British suffering no casualties. 50 B OB ONOLON OO RS N RO RO RN ONORON BORORO RO BB RORORGROROROD TISH VERSION OF THE PRESENT SITOATION IN SOUTH AFRICA LONDON, Oct. 19.—The War Office this evening issued the following bulletin: “No news of importance has been received from Natal to-day. Dundee are engaged in observing the enemy's movements.” Steps have been taken to secure Plet: ached to our forces at Ladysmith and the western frontier. six miles south of Kimberley and B e S R o S | ger said that Nesbitt and seven men were | serfously wounded, that po one was killed BY ADVANCING BOERS | rica will go neither to Durban nor | with refugees, but to Port Elizabeth, Port | departure of the troops from Southamp- TURBULENT SESSION OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS Secretary Chamberfain Frequently Inter- rupted While Explaining That Great Britain Must Be the Paramount Power in South Africa. Oct. ONDON, 19.—Floor and gal- | member of this Ho lerles were densely crowded to- | doubt the accuracy of the s day in the House of Commons in | tained in the r as my anticipation of a speech by the | memory serves, support of a stmilar char- Secretary of State for the Colon- | acter has Invariably been offered by the fes. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, on | same quarters to e 1 in hos “The Government's Policy in th | tilities with her Majesty’ ernme Africa.” The First Lord of the Treas- | quite irrespective of creed or theater of for host ury and the,Government leader, Arthur e no grot J. Balfour, promised to answer to-mor- row a question whether the Government had decided upon a specific course of ac- that suct mportant by and 1 the House tion with reference to the recommenda- (Peals of tion of the International Commission, respecting the future administration of o was loudly Samoa. with a severe The Secretary of State for India, the George Hamilton, re on the expenditure for the Ind in South Africa, said the entire charge opposition y0ps would be defrayed out of the imperial e: ce and to emb: chequer. “in most difficult ar Mr. Balfour, in reply to an interpe Referring to Mr. vesterday for the tion as to whether the imperial Gove ment was now reviewing the action the Cape Colony Premier, Mr. Schreiner, | N€ saic and other members of the Cape Gove Sir William reourt and ment, and as to whether the Governor Morley, who were Cape Colony, Sir Alfred Milner, would | Af Commit be allowed to dlsmiss the o Stanhope's cr noral slxine fals Speaker. £ Dok s 'r}‘p found. | Yen=d, saying that guage of the ed upon newspaper reports, for which, so | Colontal Scerefary Gl e far as the imperial Government is aware, | TP A%y POt relorted that it was there is no foundation.” ek b Mr Mr. Balfour announced that the present | Ji1"" 2% thit b (Chambes. sitting of Parliament would be regarded | (! = A NE\F G Had £0 miktan as a complete session, to be terminated | L' 1y "G overnment welcomed all hon ;‘_\:Inrnrwv).-unnn and not adjourned, until | est and he ble criticism of its policy, ‘ebruar. A amberla “and I wish I Henry Seter-Karr, Conservative, in ac: cordance with notice given terday, asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether the attention of the roment could apply b of the member for B Mr. Stanhope, le; “I rise to order. hets to the speech inley.” g to his feet, cried: ve Gov had been directed to certain spe 5 airater the one and letters by and emanating from St Yoritha Colonies: members for Kilkenny and Bast Clare, | of ism as dishonorable ar ‘an such t of this Hou The Messrs. Patrick O'Brien and William Red- | ( mond, Parnellites, advocating the cause of the Boers, attempting to seduce Brit- ish soldiers and inciting them to actively a the enemies of the Queen, a what action, if any, the Government posed to take in the matter. Mr. Redmond rose quickly ms be (Opposition ¢ I think th of his words we cheers and Mr. Chambe d in wild Irish til the before the First Lord of the npTaa frateraned fo T baw plied he desired to ask him whether it | with all resy Mr. Speake your de- was not a fact that he (Mr. Redmond) in | cision. 1 withdraw everything 1 have suggesting a message of sympathy to |said President Kruger, and only followed the Then amid frequent ironical cheers he precedent followed by her Majesty's | proceeded to denounce grandson (the Emperor). (Laughte; slander,” based upon Mr. Balfour replied as follows: “I w: ce . Stanhope’s challenge to produce not aware that the honorable member for letter he wrote Hawksley, saying that East Clare framed himself upon such an Henry Campbell-Banne august model. (Laughter.) I may point | William Vernon Harcourt de: out the difference between him and | the letter he wou produce it with the the Emperor of Germany—that his im- | greatest pleasure, as they were honor- perial Majesty is not a Britisher, nor a |able members and honorable men. (Cries CAPTAIN NESBITT AND MEN WERE NOT KILLED President Kruger Gives an Account of the Destruction of the Train at Kraai Pan. R e R R e s ONDON, Oct. 19.—According to pri- vate information received here from | Bloemfontein, the capital of the | Orange Free State, President Kru- | ger telegraphed an account to Presi- dent Steyn of the affair at ]\’r.’mi‘ Pan, where the Boers derailed and bom- barded the British armored train carrying Captain Nesbitt's party. President Kru- | *oe® ovwz and that all the prisoners were doing well. | According to the same advices, a Dutch | farmer living in one of the border towns has received a letter from a friend in the Transvaal referring to the Mafeking af- fair as “'bad business.” The transports which will convey the army corps about to start for South Af- e Town, both of which are already crowded Alfred and East London, from which points railroads converged directly upon the Free State border, where concentra- tion will be affected somewhere in the neighborhood of Norvalspont. The ad- vance will then begin toward Pretoria. Almost everything is in readiness for the ton to-morrow, when five transports, each carrying a thousand men with officers, | will start for South Africa. The first will sail at 1:30 p. m., the others following at | intervals of half an hour. A dispatch from Pretoria asserts that the Transvaal Government has cabled to Joseph B. Robinson, the millionaire gold mine owner and chairman of the Robinson South African Banking Company, who is now In London, to return tc Johannesburg on pain of confiscation of his property. Mr. Robinson characterizes the alleged CAPTAIN NESBITT. L R R R i STCER SRS S ] B o o N R O o O, RO = B e e e SR S o iCan SR o o i and that his properfy has not been and cannot be confiscated. Portugal, according to a dispatch from Berlin, has given distinct assurances of her neutrality. A continuance of com- merce with the Transvaal, by way of Delagoa Bay, is therefore secured. Ad from Cape Town, dated yester- threat as ridiculous. He says he is a | 93y Say the Governor of the Colony, Sir 3 ~ 21| Alfred Milner, has issued a proclamation British subject, that the Transvaal Gov-| prohibiting the importation of all dangers ernment has no right to demand his return | ous explosives.