The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1899, Page 1

tak he Librar to © e V.¢ 4w e 2 (o Tall VOLUME LXXXVI-NO. 150 SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1899. THREE BOER COLUMNS ARE 'ADVANCING ON LADYSMITH British Troops Under General White " Receiving Reinforcements for the Coming Big Battle, Which Is Ex- pected to Begin on Sunday. EW YORK, Oct. 27—A special to the Journal from Cape Town says: The meeting of the British and Boers in decisive batile will probably come Sunday. The battieground will be in. British territory, and the Boers will be the attacking force. Three columns of Boers are now advancing upon Ladysmith. One colurgn of the Transvaal soldiers under General Joubert is descending from Glencoe by Waschbank, Wessels Nek and Elands Laagte, and a second column, also of the Trans- vaal troops, is moving southward from Dundee, taking the road by which General Yule escaped in the night. The first column is at Wessels Nek, only five miles north of .Elands Laagte. The second col- umn. after taking provisions from stores at Dundee, advanced to Beith and looted the stores at that place, but used no violence against any person. These two proaching Ladysmith from the northeast. The third column, composed of Orange Free State men, is moving along the Harrismith Hoch Station.and is within ten miles of Ladysmith. The purpose evidently is to close in upon Ladysmith fromthe north, and, though no direct information of any line of communication between the Transvaal columns and the Orange Free State column is contained in messages received here from correspondents at the front, yet the precision of the movements of the Boer forces indicates that one head is directing the advance of the three columns. columns may join. They are ap- road, pointing at Ladysmith from the northwest. This force has passed Besters and Walkers Scouts report that General Joubert is unexpectedly strong in artillery. While the Boers are pushing forward to attack, General White is receiving reinforcements from Durban and Pietermar- itzburg. His force at Ladysmith is now about 15,000 men, including the men of General Yule’s command that retired from Dundee. The British wounded left at Dundee by General Yule when he withdrew in haste are reported as receiving good care from the Boers, whose surgeons are attending them. | evacuate the nd hell killed | evacuate the second camp a shell ki | «THIS IS NO ; BOER LOSSES AT GLENCOE UP IN THOUSANDS | war that the re it is not imp ing. Pretor orders to st is quite eno Natal. hospital ship. test account e, the t as large, bert, advanced e camp and th r losses were very ELATED STORIES B plans and but telegrams situation | new features. Boers that | s in transmission to ossible | asserts that Colonel | h commander at ia has ay his ugh to \artered the City of the | Boer army men and about noon an- | under Com- | within hen re- heavy OF THE GLENCOE AND OTHER FIGHTS| CAPE TOWN Oct. 26.—(Delayed In transmission.) Two telegrams dated , October have been in view of the that »ws 15 now coming via Lour- all F : in- of- from F first to the Glencoe battle, as reported, -‘was , his men and horses General the Utrec! he burghers suffere me enga hers, in charge fled ed by Pretoria smus. and De Jaeger, prisoners.” h were in order xcellent deci the Bri 4 © . ® + + g + ® + @ . ® * + be| & +1 + é| & * + L4 ¢ 4 + ('* b ! b¢ Commandant Botha, the fa- & & mous Boer fighter, who was ¢ . killed at Macfariane Station, © b 4 near Kimberley, on the 24th ¢ b & inst. ? ® + O +0+9+9 00000900+ 0 Erasmu It says: from Dundee. The English | retreat from Glencoe | +i-es e e wrong British ht and The number of killed is d heay- | encountered at am bears evidence of | gement of the burgh- with a | forced to get Boer | ded to | R f bulanc | graph service: | civillans attended two soldlers. When General Yule heard of the battle | | of Elands Laagte he sent a squad of Hus- sars, under Colonel. Knox, and a battery of artillery to intercept the Boers at Big- garsberg. The artillery succeeded in shelling the Boers as they were retreating over the Umpati Mountatns, killing and wounding many, but the artillerymen were forced to retire by the rifle fire of the enemy. It appears that the Boers shelled the camp all day long Sunday and the Brit- ish were kept busy skirmishing and re- moving their transport wagons out of range. During the retreat there were many anxious moments Monday night, | h marched through Van the Britisi ss, six miles long, across to The troops got through the dangerous defile, which fifty men could easily have held, at 3 o'clock Tues- day morn LONDON, Oct. Utrecht, Transvaal, saj Glencoe sted nine hours. ers say that they never witnessed such a fight. General Lucius Meyer's force of 6000 men, with eight six-inch guns, was several times repulsed.” Belated reports from Tuli Fort partially elucidate the situation on the Rhodesian border. It appears that Colonel Plummer ascertained that all the Zoutpansberg Boers, numbering 700 men, mustered un- A dispatch “The fighting at The burgh- der Piet Joubert at the Black River and | proceeded to Limpopo River, where they arrived October 16, accompanied by number of armed Shangaan and Zout- pansberg Kaffirs, whom they had pelled to take up arms. The troopers thereupon captured three Kaf. fir chiefs, who are now held as hostages for the good behavior of their tribes. On October 19, reconnoitering patrols proceeding along the north bank of the | a westerly direction, suddenly | river in encountered a party of Boers In some dense bush on the Rhodesia side of the | npopo. The patrols retreated and the fired, wounding a trooper. Subse- Captain Glinne, with a patrol, ulf with the object of locating the Boer force. On October 21 a strong Boer patrol was Rhodes Drift in thick bush. A sharp skirmish was the result. Two of the British wers killed and two wounded. The Boers had seven killed and many wounded. .The Boers tired to a strong position on a kopje at | Ponts Drift. Major Pilsen, with an am- wounded, and while placing the bodies on a cart, the Boers opened fire, killing two Our wonnded were nu. | horses, but in spite of the sharpshooting mandant Grebeler. the British succeeded in carrylng away thelr comrades. The latest dispatch from Tuli, dated October 24, says: “A Boer patrol crossed the river ten mlll:s above Rhodes Drift twice recently, carrying native women and children. They shot and looted.” g BURIAL OF SYMONS. LONDON, Oct. 2.—The Colonial Office has made public the following telegram recetved from Governor - Hutchinson, dated Pletermaritzburg, October 2: “The following telegram has been re- | ceived from Greytown from D. Greig, a resident of Dundee, formerly in the tele- ‘1 left Dundee this morn- ing. General Symons died on Monday at 5 p. m. .and was buried the following morning close to the English church by Rev. W. Daly. There was a firing party and a few medical officers and a few the funeral. There were no Boers. Colonel Eckett, Majors Boultbee, Hammersley and Nugent and also Crum, Johnstone and Ryan are im- proving. The Boers occupied Dundee Monday afternoon. Commandant Zuder- berg is in charge. Stores were looted by individuals, who were unarmed. The hospital was removed yesterday from the old camp to houses surrounding the rail- way station. The principal medical offi- cers asked me to report that everything was golng well and every one was cheer- ful and confldent.’ " PN CAUSED RUMORS OF INVASION. COLESBURG, Cape Colony, Oct. 21.—A detachment of twenty-four Free State burghers crossed and re¢rossed the Or- ange River at Allemans Drift yesterday for the purpose of studying the ford, which caused the circulation of rumors of an intended invasion of the Colony from that point. from | al men | proceeded to fetch the dead and | LITTLE WAR” sS@AdYS LORD ROSEBERY LONDON, Oct. 27—Lord Rosebery in a speech at a private dinner of politicians Wednesday referred to the war and the { beavy loss of Mfe, saying that they hed | to deplore the death of General Symons, and before they sheathed the sword there would be many more such losses. Mean- he added, the country ought to | present a united front to the enemy. In opinion the Transvaal was not a very | complicated question, but merely the ef- | fort of a community to put back the | clock. Referring to Majuba Hill Lord | Rosebery 1d Mr. Gladstone's action was | determined by the belief that the power of Great Britain was so great that she could afford to do things other nations could not afford to do without risk. The j0ers regarded Mr. Gladstone's magnan- imity as a proof of weakness upon which they could encroach. Duwelling on the unfriendliness of the foreign press and forelgn public opinion, | Lord Rosebery sald: “This is no little war. There are na- tions watching with eagerness every trip, every stumble, and, much more, every catastrophe and disaster that may over- take our arms. War waged under these conditions, therefore, is not a little war. [1 do not know why we should attract suclt lll-feeling. There Is one simple test that will apply to the British empire as ired with other empires whichwatch her with so much, I won’t say malevo- lence, but candid feellng. We would be | only too glad at the present moment to b strike a bargain with the rest of the | world that every frontier should-remain as now. Of what other empire can that be said? Yet we, who are not trying to gain, but to maintain an empire; we who, in the t 1d highest sense, are the | most conservative force in the world, are the objects of the concealed d ernments who, 1 think, are le minded than ourselve Lord Rosebery, in an impassioned pero- ration calling upon the nation to main- tain a united front, after speaking of Great Britain as “this lonely island in these northern seas, viewed with such jealousy, such hostility, such jarred am- | bition by the great empires of the world, | who count their armies with embattled | millions,” concluded amid stormy ap- lause with Shakespeare's words, Vaught shall make us rue | If England to herself remain but true.” “BOER SPENDER” BEATEN. LONDON, Oct. 2.—The Parliamentary bye-election for the Bow and Bromley division of Tower Hamlets, Eondon, held to-day to replace the Hon. Lionel R. Hol- land, Conservative, was fought on the Government's Transvaal policy and re- sulted fn a blg victory for the Govern- ment, the Conservative candldate, Wil- llam Guthrie, being elected. The Con- servative majority was practically twice that secured at the election of Mr. Hol- land. Through the campaign Mr. Spender op- posed the war in South Africa and Mr. amberlain’s conduct of the negotiations with the Transvaal Government. His op- position ‘was so persistent that he was dubbed by the Conservatives throughout the canvass as “Boer Spender.”” His elec-. tfon literature denounced Tory patriotism as “Invoking the slaughter of British workmen for the German millionalires on | the Rand,” and declared that orders for clothing and blankets were given by the Government to German concerns and not to British. Mr. Guthrle, moreover, was accused by Mr. Spender of being a mem- ber of the board of directors of an insur- | ance compariy which had raised the pre- miums on policies of officers going to the war, while he pointed out that no Ameri- can insurance company had increased premiums durimg the Spanish-American war. The constituency, which is malnly of the working classes, nevertheless plumped for “Chamberlain and war.” _ » tey BATCH OF BOER P-BISOHER& LONDON, Oct. 21.—A special dispatch from Pietermaritzburg, Natal, dated Oc- tober 24, says: “Nine hundred and eighty- eight Boer prisoners arrived here this morning. They include Captains Dewitt, Hammer, Ferthus, Dorey, Van Legger J and Dottner.” B B R S R S R e R SCRS S ol i i | L o e e DETAILS OF c THE FIGHTING AT KIMBERLEY e G English Stories of the Rout of Boers and Killing of Com- mandant Botha. R L0 S ‘ ONDON, Oct. Z.—During the mo- mentary lull in the fighting in Na- tal comes new: from the western border which temporarily shifts the scene of chicf interest to the beleaguered British force at Kimberley. The sharp struggle there Tuesday appea to have been the result of a sortie, with the view of breaking the cordon surround- ing the place. The British, apparently 500 strong, met 700 Boers, and according to the official and other accounts routed them after severe fighting, in which the armored trains appear to have done val- uable service. The Boers were intrenched strongly seven miles northward, and the British” brilliantly carried the enemy’s position without serious loss. It is said that the JBoers twice unfairly used a white flag. Botha, who was among the killed, was a member of the Volksraad and a famous Dutch fighter. He distinguished himself as a marksman at Brenkhorstspruit when the Ninety-fourth British Regiment was mowed down. He afterward defended a farmhouse against the British. When he surrendered the farmhouse Botha was found, with five wounds, bathed in blood. A special dispatch from Cape Town to- day gives detalls of the defeat of 700 Boers by the British at Riverton, north of Kimberley, Wednesday, in which the enemy was completely routed with heavy loss, the British loss being three men killed and twenty men, including two of- ficers, wounded. This is probably the same fight, though a different date is given, as referred to In the Cape Town dispatch of yesterday in which it was said that officlal reports from Kimberley Tuesday announced that Colonel Scott- Tiirner, with 270 men, had an engagement with the Boers, during which a detach- ment of 150 men of the Lancashire Regi- ment distinguished itself and the armored trains did good service. The Boers were unable to withstand the splendid charge of the Lancashires, who cleared the hill occupled by the enemy at the point of the bavonet. The Boer losses are described as very heavy. Colonel Scott-Turner's force con- sisted of the local volunteers, who with the Lancashires completed the rout of the burghers after the artillery had driven them out of their intrenchments. Botha [ R R R R WY > i z Hon. Harry Escombe, ex-Pre- mier of Natal, one of the refugees from Dundee, who made the forty-mile tramp in the mud and rain, D e + 41 RAILROAD WARFARE IN NATAL. The Armored Train From Ladysmith Engaging the Boers Near Elands Laagte. (SRR RRRNRRRNUNNNN RUUUIRRURILRENNNR standing together, coolly o | commanded the Bashof force. The fight | lasted four hours. Before the British sortie Kimberley was apparently In high spirits, as a dispatch from there dated October 23 says every ore was cheerful.there at that time and that a wedding was celebrated there that | da The dispatch adds: | reat enthusiasm has been aroused here by the news of the British success in Natal. Several farmers in the neigh borhood of Kimberley have been noticed in the ranks of the Boers. A letter from Father Rorke said 600 RBoers with 100 | wagons were laagered at Taungs. All the | whites have left except the women, who soupht refuge in the convent. The Boer commandant has promised to protect them."” The news from the northern border in- dicates that the Boers are actively .r ing to prevent Colonel Plummer from re- lieving Mafeking, whence the absence of news since Pretoria announced the bom- bardment of the place is creating consid- erable alarm. TWO CHIEFS THREATENED. CAPE TOWN, Oct. A telegram from Buluwayo, Rhodesia, dated Monday, says: “A Boer force is threatening Chief Khama, and Chief Linchwel, who are loyal to Great Britain. The two chiefs’ coun- try lles at the extreme northwest of the Transvaal and includes Bechuanaland. It seems a gross mistake for the Boers to provoke war among the natives. The probable explanation s that the Boer force intends to destroy the raflway to Buluwayo, which runs through Khama's country, and thereby prevent a movement by Colonel Plummer’s Rhodesian force to g0 to the rellef of Mafeking. Already there have been stories of a Rhodesian armored train engaging the Boers some distance north of Mafeking.” BERESFORD OPPOSES ROSEBERY LONDON, Oct. 27.—Rear Admiral Charles Beresford, speaking at Glasgow to-day against Lord Rosebery's candidacy for the rectorship of the university, said he admired the Earl’s character and bril- llancy, but opposed him as a politician. The speaker charged Lord Rosebery with following instead of leading public opin- fon and asserted that he was largely re- sponsible for the Transvaal resistance and the present war, because he had remained silent until war had actually. begun, and the Transvaal has interpreted his silence as meaning that the country was divided on the issue. —_——— SCHIEL HAS A RECORD. LONDON, Oct. 2.—The Capa Town cor- respondent of the Dally Telegraph says he learns that Coloriel Schiel, the wound- ed and captured commander of the Ger- man contingent of the Boer forces, is the same individual who acted as Cetway’'s military adviser in the Zulu war and who, after the battle of Ulundi. offered £1000 as a reward for the capture of the fugi- tive chief. 5 AR et CROCODILE POINT SEIZED. LOURENZO MARQUES, Oct. 27.—The following dispatch has been received from Pretoria, filed yesterday: ““The Government has {ssued a procla- mation declaring that no rents or interest on bonds can be clalmed during the con- tinuance of martial law, nor within a cer- nRNNBR BRAVE BOERS DIED TO SAVE COMRADES DURBAN, Natal, Oct. 27.—@n interesting incident in connection with the Elands Laagte fight is report- ed here. When the fire of the British guns became too hot, eight Boers ran forward, out of cover, and, Light Horse, with the evident purpose of drawing the latter’s fire, while tneir comrades retreated. Seven out of the brave eight were Killed. LR R R R R R R R R R R R R R nRBVAN suLus e @8 8 b e & B B pened fire at the Imperial s 3 8 taln fixed period after the repeal of the same. The Boers at Vryburg have se- cured a quantity of ammunition. Com- | mandant Schooman has seized Crocodile Point and destroyed the railway bridge there. President Kruger is in ex. o Ak cellent —_— SOME SPIES WILL BE SHOT. DURBAN, Natal, Oct. 24 (delayed in transmission).—Many spies have been ar- rested here and some of them will be shot. On the strength of representations by the Mayor of Durban the Governor of Natal, Sir Walter Francis Heley-Hutchin- son, has prohibited the landing of all but British refugees. Undesirable persons of all nationalities will be rigidly excluded. Already there.are too many of this class in Durban. It is reported that one of the Indian transports is being fitted out to convey the ‘Boer prisoners elsewhere. FIGHTERS FROM MANILA. MANILA, Oct. 27.—An’ informal meeting was held here this evening of men pro- posing to proceed ta South Africa to fight for the British. More than a hundred Englishmen, Australians and Americans decided to go.. They organized a party and believe they can secure 200 more men. The volunteers include ex-soldiers, fron- tlersmen, .Englishmen famillar with the Transvaal and commerclal clerks, e RHODES WATCHED THE FIGHT. CAPE TOWN, Oct. 2.—According to further advices from Kimberley . the Boers removed thefr killed and wounded in cars. No reliable estimate of their losses have been made. Mr. Rhodes rode out and watched the fight. The towns- people, including the women, mounted the trenches, watching eagerly for the return of the troops. Mr. Rhodes is cheerful and gives dinner partfes daily, at which luxuries are abundant. TO OFFSET ANNEXATION. CAPE TOWN, Oct." 27.—SIr Alfred MH- ner, Governor 6f Cape Colony, and W. P. Schreiner, the Premler, bave issued proc- lamations declaring null and void the proclamation of the Orange Free State, asserting that a portion of Cape Colony is now Free State territory. Sir Alfred Milner’s proclamation warns all British subjects in the colony of their duty and obligations to the Queen. fLep e T Mails for Refugees. WASHINGTON. Oct. 27.—The British Government ‘has reported to the United States that large numbers of people from the South African Republic and from- the Orange Free State have flocked into Cape Colony and Natal for temporary residence during the war and that every effort will be made to deliver their mails. The Brit- ish authorities suggest that if this coun- try puts into the British mail letters and packages addressed to pefsons in the Transvaal or the Orange Republic the Cape Colony office will try to deliver them to such as are found there or in Natal. It.is assumed from this that the British have a list of refugees from the Boer country. Malls to be delivered by this means must be ihdorsed by the senders “Via England. B S SO o SRS W SN PP S | | | PRICE FIVE CEN TS. G A R N e U SCe e e . ] O e S R S e S e R S O e e @+ >+ GOVERNMENT'S WAR POLICY IS ATTACKED —_— But the British Parliament Passes the Appropriation Bill and Re- ceives Queen's Thanks. G — ONDON, Oct. 27.—The third reading of the appropriation bill in the House of Commons to-day gave the opportunity for further attacks on the Government's war policy. Gavin Brown Clark, Radical, formerly Consul General of the Transvaal, accused the Secretary of State for.the -Colonies, Mr. Chamberlain, of publishing an' emascu- lated version of the Boer franchise bill passed by the Volksraad. Mr. Chamberlain tartly repudlated this. He said the bill was published exactly as received from Secretary of State Reitz. Thomas Gibson Bowles, Conservative member for Lynn Regis, referred to the heavy military’ task before the Govern- ment and said he feared the foreign pow- ers would take advantage of Great Brit- aln’s difficulties to make an attempt upon her possessions.. All the great powers ex- cept Austria, he asserted, hated Great Britain. Lloyd George, Radical member for the Carnarvon District, declared the offers of the Transvaal had been misrepresented, whereupon Mr. Chamberlain jumped up and protested, and the Speaker, Willlam Court Gully, intervened. Lloyd George then withdrew his pression regarding misrepresentation. The House of Commons passed the ap- propriation bill, after which the measurs, was taken to the House of Lords an passed through all the stages. The session was then suspended until 3 o’clock in the aftermoon. In the House of,Lords at 2 o'clock the Lord High Chancellor, Earl Halsbury, and the Lord Commissioners, fully robed, took up positions In front of the throne. The black rod summoned the-Commons, the Queen's -speech was read, and the Lord High Chancellor declared Parliament prorogiied until January 15. The Commons then Teturned to the Lower House, where the Speaker read-the Queen’s speech, aft- er which tne members filed past and shook -hands with the Speaker, and the House then adjourned. The Queen’s speech was as follows: “My Lords and Gentlemen: I am happy to be able to relieve you of the exceptional duties which have been imposed upon you by the exigencles of public service. I con- gratulate you on the brilllant qualities which have been displayed by the brave regiments upon whom the task of repell- ing the invasion of my South African colonies ‘has been laid. In doing so I can- not but express my profound sorrow that e ’+0—0—0+6+@+®+®—0—®+. + B B S S - Major Hammersley, who was wounded at Glencoe. e e e e e e o : [ B s inct dndt dn ol dn ol s o g ]