The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1899, Page 1

Tall SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1899, DESPERATE BATTLE IN SOUTH AFRICA. FILIPINOS SURRENDER TO AMERICANS ZAMBOANGA YIELDS TO COMMANDER VERY Leading Chiefs of Mindanao Island Have Declared Fealty. BRITISH RELIEF FORCE AGAIN ENGAGES BOERS Sanguinary Combat Waged for Hours yes e povers e on the Hills Near Belmont. ONDON, Nov.25.—This afternoon the War Office posted the following dispatch, dated Cape Town, 12:25 p. m. to-day. from General Forester-Walker: “Lord Methuen reports that he moved yesterday (Saturday) at 3:30 a. m., with the Ninth Brigade, the mounted corps, the naval brigade and two batteries, the guards following with the baggage. Near Gras Pan (about ten miles north of Belmont, on the railway line to Kimberley) 2500 Boers, with six guns and two machine guns, opposed him. “The action began at 6 a. m. Our batteries fired shrapnel very accurately until the heights seemed clear. Then the naval brigade and infantry advanced to the assault. The firing was des- perate until 10 a. m., when the hz2ights were carried. “The Boers retreated on the line where the Ninth Lancers were placed to intercept them. The result was not known at the time of telegraphing. The artillery took immediate advantage of the enemy’s retirement. “Early in the action 500 Boers attacked our rear guard. The brigade met this and also pro- tected the flanks. The naval brigade acted with the greatest gallantry and suffered heavily, but no particulars are yet known. “The enemy showed the greatest stubbornness and must have suffered greatly. were buried. It is known that thirty-one were killed and forty-eight wounded. horses were found dead in one place. One battery fired five hundred rounds. “Our force must halt one day at Gras Pan to rest and replenish ammunition. The force worked splendidly and is prepared to overcome many difficuities. The naval brigade, the Royal Ma- rines, the light infantry and the first battalion of the North Lancashire regiment especially dis- tinguished themselves. “Regarding Thursday’s fight: Eighty Boers killed are accounted for. Sixty-four wagons were burned. A large quantity of powder, 50,000 rounds of ammunition and 750 shells were blown up. Commandant Albrecht, Chief of the Orange Free State Artillery, commanded the Boer artillery. General Roeway was in chief command.” Twenty More than fifty lock and crossed t tending for 3000 yar had befo METHUEN OBIJECTS TO DUM-DUM BULLETS rsee RETIRES LT COMMANDER OF THE POWERFUL ANONG THE BRITISH KILLED v. 26.—The Admi d Cape Town, November 2 t to report the following'c vy is in receipt of the follow dispatch from Rear ties in t} I ply ie action at Gras Pan yesterday: “Killed—Commander Ethelston, of the Poweful: Major Plumbe, of the Doris; *Captain —— of the Monarch; Captain Guy Sensor, of the Roval Marines of the Monarch. “Wounded—Flag Cartain Prothero, of the Doris, severely; Lieutenant Jones, of the Doris. “The other casualties are not yet known. Commander De Horsey, Captain Morgan and Lieutenant Wilson, all of the Monarch, have proceeded to join the naval brigade with Lord Methuen.” *The captain of the Monarch was R. D. B. Bruce. QO+040404040404040404049 + + [ . ¢ o + o . o + [°3 + o + o + 3 + [ + o 4 -] + o + o + [ 4 o + © . [ ¢ o + o + 4] + [+ * [ * o $ + o + o * o * o + o * o + o : 4 o + o ¢+ o ¢+ o + o - | els; secondly, 1t the | the kopjes and our | FROM ESTCOURT i ‘Oooooo¢coc0000000000‘00. ALBION OPENS ~ THEWAY FOR ~ NTERVENTION Boer Republics. —_— - Is at War With the | QContmeutal Nations Now in . DPosition to Intercede 1 for Peace. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. BURG, Nov. 2%.—The n newspapers announce that British Charge d'Affaires has the Russian Government has been in a state of tch republics of South ser 11. The Svet, com says: ng this notification, \er declaration that she is not ng on war but is merely tubjugat- g rebels.” The Novoe Vremya attributes far- | reaching importance to the British nouifi- ng: ers are now in a position to | riy Red Cross agents, but mi | s well, and they may judge | to Intervene, especially s are going more and ser side.” he Relcsanzeiger ain has notified Ger- October 12 a state of war the two Dutch republics. “The announcement is of two-fold im- nee. In the first place it proves that England receded from her former view point of regarding the Boers as mere reb- Doses upon all Germans the duty of preserving strict neutrality.” |SIR REDVERS BULLER ‘ AT PIETERMARITZBURG | 2.—Special dispatches burg announce the ar- | 1 Buller there. Rallway | between Estcourt and | been restored by Lord | ch from Cape Town, dated yes- | w PRICE FIVE CENTS. ASHINGTON, Nov. 26.—The Secretary of the Navy to-day received a telegram from Ad- miral Watson, stating that the entire province of Zamboanga, Island of Mindanao, surren- dered to Commander Very of the Castine, unconditionally, on November 18. The deliv- ery of all guns is promised. Local chiefs have declared themselves loyal. Admiral Watson's dis- patch follows: CAVITE, Nov. 26, 1899.—Secretary Navy, Washington: November 18 entire province Zam- boanga surrendered to Very unconditionally. Delivery of all guns promised. chiefs have declared loyalty. Numerous local WATSON. The information contained in Admiral Watson’s dispatch was received by the Presidentand his advisers with unconcealed satisfaction. The surrender of the province of Zamboanga is re- garded as the beginning of the end of the revolution in the island of Mindanao, and, it is believed, will be a hard blow to those who are still endeavoring to maintain the insurrection in the island of Luzon. On the 21st inst. Admiral Watson cabled the Navy Department that Commander Very had captured the City of Zamboanga on the 16th. He was aided by friendly natives and Moros and was holding the town. Pending the arrival of reinforcements from Jolo, on the same day, Gen- eral Otis informed the War Department that he had ordered two companies of infantry to be sent to Zamboanga from Jolo. Zamboanga is the principal city of the island of Mindanao, which is the second largest Advices from Admiral Watson indicate that the entire southern island of the Philippine group. half of the island, which comprises the province of Zamboan g£a, and acceded to the authority of the United States. M on November 13, in the house now occupied by General MacArthur. It was attended by Agulnaldo, Plo del Pllar, Garcia, Alejandrino and some members of the so-called Cabinet Information has reached Arthur from several sources to the effect ANILA, NOV. %6.—The last Filipino | Ninth Infantry. were council of war was held by the | Bayombong when twenty Filipinos took retreating leaders at Bayombong | them In ambush, Kkilling one an General Mae- | burned the hamlet where the that the council recognized the futility of | attempting further resistance to the Americans with united forces, and agrecd that the Filipino troops should scatter and should follow methods. The dlsposition of the generals, thelr approximate forces, is as follows: General Concepcion, with 340 men, in New cobolos, with hereafter eral Ma 225 men, at the town of Binaca, Province of Tarlac: General Plo del men, northeast of Ma no. with 50 men, at guel, with 150 men, in Z al Mi- Province; -| General Mascardo, with 1100 men, In the Court Prize Established pro- a prize court | d by British Boisieisieieies . d-o-0 PPN WG PSP SN O D0-D-0-—0-d views om cormspERa Prdevsdesietsisistedososvsioisiena | 1argest force. PoRT ALFRED and General west of probably, Trias, In Cavite Province. Angeies; under mountains, Reports of ambuscades and skirmishes come from every section of the count along the rafiroads. Those districts 1 with small bands. Yesterday four men : “ eBospes IMBERLEY s : o IENRES EAST LONDON of Company D, | 1 captur- ing the other three. The Americans re- sisted for a half-hour. The firing being heard at Bamban, Lieutenant Fraser, with a squad, followed the retreating Fili- foraging beyond | pinos several miles. The Americans found | the body of the soldier boloed. They fighting took place. Three Filipino riflemen ambushed an American surgeon near Capas. He shot | one and the others fled. gerrilla | with | | train was fired upon by the Filipinos r, with 800 | 1po al Aqui- | the ! The Mayor of San Carlos. who rode in the carriage with General MacArthur and Colonel Bell when the Americans entered the town amid the cheers of the people, was murdered the next night Between Bamban and Angeles a mule and a former prisoner of the Fili- was with the train, was shot. the official 0 welcomed were murdered. This ~as mly railroad town which the Ameri- nd on the night of insurgents entered, drs Mejla, president of the town. Into the street and cut his throat. The murderers then assassinated the vice p t and five members of the town counell in the same manner, and e frightened natives who witnessed ter that a fate awaited Military activity continues ‘n s section. - a Spaniard troops wi SOPRENE COURT BUILD Gen. JouseRT (COMMAND B S IR Erinr o BoEw RO CAsTLE Lina Troor s LANBING AT has yielded to the American forces Colonel Bell's regiment has advanced from Bayombong upon Managatarem, where It is supposed there i & large In- surgent force. Two battalions of the newly arrived Twenty-eigth Infantry have been sent by cascos to Bacoor to retnte ree the south line. Major Spence, with fifty men of the Thirty-second Regiment, sur- | rounded a village near Bautiston during the night and attacked the place at day- | break; eapturing a Filipino captain and I B G G e S S AP PP PICTORIAL MAP OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION. British positions are indicated by the British flag and Boer positions by the Transvaal flag. 2"*%%“‘“&%—0%%%—%&%%%%% fifteen men. with seven rifies. The latest news from General Young Is that there are ten cavalrymen and 29 Macabebes with him, most of the horse- men who started having been compelled to drop out because the horses fafled them. The Filipinos took the Ameriean prison ers from Victoria to San Carlos. On the walls of the Victoria prison and of the San Carlos convent are “the names: Civilians—George Langford and Thomas Hayes. Soldiers—Harry Winfield, Phil Bettertor.. J. 1. Salisbury, A. N. Gordon, E. N. Nufre, Frank Stone, John Desmond, George Sack ett, David Scott, Martin Brennan, Tom Edwards, D. P, Curran, John Cronin, Charles Baker, C. L. Davis and Leland Smith. On the walls of San Carlos convent wers also found the NE names Civillans—Charles Bird, W. J. Sheehy and F. E. 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