The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 15, 1899, Page 1

LXXD \'Il— VOLUME PRICE FIVE CENTS. FALSE RUMOR OF RELIEF OF LADYSMITH FOLLOWS DISASTERS TO BRITISH ARMS. R U TR e R e e e e e e e e e e e e o e o o e e e e e e e e . 1 Under a Flag ofl} | Truce Collect thel Wounded and Dead at the Scene of Meth- uen’s Defeat Comes News of a Minor < Men-—Fere 1s the Victory by French.jjitssssaly Ut taiits s o Startling Record: 1-0:\'“”\ Dec. 14.--The War Office has received the MET U E N S DE E T A l ONDON, Dec. 14.—A revised list of the total casualties to the following dispatch from General Forestier-Walker, as M KES i | British troops at Magersfontein places the number at 832. There [ >-9-4 Disastrous Battles at Magersfontein and | at Stormberg Have €ost Great Britain’s Invading Forces Al- most a Thousand Burghersdorp, Cape Colony, on General Gatacre’s Line of Advance. This town lies forty miles south of the Orange River, on the line of the I t Junction, where a & h leaves the main line for Aliwal North. s next objective point. Its population of 2000 people, as well as that of the rather thi is of Dutch extraction and largely in sympathy with the Boers. The Stormberg Mountains e to the east and south. London and Bloemfontein Railroad, r Stormberg Junction it was General settled co hown in the dis- , v P I S R [ R e e Cape Town: were fifteen officers killed and four wounded and in addition five B R i e ch wince undEr Mate 0 December |3. ‘ T E B lTls SlTU ATION MOST are missing, and one is known to have been made prisoner. The War reporting a skirmish at 4 o’clock in the morning \\'ilh‘ Office has received a message stating there were 650 casualties among 1800 Boer A (& Fog & | the non-commissioned officers and men of the Highland Brigade at Ma- 800 Boers, who were advancing southward toward | Dl lC T IN gersfontein. The brigade lost ten officers killed, thirty-eight wounded Nauuwpoort. The skirmishing continued all the morn- FF U L SOUTH A FR]CH and four missing. ing, the Boers lighting on a front of fourteen miles. ? ghe A The following list of officers killed and wounded has been received: The enemy retired with a loss of forty killed and KILLED. \*)[‘1\‘.1‘: Dec. . —~Major W. A. 8§ psOr i o e pirs 4 4 . Highland Brigade— wounded. Our _ casualties were one kilied, seven by g - UBSENS, W Suminr—" P Wnuthgpe, Lieutenant Colonel J. H. C. Coode, Captain Elton, wounded, including one o ficer, and two missing.” : esult fight on the M Lieutenant Edmonds, Captain J. R. Clark, Lieutenant Cox, Captain Cowans, Captain Lamberton, Lieutenant Colonel Goff, Major Robinson, | . g Captain Wingate, Lieutenant Cowie. PV < . . , . WOUNDED. ksley. Malor Du® Captain Pether- Captain Noyes, Captain Wolfe-Murray, Captain Campbell, Captain Gordon, Captain MeNab, W. C. Bailile, Lieutenant Scott and Lieutenar M st the above mentioned officers are danger r wing officers mostly sustai severe injur e uthberson, Captain Cameron, Lieutenant St. J. Har- ¥ Lieutenant Berthon and Lisutenant Teit, who was formerly the amateur golf chamy woll | Captain the Hon. Cumming-Bruce, Captain McFarlane and Lieu s w . wha tenant Ram The Marquis of Winchester of the Coldstream Guards v » w ! was killed; ain J. Sterling, Lieutenant Codrington and Major the et v " Hon. W. B. Lambton of the e brigade, were wounded, and of the ’ " rank and file six were killed and forty-six wounded T.\ .!'h Lancashires—One killed, eighteen wounded Ninth Lancers—One killed, nine wounded nd Seaforths—Missing: Major K. R. Mackenzie and Captain field artillery; twenty-one wounded. surgeon major was taken Mounted Infantry—Killed Major Milton and Major Ray. wela " ' e n riding " : - Pty vhoe fhy s vo b GENERAL GATACRE’S LLOSSES. e . r ." 5l ame the ,\ - The War Office has received from General Oatacre the following " . forward and dr. but 3 04 list of casualties furnished by a correspondent who was perm to P entiy the ener - v visit the Boer camp with the chaplains and is believed to }.- rel Second Royal Irish—Ten killed, thirty-two wour First East Lan Second Northur - — e we % DET@ILS OF THE M08 156 Acract BRITISH TROOPS vihdrew sieadlly w | EEARFUL BATTLE 3 DRIVEN BACK BY g vt e AT MAGERSFONTEIN + hrous THE “LONG TOM" i res—One wounded —Twelve killed, twenty-seven wounded unded are prisoners. berla . \ LORD BERESFORD TALXS BOERS MASK ‘ . et i B i B