THE WAR.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume VIII, Issue 643, 1 November 1899, Page 2

THE WAR.

LADYSMITH SURROUNDED.

GfiBAT BATTLE iIIINEIT.;

THE ENEMY CLOSING ROUND THE TOWN. -

OUTPOST SKIRMISHES.

BRUTUL SCENES AT DUNDEE. ,

REINFORCEMENTS FROM ENGLAND. ■'„

Dukban, October 30. The troops bivouacked near Lombaardskop have returned to Ladysmifch. Eighteen thousand Boers and Free' Staters .semi-circle the town, and are closing in. -They are entrenching camps with two Gin guns at Tintaigon, 4500 yds distance towards Elands Laagte. General Joubert's command is at Ventslaager. Non-residents and civilians have been ordered to leave Ladysmith. A military balloon, despatched from Ladysmith, revenled four Boer camps, with earthworks. Outpost skirmishers have taken place with Boers working southward, who threaten to cut communication with Pietmaritzburg, General cavalry prevented the Boers advancing on Pieters, a station between Ladysmith and Colenso. The Boers induced Basutos to place boulders on the railway lino at Colenso. General White reports that the Boer casualties afcGlencoe amounted to 500. Three Boer guns were disabled and abandoned at Impati Hill. Major-General Symon's body was | enshrouded in a Union Jack, but. I was not put in a coffin. Colonel Yule, in retreating, de- ' stroyed the Sunday's River bridge, to prevent heavy guns approaching Ladysmith. His men were continuously under arms for six days, and lost their entire kits, owing to insufficient transport, which wfcs utilised for stores. Colonel Schiel and 188 Boer prisoners have arrived at Durban. Transports will convey them to Simons Bay. . When the fire of the British guns at Elands Laagte got too hot, eight Boers bravely advanced so as to attract the Natal Imperial Light Horse fire,-so as to enable their comrades to change their position. Seven out of the eight were killed;" It is now stated that 300 "Boers who entered Dundee after the; British troops had left surrounded and shot the unresisting town guards, and several civilians were dragged from their houses and shot. Capetown, October 30. Kimberley has.nine months' provisions. LoStdon, October 30, Twenty out of 32 battalions of infantry have embarked for South I Africa. Three hundred picked seamen have started from England to succeed the naval brigade sent from the Cape to the front. A composite regiment of house* hold cavalry, including a strong squadron of Life Guards, has been ordered to South Africa.