Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1899 — The Transvaal War. [ARTICLE]

The Transvaal War.

The present war situation in South Africa is looking pretty bad for the British. It looks, in fact very much as though Oom Paul’s plan to spring the war unexpectedly and to do up the comparatively small British forces there, before re-inforcements could arrive might yet be realized in spite of his several reverses. The Boers, who are, unquestionably brave fighters and ably commanded, have rallied from their defeats, and in all of which the British also lost heavily, and the latter have been forced to evacuate Glencoe and Dundee, and unite at at Ladysmith, which town is being rapidly surrounded by an overwhelmingly large army of Boers. Desperate fighting is likely to take place, at any time.