Show AT gen preach cally for reinforcements and col pilcher retraces his sieps from douglass report that bulter has once more been repulsed scouts pene i to british camp at frere and were fired upon six horse 1 reen escape from ladysmith Lady smith and one of there is dr jameson can french s casualties in last few days jan 4 there is great sat expressed nt the fact that be aar has been able to send gen of guns and in fentry which he needs badly the fighting in the sills Is incessant phe latest telegrams bay gen french aas almost surrounded Co lesberg but albat the boers are stiffly defending all their positions close to the town venting the british from capturing it A dispatch from arensberg Rens berg this morning says the heavy artillery duel recommenced at daybreak further details of the fighting between gen gatacre and the boers at today show that tarco abou 1 sand with artillery attacked a british outpost between and i molteno Mel teno gen gatacre with mounted trompa and field artillery moved out in front of Ster kstrom and found the boers strongly posted at copers j bag whence they were quickly disy lodged the boers fleeing inthe tin of the boers used the british guns captured dec 10 and shot well but the british kept under cover and there were no casualties on their side tha war office lias received a repart from cape town dated wednesday jan 3 reporting the situation in gen Gat acres district it says dord Is now evacuated by montmorency who occupies birds biding on the jine molteno is being attacked by the enemy who more or less surround aitho police station but who ac cording to reports are being forced back reinforcements of mounted infantry and field artillery have been sent by gen gatacre the T he result is not lir own A company of mounted infantry j undo alderson nas reconnoiterer reconnoitered ed to i and exchanged shots with the rebel force on the north bank no of generals or faroyh Ss reported although dispatches under yesterday evenings date are arriving from both gen buller and gen Ife thuen it appears they contain little of importance otherwise there is little to enlighten alio general situation gen cronje to have been considerably disturbed at the first reports of the success of col expedition and ecat four hundred burghers to j help douglaas the british at modder river hope to capture rabis force an interesting fact Is that pitchers wife la a sister of maud gonne the so called irish joan of arc A report comes from berlin that great britaina Brit ains reply to germanas germanys Germ anys representations on the subject of the is regarded as unsatisfactory and procrastinating k toe traction engines have arrived at and have been successfully tested they pulled trucks over the roughest and most sandy ground without difficulty prore camp jan 1 I A vigorous shelling of the boers trenches on the this morning forced the burgh era lo 10 khiet their position after their horses had stampeded paris jan 4 A repart was current OB the bourse today that gen buller had met with another check in his efforts to relieve Behn ont cape colony jan S coi pilcher it is officially announced toe ing only on a raiding expedition and for military reasons being unable to douglass permanently has the town bringing off all the he has now returned safely to close proximity to Behn ont when ho announced the necessity of evacuating the chice the inhabitants declared lives were not worth five minutes purchase after the troops left col therefore invited them to accompany aim to belmont the preparations were speedily completed but he vehicles at the town were totally adequate to convey the refugees so the troops gave up abo transport wag ona to tho women and children the acted as an escort 0 the carried babies tor tho women and kept everybody lively toy singing i as they marched pluckily along in of eore aesa caused by the heavy i nand which made marching extremely i fa ang bullers congratulations were igen received by col pilcher landon land on jan 4 the enrollment of yio second contingent 0 imperial vol today was the occasion for ft acene of popular interest and enthus approaches to the guild hall thronged thron ged with the all classes everybody cheering aji 4 atre bonda lively music the at the guild atau was highly pic and Impre etAw it opened alth ja civic procession with the lora Atay crr ehe riffa and aldermen in their bobea of office beaded ty the sword and bearers th contingents the honorable company and detachments the other volunteer regiments after making a speech lord mayor newton read the following extract from a letter written by the queens avate secretary sir arthur 1 I have to assure you how much the queen values the corps which has been BO patriotically by the city of london for service in south africa each detachment was sworn in separately ara tely every man kissing the book aud receiving the queens shilling from e hands of the lord mayor boer camp colenso tuesday ja the british naval guns at camp continue their ineffectual ions range fire night and day in order to divert boer attention from the movements of tho troops federal scouts yesterday penetrated aiato iato the british camp when returning the british pickets discovered them and wounded one boer gen lucas meyer has resumed command of the division gen joubert denies that he has ever protested against the use of he aves that up to the present he has not lost a single man from hoeff langor jan 1 the garrison at ladysmith Lady smith during the night threw out feelers on all sides exchanging shots with the boer pickets at midnight a couple of shells tell into the boer camp killing a bargher gen joubert preached in camp sunday tho rev mr dolring molring Mol ring who has just arrived here from america addressed the boers this afternoon dwelling on the expiring century witnessing the life struggle of a people this morning shells hilled with con and containing the seasons greeting were sent into ladysmith Lady smith federal shells are selling in lady smith at from thirty shillings to 5 london jan 4 abe british foreign knows nothing about the report that 0 berne arbitrators hav made their award in iho delagoa bay railroad question and so far as the foreign office are able to ascertain it has not yet been made |