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Show BOERS WERE SURPRISED. Lord Roberts Drives Them Off, But Loses Heavily. ' London, March 8. Lord Roberts telegraphs tele-graphs that he has captured a Krupp gun and a number ol tents and wagons, wag-ons, the general also announcing that General Clements has occupied Nervals Ner-vals Pont. The following is the text of Lord Roberts' dispatch: "Poplar Grove, March 8. Two brigades bri-gades of cavalry, with horse artillery and Kelly-Kenny's division, marched today ten miles eastward. "The Boers were quite taken by surprise sur-prise vesterday. They moved off so hurriedly that they left cooked dinners behind. YVe captured a Krupp gun and several tents and wagons. The total to-tal casualties were: "Killed Lieutenants Keswick and Frieslick. "Wounded Lieutenants Bailey of the Twelfth lancers and De Crispigney of the Second Life Guards, both severely, and Lieutenant Smith of the Shrop-shires, Shrop-shires, who is believed to have been picked up by a Boer ambulance. Two men were killed, forty-six were wounded wound-ed and one man is missing. "Gatacre reports he intends occupying occupy-ing Burghersdorp today. Repairs to the railroads towards both Stormberg and Leynsberg are being pushed. "Clements now occupies Norval's Pont, on the south bank of the Orange river. The bridge was blown up March 6, and the enemy is holding the north bank of the river, but not, it is believed, be-lieved, in any great strength." |