Show The South African Ucbellloo Durban 20 The Boers fired on a detachment de-tachment on the Prctnma and Lyben I bug road under cover of a flag of truce At Polche troora the Jredet excitement previls Four pertojs 1 ave been mur dered London 2J A correspondent Durban Dur-ban report thartrnfw j ins which a detachment de-tachment of the NmUfourth Regiment was in charge of got into a swamp and all hands lad side their arms to extricate extri-cate them Tho Boors mddenly ap reared ai d deminfled their surrender The soldiers nithcd for their arms but before they were able to defend them ttlvcj they were hot down While a Boer was atte mptin to hoist a republican flair nt Potchefctiona he vas hot by a British officer whom the Boers immediately shot dead The four persons reported to have been murdered at 1ochefstroiis a commandant or tee Cape Mounted Police and three civi iII They wire brutally murdered in the ruld tOt nn Hticinby of 3000 Hoes BoeThe i The driver of a pot cert was murdered I and a mdl bIOS carried off Another report re-port says Boers were helled at Potchef strona and a hundred were kiled and many woundrd Arrangement UP bin made at Woolwich for sending lupplies to the Cap ° A Durban dispatch n purls that Poor have xiven notice tht they will IOIZQ a cetAin c tyn afpeiD > doy Boers were helld out of fotchelttr Thy let a bunded Ll led and many wounded i The nuthontifSv Urpe Town have communicated 4u thpr with the home author ties in rrgrI to ri mf rcemons and it u < probable two raiments of car i aIry Ua If t inf1 try and two batteries of artilrry will DP ent totheTrannvaul Cape T > wn 2nSir Gorge Pomeroy Coliey to uivcJ a di < pitch IronS Pretoria dated the Ibtb injt cjmmuriicttmg the decree of the Tr < n vail republ stating stat-ing thum WHI m di i e to filed blood nor dul tht rtpuhlic wish for trar It re ted with iho < nt fh wh thnr the republic would be ore d to tpienl to arms in self I diftncc uiiioh wou d bo done with all rernl t or the qu en and with a full II kn lulwlg hat it wi a etruegla for the sanctity f boO treaties which had been broken by Iintili otBcer It was hoped an Hmii abli > ar ai g > m nt would be arrived ar-rived nl with Major I Lnyin for the rep re-p iblic ua anxious to co opera in every i L Ihig leading to program This could only bo done when its mdrpindnce was cUnowlidgd An answer woe cxpect d within tmentrfiur hour It was in anfuerto this decree thit Mj ir Lanyon I Issued hu Iroclainalion ofraring pardon I to all who irnmelutely withdrew from I I the malconWnis camp |