| Show FALLS INTO HANDS OF ROBERTS General Kitchener Arrives at Free State Capital Capita and Will Wil Enter Today w Another Big Biff Fight Is I Expected Expect d But the te British Are Confident Gon dent dit of ot Their Success Cape Town March Mar IS General French Fench has ha arrived ar at t I London March ah 14 H 49 4 a a m Noth Nothing ing can cn be b said sid of or the advance on beyond bend Lord Lr Roberts Robrt j I own ow dispatches Nothing more me has h i been permitted to t come through Doubtless Lord Roberts himself himsel I 1 te fully ful I occupied with important military op operations o The dispatch from Cape Cp Town saying that General Generl French has bs ar arrived rivet rived at Bl probably proby does do not mean mea that he has entered the t city cIt Lord Roberts Robrt messages may ma mean me either that the Boers Doers have cut the rail railway railway ether th r way to the north or that the British cavalry have haye done so If I the former fomer case ce then tn it I may be b assumed that no ao rolling stock sok has ha been b seized but Nt by general assumption the latter later inter interpretation is regarded as a correct crt This wouW greatly facilitate obtain obtaining otin obtaining ing supplies from Orange Ornge river rTe an Im lm Important pedant matter as Lord L Roberts Robts line Itee II of ot communication at Modder bridge is isnow i isnow I now noO n 11 miles mie long The Boers Beers Br may my make another anther fight but there tHre is little doubt that Lord Lr Rob Roberts Robarts erts arts will wi occupy Wednes Wednesday Wednesday Vel RI day da o The Time Boors Boers retiring from Orange river will wil wl find themselves es between een two British armies and their guns guna are al almost almost an most bound bund to fall faU into the hands bands of the th British while the occupation of the capital of the Free State will wi strain utmost the alliance alace of ot the two republics to the thE I Government Is Determined The government will not allow the th I appel appeal to influence In any way their determination not nt to t I spare any effort eort to prosecute the war warThe There The will be no diminution of or mess meas measures mea ures calculated to maintain the full ful ef efficiency efficIency efficiency of f the field feld force and whatever reinforcements were previously consid considered considered ered advisable will wl still sti be sent out e Lord reply meets met with unanimous approval among among conserva conservatives fives tives and ad it Is the universal opinion that the te Boers by their extravagant claims and ad canting tone tone meant ment tb to in influence fluence foreign powers however howEe again a ln overreached themselves as a they thy did d by bythe b bythe o othe the ultimatum The Te war office has received elYe the te foK lowing 10 In g additional ad a dispatch dl s teh from fr m Lord L d dROb Roberts ROb t at Venters VI V There wets 1 men mn wounded and a abu j ar bu g Q en enar Colonel onel y nu hs 8 died di of oC o hi wounds und Lieutenant Pratt of o the th Es En Essex Ensex wounded l severely sex se regiment was The Te wounds are as a rule n n more ore serious than usual owing owin to the expanding bill bul bullets bl lets which are freely frely used u e by b the th Boors Boers B The Daily Daly Mail Mal has bs the following dis dispatch ds dispatch patch from f Kimberley dated date Tuesday ay March Mah 18 11 1 Lord Methuen occupied on Sunday Sunda Sundy without opposition opton He here left leU a garrison glisn there and an returned Railway Hallway Lines Le Repaired S I IThe The railway anti and an telegraph lines Un have been ben repaired thirty miles mil north northward n northward ward to Klip KUp It I is understood that th line ne between Fourteen Fouren Streams Strem and an Is not nt badly bd damaged damage Winston Winson Churchill w wire wires ires to the Morn Morning Mo ing lag Post Pt from Durban Durba protecting against agIn the ceremonious treatment of or General Genral Cronje He adds The stern ter decision not to exchange prisoners will trill wi undoubtedly accelerate the end of the war but it will wl prove very ver hard and an perhaps even een dangerous for the British Brish prisoners In Pretoria T ere iere is abundant evidence that the Boers are e becoming more cruel and ao that tat the war r will 1 enter eater a darker phase It ItIs I Itis Is very ve doubtful d if iC the Boer Boar go government eminent will il be able to control the wild wid passions of ot the te exasperated ruffians forming ps the noisy ni part of the Boer Boar forces fotes in the event e eIt of ot a siege of ot Pretoria and an the te position of ot the British prisoners would woul then become precarious I 1 have h visited the dam darn which the Boers Boer began on Klip river r er below Lady Ladysmith Ld smith If I it i had hd ben been n completed complete it i would have submerged camp where there ther were 2000 20 sick Lady Ld Sarah Wilson Wi on wires to the Daily Dl Mall Mail Mal from Mafeking r under un date of March 6 G by b o native runner to Lobs March 9 as a follows Parlous Furious Fou Boer Bombardment On Saturday March 3 S the Boors Boers furiously bombarded the brick fields and a trenches about a a mile mie from the tM town for fo three hours kilting hilling one on and wounding two colonials On Monday March larch 5 i they made a determined attack attack Owing to a mis misunderstanding ml misunderstanding understanding und the colonials colonia evacuated the foremost trench This Thi the Boers Beers oc occupied o occupied but bet reserves renes were celled called up UJ and the trench was wa recaptured with wih a rush i We had hd no casualties The Boers Boors are very el active and an it i taxes tae Colonel Col nel and af the garrison garrin very ery heavily to prevent them encroaching on our lines l Since Sin Corn Com Commandant mandant returned from front the north the siege sege has been prosecuted with renewed vigor Dynamite explosions were heard during dring the last lat two t days da of or February The Boers Bos Br have been blowing up see sec sections 5 of the Northern railway show showing s lag ing In that they fear the approach of Colonel column The Te new I five inch gun made md here has bas proved very ver satisfactory and accurate arte Colonel Colonl warned warne Corn Com Commandant Co mandant that unless une he dis disbanded di disbanded banded bande and an disarmed the th native levies filling the Boer Boar Bo forward trenches by b March 3 he would wold no longer long be responsible for restraining Chief Chier Cief in the equa district Commandant declined dUo to ills dis ds band them the th thIn In the lobbies in the house hus of o corn com commons c mona mons mon rumors that Mafeking kin had hd been relieved were in circulation this ti even Ing but they te still lack confirmation |
