Show BRITISH FORCES FLEE BEFORE THE BOER ARMY lie Relief Expedition Marching Toward king is Compelled to Retreat Little Hope is Now oW Held Out For the Besieged Bes S French Engaged in Heavy Fighting London m March J The war office has bas issued the tho following from the general ge geat at Cape Town to the secretary s of war wS Cape Gape Town Marah 21 The following telegram has arrived from front B March 16 The following is from Irom Plumer Plainer Lo La March 14 The Boers Beers advanced 8 from train the south in considerable force this morning They first advanced from Crom Goodes Gi od Siding After a little engagement Lieutenant Colonel Colon advance post was compelled to retreat The TIle retirement was excellently carried out to our main position The casualties c ies included Lieutenant Chap Chapman man mon an and l a corporal prisoners and two missing massing probably prisoners rs Five troopers were lere wounded Chapmans Cha horse fell feil with him close crose to the tSie enemy who Immediately 1 surrounded hits him The exact Boer Doer casualties are un UTh unknown unknown known but several were shot at short range In the afternoon the Boers Beers ad advanced advanced further north and shelled our position from a ridge on our left Our twelve and a a replied the artillery continuing until unset sunset Lieu Luen Lieutenant tenant A J Tyler has bas died of wounds One native was killed Lord Roberts main army continues waiting at The senti sentimental sentimental mental interest in the fate of Mafeking has Intensified with Colonel forced retirement to Crocodile Pools where he was two months a ago o Relief Reli from the north now dwindles to im fin improbability improbability probability Rope Hope Lies ties In Methuen Lord Methuen is skirmishing with the Beers at t Warrenton 1ST miles mUes away Although seemingly in force to do pretty much as he likes he has ha hanot not advanced these five Jive days It is hoped that his has military administration has a pleasant surprise in preparation for the British by b raising the siege with a strong column of cavalry and artillery detouring to Mafeking while aisle ile Commandant is drawn off to engage Colonel Plumer General Frenchs cavalry and mount mounted ed infantry according to a rumor are arO fighting somewhere east of tein tem This suggests more Boer bad news as Commandant Oli com corn commando commando mando with 2000 wagons is reported on OD the frontier toiling northward toward via Lady brandt This Tills enormous wagon train is supposed UI posed to be moving tr 4 o daj G ral Fr kg pests stretch from a et t ward to ro the mountains General Buller Bailer has not yet et moved in Natal The Eighth division will wiIl go direct td to Lord Roberts effective disposal at the front ten days hence will be he it is estimated men inca with the easy possibility of moving eastward forcing the Boers Boors to evacuate the tl Big range and joining hands with General Buller Bailer before continuing the promenade to Pretoria Delagoa Bay Say Award The Delagoa Bay railway arbitration reward eward r is editorially considered in morning papers pa rs The approaching dec declaration declaration l of the findings of the tors t orn is welcome as coming at an appropriate appropriate moment and as bringing the ac acquisition acquisition of Delagoa Bay appreciably near nearA nearA nearA A dispatch to the Daily News from Lourenzo Lourenso Marques Marquez dated Friday says It ft is reported here from Pretoria Pretorio that Commandant Eloff is isolating Colonel forces near A dispatch to the Daily News from front Warrenton dated Thursday describing Lord position there says saysA saysA A small flanking force sent Boshoff secured an important crossing where the ferry had been destroyed but hut foreseeing this Lord Methuen had hail an another another another other point built which is ready to be he besent besent sent thither when an advance is con considered consi considered si ered opportune The cavalry and infantry column i ien ien ien en route for this point Thus the post position position tion of the Boers at Fourteen Streams is formidably threatened Lord advance has not been hurried to the relief of Mafeking where the pressure apparently has bs been relaxed as a result of operations elsewhere but bitt he is confident of Me his ability to push aside the opposition on the Vaal river when the proper time thue comes Doers Boers Are Well Armed ArmedA A correspondent of the Daily News telegraphing Thursday says sas A letter from Mr Poultney an interpreter in the Free State courts has been received by his wife here bere in which the writer declares that General Joubert is commanding the combined forces at where there is plenty of men guns and foodstuffs too stuffs for fora a determined resistance In the house houBe of commons John Gor Gordan Gordan Gordan dan MacNeill MacNeil Irish Insh nationalist mem member member ber for South Donegal again asked for information in regard to the battle of Lord rela rea relations with his officers and affairs in Kimberley but the parliamentary sec secretary se of the war office George Wyndham Wyndham ham parried nfl all the he t questions He said he knew kne nothing confirming the th sug suggestion suggestion suggestion that t at General Wauchope had raised objections to Lord plan of battle battIe and added that no ia in investigations investigations investigations had been bean proposed prop ed into the alleged differences es between Cecil Rhodes and Colonel Used No Ho Dumdums Indeed he declared the war office was not aware that the tatters authority had in any way ay been n questioned The only positive answer given by Mr Wyndham to the interrogations was to the effect that neither dumdums nor noran anything an in the nature of expanding or explosive bullets had been used by British troops s in South Africa In regard to the trouble between Col Co Colonel Coonel Colonel onel Bloomfield Cough Gough Gi ugh and Lord Me Methuen Methuen Methuen thuen Mr Wyndham said that the for formers formers formers mers mers command expired March 16 and that this his return home previous to that date was due to Lord ens action An investigation into this matter he be added would be held as soon eoon as wit witnesses witnesses witnesses nesses w uld return from South Africa Afric S |