Show BRITISH ARE RE AGAIN REPULSED BY BOERS Y YI I Colonel Plu ers Unsuccessful Attempt Attern t to he the Besieged City of Mafe ing Left Twenty nty Men en Dead Bead on the t e Field and Number of Pris Prisoners Prisoners ris Taken by the tiie Tr D London A April ril 5 A special dispatch from Lourenzo Marques says Sharp Sh fighting occurred April 2 in the neigh neighborhood n neighborhood of Marching The garrison cavalry the Boers Boors at Ramath labama Both attacks were repulsed Twenty of Colonel men were found dead on the field and six others were made prisoners The federal losses leases were small Wednes Wednesday i iday day March 28 Colonel nel Plumer with witha a force of British mounted infantry started on a daring maroli Sunday March 2 i with the object of threaten threatening ten ing lug the Boer Boor lines of or communication After Aft two rapid marches through the tb Transvaal territory they arrived at dawn lawn March 27 2 within twelve miles of f and distinctly heard the bombardment of Mat eking Having reconnoitered the country with a view of future operations with without ith out Dut sighting a single white whRe man Col Colonel Colonel onel nel Plumer crossed the railroad south of f which he found in posses possession possession sion siGn of or a Boer Beer force and returned Then finding the railroad hence dam damaged damaged aged by General Sn main force he returned to the vicinity of Mafeking Rumors reach here that a relief col column column taun is approaching Mafeking from the south |