Show FORCED THE BRITISH ON DEFENSIVE Iff Heavy fighting Is Only Hope HoD Is In His Great Force of Numbers His Advance to Pretoria Stubbornly Resisted By Trans Who Boldy Attack Hint Him May 2 4 a m inFighting Fighting hta ter than any since Ladysmith I seems to tn be b imminent Thalia The of Lore Lord Rob Roberta erta dated Monday and ami Tuesday snow how that the Boer rear guard stubbornly resisting hio advance forced the Brit Britten ten h ton irn Saturday and Sunday to t act chiefly on n the defensive General French ho is directing foe operations has ha at least men Sue Seme estimates give him The Boers are ae esti estimated estimated mated to be at tee at strong and possibly According to a dispatch from Pre Pretoria tona toria dated April they were ing ng t ti give battle battIe and have So long as the Boers engage the attention of half of Lord Roberts R berts loce at Nhu his advance to toward toward ward Pretoria will be he delayed No one here however considers that General Botha will ill be able to stand longer than thana a feti days The feeling is 1 that he must be b beaten off bv by the masses of Lord JOd Roberts The Boers attacked attached the B ti out at the headquarter of Lord M thuen on April 28 but without result The British guns uns at aL Warrenton the Boers out of their trenches Sunday A native runner runner got through from Mafeking to miles north on oi April 23 with for Lor all the London dailies T it tt to the Morning Post sa 6 We can stick out for two ivo months or more Nobody Colonel Colonl Plumer w who ho appears to have b ben f n reinforced lately by more Rhodes iana jans attire to be advancing Locusts For Por Food A dispatch to the Times from fron MaLe Mafe bing dated April 30 says A side aide sidelight light is thrown upon the hungry condi condition tion of the garrison by the tact that the united efforts of the whites and natives have recently been beeD devoted to canning a 3 arm of locusts which passed ased the to town The correspondent of the Tunes Times telegraph ng Monday says The fighting at Thab is of a ad d nature The whole front is eu Co be swept by y mounted troops preparatory to a definite forward movement for which the forces ma manow may now be he termed organized A reconnoitering party tell fell into he hands handa of f the he Doers Boers near V The war office has ba received the fol following following lowing d patch from General Roberts Ma 1 Ian Hamil Hamilton ton marched yesterday in a northerly direction from Thala with a body lody of mounted infantry and SmIth brigade of Clements divi division sion At he frund himself oppose b by a strong force commanded b h General Botha in person Rein Rela f ent reached this force duir tie te dd day and I directed French to him during the night frost frore X Ihu Beer Numbers Decreasing This Thi 4 he w was as able to do as ae the num br cf f in the neighborhood of Thab i had considerably de dereal 1 1 real 1 In additon to these troops should be reinforced the day daj by Broad woods cavalry and infantry brigade Hamilton mentioned that his cas ma casualties yesterday were about thirty Maxwells Max v ells brigade of the Seventh division yesterday occupied tore tors and a row of kopjes without meeting with opposition but the mounted infantry were engaged for some hours A dispatch from Mafeking dated April 20 0 says The Boors Boers nave flave been bu busy bony for several da days blowing up the railway southwards southward There was waa fttIe firing during the past week Th town will respond cheerfully ch ernly to Lord Roberts Roberte request to boid out fur for r month Fever Feer Is a rile but 10 the health of the garrison is good and all are well The following dispatch has been sent aest oy by Lord Roberts to the war office oce Boers Beers Persistent Attacks AprIl 36 The Boors Boers made verj ver persistent attacks around Saturday and Sunday but the position TV which the Eighth division holds is strong and he be bad the of Gordons and brigades the cavalry under French and ens infantry brigade and a body of mounted Infant in fan t rj n under Ian Hamilton di division n from Dew yesterday Lord Roberts Roberta also reports additional casualties sustained during the fighting fig oT oI April 27 around con of f Lieutenant Geary and two men killed and one officer and nd three men wounded All Ali accounts tell teil of much artillery firing with scarcely ary casualties It Iti i f hard hardly likely that two suh sah forces can n much longer patiently face each I Iother other without store mor occur r n e General Brabants column is expected to join General French abort Jjr ly A number t f Bo Boss are reported to have been seen retiring north bm but this 35 scarcely authoritative Stringent masui are being f to the Hoer from o supplies from other centers The Itie little news is all ali interest The Cape par parlament lament has bag be ben n for June hine 22 2 General Genera White Decorated At the conclusion ef of General Sir eore Whites visit to Windsor today lueen Victoria decorated the defender f with the cro and star it yf the Royal order Her fly and the w p It is 1 turned arned was nore angry than fer jn of the K dispatch A special h fr W Gape l wn toMMys date says sa tip t Secretary if f fb Soh n r fc are arol l to a ai hat not every Englishman f t cle ped out of the sta Mt e pu ats every ry American ar an any man vun rf Ii w ti who a 5 not ure re bared arod to a and tight or th the countr Was Terrific Lady Sara arah Torn om Ai April il 1 id es Th The if is a tl that no runners u forth fort for ten Uy as s e nuni nent oo o Ait H 1 I Ut t with th the exa i ilon lon ion of ct dO me e jt a The he Be Eo s th then u nade a ae Attack i r ti t ti j orta WC wei ei successfully rs Ye The Boers Boas hp Its r d a n nw w eager aaget on the sot sor Many horses are ae sn f horse Trees Tree are eing i ut down r fuel The is now th ti am amuan uan t oxen the s until he ho last The daily dail rail ji i is JOW ur f oat l r al a f md of a quart of i B ka Monine ThaT t April 28 and describing tite Ote j I there says sr 1 upon the withdrawal of je t British i L demonstrations on both jOa k tb of the I enemy ermy the Boers Beer Dressed to close quarters tots and bi none un unable Unable able to evacuate their position until midnight The caused great anxiety Try to Intercept i I operations were intended to toI I drive out or r to intercept the Boers Beers They occupied a wide horseshoe lwe of mounts mountains ins with the he Lane face to toward tous ward us General ed in crushing the Boers on the right and ni opening a road for General Dick sons cavalry brigade which dashed through and hunted tr th enemy from ridge to ridge shelling them with horse artillery At last we arrived at ie rear of the horseshoe and the Boers Boera in parties of could be seen within the enclosed space running about like rats in a trap had bad hoped to make a aI I bag and he signaled I tn Hamilton re regarding garding the situation Hamilton came at once onte Bringing up every soldier he ie could find Suddenly about abou ct 4 tie Boer Beer army nearly oVed out of the horseshoe and began byan marching northeast I had sever never be before before fore seen such an array f Boers Bora order was vas so m regular that at first It I I Iwas was believed they wore were General Gerat Oar Or I dons cavalry brigade t lot nt they t ly opened with artillery on Dickson and andI 1 I at time the who had earlier in the day ay Nom from our returned t Har if P against let and rear rr two guns In these r ire recede and he only Just Jt with withdrew drew in time I |