| Show BRITISH HAD A NARROW r 4 Boers BO Came Canle Very Neat Ne l Cap Capturing turing a Convoy t 4 t 0 L WERE OFF AFTER BRISK K TIGHT FIGHT i Roberts Trying to of Tn otes For Por es to S Their Ther Harassing Ha nl Tc ct pi for an ui a Ad c m on l at tt t Every Effort E oo b E D Made Nade to Believe this the te Garrison Gris at t of Sow Boss At Ati ties te Woman Being Butchered London May Yay 3 a m in The Te imme immediate diate objective of Lord rd Roberts Robert is Ia I to establish a line lne of ot British poets p from fm I Ione one frontier of ut the tle Fre Fe State to the theother theother i other at a right angles anglee ae with wih the railway thu thue preventing Boer Br raids raid southward It I is essential therefore that the te Boers HorB should be expelled from the rugged Thab Thab N Chu district and be ore to retire to As An the result of the t desultory firing Monday and Tuesday T the Boers Beers were pushed back a few mie but nothing definite appals appeals to t have bae yet been at tamed The Boers continue to follow fonow their harassing harasin tactics One well horsed horned hore cOmanda operating in the neighbor hood O of Sanna anns Post interferes with It s going from Bloem to The enemy nearly nearl captured a convoy conoy Tuesday but they were driven off after a brisk light fight t Preparations for an advance continue at Sir Alfred Milner has ha written writt n to the me mayor or of Kimberley as assuring suring him that the relief of Mafeking bas has not ce sed ed to his attention and that of the military and that nothing wilt will be left unturned to raise the siege ecle Boers Beers Are The British garrisons along the rail railway railway railway way Wa Warrenton have been strengthened and supplies are going ging g forward A mounted force has gone to Barklay West Ih th consequence quence con of the Boers Buers having occupied A thousand Boers Beers threaten the communications communications between f and Malala chief of the has haa in informed Informed Informed formed the British h that the Boers Boors are preparing to resist reit their attack at Phi kov kowar kowa am i i twenty miles north of Warren WarrenA A A nr n at Rt T nr Z I cabled d Tuesday Tu that a large l part of the in investing eating esting force at Mafeking has lias been withdrawn General Buller continues quiet The Boers assert art as that they are delaying an attack upon him in the hope that all the horses of ot the British h wm 11 die of ol horse sickness According to a correspondent of the Daily Telegraph Tel pA with Lord Roberts President Kruger is lo again SIng asing JU terms The departure of the Boer Beer B r dele delegates gates ga tes from Holland to the United States and aDd what they have said of their pur purposes purposes purposes poses and hopes draw British atten aUen attention attention tion ion t to American views of the war To daj days s Chronicle says Mission of Boer floer Envoys The Th men who count in the United UnK l States S ta t es are not int likely to accept ept a the v views ie s which Fishcher and Wes We eI tend to place pIece before them themA A Mafeking dispatch to the Times eay sa II native women in attempting to leave leae town by moonlight were butch butchered butchered ered by the Boers I pro poo protested tested but was not answered ered The date 1 of th relief of Mafeking is fixed for forthe forthe forthe the queens birthday May 24 4 The Marques correspondent corre of the Daily Dany Mail telegraphing yes yesterday say says UA A French steamer has with bags bag of coffee and lo OO bags of sugar consigned to a 8 sj syndicate which is te buying for the Pre Pretoria Pretoria Pretoria toria go government Four more mor steamers with ith similar are expect expected ed M this month It Iti is evident that thai the fine Transvaal intends inte making a long re resistance resistance istance The Doers Boers have begun bun constructing con fortifications 1 at where wh they continue to store More provisions There is isa isa a i J so evidence of an intention to con connet connet net net t the disused railway run running running ning fling northwest from with to destroy detroy the Netherlands N railway as a a ast last resort and to hold the range as so an am eastern barrier with a u as ter If this plan ouM be adopted aed ado the tho campaign become very cui ul The Portuguese authorities here ob oh to her j steamship ip Forte WU u r L Berc and iUA they Dext object ct to night patrols Consequently CO 41 th thc steamer now steams steam the ii harbor nightly to avoid a possible rope repe re of the Maine disaster Boers Beers Willing to Treat The Morning Post has baa the following from Winston V n tOD Churchill dated Is Chu April 29 When General Dick Dickt t on Jon retired in the circumstances a re I in my last telegram his hi own mt cart and the brigade water carts fell into the haw hands of the enemy and his rear guard was wa heavily fired on This retreat compromised General Hamilton who ho bo therefore collected hi his forced for and fi l back warily into Chu after checking the ad adara ara ng enemy en m with musketry and ar 1 til erv fire Although much ammunition was ex expended expended expended on both sides the losses were we significant the fighting being at creat great ranges The result is that tIle the Boers are milling wifling to retreat but it is iw Zot t in the power of the fhe present force to 10 interfere with them th or with their wagons The correspondent of the Morning Post wiring Tuesday fa Fays avs s We have received two interest interesting ing in letters letter The T e first t which is t from front Steyn to Botha complains of the neg et rt t of ot the defense of ot Kronstad Kron by corn com ma there t e who w are described d b as In 11 graIn districtS which causes an increase ae of Yf among the ree State burghers Steyn Stern concludes by bv to be re On sible ibl for the loyalty of the Free Stat ers unless a guarantee is ien iven of the Transvaal intention to protect Kron Kronstad Kronstad stad tad The second ia is a letter Jetter from Kruger to to the commandant at Fourteen Streams Kruger d declares that it is to impossible to send end the reinforcements the commandant asked for since all Sli aUthe the f federal d re I forces torce are required at their present posts 1 but he declares that the federals fe eras are gaining great victories and that European intervention is only a question of days H Try to Intercept Boers While Generals French and Rundle Bundle are holding the Boers at General cavalry has haa b been en pushed on in the hope of in intercepting Intercepting th tM the federal convoys between r rand ant and WI As General Botha has ben bien b en reinforced ed there is isI I 1 every of sharp fighting I The new rene r ene of operations and the t e egen general gen ral movements of the thc various col cot columns are taken to m indicate that I Lord ord Roberts is deploying his army proper preparatory atory to beginning his northern march It now seems likely that it is the com corn intention to t a sif from front Kimberley RO ROL L L i fontein and La with th the view or ot preventing 1 venti the th Boer rs from concen theU the f ore rc os as at t any uny An given n point A dispa ih h irom ty chronicles th prevailing Opinion among amonI th the t there ere tisa the war is not bot ro to last more six weeks once onte f o Q British ad vance ViI nce begin but that tn Jorre borre I ent UM ha been to Ut discover any ground toe for th t hi o haim beye d the fact tilt t aU ah ton hs ar rived at t the f Base Whence bence nce a Column win 1 be dispatched In n a direction dt not no m made 4 Ji He of British A d dl from Pretoria rivas alv s the thO t text t of nt Itier S U I U lii I subjects from r m the iv at u tt It A Ac burners ur ln on the at olf ut the Ute British and as a the th gOv g v S desirous t 10 tL 5 with I the he w ws of the t butchers bu apil 54 others bI h to b the republic all aU ers In 11 tin the district a rit a art ark a of Pretoria and th the d gold OId BeMi must murt leave the state Within thir Mx lx hours ur b from noon neon on April A HI sot Ex OI will be bein made in cl in Inthe the case Se of obtaining ecial al p Lord Roberts berts R Ai s a list pf f the tle I casualties of General I It n Hamiltons force fote t ne April 30 as s Ilow M f lows Showers Shower Lieutenant Parker and one private te Wounded Four officers and five men Missing Ia Two officers and nOO ten tn tf tien m n nEom Bombardment Eom a cHot Hat One OneA A dispatch di p from f eking describing I the Boer Beer attack 11 s says ys The bombardment r of f Hw the ari nc I i was the hottest of the sire Many shells entered the hospital l and womans laager Tender yer t f t the a 8 large force torce commanded by Cronje pj the younger including the th German corps advanced close to FOrt F rt Abrams Abrun The garrison laid low until the Boer were at close clese range rane when wilen Wl en they thew fitted Bred a volley killed five wounded many ninny and the attack was repulsed The bam bem t then ceased The Boers Boors un der a Red Cross flag later mer were Wern permit ted to recover r their dead Windsor is in holiday hoUd y attire today y and nd decorated from end nd to end in j honor of the naval brigade of the th Britis cruiser Powerful which as in the defense of Lady Laidy L mith The naval men J were summoned to the to be inspected ted I by the queen The band of nadier guards met m the naval brigade at the railroad ra and played them to I the castle through the cheering throngs nf of Witnessed by Royal Family The inspection occurred in the quad rangle and was witnessed by the Duke Puke of York and other othe members of the royal family and a number of o high naval and nn milita v officers Her majesty majest di ve down the theline line of ja who ho then advanced and gave three cheers cheet chee for the queen Captain Lambton of the Powerful and the officers of that vessel were were after r wards presented p to her h r majesty who thanked Captain Lambton L the t e brigade for their noble services to the empire The captain replied that thet wb what t I they had done was nothing to what the he navy was prepared r red to do for f her ma jesty The queen sometime afterwards aft saw aw the entertained eit rt n d at din ner n Lord Roberts has tele telegraphed to the war office from under to 10 days date that news has been received r from Colonel the British commander at aft Mafeking M f kh g saying yng alt air was I well weIl there I |
