Show BADENPOWELL HURT WOUNDED DURING ENGAGEMENT ENGAGE-MENT AT RUSTENBURG MNT I I Gen Christian Dowet is Completely I Surrounded Near Reitaburg and His Surrender is Expected London Aug GTho Lourenco Marques correspondent of the Dally Express wlrlng Saturday says Transvaal advices declare that Gen BadenPowell was wounded during a recent engagement at Rustonburg when the Boers according to their account ac-count took some prisoners and captured cap-tured 321 wagons A special dispatch from Pretoria dated Saturday says Gen Christian I Dewet is completely surrounded near I Reltzburg and It la Impossible for his forces to escape through the strong British cordon The Boers say they will make 0 stand at Machadodorp They are short of ammunition and food Gen Hamilton ton by the rapidity of his movements prevents reinforcements reaching Com mandantGeneral Botha It appears that alter the train carrying United States Consul Stowe and flying the Stars and Stripes was derailed at Honing Spruit south of Kroon tad concealed Boers fired kill ing forty Many residents of Pretoria have been sent Into exile for having behaved British before haved cruelly to Britsh subjects for or during the war Tho terms of exile vary in one instance reaching twentylive years A dispatch from Capetown says tho United Slates consulate there has received re-ceived no dlicct communication regarding re-garding the Boer attack upon train carrying United States Consul Stowe but Sir Alfred Muller has been informed in-formed that those who were captured by the Boers vrre released at the request re-quest of Mr Stowe who It is stated Is proceeding to Pretoria on a special mission of a political character |