Show I RELIEF OF MAFEKING I STORIES CURRENT IN LONDON THAT CITY IS RELIEVED Condition of Affairs in Besieged City is Said to be Terrible Women and Children Enduro Awful Suffering London March HIn the lobles In the House of Commons rumors that Mafc king had been relieved were in circulation circula-tion last evening but they still lack confirmation A number of cablegrams were received re-ceived from Mafcking Including one to a i Birmingham firm asking it to ship goods Immediately thus indicating the belief of the speedy relief of the place Lady Sarah Wilson wires to the Dally Mall from Marching under date of March 6th by native runner to Lobatsl March 9th as follows On Saturday March 3rd the Boers furiously bombarded the Brick llelds and trenches about a mile from the town for three hours killing one and wounding two Colonials On Monday March 5th they made a determined attack Owing to a misunderstanding mis-understanding the Colonials evacuated evacu-ated the foremost trench This the BODIS occupied but reserves were called up and the trench was recaptured with a rush We had no casualties I The Boers arc very active and It taxea Col BadenPowell and the garrison I gar-rison very heavily to prevent them encroaching en-croaching on our lines Since Commandant I Com-mandant Sn man returned from the north the siege has been prosecuted with renewed vigor Dynamite explosions were heard during the last two days of February The Boers have been blowing up sec tions of the Northern railway show lug that they fear the approach of Col Plunders column A dlgpatch to the Times from Mafe Icing 1 dated Monday March 3th Says the garrisons at that place were then feeling acutely tho stress of the siege They were reduced to the use of horse nesii and bread made from horse forage while the watei was parasitically con tumluatld Typhoid dysentery and 1IlphthHla were epidemic but It was Impossible to isolate the victims The sUfferings oC the women and children were terrible and there were deaths In the womens Inael dally The native population was starving |