| Show BOERARI scAtTERiJ t Nothing Left But a Few Marauding Bands LAST FIGHTAT I QMATIP ORT L Three Thousand Burghers Hake Their Last United Stand Retreat Before the British Advance Portion Enter Portuguese Territory Others De oert in Various Directions Still i Others Cross the Xomati River and Occupy Spurs of Lombobo loToun I tains Roberts Details Situation London Sept 20Lqrd Roberts cables ca-bles from Nclsprult on the Pretorin i Delagoa Bay railroad not far from Komatlpoort the frontier station under 1s1 un-der date of Wednesday September 9 10th as follows AI I Of the 3000 Boers who retreated from IComatlpoort before the British advance ad-vance from Machadodorp 700 have entered 3 tered Portuguese territory others have deserted In various directions and the balance are reported to have crossed I the Komatl river and to be occupying I spurs of the Lombobo mountains south of the railway r A general tumult seems to have occurred oc-curred when they recognized the hopelessness J1 hope-lessness of their cause Their long tomo and field guns have been destroyed de-stroyed 1 and nothing Is left of the Boer V army but a few marauding bands KellyKenny Is dealing with one of I these which occupies a position at Doornbcrg 4 PLOT TO MURDER ROBERTS 5 The War office has Issued a lengthy r report from Lord Roberts on the subject p sub-ject of the Johannesburg plot to over pow r the garrjson and murder British officers and the deportation of foreigners I foreign-ers After reiterating the known facts I r of tho plot the British commanderIn It chief In South Africa says vi The Consuls of America France and I Sweden subjects of which nations were arrested met and fully discussed the case with the British officials The Interview Ii In-terview was most satisfactory The Consuls concurred entirely with the British action and promised every assistance as-sistance 4 FOREIGNERS DEPORTED Httj 1 Lord Roberts adds that he forthwith ordered the deportation of all foreigners lo t foreign-ers arrested In connection with the plot 1 for whose behavior their respective Consuls could not vouch Otherwise ri very few foreigners were deported except U ex-cept employees of the Netherlands railroad rail-road who refused to work for the Brlt Iflh and actively participated In the war |
