Show FRill AT lICITENBERa Gen Delarye Force Attacked the British Garrison Gar-rison Last Monday and Heavy Fighting Fight-ing Continued All Day Two British Officers Aaj Fletcher and Le t Hull Were Killed Lord Kitchener Has Sent ReinforcementsBritish War Office Will Send 12000 More Soldiers to South Africa During the 1 Coming WeekDewet Is Now Hard Pressed II I I Condon March S Whatever negot tlons arc areproceedings In Pretoria uri urj Mr Krugcr declares they can only be Ior an armistice the Government evidently evi-dently has np Intention of slackening j I leI reinforcements The War ofHgc j Issued I a detailed statement hist evening of transports that are to salljffoV South I Africa within the coming week with I 12000 troops TWO OFFICERS KILLED The casualty list reveals the fact that two officers were killed at Lichtenberg on March 1th Lord Kitcheners telegram tele-gram Am sending reinforcements 1 was dated March 6th evidently therefore there-fore the lighting continued for some days and further advices arc awaited with anxiety I According to the Dally Malls dispatches dis-patches Gen DoweL and Mr Steyn have separated the former being at Petrusbcrg west of Bloemfontcln and the later at Smithfield BATTLE AT LICHTENBERG Lord Kitchener telegraphs the War ofllcc as follows Pretoria March Lichtenberg being be-ing attacked by iDelarcys forces nttacJed fighting fight-ing continued nil Monday long The garrison consists of 200 Yeomanry and Northumberland Fuslleers with two guns Maj Fletcher and Lieut Hull are reported killed Tam sending reinforcements re-inforcements > BOERS AT ROUXVILLE The Boers are occupying positions at Rouxvlllc in the Orange Free State Busmanskop and elsewhere In parties I of from 200 to 100 Gen Bruce Hamiltons column Is at Aliwal North preparing to advance II At Bloen fonteln It is reported that Gen Dewet Is now without guns and hard pressed J BURGHERS WILLING TO QUIT 1 It Is said In Pretoria In Boer circles that the leaders of the burghers In the field will surrender with 0 majority of 1 thclr followers If assured ofamnesty tthe 1 aS5urec lnnIn s 1 c I n rt fSJ C Jrc h nnd ICa free pardon is granted to hc r rebels NEGOTIATIONS WITH BOTJIA t Replying to the LJbcrnl leader Sir tlenry CnmpbellBanncrmnn In the HOuse ot Commons yesterday Mr Balfour Bal-four said there had been communications communica-tions between Gen Kitchener and Gen Botha but the Government was not Inn In-n position atpresent to make a statement state-ment on tb subject PLAGUI AT CAPETOWN The progress of the bubonic plague causes great anxiety nnd apprehension in Capetown The Cape Government has decided to remove the people from onethird of the city and to cleanse Jt Every precaution Avlll be taken should thov disease spread to the troops BElT IS INSANE The Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Mall says Mr Krugcr Is Informed that Mr E W Belts former State Secretary Sec-retary of the Transvaal Is suffering from aberration of the mind BRITISH WAR LOAN The Time understands that the remainder re-mainder of the war loan will be issued In consol the Government having already al-ready issued as much in shortterm loans and bonds as It Is likely to obtain from the proceeds 1 Tranavuul Joan SOLDIERS WELL BEHAVED Lord Roberts presiding nl a meeting of the Army Temnernncc society contrasted con-trasted tile moderation of the British soldiers In South Africa with previous campaigns He said It was true that they had net had many opportunities to drink but at Bloemfonteln Johannesburg Johan-nesburg and Pretoria where they did have such opportunities they were remarkably re-markably well behaved and he never had heard ln single complaint of a sol I diet being Iud 01 Improperly behaved toward Boer women The latter and I their children went 1 pont he streets fearlessly I nnd the children constantly die played ril and talked with the British sol |