Show BOTH INVADES COLONY I HIS FORCE OP TWO THOUSAND MEN CROSSES OVER I m < Boor Invading Column Is NoW IToyj i I ins Toward Orange Hivcr Mora ll luToilnted Troops Needed London Feb C iTho Capetown correspondent i corre-spondent of tim Dally Telegraph wiring Sunday says It appears that in tho ac lion between Gon ICnos nnd Gen Dowot near Senokal tho Kaftrlrian rifles sustained sus-tained about 300 casualties Moro mounted I mount-ed troops Are Btlll needed Three Boer Invading columns of which I Hcrtzogo wan for a Urn tho advance I guard are now moving toward Orange river It is I believed that PIct Bothas force of 20CO men with seven guns from Smithfield has crossed Into the colony I British concentration Is proceeding I Outlying garrisons are being withdrawn for tho purpose of securing lie main lines Gen Dowel la expected to enter Capo 3 I Colony Lord Kitchener reports to the War of I l flco 33 follows j il 1rolorla Fob S Our casualties at I Moddocsfonlcln were two officers killed d and two wounded It appears that tha i I f post was rushed on a pitch dark night during a heavy rain TIm enemy numbered num-bered UOO with two guns I Campbell south of Mlddloburg engaged en-gaged GOO Boers who were driven back with loss Our casualties wore twenty killed or wounded French l3 near Bethel moving cast snd driving the enemy with alight oppo I sition Four of our ambulances while I socking wounded were captured Tim doc toss wero released Dowots force is reported south of D6 f wotsdorp Gen Kitchener In a dispatch from Pre 1 toria dated February 3rd says Frenchs I column In driving the Boers cast cap Lured a llfteenpoundor and picked up parts of a second gun disabled by our lireTho I Tho commandos In tho colony nro be1 ing hustled The Midland commando la being chased by JIaig in the direction ot Stcytlcrsvllle Sixteen of them have recently re-cently been killed by our men ThJPretorJa correspondent of the Times estimates that thoro are J9000 Boers stilton stilt-on commando and says that moro British troops nro required I I iii |