Show = = = RETZ IS I SUPISED Broadwoods Brigade Cap tures Steins Brother STEIN NARROWLY ESCAPES S SoCalled Orange River Government and Papers CapturedBritish Un der Featherstone and GeL Dixon Have Reached Zeerust Western TransvaalThoy Met With Opposition Opposi-tion and Made Some Captures British Casualties Are One Killed and Twentyseven Wounded S London July liThe ar office has reeevcd the following despatch from Lord Kitchener dated at Pretoria Broadwoods brigade surprised Rcltz capturing Steins brother and others Stein himself escaped in his shirt sleeves with one other man only Die aocallcd Orange River Govern meat and papers were captured Lord Kitchener also reports that Schreopers commando as announced Iii the Associated Press dispatches early last week btirned tllc public buIldings in Murraysbtmig Cape Colony and some Iarmhouses In the vicinity S AccordIng to futhier abices front Lord Iitcllener the columns under Featherstone and Col Dixon have readIed Zeerust vscatern Transyaai They met with OPPOSItIOn and niado some captures The British casualiipn I were one officer killed and three ofllcera and twentyfour men wounded BROADWOODS CAPTURED Can Broadwood says a dispatch to the Dally News rain Bloemfoatcin surprised Kelts due east of Llndlev at dawn lost Thursday July utli He took Liven tyIl Inc prisoners including Gen A P Clowne and Gen Wessel Commandant Dwaal First Cornet Pelt Steln President Steins brother Thomas Brain Secretary of Govern mont and Roches Do VMHerK Secre tary of the Council Stein himself fled with out coat or boots Gen Dewct la believed to have been present MAY WITHDRAW SOLDIERS Lord Kitchener has advised the Gov ehnmeni so the Daily News understands under-stands that it Is possible to wfthdraw a large number oC infantry regiments from South Africa amounting virtually virtu-ally to the part of the unmounted army At the sametime ho requests that he be suppliedwlth more mounted men The Government Is considering this according to the Dally News and will probably be guided by Lord hitch cncis advices TO CONCENTRATE TROOPS It Is also contemplated says the same Journal If the Infantry la large ly i withdrawn to concentrate the British Brit-ish troops along the Natal railway between be-tween Durban and Pielermaritzburp and between Johannesburg and Pretoria Pre-toria thus carrying gold and provisions provis-ions for the troops by a shorter route than the Capetown route A portion of the lien from Capetown to Pretoria may be abandoned x |