Show fiGHT AT KOMATIPUORT Boers Are T Making Desperate Effort to Hold Position Efort MEN RUSHED t TO THE FRONT II I I the Town by the Brit Occupation of Tow th ish Would Enable Roberts to Cut I BeerS the Off All Supplies Reaching Terri by Railroad from Portuguese Terr from Miles toryPlaco is Fifty ies csIt Is Ejected Lour nco ManyicsIt irEzpecte < River at that the Bridge Across Komaupoorb Will be Destroyed ISFightIng Lourenco Marques Sept AH the utKomatlpoort Is proceeding been sent toUK available men have frontier It Is ekpected that the Koma tlpoort bridge will be destroyed There 13 great uneasiness here KoWtlpoort Is atown cm the frontier fron-tier of the Transvaal thq railroad Portuguese leading from Pretoria to fiftY situated about territory It is Maraues With miles from Lourenco the occupation of Komatlpoort the BritIsh Brit-Ish would he able to cut off all supplies reaching the Boers by railroad from Portugucsfe territory A pitched battle has been taught midway mid-way between Kaah Muldon and Rector sprluit resulting in heavy liocr losses The Boers removed and now threaten to the destroy the cog wheels of the 10 comotlve between Waterbovcn ana Watervalottder ujthout hlch the railway rail-way cannot be worked They have blocked and damaged the railway for six miles on the Crocodllcpoort section have destroyed the culverts and me Hectorsprult bridge and looted and burned Komatlpoort The British are now at Komatlpoort and heavy fight lug IH proceeding It la rumored that Mr Steyn has arrived there |