Show EXPENSIVE far in Africa Will Cost Millions in Money and Thousan s of Lives WHAT BRITISH REQUIRE Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Thou-sand Men Needed VIEW OF A CORRESPONDENT I I Question of Mounts is of Vital Importance Im-portance Thousands Will Be Wanted In Addition to Those Now There Great Resting Depots for tho Animals Must Bc Formed Capetown Has nn Unconfirmed Rumor Ru-mor that Gen Brabant Has Inflicted In-flicted a Crushing Defeat Upon tho 1 I Boers at Wepcner Capturing Guns 1 stud Taking Prisoners President Kruger Attended n Conference oC Boer Commandants at Brandforl on Thursday Reinforcements for the Boors Have Arrived at Dewotsdorp 1 > 1 London April 1C Winston Churchill r telegraphs to tho Morntrrg Post from IJIoomfonteln < under Saturdays date Ttltarutlng his opinion that the war Is bound to provo an expensive business He nays Two hundred and fitly thousand men ulll bu needed before the end h l ft attained The question of remouuts will continue ono of vital Importance Great number are now arriving but t t U l p tto work before dine Ii given them lo recover from the effects oC the voyage their condition is low and the death rule among them high V r Thousands therefore will be wanted want-ed In addition to thogo now here or on the way and great resting depots must be formed together with an ample start to nurse end exercise them If that Is done then about four or five months honco you will be able to give your cavalry a new lease of life and strength < BRITISH VICTORY REPORTED The Capetown correspondent of tho k Dally Telegraph telegraphing Sunday < nays An unconfirmed report la In circulation I I cir-culation hero that Gen Brabant has L Inflicted K crushing defeat upon the < Boers at Wepcner capturing guns and inking prisoners 1 DALCETY HOLDS HIS OWN A dispatch from Reddersburg dated Sundny say Col Dalgcty wired yesterday yes-terday All well Enemy apparently Blackening utlacl Gen Chermlsldes L division IH encamped seventeen mile IUH uf the railWay Boers are supposed t sup-posed to be In the vicinity but an attack at-tack by them Is Improbable REINFORCEMENTS FOR BOERS Th Bloemfonteln correspondent of the Times telegraphing Sunday la sIt s-It Is reported that reinforcements for the Boo rJII with sixty wagons have arrived ar-rived at DcwMsdorp en route for Weptjncr This should precipitate an action The Mlaiemcnl that President Kruger has been south seem to con llrm the rePorts that the Boers arc getting disheartened This continued entertlon of his personal Influence appears ap-pears now to have become u necessity TO LEAVE FREE STATERS The Bloemfonteln correspondent of the I Dairy New tvlegroplilnir Sutur dRY nays President lIUg attend ftd a confuroncw of thu Boer command ants ul Drandfort on Thursday It IH ellevcd that H decision was reached to rithdrHW the Transvaal force to the north of Vlelt river preparatory to a general rvtlroment across the Vnal Hvcr If hard pressed leaving the Free SLitters to their own resources BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED A dispatch from Allwal North dated k April lllh says Col Gr nfell wires that thuS casuultl nt Wepener Include r Quarterniuster Williams IilIfU HH ford and Lieut Duncan and fifteen men wounded a SIr i Godfrey Lumdon resident coin mlNlolWr at Maseru telegraph that no ht1UlIg 11aa1 bn hewd train the dtrvc IJ Itlon of > pnur today A regiment of British Infantry and a battery of artillery arrived Friday Gen Bra btutt headquarters and all the mounted troopa have gone to Rouxvllle The Norlhvrn Poet auerLS that the Ronxvllle district furnished 1000 reCruits 1 re-Cruits to the Boer forces as a rtsull of the invasion last week BRITONS EVACUATE HOUXTLLB Five hundred Boer under Commandant Com-mandant Swanepotl forced the Royal Irish Rifle 0 to evacuate Rouxville The former landroal who had bMn acting for the British offered to go to the front to prove himself a true Free biatcr and almost to a man the Prw 4 Statins who haul taken the oath reo Joltud the Boers Nearly every one produced a Alauaer Looting howevmr lMs rirseed BrlEa FORCffi AT WRP BRIt BR-It IB reported that ther are 7000 JoT1 At VttJHtMr Fourteen Brltlah > rwithi izers have been Impriaoned I Th HotMI admit having fht Mr OUI m > the hotelkwpr fr tn lff fOfuK to the Hritlnh TlA Uioattr Ith clCOO aM UllrurNl HnITItHt I S K tllhtTFL II I fI1 rrt1 tht 111 r J 1 lrHt1foh i n r ti M flfthtln H r I n Miu r 1 u I 1 uoJ1 Advit s It h f r1Ul1 w aNtl April 14th aj tlr Godfrey Lagden British resident commissioner com-missioner returned here yesterday Friday from the scene of operations nar Wepener He and the paramount thhf have statIoned 3000 armed natives to resist possible Boer intrenchmenls Tho orders of tho resident commissioner commission-er are that the Bftsutos arc not to be allowed to cross the Free State frontier fron-tier on any pretense whatever Two natives who crossed and looted an abandoned Boer farm are now In custody cus-tody COL DALGETY SURROUNDED Col Dalgctys position Is strong and well chosen but he Is completely surrounded The Boers have their backs against 11 Basutoland and If they stay much longer they will be hemmed In The I British operations are keenly watched from the neighboring heights Shelling and sniping have been going on steadily I fly during the last six days NO WASTE OF POWDER I Col Dalgetys guns arc admirably served and there IB no waste of ammunition am-munition The Boers when they seethe see-the electric flash of the cordite bolt Into their holes or behind walls Su near are the Borrs and the Basuto guards that they converse Tho ambulances am-bulances are close to the border but tho killed and wounded are not removed re-moved until nightfall In ordiV to conceal con-ceal the number of cacuaUlos The Boers are fatigued and their horses are tired and footsore The Boers attacked fiercely the British northern position on Monday April 3th but they were beaten back at daybreak Nothing Is known hero of the casualties on either side TREATED LIKE CRIMINALS I Lord Roberts In his telegram of protest pro-test to President Kruger regarding the treatment to which tho colonial oUl cars and troops who are now prisoners at Pretoria have been subjected complains com-plains that the Boers have treated them as if criminals confined In jail WHAT ROBERTS CHARGES lie points oul that there are ninety cases of caloric feVcr and dysentery In the prisoners camp at VVaterval that the Trnsaal Government failed to supply on demand of the doctor the necessary medicines and medical comforts that the prisoners were forced lo bivouac on the open veldt that the sick were placed in an open shed with an Iron roof and that It was only when the new doclor threatened to resign that medicines and mattresses mat-tresses were supplied DEMANDS A REMEDY He invites President Kruger to remedy reme-dy this state of things and contrasts 11 with the treatment the British give HI Boer prisoners sick and wounded who us Lord Robot says receive the same treatment as our own sol dlors Four farmers who had takenthe oath to abstain from further cooperation will the Queens enemies were found sIgnaling to the Boers at Karoo Siding Sid-ing and have beau taken to Bloemfon telnIiliEP IvEEP AWAY FROM CAPE Joseph Chamberlain Secretary of Statofnivtha qplnnlca has XGCOlygjI 1 the following IspTtoh rom W35frTRT JUIlner British Hls Commissioner In South Atncji The number of visitors lo South Africa Is constantly increasing Increas-ing and includes many especially ladles la-dles who seem to have no paillcular call of duty or business SERIOUS INCONVENIENCE 1nm sure this would not be the case if it wore realized at home that visitors who In ordinary times would be most welcome may under existing conditions condi-tions become a serious source of inconvenience incon-venience Interfering with the work of tho military and civil ounces and putting put-ting a strain on our limited means of accommodation which are urgently required re-quired for those who have duties to perform here or who arc Invalided at the front frontROBERTS ROBERTS CONCURS 1A considerable increase In the cxr pouso of living nt all times very high Is caused by this excessive influx of visitors and tills Is a hardship to persons per-sons of he latter class After saying that there Is no placeless place-less suitable for recreation than South Africa at present Sir Alfred MJlner concludes as follows Lord Roberts to whom r havo submitted this mea image authorizes me to add that he fully concurs In the views expressed WAR OFFICE RETICENT The War office had nothing to communicate com-municate to the public yesterday It was taken for granted that the rumor of Gen Brabant victory at Wepcner is premature With the remainder of his force he left Allwal North Saturday Satur-day for Rouxville and there has scarcely been time for an engagement There la practically no fresh news this morning AH the Bloemfonteln dispatches however breathe a conll dent tone There seems to be a heavy demand on the railway for ao large an army leave the populace bare of everything save the absolute necessities necessi-ties of life NO IMMEDIATE ADVANCE The fact that the censors allowed Winston Churchills dispatch on the j subject of remounts to PUSH speaks volume for the condition pf tho question ques-tion nnd concerning the prospects of any Immediate advance toward Pretoria Pre-toria The utmost Lord Roberts will him able to do for some time to come will be In the direction of clearing time Boer from the southern part of the Free State WINTER APPROACHES The dUpatche announce the approach ap-proach of winter The Unit pinch of froat has hieeu felt at Bloemfonteln where considerable rain has fallen It Is I sold that PrevldiMit Kruger has visited vis-ited the camp at Kroonstad as well as at Brand fort |