| Show L i FIGHT WITH DEWET BRITISH AND BOER FORCES MEET NEAR PHILIPSTOWIT French Reports a Large Force of the S Boers Being Driven on the Piet Rif London Feb 15The War ofllco has received the following dispatch from Lord Kitchener r Pretoria Feb HOur troops arc I now engager with Christian Deweta force north of Phlllpstown which We hold Dowet having crossed the Orange Or-ange river at Zand Drift apparently moving west French reporting from n point twenty five miles southeast Ermelo states that a large force of the enemy Is being driven on the Plot Rlf their efforts to break back having so far been I frustrated The Ennisklllcns charged the enemy I who left five killed and six wounded on the ground Ten Boers were captured cap-tured and there was a large capture of wagons carts and cattle Our cas ualtles wounded were one killed and five Fighting is reported to have taken place near Aberdeen oft Friday and Saturday last the Boers being worsted I Is reported from Capetown that the wife Commandant Botha left Pretoria Pre-toria With a military escort to endeavor to got her husband to surrender The Boers tried unsuccessfully to destroy de-stroy a culvert near Capetown Severe fighting ensued the Boats leaving three klllQd And twentythree wounded behind be-hind The British lost one killed and two wounded It Is rumored from l Melbourne that Mr ChamberlaIn has asked if a thousand thou-sand men could be recruited in Australia Austra-lia for Gen BadenPowells constabulary constabu-lary |
