Show LATE GEN 3VIAREUIL Correspondent on tho London Mail neslQtdent YCoramander French Legion l t London April SThc Blocnifonloln correspondent of the Dally Mull tele graphlng Friday and referring to tho death aL Boshof of Gen dc Vlllobols Mrfrcull commander of the French legion of the Boer army says He was a tine type of the French beau Sabrerur bravo dashing highly I In leJIigent loving war yet u polished gentleman at home and a scholarly and alpiost r brilliant writer lie was of far 1m high a type to be understood by tho Boers who showed open contempt for to his his advice and disobedience ordcrS llo It was who warned Gel cronjo J being Hanked by Lord that he WHM hilng lanked Koberis Cronje replied angrily the British will ncW leave Lhe railway The French rtlllccr persisted sa jug i I It was obvious that the British meant I t ouUlnnk the BQcrs Then Cronjo i shouted Boy keep still I was u soldier before you were born I r THREE BRITONS MISSING SA dlHptach from Alhvul North dated Saturday April 7 says The Tloyal Irish rifles which have been fullback full-back from Rouxvlllo arrived hero safely i safe-ly last night Their retirement was J oqvprod by n detachment sonl by Gen Brabant frustrating the Boer and Interrupting I In-terrupting the movement of 1u enemy fiom RouxvlHe Lieut Bonzy and I fom fouxYlle iwo I men of Brabants detachment of the Border Horse arc missing rwo Boers were killed in the rear guard action A strong Boer commando Is Relon I reported to be at Wnlsekop fourteen nftles west of Rouxvlllo THREATENED BY STEYN THfEAT8NED BY I President Steyn In his address to the Free Slate Yol < mud at Kroonstad oil Wednesday April 1th said the I Burghers wore in a better position than at the commencement of hosllll those who had tJt > 3 He threatened Biirrenedor to the British and announced an-nounced that I the Free State had bor bcd half a million from the Transvaal Trans-vaal I for the purpose of war England I Eng-land he declared had broken every convention SAYS WAR WILL SOON END r Tleferrlng to the correspondence with I Lord Salisbury he observed That the destiny of the republics Is in Higher hands than those of the British CfOvernment namely In the hands of tjiy pcople of France Russia and Germany Ger-many who arc agitating for intervention interven-tion The war will soon end I It be I true that i Boer prisoners have been sent to Sl Helena we would be Justi I fed In consigning British prisoners to the lowest depths oftho Johannesburg mlneo QUIET AT BLOEMFONTE1N The Bloemfonteln correspondent of the Dally Telegraph In a dispatch dated Friday says All is quiet here Remounts and reinforcements are HI riving and preparations are being made to deal with the enemy Last Tuesday Tues-day many of the historic regiments llko the Scots Grey the Ennlskillen dragoons and the I lancers could not rnuater a hundred mounted men while I artillery horses were very very scarce The enemy have now been entirely cleared out from the position they lately occupied north of Glen and the British force there Is being considerably consider-ably augmented Lord KHchoner commands the railway rail-way to the Fouth and our positions ore spcure against I Interruption I The troops are all I in I good spirits though I badly In need of clothing and booth STRIPKEN WITH PNEUMONIA The Cape Town correspondent of the Dally Nows telegraphing Friday says Owing to f lack of horses and lo the Buffering of the mel from pneumonia clue to thin clothing Lord Roberts has declded not to make a big move until Uniforms ljic troops arc provided with thicker 1 WOMEN ORDERED TO LEAVE The Bloemfontein correspondent of the Mpnilng Post telegraphing Friday says No anxiety need be felt as to thQ security of Bloemfonteln although I tie enemy may succeed In destroying r I tplegraphio communication and even in culling the railway for a brief Ilorlorl A number of civilians Includ Hug I Lady Uontlnck and Lady Edward Cecil who arrived here recently from Qapo Town left today In compliance xvhh a general order issued by the authorities NINTH DIVISION MOVES Another dispatch from Bloemfonteln dated Friday April Cth says The IfintU division under Gel Colvllle marched Wednesday In the direction of HxClnlionloln but arrived too late to disperse q gathering of Boer leaders who had assembled there for conference con-ference The division returned here t today The Boers have shot a Free State Burgher named McCasklll who vyas employed by the British as conductor con-ductor of tho wagons which the Deem captured at the BloemfoiHeln l water tforkH Gen Gatacre has retired to Buthany on orders from headquarters to guard the railway |