Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-02-22 | Page 2 | Boer Forces Routed

gJf 1 BDIrORCES IflTED Gen Devilliers Forced Back I i j I by Gen Methuen > BOER LOSS EIGHTEEN MEN L British Casualties Three Officers and f 4 Siteen ireii Killed Five Officers and TwentyFive Men Wounded = Hcthuens Force Has Arrived at i 11 k KlcrlcBdorp Boers Capture Trainload t Train-load of Foodstuffs Near Natal p I Gen Louis Botha Declares He Will Surrender f Never 1 t 4i I s London Feb 2The WarofliCeh 1 received the following from Lord i Lord Kitchener 3 KJerkadorp Feb Methucns forco marched here having cleared the coun If 4 v Mirniiii Wolmarostadt At Haart i 1X100 Boers under Gens DovllIlcrs and Llenbcnb erg opposed him They held a strong position obstinately but I were turned out after severe fighting In 1 which tho Yeomanry the Victorian q Bushmeii and the Lancoshircs distinguished I i iI i guished themselves Our casualties 3 were three ofliccrs and thlrtcen men i Il killed and live officers and twentyfive Inch wounded The Boers left eighteen dead on the ground and suffered severe J BOERS CAPTURE A TRAIN I Tho Boers destroyed a culvert between be-tween Natal Spruit and Klip river 6n I the railroad Just south of here at dawn i i today They captured a tralnload of jooflstufTs and after taking all they I could conveniently carry set lire to the rest of It and disappeared over Wet I t I Veldt I j BOTHA TALKS TO HIS MEN 1 l A deserter who has arrived here relates I re-lates that CommandantGen Louis 1 Botha assembled his men February 2nd I I and addressed them dcclarlrgthatithcy I c rhould never surrender so long as there were BOO left He would nlwaya bo r ready to lead them he says Botha reminded re-minded them that the American colonies 1 colo-nies fought for more than six years to i i i j Y secure independence and appealed to 1 them to fight as long or even longer If J necessary until not even a mnn was yi left r leftSome of the burghers replied that they ail < not sec how they could fight I r much Jonger as the British were de I stroyfiurrnll the crops and capturing all i c the cattle and sheep while the ammunition I am-munition was nearly exhausted save about sl > rounds When this is gone 1 they saldl where shall we get more I i GenBothareplied that the Lord would provlJe 7tIiem with the means of fighting 7H fight-ing