Show BOERS ELUDE BRITISH Surprised by Kitchener Delary Gets Away NARROWLY ESCAPES THE NET Fifteen Hundred Burghers Attacked by Britons Forced t Desert Their Guns Which The Had Captured From the Von Donop Convoy Brilliant Bril-liant Feat of Scottish Horse Who Charged Tip t Muzzles of Artillery Desperate Fight ltnde by Fiva < Canadians Pretoria Transvaal March 2 AboutaSOO Boers under Delarey Lle bonborg Kemp and Wolmarans were within the area of Lord Kitcheners latest movement but though surprised by the rapidity displayed by tho Brit ish troops gaps in the latters lines enabled most of the burghers to escape es-cape The Boer prisoners totaled 179 men Including Commandant 1 Kru ger and former Landrost Noethllng of Klerkadorp DKLABEY OUTSIDE THE CORDON From the first prisoners captured it was learned that Gen Delarey himself was outside the actual cordon having slept mo distance westward but Lie benborg Kemp and other Boers were Inside the columns of the troops The first body consisting of tbout BOO Boers sighted at 10 oclock In the morning March 24th retreated at full speed making for a gap between the British columns RUN FOR AN OPENING A race for the opening ensued Briti Ish mounte Infantry which had already al-ready ridden upward of fifty miles pressed their tired horses until many of them gave out when the men Jumped off and raced forward on foot Some of the mounted men however were able to gallop right Into the gap Just ahead of the burghers whom they met with a warm fire These troops nlco succeeded In driving back another body of 300 Boers who were forced to desert the guns they had captured from the Von Donop convoy southwest south-west of Klerksdorp In February SUCCEED IN ESCAPING The Boers tried to get through several sev-eral openings but on each occasion were forced to double back until they ultimately found n sap and passed out of the British lines within sight a Klerksdorp Night fell before tha lursulnS column could overtake the BoersMADE MADE SPLENDID DEFENSE Five Canadians who fell out of their columns and tried to work their way back were surrounded by a Boer force and made a splendid defense But finally seeing their case was hopeless four of the Canadians surrendered The fifth however refused to throw down his arms and continued a single handed fight until he was killed This was regarded as one of the most heroin Incidents the day BOERS RESOURCEFUL An Illustration of the resourcefulness of the Boers was given by Llebonborg and several hundred men who taking advantage of the confusion of tho drive formed a commando similar In arrangement to that of a British column col-umn Moving close to one of the numerous num-erous gaps In one of tho British lines they succeeded In reaching It and In tCP getting safely away before their ruso was X discovered BRILLIANT FEAT The guns captured from Von Donop3 convoy were brilliantly recaptured by the Scottish horse which charged up to tho muzzles of the artillery and rOde the Boer gunners off their feet before the latter had a chance to fire |