Show t t V p DUTCH tJ IN CAPE COlONY t I Parm ers Flocking to Boer Laagers and 1 1 1 Receiving the Invaders with Every Ivery Demonstration of Joy L Lf f f 1 1 J Jj j c Annexation of British Territory Gocs on oer S H Make alt an Impression Among the 1 Advance Settle Down for n a 0 Among the of Doers Ahead of General Battle Expected at 1 Collision Expected at of Doer Defeat and il i 1 11 Retreat Near Steyn to the r Front ont and President Kruger Wants ants to Go 00 Too hi r rII II I II I London JAndon Dee Dec war wor office has hias received the tho following message from Gun Gen the British r at Capetown Wednesday Dee Dec 6 Methuen wIres today that lie he ho has resumed coin oom mand and is III nightly In communication with The health of the troops Is excellent A story was as current at Durban Tues Toes day December to the effect ertelt that lint the floors Dors mode made what Is thought to hoc hase been their final effort tb 1 e December and were de defeated Ceat d and retreated As 11 the story was brou ht I by rumors It should be r re calved with reservation na as the unto liability or of these liege Is notor bus lous According to this report ruport the flours Dours open opened ell a 11 furious bombardment durIng the morning of D December ember contin cantin tied lied It for Cor hours houts when the British b fi 11 nally sIlenced the hoer guns made a sortIe ortle und and hard lighting followed the retreating after aCter very ery hea heavy losses JOllieS estimated In hundreds The dIspatches from Frera camp par tally confirm a 11 retirement ot of Free FreeState State SlAte burghers from he ot of Jut but do not net indicate that the lie retreat nt was the tha result ot of fl 0 defeat deCent on the while the statement In Ill the tho same that thin Doers Boors Were re Into shows the then n Beer r runs uns were still actIve It Is also out that nil all sug 8 etione refer Fr Fres a Stators Apparently this T Doors ate are still full Cull of oC tight fight though It Is III reiterated ted that theY arc short ot of supplies According to a dispatch from Oln G longer laager dated December rd the French and Austrian military attaches had arrived there while the attaches had gone cono to join the tho Door forces along the thie river where a collision was momentarily ex cx II Perhaps an explanation of the to re of the burghers burchers Natal cnn can lIo be found Cound In a dispatch from Mod Iod tIer der river December 3rd saying that a strong fiber noer force COrte estImated to nOun her ber 2000 men was reInforcing Gao Cronje frau Natal The same dispatch says everything Points Joints to 0 the feet that thata a 1 great would bo be taught ot at The Tho hosts are massing on the hills he hore are oro vIgorously building stone alone defenses and are digging title rillo pits In iii over every direction The Tho redoubts on RIdge west of ar are also allO be beIng belag lag Ing extended and strengthened show in that the rumors ot of the lie Intentions or of the tho Doors Doers to abandon the attempt to atom Oen advance are unfounded Thu British ha have 0 shifted their camp a afew few tew hundred yards fard away from the lie bat and are settling down for tor a 11 week are some oases of fever among the troops l lIuch Much on Gen ad There is III undoubtedly a large concentratIon of oC Doers ahead ot of Gen Methuen Practically the whole ot of their i Mafeking forces Corces hao joined the Rim I I berlo berloy besiegers An n account of at the tho sortie tit at November when tl the o 1 British casualties as cabled yester yeste yesterday day occurred says The demonstrated toa towards S Wimbledon rifle range The enemy I guns were positioned from the ridge at i J to Wimbledon Siding BidIng Major r with the mount d troops attacked the right flank cap turing a longer and three I The enem enemy In the four redoubt made a stubborn resistance In which Major j was killed The Tho British r ca captured many shells and destroy detroY d I other stores The same SAmo give gle reports from Crom Col December anti showing the Beers were Increased In numbers around Kimberley The hoer advance In the northeastern part of Cape c Colon Colony Is to to The local farmers are ing to the tho Doer langers tho ho rile Ille In man many welcoming lie tho Invaders with eel every demonstration ot of Jo Joy The rhe annexation of oC British tory lory proceeds doll dall Doer successes base hae made II a great stun among the AdIce from sn say the guy ov has two m men s sages sage to reach Churchill The fhe mint mini at is II a 11 hundred sovereIgns monthly j 4 Th The war bus hua ben been the had five fie killed and twenty live wounded In the tho from froni Kim t berley berle November three r e J i colonIal officIals t Special teh s from Crom Lorenzo Maiques dated December th B ray PresIdent r Is only prevented from going to the he front by the objections bJ of oC members of the council Mrs Irr Kruger It Is II odd added r Is 1 ill III The announcement Is made In a 0 ape chill dispatch from Crom dated Sunday December 3 3rd rd that Ire l I Steyn of the Orange Free State Stat has t joined the forces Corces of oC the Madder river Ills lIts appearance the dispatch I lays Caused grout great enthusiasm among the floors Irs It Is reported from Orange river to I dab that dead floors were tak n to after aCter the battle baUle of Del I mont Frere Camp Natal da Dec runner from to ti tida today da day reports all well The bombard mont ment the messenger adds continues but I Is Ineffective the Doer shells only hitting the houses Dec c d I he lucre from the different Hoer Boer forces Corces say all is II q lul except at Kimberley Whore where on an armorel l train mede a sortie this morning r The Orange Free State has hal pro proclaimed claimed he annexation of oC ht about miles mUes north ot of Queenstown Cope Cape Golon Colony The bridge It Is also alao an p III he so completely ruined that It will be a 11 work of great magnitude rot for lither either belligerent to restore It The British tired Ired on some lome republIcan scouts south of Tuel this morning There were no casualties s sA A newspaper correspondent named Lynch who entered the tho floor Boer lines at on Monday with the thele a le ed purpose of exchanging pets pers has hIlS been made a 11 prisoner and whit be brought to |