| Show HOW w t THE BATTLE WAS AS WAGED I II I Casualties at n Repulse Aggregate BOER AT for Ilso Iho t 0 oo to by bJ or of ondon Dee 2 South can throw no liGht on the situation at the seat scat ot of war hue ere 1 I no DO or of the report e c uld hold out uv that t weeks longer longcr and It Is III feared that this 35 by the tho D Doers rs for tor theIr own purposes Ills bill hoped that Mr Winston Church t 1 haying arrived safely ol at Delagoa lay biT will soon be heard front regardIng In the ns as he must mut ve obtAined important t Information A dIspatch dated Sunday tI r mh reports that Con Com Diedricks ot of the Uie Doer forces Tas nJ In n a reconnoIter engage gent tnt but no are given sWen Ad Advices vices from describe every cery iS 13 quIet Ih there C mind and the anI only fresh tel tJ from Arundel concerns the tl whIch Is 18 excessively hot The he Dall Telegraph bus a special from ChieveleY December tellS hoW Roberts son ot of teal R RUbIt berta tell fell h t Tugela river It ills Jf ibe hor horSes es of at the fourteenth and batteries had bad been killed Roberta Capt Schofield and VC or of the rUles attempted gun IUn volunteers to drag out the theW rotS W Capt Schofield succeeded ded helped 17 a and some men was lilt hit by a shell Capt Congreve was struck and undal slightly MI r a while Capt Capt Foster and Maj Dap be from the Into u a little ravine where he lay Udden from the terrible lIre fire gunners and sixteen men menel el ct the Devonshire regiment Were with Cot When the retirement was these m men n With Isolated parties It c and Scots to with some ot of lie Queens were cut ot and captured Many fought un Li late lale In the afternoon tl a part ot of the IrIshmen running tile the gauntlet ot of tho iso from hiding places along the r r bank At 6 5 p m in forty Doers approached the he abandoned guns On espying Cob Col Capt Congreve and the tho others In the ravine they called upon the tho to 10 surrender Col BUllock do de and nd threatened to shoot al aI although though his party had haa only tour four rifles The he Boers Beers retired from and n a ensued Then Them n a hundred Doors Boors le UP n a few yards ot of the par parIT IT 1 but Col Bullock swore he would rot Tt ie be made n a prisoner whereupon a 11 knocked him down with his rifle hlL Afterward hc enemy gave our water and cordials Th Then taken All their arms am nl ni nitz tz ana sn field they let lel them re reI retarn I tarn m to 10 our ambulances COl Hun Maj Wetter Waller and Capt were taken prisoners The Tho lost nearly two corn com pul A dispatch to La tho Daily Mall Mail from dated December esti the In Gen as 1150 IncludIng missing It 11 es that a portion ot of the tho troops have returned to Frere A correspondent ot of the Prell eis at river under date ot of Dt lith d describIng the changes I is the Jut art ot of warfare says It would It t to take such a position u by assault The Then n battle batlle owing to the length ot of otI I itte range will last six else days where I rl It would only have lasted n a nell aItT ItT ell houra t The hoer which are rather t ke und dwellings than Ihan always promise cafe ate ot of retreat They are wide and deep and mated t Intervals allowing the ConCentration Qt of defenders at any rift thea point without danger to them Tra Te The here are anxious that tt Boers Beers should attack them and the Id Is prevalent that treachery Is fJ for tor th the under placed on the fleer Doer forces by sou Th Chieveley correspondent ot of the theard CI ard who attrIbutes the whole Ier In Gen Bullets re reto to the mIstake ot of Cal Col Long IAnI In l rr the artillery too close to the laYS Cob Col Long Iong fired for tor ninety s and simply exhausted bIs am The war office has issued IUt an official r r against sUbjects or oroa oa ra In British territory trading I or Supplying time the Boer Beer republic ter r dl UY or Indirectly U with any had q ot f merchandise whatsoever ThIs Ii a regarded ns as that thal the gor 0 has haa good gooi evidence ot of such suche trite e and that even some English hl hae been supplying lie enemy 11 through for tor torn t n it ls ii that two battalions t te guards bo be Included In the r ht h Lanb r ivill join Lord Rob nob ra eti at Gibraltar The earl cuI ot of Erroll lord high ot of Scot Will accompany the Ille commander tt lii In special service The carlot earl of k 11 Iby bLaT Is j raisIng a corps ot of volunteers Mr Ir Victor Christian Cn member ot of Parliament for tor t th t ut anti and h ot of duke u e ot of Devonshire has bias olun eted to go to the front The e Capetown the t corr ot of Under date of December I I s The hl fighting line 15 I very cry I n a sinGle success might I it Il completely complete The Tho real dan em I is not net the military tUIl I ta but UI the likelihood ot of a Dutch re rear ar which would make tho area ot of otSo So Vast that an itta be easily swallowed Up tip In lt the length ot of II to the tardy acceptance c l tane forces the cor sa says G n Duller 7 at t the begInning displayed II a 1 D and s 11 I local nl advice Iee or assistance eli events quickly modified 0 Dally Daily Nt Nt sees seea immense Immen signi I I In the fact act that Lord Roberts 1 n his hili staff Ulan author ot of n a life ot of Gen Gent Jaein the t t terr a man Vho has bas closely stU tu lie ot of the American Civil lt I tI It a lie he has baa not nol served Lord tord Roberts before and Is l but know non n to him I personally er The lit i regarded by the Ibe Dall DalI at Lord Roberts Roberta belief Iou t bal is II wanted In the war In Inis 1 is 11 strict a application ot of rI S II Principles It also aho connects 4 tn with lIh the rumor that I Ill t sued served under Germ Gen Stone Tbt ot of the Dally Daily Is discussing the hoer Doer ot of I f war Var and recruits by byI I I way of th the port of Loronzo Lorenzo soya Is undoubted ly by doing her utmost to 10 check the tran ot of war material for Ute the Doers Boors through bay bly although Great Grent Britain would do welt to make a demand for tor greater watch well Portugal how over is III In constant t terror ot of a Doer raid on tier her African possessions and cannot stop slop the passage ot of volunteers for tor the tho rime rho following dIspatch atch has been re received from Lrenzo Lorenzo Maiques under date of December regarding WIn Winston ston sIan from the tho Booms Mr wrote Gen Jou Joubert rt on oi December r lh asking to he bo released on oil the tho ground grund of beIng n a war eerie corrO Germ Gen Joubert on 01 December that Mr Churchill had hadI I been cn retained because he had been reps rep represented resented as 38 a assIsting an train to escape Ito added addel that M was vas unknown to him but he would accept his as aa e that lie he was a noncombatant would order Isis his release The order arrived at Pretoria ton hours bourt after Mr Churchill had escaped leaving behind him hIn II a Ie letter Iter eXl expressing rc gratitude for tor forthe the tr tm nt lie had received No York Dec ol of Aldermen today adopted n a resolution pr praying the ot of battles to make the Doers successful tul In tIme the war against England The resolution now wilt will go co coto goto to tIme Council and If that Ulal bodY con concurs concurs curs Will come before Mayor Van VanWyck Wyck ek for his approvaL m El Paso Puo Tex Dee Dec 22 Southern Pacific switch engine j jumped the track while Just of at the pas passenger depot afternoon and headlong Into the bag baggage ce room utterly It Dozens of persons were standing In Inthe inthe the vicinity One man was instantly killed Rn amid two to injured The Thu dead man Ian has not been bits head was 09 d by the heavy tim lisa timbers hers bers so 10 that he could not be but he wore the clothing ot of n a laborer Switchman J 3 D 1 Giffor was stand standing ing 1111 on the lie He was In Injured injured about the Ck and legs James Cooney ot of Marshall town la Ia was wall caught by timbers and sue sus tamed injuries to both bolh hips Defective flanges were svere Ih time cause ot of the accident Time engine had haA jumped the several times limes recently |
