| Show FIT FIGHT FITIN IN AFRICA t t Boers Havo a Battle In b WHich the tho Whites Win Winf f Alt ENGLAND url n ni I tO 1 In Tu ny D teth In Ia tou Marquez Thursday Decem December ber Swart front from tho nager at ko kop zier Ze r sl he bad ha nn engagement on imber lilli Ind with In tho ot of The komrs n ii fortified were well wr fr orner After firing the the Il position I losIng three kIlled Md and five wounded I London Deo Othe teh from hint nt Important movement as s Imminent ThIR Ihl Is Interpreted with somo omo to lien Oell huller Duller 1 n a renewal noal ot of his to relle relieve Io It 11 Is reported b tho stunt that the Door Boors hl now retired to the north bank of thle th being that the swollen rl rIver r mRY bor their ii 11 trent The They are their Isag IFS HII liener Ind with the tho Intention ot of sure on the thO which now to III be heavily from Crom It IS IP however to conceive that Jon on huller another Attack nos that the 1 Is and nn this Is i not his oae Is the f fL t that lie he hos removed his hll head hend back to 10 l The Tho Hoer northward from Cram the Tugela Is s Quite In with this the plan of securing a safe saCe line IIno ot of otI I letrent It Is known that tha t further artillery Is II dUe thue to 0 arriVe lor Gen Con huller Buller but the tho belief here bore Is that his even III be hoo weak lie He may however ho bo animated I cd by b 1 a delre to m b ro the of Lord and to the keenness of lilt bi m n to their defeat The en em nt with I ii ery And be explaIned t the ot of later ll r Tho Thie rimes has ha the dated I Muir quez for fOl the hv h t dwIndled to one o of lIl the but bUI large shipments I are expected from Europe In th meantime there are I persistent rumors here bere and In Durban that guns and nd are through for or the A French liner no now In the tho harbor I Is sold to have hae brought two tO large guns from fromI I The nit head hend IlS ures mo me that thol there Is absolutely no ground f r h er for or such rumors The Tho goods he sayi lire are discharged examined and dispAtched by daylight So great Is the I stringency according to this that enn re I not delivered to local tm orter 1 in small lots guarantees guaran tees tee The rho sanie taken I with Ih r to nil all 1 des cles ot Of course much le P 1 th the l and of sub I 1 The TImes hns hig ti hinter hater dispatch from Loureno dated December which fays The that the n floer r Intelligence Is In InI Ina a I Chose IOE touch with a 1 foreign consulate In Is by the fact that tha I Ithe the of the of at Lord c as a In InI J I waa generally generall known Iii Pretoria December IndIrectly t I reaching on from the th Trans Transvaal vaal two days das later flUor Suspicion rests I a who Is notorious for or his hll I Boor DOr sympathy There Is I reason to he be that thai Pretoria Is 15 kept well In Informed formed with re regard rd to British military movements to the rumors of at contraband It Is signIficant that hat Maj Erasmus of the Iho Proc FrEi State artillery Is here hett his arrival being coin coincident with that or of the French liner I I Considering tile the fre freedom dom wIth which the secret fund Cund is IK spent considerable ma may be beI I II lone done unless are Il b by British searchers who understand for Cor forI CorI I ein bills of lading I The rho odder river of at the tho Tim referring to the ot of the l WS rays Their I causee ous much among the I BritIsh It It is quite certain flint half I 1 th tho Beer force torce is 15 employed I by day and the other halt half by night I 1 Probably this the consequent I with the of water and the I ot of typhoid will render the I hoer Boer posItIon Intolerable I eat nt netlon is 19 due to a scare or orto j f to n a wish to cover n a retirement to tom toE m E ln I Tb rho publishes the following t dispatch om Chleo y Camp dated daled I 1 De PartIes ot of hoer ap tOdAy within three mile nutie of at i Camp threatening our i watering parties partie who 1110 ale II d to go some two mIles owing to Ihie I ot of t r It 11 is bet the I d n made 1 a sortie J on Thursday and captured ii 0 lull hili The Tho Capetown or of the hue I Dally DaIly Newt says Ifa A leadIng resident ot of who was WIS released by the Doers Boers ea saw 2000 colonials land West lie says 1 Cacre sees ate 0 to lie be reen everywhere In the Doer L I rAnks Commandant fn man reports as fot fol follows lows from On Monday Monda morn mornIng Ing the enem enemy from Mafeking attAcked one of at our for forts In force furce with wilh cannon and an armored t train ln ud and so 10 1 I ly Iy that there wn was right on the of the tb fort nut But W have han re I tamed our tort fort BrItIsh tIN is lire is re rePorted Ported as a aj J The other commanded report All quint with TUh th the exception ll of the hl bombardment ot at Gee GD Meyer has hali and returned to the front 1 AIM I dated Sun Sunday day dart D lh via IB uy say Oen White hu had hac t I It tt t slight attack of fever but he La is now 1 con all II The Doer fire hu has been err S 8 d m r recently Oft On Friday one h b shell killed IIII da In and wounded wound nine nib I The missile fourteen horses 1 Another r Just missed miMed the laneer II lInes nef wounding six Ix Several l hl hey to Gen hou house the removal l ot of to MOther Point I It Is II reported that Cen Is II 3 again In command of the iii h here The military authorities a lr cone coni dent hut but they Are Arf very cr have hav Ln been moving northward o 0 nail westward in large Th The of the Daily Moll dahi telegraphing the f of nn an interview with the GenS Gen S L eral eta son Ion of oC the famous I Gourko Tho aho is II how about to I start for Cor I Pretoria says that the hue offie the following I 1 have beet bee offered the of IL a hoer noer army corps In my own mind I Ant absolutely o ot of the or o You Inn take my worth WON tei It thousands ot of JlII oro aro o Oen LOrd writes Ia e this morning to thus the limes There Ihen are dl dIs dIsquieting quieting intimations which appear to toll ll tl to our government having tented na its of war As AI lila Is III n a matter of oC I 1 Venture to 10 this line to you Ou In the tho hope hOIl that thU It elicit un an dUo au statement on the subject The Times commenting editorially Lord lold nOl letter M say Too little I Is known koon of the seizures for Cor any valid e safely to be drawn An emergency might arise when a 11 certain be reo re 1111 a whIle others would not especially It the latter Itter tor or There might for tor be reasonable GOod I for tor treatIng conned canned goods 1 us eon con auth lour hour III as legitimate admitting that It would be to create creato t it 1 roc nl which might seine day doy b be Invoked against t tie 1111 the lie lo n as follows hiIe we fully share thus the view that no serious change DC at policy should occur without etu ent and ample con lion wo ve cannot but bul nile sk ll whether In the or of Britain being on In III a 11 War the UIO action nollon either ot of the enemy or even een of neutral IJ Orl In n a matter liuch greet gmt or of opinion still I Is likely to lIo ho by I any ony prece dent wo we or nn one Olle else elle may hoe have set setin et etIn In the than b by the Imme UI ot of Ih lie moment |
