| Show CEN FRENCHS VICTORY British Capture One Gun and a Large Amount of Stores or Troops In ltd o QI iii hI f for r Colonial London Jan The Dally Daily Mall has hal the following dispatch dated January let 1st front Yesterday afternoon a big force torce of cavalry and infantry with ten tell guns gulls under the personal command or of Gen trench moVing by detour occupier occupied hills three miles from where the were In strength con In the natural aid afforded them by the hills around The posItion extended six si similes miles around the entire village At da day our artillery opened the battle fhe taken by surprise reo re ll vigorously I An artillery duel was maintained for tor two hours Then Ehen II a Doer HotchkIss collapsed and wa was aban doid We Wc captured It A Doer bl big gun was silenced Jut but thIs hue and ond the other Doer guns wore were withdrawn to the northward rd whither we are arc harassing the Doer retreat by a damaging shell shellfire shellfire fire Is In Our hands and the few remaining loyalists are jubIlant We h have wagons and I it consIderable Quantity or at II stores to res Our loss was Wall quite slight but tUt the Doers must have hao suffered heavIly They hey may stop at or cross the tho river all together at where the bridge Is still Intact Tile The success of Gen Oen French In tiny lug Ing the Doers from has shot shota a welcome ray of light through h the giboin of the c campaign In South Africa Everywhere It Is commented upon as asan astin tin an example of sound tactics and as an illustration of what Ina may be done when the rIght methods are employed with the Doers The government Is urged I to tale take the lesson to heart henrt und and see that no stone Is left unturned In the endeavor to get Iet the tho largest possible force ot of cavalry and mounted infantry to the front Now that Gen I French rench has the Doers Doerson on the run the hope e Is expressed that he wilt wll give them no rest but wilt will harass them Un until they ha have e found their wn way across the Orange river Which La Is twelve miles distant The old wagon waon route to the Free State tra traverses traverses verses and crosses the rIver b by II a fine fino bridge 1210 feet teet long It Is that the Doers retreated to toward toward ward further cast and till the whether Gop Gen French will be able to secure these two brIdges before the Doers destro destroy One important result of the ot if Gen Con French rench Is that It will have n a tie effect on I Dutch disaffection There Is 19 seine disposition here to exa gerato tile the importance of small skit anti engagements It should be borne borno In mind that Gnu French has hos only 2000 men and so far as the tant points of campaign are nrc Concerned the sitUatIon Is virtually ed At Tugela river the liners Hoers appear alDar to he be modifying somewhat their line ot of defense Gen Oen scouts have die covered n a Doer camp established In the vicinity of Springfield southwest of Colenso b by n a Free State Stale commando A movement has been made at Modder river A large lare force ot of I Doers It Is reported baa hns formed II a new about fifteen miles down the stream at I Heliograph reports tram from show that thiat all well on December lit Th The bombardment WM vita being con 1111 Intensity had bad relaxed An from I the report cabled yesterday that several officers of oC the tho regiment were severely wounded by the explosIon ot of a Doer Beer shell in III the tho mou I tent Durban Jan Jati Imperial Mall Mail steamer of the tho German East African line WEll was seized by the cruller cruiser Ma on the thi ground that she ws is ontra band of at war In Flay hac been blen I brought to the wharf and is 18 now guard guarded ed by marines and bluejacket The United States German I and Austrian military Who spent the tho holidays In Durban returnee to the front this timis evenIng The rho White Star line Ma which h loft letl Liverpool with 2000 troops arrived here to tin tiny Capetown Jan lU h rumors arc aro arcin In cIrculation of a Dutch rising with the th object of seizing Capetown and the docks anti capturing the tho governor 01 Cape Calle Colony SIr Alfred The Th ot of the movement Is said to be bc n a village about thirty miles t Capetown where of at the kander Bunt was held yesterday esterd A similar meeting wits held itt at Rich Richmond Richmond mond on December and It Is rl re reported ported that the members of oC the Bun DundIn BunIn In these two towns are In conS con concert cert cort The members ot of the Dunt at WillIng ton anti and the Dutch In Clan William die are said to be armed with Mausen I and to be 10 anxious to use thom them In behall r of oC the Doers Although the stories of at a rising are an t discredited the Police and military are an taking nipple precautions Stricken In iii the tho Street Oakland Ca al Jan FrederIck C W lv Hall hail vite of a veli known attorney is 19 dead of heart disease She Wa stricken down on the tho street stroet while on het wa way to church servIces on Now 0 Years I nl night ht Her father tather C S NoC 19 I I and manager of the Wash D C Star ant and her brother Frank NO f Is also a promInent Jour ot of that city Mrs Mu Hall hail was a i I member ot of several womans clubs an iI I I was very er prominent socially I |
