Show COINCON COINCON ON AT Stubbornly Resist the British at Every Point but Gradually Retreat from Their Positions Position en French Says tie He Can Carry the Place with British War Var Reports Modify Estimate of Success Lost One Train and Had to Retreat with Called at Attacked by the Boers British to Treat Sunnyside Prisoners as Rebels Rather than luau thanas as Prisoners of on th the German erman Mail Bay Negotiations Cape Colony Jan 3 B ers attacked Molteno Is morning A brisk action I now Cape Colony Colon Jan 3 here was vas brIsk bik fighting toda today In the Ills around The Doers Boors tub the British at every 1 tnt Int but retreated The Th held the extreme position o 0 the south ai east cast overlooking the own The hiLls around are not In but In groups group aking It very ery to hunt the out Sixteen wounded have havo arrived at Arundel London Jan news from the math man camps In South Africa trIca whose future action can alone hae an effect on the Inger Issues ot of the campaign the British public is makIng the most ot of Col Pitchers mInI miniature battle Unbounded tribute Is paId to the prowess of the Canadians and Australians and graphia accounts are published ot of the nt itt Douglass as the vIctors entered that place The Che rep ot of the Associated Press the flying column fas as The immediate result of Cot U i hers Is the etre dispersal ot of oto o 0 rebels who have been governing the for tor the past six weeks f After SunnysIde wae captured thet thel oronto occupied the laager langer for tor the theIl Il ht and JoIned the main bod body the tho morning brIngIng the whole ct f the tho Doer tents wagons and loot antI and leaving the tho In garrison at The Tho British force then or Douglass the Toronto bringinG UI the rear In wagons In the the tho troops entered the tho town unopposed find and amid extraordinary dinar scenes Cene The Che Inhabitants were and crowded about the sol shakIng hands handa with them and when they l learned that their deliverers wore were Canadians and Australians the en became frenzied There were vere cle rs as ao the tho troops tnt tm versed e d the maIn street and It was al 01 almost most Impossible for them to make progress ress the crowds eing so eager nger to shako hands with tho colonials It appears that the and sit u the mounted rebels evacuated the place the pr previous louB night The axe reported to be In Inthe Inthe the vicinity Quantities of ammunition ti ere Captured and destroyed A dispatch from the Modder river In Ini inmates i I mates that the prIsoners not be treated as prisoners ot of war ut ns as British subJects caught In open i I At the fodder Modder river camp the conduct I t r the colonIals Is greatly admired and II are delighted that they hare hae struck ho first blow on the western mutter frontier Ince the battle of It la Is the relief ot of will quickly follow tollow The latest advices from the tend to modify the estimate of Gen Frenchs success The predicted of had not been last evening while the guns announced to have hae been were still sUII active The war wac this aft afternoon a dIspatch elved elrd from Gen French under yes es date saying his position was he same sarno its on the prevIous day that Ith small reinforcements he could dis odge the Boers Doel from and In he meantime he continued maneuver ng Gen Duller continues his nIght born bom and patrol surprises As the Tugela river rIer Is again fordable rid nd the thu stretcher bearers have hae again ien en r at Durban and there Is n a disposition o 0 believe bellee that the British advance will wUl t be long delayed It I is reported at Durban that the CliP cap German steamer had hada n a board five big guns fiU fifty tons of hells and ISO trained artillerymen NothIng further has been heard from froni wl h was reported from to have been attacked by bye e Hoers this morning So far nil n lown here there Is only n a small force there thore A from 8 that the tha hoer Doer ut u hM has dIed ot of othIs hIs A PIOla from flensborg dated Tuo dal Jan 2 sya saye n a I train without n a locomotive W was act In motion within tHe tHo British linea neat nd proceeded ao 60 near the TIGer Boar posItIon that It Ii was to recover It II and the guna U there them tora or the trucks hucks It Is 19 sus ted that this was the thc act ut of n a traI traItor tar tor The Tho supply train aas another die patch from ran Into n a broken and was a wrecked The Thc Boers Hoera began gan lootinG It and Bensberg train was dispatched to the scent scene In nn an to recover the provisions Tho Doers opened tire fire on the troops troop and na natIve tIve accompanying It forcIng the see ec ord ond trIn to retreat lifter after several ot of the natives natlee had been killed The Tho total BrItish casualties about Cole berg In two to days das were six men killed and 20 wounded It 11 Is that the tho particular now lit at Gibraltar will willbe willbe be ordered to South Africa as soon as the tho squadron returns to Gib Gibraltar The Tho particular service squad squadron ron of cruisers I Ls eald to be just suited to watch Delagoa bay bayA A special dispatch from dated Tuesday Jan 2 says sas the ish command brIdge with two guhe and also command the Cobs Coles bur bridge and that the Doers Boors have no way a to retreat except b by wa way ot of The dIspatch adds that big develop developments ments lire are expected tomorrow At t Lord headquarters t a reporter of at the Associated d Iress was ras that the duke ot of Marl b s otter offer to accompany the Ox Y to has not yet ot been accepted in of the p published statements to the contrary U Is further saId It Is quite likely he will not go to South Africa as he ni al alrea rea ready has Jias a black mark against him on account of being marrIed and hIs suc ot of the tho medIcal n atlon Is doubtful The amateur golf Ball Dall Jr has been ordered to South Africa with the yeomanry The Pall Mall Gazette today nn an announces that WInston Churchill the newspaper correspondent who was cap captured by the Doers Boers In Natal and taken to PretorIa whence ho he escaped and arrived safely at Delagoa ba bay has been en appoInted a squadron leader In the South African horse From a source which has lias many ties or of gaining Inside news from South Africa the Associated Press learns that Cot Col occupation of Douglass Is I regarded nil as merely the first step of Gen matured plans to outflank the Doers Boors According to thIs n It Is probable Cob Col Pilcher In conjunction with Gen blab Bab force from the will 11 proceed to the rear ot of tho those In which now pr prevent vent Moth uen from proceeding to Col Coi Pilcher has hns on only I alK about ut forty miles travel before he achIeves thIs end and It If this understandIng Is correct an attack by Gen and Il a deter determIned determined mIned effort to relieve may maybe maybe be expected any otlY da daThe day The Associated Press has hIlS been In Informed Informed formed on good authority that Great will not take Delagoa ba bay The British government It Is said ald does not contemplate any such step In spIte or of orthe the clamor of the tue pre press and pUblic Ion upon the advIsability of oC so doing The Hague Jan eds tho ho diplomatic agent of the TransvaAl at attended attended tended the tho New Nev Years ball at the pal flea yesterday evening Queen Quoon conver conversed d several times with him He was received 11 by the foreign minIster Berlin Jan SIt Is reported a Ish enrolling a agent nt has been arrested at Ru Russia la Lisbon JM Jan no mention mentton was wall made of Gt Great at Britain the tho Trans aal or bu bay In the m message from the throne at the of th the Cortes Corte yesterday CS a King Charles Charle refers ring to the th suc successful Portuguese e ex cx In eaId Thus again has It been that lor tug ah I Is capable of at preserving and defendIng the countrIes It has hns con London Jan dispatch to the Pall 1411 Mall Gazette from Berne BerM says the tho theaward award In the lago bay question Is being belm drawn up and It Is positively stat 01 1 It will b be published h towards the end endor or of the month |