| Show ft BRITISH TROOPS CAPTURE i t Important by the Force Under Gen Buller BullerI I I l I f QUEEN CALLS HO EARMY I II II Old Od to O lo Ii the i Royal Rese e 1 GOOD N WS O OP I f I or of I lor lt Or J Feb 20 G p iThe Tho war I I hu has Isu issued n a from Ioro Roberts the main or of which I Is the Iho fast that Ills It is I p m Monday irS is hI thir ty t miles east ot of da Ille TI patch announces that to Is open and an Meth Methuen Methuen uen will there wh reInforce reInforcements meats ments for them md and large supplies will bt be o 0 time tho tow town CAPTURE London Feb to 20 62 p has hall been lIeen received hero herc that f lIart hIatt hu has occupied Colenso after II a engage engagement moot ment Durban Feb leb 19 e den Duller Is continuing his hla on the extreme rl right ht and hns wade every disposition fur the defense fir Ot hIs post position lion tion to the tho left and south o the Tugela by br maintaining a force torce adequate fOr that d parties of Doers sometimes cross crall the rl river r There Is much sniping QUEEN QUEIN HES RESERVES Lo London don Feb leb OThie queen through her private secretary Sir John has hils sent ent the following to o the of the forces FIeld Marshal Lord Osborne Feb jl Iy Drar so largO large n a ot of the army Is no now In South Africa the queen fully realizes t f necessary measures must be home de defene fene lIer majestY is s that It Quid k P to LI 1 U Ph ab force t u r k who have hac already alread served Ill as omeera officers or privates and confident In their devotIon to 10 the country and loyalty to her throne the queen appeals to to servo serve her once nce more In place of thosE who for a time together with the P people or of her cob colo colont nt nice are nobly resisting the invasion of her South African possessions Her majesty line has el her pleasure that these battalions shall be designated d the royal receive battalions of her arm army GOOD NEWS FROM t LADYS The queen prior to leaving Osborne house this morning on her return to Windsor Inspected the fourth battalion ot of the militia Her t announced with a gratified smile that good Dews hal had been received this morning toni the seat or of Another account says sas the queen specified sped fled fied that the tle good news was from Lady emit h CAPTURED A DOER GUN OUN AND SUP SlIP j Feb l 15 I heliograph tu to Modder river Feb l The t country Is nil all tree free around 1 The have hae evacuated I Saltpan and Sh Itz Nek One Olle or of their wi with I ammunition was captured as 1111 was n 10 their lange laager It at which as abandoned on Frida Friday night haul tall are being laId to river Se ral herds of cattle have been blen captured Cecil la is In excellent spirits CASUALTIES AT London Feb war Office nn an announces the following casualties amon among ol officers cers during the Iho relief or of Kimberley A D 13 lath lancers Lieu The rhe lion W second dragoons Wounded aJ l F E H fi Gordon anti D F Druse ninth lancers laners Captain O 0 B Tuson sixteenth lancers Lieutenants It I Fordyce and W V LonG second dragoons Ii 11 M r Durand ninth lancers The list or of casualties again demon demonstrates strates strat s the fact that a number or of mere boys OOs are In south Africa The lion JIon W was the eldest son Ion amid heir or of Lord Hath Rath donnell lie He was wa born In ms ISIS II 11 M I Durand wu was born In lie is tha heir or of SIr henry Durand British minister at Teheran Persia W V Long Ull ras born In 1579 ne lie rs is the heir of JU ht 11 lIon an Walter Long president of the or of agriculture JOY AT RELIEF REL Modder River o Feb i I though the rapid march or of Gen Oen I Frenchs division was b by a 11 number or of conflicts tit the entry to mm berle wile was unopposed When Shen the limit UMI ish hh were still sUII el eight ht miles off time the ling corps intercepted a heliograph message from the t to Modder river saying The Tho fluent are aN the town The advance column This I IOen is isGen Gen Oen French C coming to the relief reller or of The garrison Ivas U Incredulous anti thought the message Will was Ii a Don Doer ruse and flashed the query Quer What are you 1 The reply satisfied the defenders or of Kimberley that the anxiously ly awaited succor was vas at hand handA A few hours Ilour later Gen Oen at the head or of his column made a triumphant entry Into the place the people stir sur surrounding rounding tIme troops and intermingling with them wildly grasping the soldiers bands mand liege hats and anti and exhibiting In a 11 hun tired vai the Intensity of theIr joy jor jorON ON SHOUT ShORT RATIONS The Tho Inhabitant had been on short rations for some time eating horse flesh and In burrows burros under heaps of mine refuse DimInishing ration re served dally daily at 11 In the market sqUirt square under the shell hel t fire of the enemy wheel guns opened on en the square Whenever II as I II i 1 I I I I I I ll No hof horse food wu s loC loft Throughout the siege Cei Cecil Rhodes provided time the natives wih with work and roo food and thus kept them quiet The ml miles of bearing provis provisions Ions for time the relIef ot of thE the anti the town slowly winding Is Us vs across the plain In the ot of Kimberley was the gladdest which h greeted the eYt of the besieged tot for four months VICTORY Gen Cen march f as 8 so rapid and the heat so Intene flint many or of his hurl die died or of exhaustion At t the crossing or of the M Modder river tile the Doers Joers boie bolted leaving their tents gUD guns wagons and Inge large quantities of at In the hands ot of the British Moving northward the thu Deere ol n again ln at attempted tempted to stem Item the but On Gsa French turned their tank flank and reached ched Ide hll goal 1 with insignificant tHan k killed e and thirty tive wounded dur during ing three days from trem Feb ob to Friday Feb lG 16 After 1 a nights ret rest at Gin Frenchs column pursued time Dos Doers to surrounded the on which the they were camped antI and till nightfall when the Doer Doers fled It leaving Ing man litany det dead Oen 00 Cronje left IpU his tent tents ro tooth and at NO Nt D DEFINITE N WB In II spite of at the t t the bat of at the the L shire this to hr her departure from House to Windsor that good neWs had been ro rochel re chel torn the seat hat of var ar th the war officials solemnly averred that Uw ha hail received n no ns news up to ta 13 th this afternoon It Is rumor rumored that Gen Oen ha has brought Gen Gell Cronje to toa I a standstill and ha has eU engaged e him and It Is said the war Ir now I is only the rull ot of time the bate battle This however though ma may b be lIre 1111 In amm cas case the confident hope that Gen On Cronje ha has been en rut cut or oft front from to preal prevail In London especially In view or of delayed dispatches saying time the Fre Free Stater when they saw the extent of the Url lint trig tOle forces were In fa favor or of surrender The h first train to I Ie left lu last night and the neighbor neighborhood hod hood or of the he ramous famous scene seems Hems thor IleM cleared or of the Dor Doers On Germ apparently Is contenting himself wih with sh shelling the Dors Doers from hI he newly nely gained position a at Monte which to Jo good opinIon lon Ion Ic to form tonn his base lIaH tar tor an another other othal to relieve DO DOERS nB MAY LEAVE NATAL Th The military eav n b be belet believes the Doer Boors he have started In Natal and wl will ral raise the siege or of and rein tote ture Gen But Dut this IlUM b be regarded a rOther rather lt at any rate rale until Ian Oen Dul Bui Duller ler like dee tIEt the Dor Doers send second lIne Une or of on eer every attempt to rech bile hIe reach has proved bileA A dispatch from dale dated Munda Feb reb 39 19 says ni all Is quiet In arid and the Boers bod bodice lel mite I e orte to be retiring upon Dundee and smal small tOle forces and two pieces or of artler artillery at each A According to 10 n a special dispatch teh from a tho ho has hns arrie arrived a as the Doers are six at but that at D Burgh the ba town gUard S DOERS I IN FULL AT ATLon Lon Lonion on Fell Feb The following die patch line been received I lt at the war oree from Oen mows Blows Farm Tuesday Feb 20 p m brigade yesterday took ll the right of the eners and commanding Co time the rest ot of the tore force a advancing toward the Tugela This morning the ener enemy hM has withdrawn al nil the troops north of Ihl the and hod practically evacuated Colen Toa Today Gen lat occupied Colenso after I a ver very slight reo re mela b by a rear gard guard and we hold the Tugela on the south side from enlo to 10 l ules Nest Time The enem enemy seem m to be In rul full rel retreat at and apparent I ar are only holding the position they oc cup arol the close clore the angle angie railway where It la Is to ot of the with a weak wuk rear guar guard HArts guard is crossing at Co CoI I lonso el Out Our casualties and loda today have J I 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