Show BRITISH TROOPS ENTER TRANSVAAL Flying Column Passes il iii Front From Zululand f fand and Isel Itself at t 1 tJ Mies Miles Over the Line t Force of Mounted Infantry with Artiery Artillery under Major M with ilk the Boers Roberts Advances and t Reports the Doers Beers in iii Pul Full Retreat Boers Say Retirement Jr from Ladysmith Was Vas Due to a the Doers Fell for the Next and 1 of Peace Explicit Statement of Nothing But Annexation Demanded Duler fuller Reports 1859 Surprised I i London March SI special dispatch frum Durban a Ilyin column or of British troops from Zululand has en entered tere the Transvaal Ind am hs has be been n taly daily skirmishing wih with small parties partle ot of Doer Doers forc force consIsts ot of mounted infantry tr try Natal and artillery ni all com coin commande mande b by Major The cOlumn first crossed the boyder boder on l Feb tb th It nw now occupIes nn an 11 POSItIOn ton on the nine mies mIles wih with within In the DORIS DOBBS IN IEn T Lord Roberts nobuta telegraphs rom Oton Oston In March ith Enem In tul full retreat t followed b by our troops Casual Casual Casualties tel ties few tew DUE DUB TO A MISTAKE Doer Camp Saturday March have talon fallen bank back backon on n the chain that crosse crosses Natal euth of Dundee The retreat from Ladysmith was due I to a mistake ot of n a certain commandant In ordering his men to retire from Crom the thee key e of the piton position without Any reason for the move On the receipt of bad news from Crom the tho Molder river Wednesday It wn was ia solved to send the wagons back to mg g gersberg and nd loon soon long strings ot of ox X I wagons tl lined d the rad roads Over n a thou wester rou routs t I Itile te tile west of oC Another oon convoy wu was sent to the foot ot of erg ierg ergA A large number or of tints tents captured from the British at Dundee and also the ammunition wort were abandoned The chief torn tom was as In dIsmounting lung RUMORS OF PEACE I I II London lack of nes news I tram FI Field d Marshal Lord Roberts I at cation turl turns to Natal I It Is reported that Oen huller has pushed forward a force toree along the lne line or of rai rail railroad rad road toward Van Yan PaS Pass using the railroad trel freely fur I It a appears till lie Ders Doers Intend to take up upa I 1 a strong position In the anti the Oen oe Passes although It harl hardly seems likely that then Oen Huller r wil attempt to force torce thOe these for tor the present I Ills plans however are oro kept ept almost I fr I QS ON secret a as tho those o of lArd Roberts 11 h I While waiting for the Im Important de which ar are daily expected to In the Free re State rumors of oC peace recur The second eiton edition II of the Ties Times today contains a dispatch from Cape Capetown f town says there Is n a crying need Cor or an explicit sta statement b by the lint p hh ministry that nothing short or of In ha Is Intended In order to damp dampen k ken en the agitation that II go tag 01 on under the ot of a demand t for tor peace OLN OEN LOSSES lJ Another l list t of the casualtIes IUS sue tamed b by Gen Gem Bailers Core forces Crom rein f February U 14 to February 27 21 shows Killed wounded missing 4 mU l 6 O of tha the be losses ot of the M weI Q as follows t r Killed 64 4 wounded missing 2 22 Dublin tu Killed 15 wounded 9 7 missing IS 18 Connaught rangers Hilled 1 19 t wounded 10 mIssing S cj l r Irish KIlled 11 rounded Gi A tl 2 t Scots Killed 18 wounded i iO O OS missing O 0 t I Wih WIth tile the list of if co casualties issued d Monday this makes the total cost oOst to the rank Ind and ne In the final relief ot of men SV TIE ThIE DOERS London March Marshal Ir Lord has Q as ful foh lows Marsh 7 V p m mOur ur operations na toay today promise to be a great The enemy o occupied a post Un tin iou mUse mi south I of the I placed Ion Gen division on the north j bank and Gen Oen and Tuckers wIh with CD cavalry alry on the I south bank The cavalry division sue ua r 1 d In turning the left flank Ct opening a rad road for the sixth division which Is II advancing without bein being oblIged to lire fire 1 a eliot up to the tho present tl time The enem enemy are In tul full retreat J the the north and east They ar are I being followed b by cavalry horse artillery and mounted infantry while Tuckers division ninth dl di division j vision and the guards u brigade under r t Iol are r their way across the river lt at Poplars Poplars f I propose 1 o place my headquarters this P evening Our aU wi will I 1 trust y I be tw few as the enemy were quite un unprepared r prepared for tor being attacked by the I 1 tank hank rep and having their ions with threatened I th J |