| Show I THINKS BOERS ARE CHECKED Says They Received Little Assistance in Cape CaJe the Outlook is Dark at Best Dec The war oMee ha I ti II the following ncr D jj jjr r A fur all a It hi to or ne Ine to n from reports oC at 1 n 11 II I iIII I think the movement Int i Cola II liu hu been ch Jt If III t 1 u 0 forces that the cot col colI I nY t I tIll still north or out 11 rg runge while th tI on one on en ent t tJ C t A to hae ive b been turned tn In 11 IU n ot of a 1111 Our trop tUO 8 aro getting And U t column I Ii 18 organized which will be dl ta I when I know II Il art are mot moat wanted 11 haVe not received much muchIo aaltje Io In II Cape Colony a far ar all aa fl In III Koel IOeL We e have armed armedI I IU I the who are ault In I and nl Tm U II hal hR been Inter Interrupt rupt lor IY thc Vcr ery bad weather 11 I ll L I I 1 In th the of at I 1 Uen In IIi Ith attacked a force undo I I e south ot of Th I tt rR broke aWAy In III I a ry an a I 1 Ie IC follOWed hy by Gen Gordon with II t ot It FrenchA force y t ida evening ti 1111 it force wall vat engaged south ot of III Irl nt 8 Nek but I do not yet et know the th I UIt UItA A Lit dispatch from Lord lAIrd Pretoria December 4 The column of hoer J 1 and cut cui the rail i tuy uth lIth of De be Junction The I is IR being followed n rench ha been In contact for or tJ 1 18 with the ot of Jt J I lin anti l or of 1 g tie la Ia them flie fhe enemy ta ae Is I and hit Int Kr rz uz and others have hae been cap tUf n engaged two parate parater r C n J DC ember near with slight the thet t mr T A BOgDAn dl breath Ig g R a hardly justified hy 17 thir are the only 1 tI from the ecat or of ti ils In uth hut but telegrams 1 from Cl Capetown the situation In but ro rote ate hue Without the of the IC In that 1800 Boer have Colony Colon It II I quite evident that the Wa II a affaIr atrall In connection with this a an dated December Ill ut d b In ing Un Uen Dewet end nd his doing Dewet Dewel hal ha never Jn taken I iy enough lay cay the correspondent It III of little use ue to hint him u h he fight n a action and IrU twenty mile while he is II being f ti JI lie I 01 t Dorli urn military who whose Wonderful power have kept up Ihl this resistance once he fails the whole thole thing would be crushed In 1 a He has hilI single cum com mando Under hi his All hi his patrols and columns march and coun on hll hi order The force under hl hi command have been reduced 11 by hi his strength or of will to toa toa a properly um army at hll hi word The sooner the British rid themselves ot of the idea that forces forcell are a mere Inere rabble aimlessly Ily the sooner they will III grasp the need of the determIned effort which II necessary to capture him ACTIVITY OP 01 BOERS The Cape Calle Colony cabinet had an im sitting Yesterday Sunday Sunda It that thaI the floe destroyed a railway bridge ninety feet lung and no Cape Calle malI havE arrived at for 1111 three days day Further has hall been caused In Capetown by the very that during the last two months public bodies budles in III plat places hae ave l supplies or of The 11 I government is II now nol recover lOIel or of lh these 11 eXplosives I and removing all stores ot of armi aUlI ammunition ruin suspected depots dellot Other advices train from Capetown report the Dutch element in III Cal Cape Colony Colon at as greatly elated over the southward Passage or of the Hoer and as boasting that the whole district of Victoria Vest will join I the he raiders It is II suspected In Capetown that the force torro traveling from Drift I is not nol a body hody or of hoots Boer but one olle or of colonials hastenIng to Join the Invaders The correspondent I ot of the Dall Daily tIll Mail says as The Ho Hoer n fire are ery active between Johannesburg And Pretoria shots with the British outposts and It is II reported that parties or of hoer Boerl are hovering around Johannesburg I |
