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Show FIGHTING IN TRANSVAAL. In Several Contests In Latter Part of Last Week Casualties on Both Sides Were Very Heavy. London, April H News of severe fighting In tho Transvaal nt tho end of last week has been sent by Lord Kitchener, Kitch-ener, who wires that about 200 Boers weio killed, wounded or captured. There were about a. hundred British casualties. The British also captured three guns and a quantity ot supplies. Commandant Command-ant Potgictcr wus among tho iloers killed. I10KR RETREAT BLOCKED. Lord Kitchener, In a dispatch dated from Pretoria Sunday, April 13th, ro-counts ro-counts how Col. Colenbrunder, after locating Commandant Ile)cr'a laager at Pzelkop, move 1 his force, by different dif-ferent routes, from Petersburg, Trans, vaal, Colony, blocking tho pilnclpal lines of retroat. The lighting commenced com-menced April Sth, when tho Innlskllllng FuslleerB attacked Mollpspoort, eovei-Ing eovei-Ing the Boei position, and by dusk hod seized a hill eastward of the Poort, utter considerable opposition, resulting In Col Mutiay being wounded nnd Lieut. Lincoln being killed Another olllcer and flvo men wero wounded. FIERCE FIGHTING Slnco then the operntlunB continued dally. Colenbranders latest report, April 12th, gave tho Iloer losses In killed, wounded and prisoners, nt 10i) men, Ttie Colonel hoped to bo able to report further captures Tho most scveiu fighting occurred April 11th, In western Transvaal, whero Gen. Inn Hamilton has replaced Gen. Mcthuen In command of the British troops Tho Doers attacked Col Keke-wlchs Keke-wlchs forces near Roolwnl und fight Ing at close quarters ensued. v POTOirrat KILLED Ino Boers wero repulsed leaving on tho Held forty-four men killed Including Includ-ing Couiinundant Polgletcr, and thirty. foui wounded The Urltlsh captured iwentl unwminded prisoners According to last accounts, Gen Inn Hamilton wns piusulng tho lemalnder of the Hoer command. Tho Urltlsh losses In this light were six men killed nnd fifty-two wounded. At tho beginning begin-ning of tho pursuit Col. Kekewlch cup. turcd two guns a pom-pom a quantity of ammunition and a number of wag- nr" BOERS ARE VICTORS. A force of Boers recently overwhelmed over-whelmed a strong Urltlsh pitrol sent out fiom Ilultfontein, Orange River Colony, to clesr distant farms An olllcer olll-cer and two men were killed fourteen men wounded nnd tho remnlnlng members mem-bers of tho patrol weio surrnundod nnd captured Lord Kltchenei mentions holding nn Inqulr) Into this reverse. |