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Show toria is cut off. Ths second ' and third eavalary brigades are following follow-ing the enemy.'' ' ROBERTS CUT OFF General DeWet Makes Attack. London, July 23. Gen. DeWet has again succeeded in cutting Lord Roberts' communications both by railroad and telegraph and captured one hundrs of tke Highlanders. Tbe story of tbe ftd-eral ftd-eral commander's bold raid comes in the form of a telegraph from iGen. ForreBtier-Walker, elated at! Capetown, Sunday, July 22, for-; warding a dispatch from Gen. iKnox as follows: "Kroonstad. July 22. Following Follow-ing from Broad wood sent by dispatch dis-patch to Honning' Point, wired thence to Kroonetadt: " 'Have followed commando -since July 16- Hard, sharp light ang at iralmiefontein, July, U. Prevented from pursuing laager fcy darkness. Eight hundred Boers found. Our casualties five killed and seventy-six wounded, i Reach Vaal Krantz today. Enemy I doubled its way back through Paar Je Kraal in the darkness. ; Shall march tomorrow to Boode- vaal station. Send supplies for 3,000 men and horses, also any I news of the enpmy's movementij. I I believe the commando coneiPts of 2,000 men and four guns, and is accompanied by President Steyn and both the DiWets. ''Gen. Knox contiuued: The wire and main line of tbe railway north of Honning's Point have been cut, and also to Pretoria via j Potebtfstrjom. According to my ' information DeWet 1 as crossed thi railway and is goiig north." Oeu. Ke!l-K' uny v .el-graphs from Bloemfontein, date of Sunday, Sun-day, July 22. London, July 22. The war i office has received the following dispatch from Lord Roberts: "Pretoria, July 22. Tbe Boers made a determined attack yesterday yester-day to destroy a post at tbe Kail Head, thir'een mile east of Heidelberg, Heid-elberg, which they attacked with three guns an'd nam pom and surrounded. "They were, howevr-, beaten off after a sharp engagement, before reinforcements summoned frum Heidelberg had arrived." "Tbe railway has been cut north of Honing's Point and a suppl train and one hundred Highlands captured by the enemy. A report was received this morning that a large force of the enemy is marching march-ing or. Hoenspruit. "All communication with Pre- |