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Show BRITISH BEATEN BY liOLRs. GENERAL METHUEN AND FOUR CL'NS Up. TUREO BY G CM HAL DELAKEY. riir ItrllUh Oflirrn ami Ttilrtr Fyi( Mra hillffl. H,nly-H onnle OiiM)fflrfr.i1 Two Han-OHMl Han-OHMl Ainu MUoImk. !tls announced that liencm! lAr, Mrthuen and four gnus Imve been (.,, lured by the Itorr, coin mantled hy (ieneral lh-lnrey. The news ume Wu ft thunderbolt to l.nmlou. The estr eilitiona of the evening pnpera givlsi an account of the disaster were eagerly bijught up. Their renders hurrit.l through the streets with anxious tn i and bitter remnrUs wen paed on Ui subject of the government's declarative, that Ihe war In hoiith Afrlea wn rv.' The news wna received In the hou nf commons amid great e xei temt u 'I he rending of I.or.l KiK hen.-r a lekj gram by Mr. ItrodrieU, the war acigJ tary, mis lUteued to In deep silence. ! In brief, Lord Kitchener announc, that hen (ieneral Metbuen wna cup lured, wounded, with four guns, thrttj Hritlsh olIi.'.Ti and tbirty-eluht n.ttt were kllb-d and live ntlicera and suv.-B. ty-lwo men were woundrd. In mldi. lion, one olTn er and ?" men were rt. , ported missing. The full text of lW dlspati h folhovn: "rrctorU,. huturttny, March B.-I grrnlly regret to have to send you news uf Melhuen, lie wan moving with U"' mounted men under Mnor Paris, and 3 ki infantry, four guns and a pom-pom from Wyuburg to Idlehm-burg, Idlehm-burg, end waa lo meet Crenfell, with :umi mounted men at Itovlrutneafontelu t'Mlsy. Yesterday morning early tin waa attacked by Pelarey'a force between be-tween Twe-ltosch And I'almleteull), The Hoera charged on three sldea. "Five hundred and fifty men have come In at Marl bogs ftnd Kraalo, Thay were pursued by the ltoera four in lies from the scene of the actioo. They report that Methuen and Paris, with the guna, baggage, etc., were captured cap-tured by the ltoera. Methuen, wstn laat seen, waa ft prisoner. 1 have so detalla of the casualties and euggtst dnlaylng publication until lean send definite newa. "1 think thlaaudden revival of activity activ-ity on the part of Pelarey la to draw oiT the troopa pressing Dewet. In a secoud dispatch. Lord Kitchener says: "Paris baa come in at K rani pin with the remainder of the men. He re pur La that the column wna moving In two parlies. One, with ox wagons, left Twe"Hosch at 3 a. m. lue otttsr, with mule wagona, started au hour Inter. Just before dawn the Hosts attacked. Ilefore reinforcements cwld reach them the rearguard broke. lu tbe meantime a large number wf Jtoers araltwpe. sesa vnn alanks. Theae at first were checked by the flank partlst, but the panic end alampede or the mules had begun, and all thef mule ! wagons, with a terrible mi sure of j mounted men, rushed past tie ox wagoue. All efTorte to check then were unavailing. Major Paris cttlecUtl forty men and occupied a m is. ion ft mile In front of the ox wagons, which were then hailed. After a gallint hut useless defense, the enemy ruslitd Into the ox wngons, anil Methuei was wounded In the thigh. Paris, bcnv surrounded, surrendered at 10 a. m, Methuen la UU In the lloereatep." (Ieneral Methuen commnnitid th coltuutun sent to relieve Kkinbeiley is the latter part of nw, and w hile nt that arr ice fought the lberat 1W1. niont, '.raspi.ii, the M 'der river and Mngerhfouteiu At tlniutlle of (Irss-pan (Irss-pan the lloera r ere under tommaml of (ieneral lelarey, who Is t Ieneral Metltuen'a cuptor iiotv. After thrst eutfiigcmeiila (ieneral Lord ItolerU wasiMMit to South Africa. whre be tHik personal command of the ItrllUh advnnee on K 1 in her lev, aud relieved Kliuberley Feb, pi, limo. |
