Show BOER WAR glorious british victories are branded as kaffir exaggerations boers are in force south of estcourt where a skirmish has bert thought to be planning Pl annine to entice gen white out of ladysmith Lady smith Bui bullers lerps relief columns will soon be heard from durban natal monday nov 20 seven hundred boers from took up a strong position on the highlands thirteen miles south of estcourt couri occupying turners farm east ot of moot river major with a detachment of mounted try and the estcourt Carbine ers engaged the boers ot of which three weri killed including their commandant the boers withdrew taking i captured at turners farm the main boer doer force south of estcourt is reported to have retired contradictory STORIES N NO 0 confirmation OF BRITISH VICTORIES london nov 21 the latest news direct from Lady ladysmith smith dated thursday nov 16 and friday nov 17 strangely conflicts with the reiterated reports ot of tremendous battles and great british victories on wednesday and thursday neither ot of the messages above referd reter rd to though dispatched on the th days I 1 pillowing blowing the alleged fight mentioned any great fights or boer doer defeats on the he contrary alioth b oth distinctly state ahat beyond a false alarm on tuesday e ening and a little increased sh shel ellIna llna thursday and friday causing little damage every thing was perfectly 9 ulet and the garrison was chafing chatin 1 under its enforced inactivity nevertheless special dispatches from estcourt today enlarge on the reported ed battles and insist that the boers received a more terrible lesson lesion wednesday than la in previous fighting according to these circumstantial accounts the boers determined to reach the north end of with a large force but were unable to make headway against the well sustained fire of the bailish british riflemen and maxims later it la 9 added a british tores force worked round the boer flank causing the caller latter to withdraw under a deadly fusillade with exceedingly heavy loss es numbers of dead and mounded wounded arevald are saad sald to have been left on the field and a number of prisoners were captured the british losses are reported report eu to be trivial of course reliable dispatches corroborative of the above may have beep been censored or captured with thi the native runners but these tales arc are so flattering to the british that they have a a distinct flavor of being belated accounts brorn kaffir sources of affairs previously reported the dispatches from Lady ladysmith smith reporting 1 0 that there Is an ample supply of ammunition there have seemingly set at rest a point on which there was diversity of opinion the british commander at lady smith believes gen joubert has gone south leaving only a force to prevent the garrison from sallying out and there Is a disposition in some quarters to think gen joubert possibly initiated the story with the object of inducing gen white to make a serious attack or relax his precautions so as to permit the boers doers to seize ground vital to the defense of the town A report from durban however says there are rumors that the boers doers are preparing to break camp and withdraw from the investment or of lady smith but it Is said elsewhere that the investing force continues to receive reinforcements and fresh supplies cf stores dally daily in view of the publicity allowed by the military authorities to bo be given to io the alleged intention of the british to advance via belmont to relieve kimberley it Is said that it may be regarded as probable that an advance from do aar will really be affected and the route will not be so well advertised the transport city of cambridge with second battalion of the scottish rifles arrived at durban this morning DUTCH sympathizers a CAPE COLONY AFRIKAN DERS MAY TAKE UP CAUSE OF DOERS cape town nov 21 1 I reports fr from OM the northern colony are more reassuring but here there la Is distinct danger of the dutch actively taking up thet cause of the boers who now bar throe three lines linea of entry into the free state most of the students odthe of the Burghers dorp continued on fourth page BOER WAR continued from first bags leal seminary joined them after the latter occupied aae town proclamations issued at blamton feln tuesday nov 14 declare that the of west except kimberley and matching are annexed to the freo state the proclamations are signed by C H president 0 the raad RUMORS OF GLORIOUS VICTORIES LITTLE importance IS ATTACHED TO THEM estcourt natal monday nov 20 rumors ot a glorious victory achieved by gen white received yesterday are still unconfirmed ond little importance I 1 Is attached to them especially as the rumors added that gen white bad threatened to place many hundreds of ithe prisoners in conspicuous places should tho shelling 0 the town con reports from the southward say that the boers are operating in pillaging parties who are looting stores stealing cattle rind ransacking houses it Is added that one baroner became so incensed that he stalked a party of boers eventually shooting eight ot them A boer force occupies a position on mool river ten miles below the mool river station JOINED THE BOERS MEMBERS OF CAPE ASSEMBLY DESERT ENGLAND cape town nov 21 the midland news says that and corber members of the cape assembly have joined the boer forces at coles burg |