| Show BOER FOER WAR general methuen wounded at the battle ot modder river casualty list of the british said to be over but war department will give out no figures boers said to have lost heavily at belmont and gras pan renewed reports of fall of lady smith are discredited joubert hastily carried to colenso london nov 30 30 it is officially announced that gen methuen was iw among those there wounded at the battle ot of modder river orange hirer river nov 27 boer doer prisoners here say that the number of boers killed at belmont Is believed to be and at gras pan among the prisoners are several with enormous red crosses on their sleeves it Is reported they fought with the artillery london nov 30 although telegraph and railroad communication 1 is open with modder madder river no further nets of gen Mel Met huens movement or ar the big fight bad had been given out up to this afternoon this Is generall generally taken to indicate that gen I 1 methuen me rhuea Is again on the march and that as heretofore toe be will not again be beard heard from until he has fought another battle and gainer another stage tha that the general anticipated dogged dogge I resistance on his northward march Is shown by the speech which he be delivered to his troops nov 27 after the battle of gras pan reports report of which have just arrived here after reading 9 a telegram from gov milner f 1 elating the troops and sympathizing lh 9 with wl h the wounded gen methuen pei congratulated the troops on the work done and expressed appreciation of the manner in which they had endured the hardships the work he said was the most severe encountered by he U british ibish army in many mariy a long day they had bad in front of them he said an enemy to which they could no sot afford to give a 9 single point tactics had bad been ext excellent ellent and he recognized and admired their courage continuing gen methuen said tha that when called upon to fight for his country he preferred to fight a foe worthy of his steel rather than savages whose pole role recommendation was bravery hz he hen then expressed the hope that he and his Ws men had gained each others confidence and would do all their duty to the country as englishmen should ura gen methuen also described as dastardly itne conduct of the boers in siring firing on ambulance wagons the shooting of a british officer by a wounded boer doer and the boers use of dumdum dum dum bullets but he be refused to believe that these acts were characteristic of the boere boers he ile gave them ethem credit until convinced to the contrary that they like tha the british wished to fight fair and square those who are acquainted with gen MeM iuca think bis terse description 0 ot the battle witte of modder river Jo forecasts recasts a fearful butchers bill little attention was paid here to the filmy fabrication announcing the fall ot of the dispatch caused frenzies of joy in paris but it Is iro lm po albee to make a briton believe that after withstanding tha the ro long gen white with the thunder of gen cherys guna guns at colenso telling of the coming relief would relinquish his position while ammunition or a man was lett the news of the sue cees will speedily spread far ani and wide among the boers doers the war office officials today reiterated that they have received absolutely nothing to indicate the slightest likelihood of ladysmith Lady smith surrendering while on the other hand they expect the place will be relieved shortly gen bullers dispatch from pieter maritz burg would have hardly dealt with belated details of the situation at Lady ladysmith smIth it if there was anything serious to report since then thero ha come the ibe ills dispatch patch from estcourt court saying baying gen joubert Is hastening back to oppose col baden powell this la is incomprehensible here and it Is generally brally supposed that the names have been mixed up but in some qu arten conjectures are ventured that the besiegers of Mafe mafeking king have withdrawn southward and permitted co baden bade n powell to leave that place and that be he is now in conjunction with col plumer at port fort tuli tull traversing the transvaal it is asserted it gen joubert Is traveling in an omnibus he must be sick or wounded A dispatch from cape town no nov v 27 gives reports of the nervousness of the boers of the orange free state border some of the boer forces it Is added have been hurriedly withdraw withdrawn from Lady grey and barkley east fast |
