THE WAR

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 3975, 21 March 1900, Page 2

THE WAR

IN THE Transvaal. - — - ♦ . : THE CAVE-IN OF THE FREE STATE. >' THE DEFENCE OF MAFEKltfG. DESPERATE ENERGY ON BOTH SIDES. THE RELIEFS ADVANCING. DESERTERS BRINGING IN GUNS. A WHITE FLAG INCIDENT. METHUEN'S ADVANCE. FIRE ON MAFEKING SLACKENING. London, March 19. — The Free Staters are waxing increasingly indignant with Steyn for concealing the Boer casualties. Threefourths of them have returned to their homes. Roberts has entrusted the Bloemfontein hospital containing 500 bede to the care of Surgeon Major Frasohi's section, Naw South Wales Army Medical Corps. There are many complaints o* bad boots, which are a seriou matter in the long marches mad* by the men under Roberts. Women and children and th< British officers at Pretoria hav< been transferred to quarters undei Daspoortridge, on the outskirts oi the city. The British cavalry hold Thabanehn, midway between Bloemfontein and Lady brand. Thousands of rebels in the Orange district have surrendered. The Transvaalers cling to the delusion that Europe will intervene. One thousand five hundred rifles were surrendered on Friday. Roberta's action in releasing those who surrender on parole has induced others to submit. Eight hundred Free Staters at Edinburgh have surrendered. Gatacre captured 24 waggons, two engines and a quantity of ammunition aft Spriogfnntein. Some of his prisoners areTranevaalers. Boer deserters" have brought a Maxim and a nine pounder to Beimont j another nine pounder pas brought to Colesberg. |

In driving theßoers back "^ their main trenches, the garrison ofMafekingused grenade^ g^f or y *> a bayonet attkcl" Shells from a home-made JZ constructed h ? «« garrison, can! not be fired with precision and th* erratic shelling of the gun prov J| bewildering to the enemy. The Baralcnga have been armed m order to defend their own aiT closure. ■ Methuen was at Warrenton on the 1 < th and prevented the Boa* destroying the deviation bride! and secured a punt over "Vari Eiver. w Plumer was at Pitsani on tne 13th and reconnoitred RamathlabamH. Desperate sapping and counter sapping is proceeding at Mafekmg, the Boers being driven to their main lines of investment Baden Powell was hopeful on the 12th. f v* oa The rebels at Vosberg threaten 1 Victoria West, on the Capetown. » De Aar line of rail. -™' The Boers have quitted Wind* L sorton, the prize-fighter Hollo. 5 way, their Adjutant, blowinjr U i» 1 the bridge. *"; t The Presidents of the two So* 1 publics pay accounts of £300 and * upwards in bar gold. i De Wet of the Afrikander 6 Bond, a Member of the C» M J Assembly, has been arrested at 1 Burghersdorp. Colonel Price of the Victorians. ? fell into a spruit and broke a rib a but has recovered. r Churchill, the Morning Posfo J correspondent, states that fourteen J* thousand Boers, with twenty ; - guns, are entrenched in the Bur. ■J garsberg mountains, west of d Glencoe, in northern Natal. K A Boer Commandant's note. d book, found when Buller craned *> the Tugela, indicated that there *' were 1,494 casualties among the lf Boers between December I2&and n January 24th. 16 Owing to infectious oases 0! >- fever among the prisoners the de> »y parture for St Helena has been* ' v delayed. 3e None of the Free Staters -will be l © sent to St Helena. f° Owing to recriminations be> tween the Free Staters and Tmt. vaalere among the prisoner* at Sitnonstown, it is necessary totake special precautions to prevent the trouble developing into a serioia outbreak. As a sop to the Afrikander party, Schriener, Premier of Cape Colony, has prohibited jttWlwt demonstrations at "British m. cesses, unless authorised. The trek oi the rebels from Taxings and Vryburg to Daniri. • land has been prevented by the ' Hottentot chief, son of WitOtQoi A British warship has Jaded men and guns at Walfiscb B&y« . a precaution against the Boea entering Damaraland; I Sydney, March 1 9, —Tb officer commanding at Slingerafontein oa February 9th, issued an order «♦ 1 cording his appreciation of fte courage and determination dlfl ■ West Australians, under Cajtel 1 Moore, their determined stand • against a large body of Boen pe> 1 vented the turning of the Bri&k I • flank. I I £40,000 has been subscribed a 1 ; London for the Bushmen's fasii, I to be distributed among tbt I various Colooies in proportion to I the number of men sent, as H- 1 lows:-KS.W., £3,835; Queffl* I land, £2,249 ; Victoria, £1,982: I West Australia, £836 ; South I Australia, £720 ; and Tasttaai, I £275. I Lonx>on, ManA 20.— h. 0& I House of Commons Sir M, Wa I 1 Beach, Chancellor of the &• I chequer, announced that ft» I were 39,800 applicants for tits I War loan. Gatacre has sent a monntrf ; force to Smithfield, northeast rf Bethulie, with a proclamation; 1». intends to prepare the way k Brabant to disarm the rebels « drive the remnant northwards. Corporal Ruff at Driefonteiß bayoneted a Boer firing under fl» white flag. He was immedii^f made a sergeant. Methuen's movement from Kn»* beriey is interpreted as an adrtDM to Pretoria via Mafeking && Rusfcenburg or along the V«d river, via Klerksdorp. The Boer fire at Mafeking lw slackened. Colonel Peakman, of the Kfe* beriey Light Horse, has had* brisk skirmish with 500 Boea opposite Fourteen Streams ; the &* 1 habitants of the districts throogjj I which Peakman passed, veleflffl» I the Union Jack. The New Zealanders mani* from Carnarvon to Vauvyfa»fef» 60 miles north, in 24 hottrs. Buller is getting together BF plies preparatory to contanfflS his advance. I Reuter's con-espondent st^ I that Sir A. Miiner with the 3J£ 1 tary becretary has left Capetff** 1 by a special train. 1 Thirty one thousand troops «" I en route to South Africa indttSsf ■ the Eighth Array Division. ' 1 The Khedive visits &$\ land. I London, March 19,— I Khedive will visit England &** I ing the summer. I What a falling: off &«* I was. I New York, March 19.^*1 Patrick's day as celebrated i«J 1 degenerated into a pro-Bow «*■' Home Rule celebration. ■ A pessimistic politidfaß' I Paris, March 1 9. — Lockroy, & I Minister of Marino, writing to »*■ newspaper La Patrie, state* between France and England* 1 * certainty in the future. 1 1 A A^TsiTiNG cksmM I \y\f ies or gentJeiW^ I nrinted in bp?t style for 4t*| I at thp office of this pappr. t rf ■ ivmpv surfaf<» card- and prioo'lß « equal to onnnerplft^. , , " : 8 Woods' Gre^f Pepp n rmiQ* &M for Coughs ani Colds never •""■ 1/6 and 2/6. I