THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

Evening Star, Issue 11133, 8 January 1900, Page 2

THE TRANSVAAL WAR.

FRENCH REPORTED TO HAVE ENTERED COLESBERG

BATTLE RAGES AROUND LADYSMITH.

ALL BOERS SENT TO THE FRONT.

WAS LORD ROBERTS TO BE ASSASSINATED?

THE BRITISHERS AND BOER SPIES

VAST SUMS OF MONEY FOR TOMMY ATKINS,

SEIZURE OF ANOTHER STEAMER

THE BRITISH LlOft

SHAKES HLS MANE,

Press Asßooiation—By Te'egraph - Copyright. FRENCH ENTERS COLESBERG. LONDON, January 7. A report has been received here, which, however, requires official confirmation, that Major-general French had victoriously entered Colesberg. WHITE MAINTAINS HIS NAME. LONDON, January 6. General White reports that the Boers in considerable force early yesterday (Saturday) morning attacked Cie-sar's Camp, three miles to the west of Ladysmitb, but that they were everywhere repulsed. The fighting was still raging when the message left. . DORDRECHT REOCCUPIED. CAPE TOWN, January 7. The Boers have reoccupied Dordrecht. [A cable from Cape Town on December 27 stated that the Capo Police had occupied the above town.] THE BRITISH PRISONERS. CAPE TOWN, January 7. Three hundred foreigners guard the British prisoners at Pretoria, all the burghers having gone to the front, and every available Transvaaler having been called upon for active service. A SENSATIONAL INCIDENT. LONDON, January 7. During the voyage, of the Dunottar Castle from England a sentry leported that a man was in the near neighborhood of Lord Roberts's cabin, prowling about in a mysterious manner. The fellow was promptly arrested and searched. He had a revolver in his possession. The authorities landed him at Gibraltar. SMALL MERCY FOR SPIES. LONDON, January 7. The members of the new Yeomanry force at Montgomery almost lynched a couple of Boer spies who had joined their ranks. One poor wretch had his jaw and the other his nose broken. FUNDS FOR TOMMY ATKINS. LONDON, January 7. The British War Fund now totals £500,000.

of the Royal Artillery supported them, but the horses were shot'and the guns put out of action. Some of the artillerymen took refuge in the trenches, and others ran the gauntlet of a shower of bullets till they had escaped out of range. It was

A DREADFUL SIGHT to see the men being swept down bv the Maxims and. Nordenfeldts. but it was a grander one to see the gallant attempt of tile 'survivors to rescue their fallen comrades. On the right flank Colonel Lord Dundonald and his mounted men made an attempt to take Inhahve Hill. A few shells had been thrown on to the hill, but after this the guns were turned on the front attack, and the mounted men were left to their own resources, and it was felt that no serious attack could be made without artillery, as the hill was strongly held by the enemy. At two o'clock hostilities had'practieally ceased. The infantry and the artillery in the Boer trenches who were unable to retreat were taken prisoners, and the next day an armistice was agreed upon till midnight.

The ' Daily Telegraph's' " One Shilling Fund " has reached £IOO,OOO. The ' Daily Mail's' Kipling Poem Fund is £OO,OOO.

ANOTHER STEAMER SEIZED.

DURBAN, January 7. The Hamburg steamer Herzog, bound to Delagoa Bay, was seized by r., British cruiser and brought on to Durban. CONTRABAND OF WAR. DURBAN, January 7. It is understood that the Bundesrath's contraband cargo includes 7,000 saddles. These were found concealed among the food stuffs. ". LORD CECIL. CAPE TOWN, January 7. Lord Edward Cecil was not wounded in the last sortie from Mafeking, as originally stated in the information derived from Boer sources. He has been suffering from fever. THE HOSPITAL SHIP. LONDON, January 7. The hospital ship Maine takes with her a large ozone apparatus, which it is intended should be used to kill the bacilli in the beds of the wounded. ANOTHER HOSPITAL. LONDON, January 7. Eloven thousand pounds have been subscribed in Great Britain for the proposed Imperial Yeomanry Hospital at Cape Town. SYDNEY'S NAVAL BRIGADE. SYDNEY, January 8. The Naval Brigade have offered six officers and 120 men to form a field battery of six guns, which it is proposed shall be attached to the Imperial Naval Brigade at tbe front. DETAILS OF BULLER'S BATTLE. HOW WE FOUGHT AT TUGELA. SPLENDID BUT UNAVAILING EFFORTS. PERTH, January 8. The German steamer Stassfurt brings the following description of the battle of Tugela River from files of the ' Eastern> Province Herald': The British fought; splendidly, but the work required from them was beyond their power. The Boers had made trenches in each hill like terraces, and it was impossible to see which particular trench contained the men or the guns. They appeared able to move the guns from place to place unobserved. Our military

GUNS WERE TAKEN DANGEROUSLY

CLOSE. The naval guns did excellent service and complexly wrecked the Boers' stronghold, called ,/ylie's Fort, just above the village. The naval guns dropped shell after shell in the trenches, and apparently devastated them, but the moment the infantry approached to within the Boers were found to be as lively as ever, and continued pouring deafening volleys, whilst they themselves were protected by their entrenchments. There was very little seen of the Boers all through the battle, whereas our fightine lines were continually exposed. It became generally evident towards ten o'clock that, with the artillery at our command, the Boers' position was impregnable. On the left the Dublin Fusileers, the Royal Irish Fusileers, the Connaughfc Rangers, "and the Border Regiment got within 800 yds before the "Boers fired their • rifles and" shrapnel. Several Dublins and Royal Irish got across, but only to find themselves in an impossible position and with

A PERFECT HAILSTORM OF BULLETS coming from behind stone krantzes. They were therefore ordered to retire to the centre attack—that is, the fighting line. Majorgeneral Hilyard's brigade, in spite of a tremendous fire of rities, shelled and seized the rifle trenches of the enemy in front of Colenso village, but they could go no further. The Sixty-sixth aiyl another battery