SOME WONDERFUL MARCHES.

Evening Star, Issue 11253, 29 May 1900, Page 2

SOME WONDERFUL MARCHES.

BRITISH LOSS SMALL. THE BOERS MAY MAKE A FINAL STAND. PRAISE FROM LORD ROBERTS. HISTORY OF A CHEQUE. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. A WONDERFUL MARCH. LONDON, May 28. Lord Roberts praises the almost incredible rapidity with which Sir Frederick Carrington's Contingent of Colonial Bushmen marched to the relief of Marking from the north. THE BRITISH LOSS SMALL. ' LONDON, May 28. Lord Roberts states that his casualties in preventing the destruction of the collieries on the Vaal River numbered only four. THE BOERS' LAST STAND. LONDON, May 28. Reports from Pretoria state that the Boers are determined to risk everything and make a last stand at the Gatsrand mountains, to the north of Potchefstroom, where 3,000 Kaffirs are busy entrenching. ANOTHER SPLENDID MARCH. LONDON. May 28. General lan Hamilton marched 130 miles in eight days, fighting one battle and three Bkirroishes on his way. CUTTING THE RAILWAY LINES. LONDON, May 28, Delagoa Bay advices report that the British have cut the Pretoria-Heidelburg railway. THE BOER POSITIONS. LONDON, May 28. The Boers hold Muller's and Botha's Passes on the Transvaal frontier. The Boers' front stretches from Lainc's Nek to Vryheid. 8 VAN REENAN'S PASS. LONDON, May 28. <The British are blocked at Vau Reenan's Pass. AID FOR THE-WOUKDED. LONDON, May 28. The Kensington bfi/.iar in aid of the wounded realised £50,000. A CAPTURE BY THE ENEMY. LONDON. May 28. Lord Roberts telegraphs that Lieutenant! Webber Ewitt, on telegraph duty at Hellbron, being unaware that we had temporarily withdrawn from thf> town, was captured. A CHEQUE WITH A HISTORY. MELBOURNE, May 29. A melancholy history attaches to a cheque which has been returned from South Africa. The cheque was originally sent by the bankers of the Victorian officers at Caps Town to Captain Salmon. The latter handed it to Lieutenant Roberts just before the latter was mortally wounded. It was then returned to Captain Salmon, who subsequently died of fever. It next came into the possession of Surgeon-captain Hopkins, who died from fever shortly after its receipt. A DESPERATE DUEL FINGOES AND BOERS MEET IN BATTLE. SYDNEY, Mav 29. The 'Cape Times,' under date Mafeking, April 14, says that on the 13th there occurred one of the most dramatic incidents of the war. Twenty-five Fingoes, under the leadership of two Baralong Natives (who undertook to show them where a good haul of cattle could be made), left the town intending to make a capture. One of the Baralongs led them into a trap, and they were surrounded and attacked by a patrol of Boers. So well, however, did the Fingoes fight that the Boers were compelled to draw off and await reinforcements. Although outnumbered, the Natives and Fingoes fell back upon the Pan. The Boers then brought another hundred men, with a Mannlicher Maxim and a Maxim Nordenfeldfc, and surrounding the Pan opened a murderous fire. The leader of the Natives, Undebizili, rallied his men. and the action became a repetition of Wilson's famous 9tand against the Matabeles. From the rising to the sinking of the sun the Fingoes, armed only with obsolete rifles, fought with grim and desperate determination against a merciless foe armed with machine guns and Mausers. They poured a perfect hail of lead into the Native ranks, whilst tbe Nordenfeldt shells cracked round them like fireworks. The Fingoes fought until their ammunition was finished. The Boers then killed them to a man. One wounded Fingoe escaped. The Natives killed six Boers and wounded a great number.