TO DAY'S WAR CABLES

Feilding Star, Volume XXI, Issue 213, 13 March 1900, Page 2

TO DAY'S WAR CABLES

MORE TREACHERY ON THE TART OF THE BOERS. BOEIt WOMEN AND CHILDREN LEAVING JOHANNESBURG. FALSE ASSERTIONS OF THE PRESIDENTS. ADVANCE OF LORD ROBERTS. BRITISH LOSSES TO DATEKILLED, 2,419; WOUNDED, 6747; MI SING, 3,482; DIED OF DISEASE, 1,029; TOTAL, 15,677. Telegraph Press Association. Copyright. London, March I*2. The Daily News states a sensation was caused by the Boers taking preliminary steps to remove their women and childreti from Johannesburg. A large commando hoisted the white bag at Dreifontem in order to escape from the effect of the British artillery tire. While they were rctreaing across the open veldt, with a squadron of cavalry hovering on their flank the British troops advanced, whereupon another section of the enemy volleyed repeatedly, wounding a number of men. The following are the British losses to date:- killed, 2419; wounded 8747 ; missing. 8482 ; died of disease, 1029. Field- Marshall Lord Roberts is now within twenty miles of Bl.iemfontcin. The Presidents' ovcrtntcs represent that British territory was occupied strategically and defensively, and the loyalty of the Colonial Dutch was unshaken, and as Bri.idh prestige is re-established, they claim their independence and an amnesty for the loyalists. Thu war was one of con juest, and they resisted to the uttermost. The Boer prisoners ailirm that the siege of M.ifeking has been nised. Wellington, This Day. j The Monowai has been chartered to take a portion of the Fourth Contingent to South Africa. She takes about 200 men and 250 horses. The vessel will be fitted up immediately she comes out oi quarantine. Melbourne, March 12. Colonel Uuaphelly, of the Victorian Contingent, wounded at Dalfontein, in progressing favourably.