The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-03
South Africa Company's Forces
III Transvaal Defeated.
WITH GREAT LOSS OF LIFE
Jamison Compelled to Retreat
Across the Frontier.
MANY CAPTURED AND WOUNDED
Colonial Secretary Has Telegraphed
Asking President Kruger to be
Generous in Treatment
of Prisoners.

London, Jan. "A dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph Company this
evening says that DR.. Jamison has
been severely defeated by the Beers
before johannesburg. The same
agency adds that the news is confirm
ed and that the Secretary of State for
the Colonies, Mr. Chamberlain, had
been summoned to the Colonial Office
where conference will be held to-
night.
1t is added that the defeat of DR..
Jamison is such as will compel him to
retreat across the frontier.
THE NEWS CONFIRMED.
London, Jan. 2.-The Colonial Office
has received confirmation of the re-
ported defeat of DIR. Jamison. After
sustaining great loss of life, he sur
rendered. The Secretary of State for
the Colonies, Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain,
has telegraphed to President Kruger,
asking for generous treatment for the
prisoners and wounded.
GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
London, Jan. 2.-The Colonial Office
DuDtiS0pd tnt IOItOWIDB
from Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor
of Cape Colony, to Colonial Secretary
Chamberlain, which are dated Jan. 2.
IA messenger overlook Dr. Jamlson
ten miles the other side of Elanariyes.
He has brought back verbal message
to the effect that the dispatches have
been received and will be attended to.
The force then saddling up and imme-
diately proceeding eastward into the
Transyaal. DIR. Jamison thus receiy-
ed and disregarled my message. Sir
.Jacobus de Witt, British agent in
Transvaal telegraphs that the fighting
commenced at four o'clock yesterday.
He was unable to obtain details from
Gen. .Joubert Commander of the
Transyaal forces), and heard nothing
beyond rumor.'
The Cape Times has a telegram from
Pretoria, the capital of Transvaal, re-
ceived there from Krugersdorf that
there had been hard fighting, the
forces of the chartered South Africa
Company suffering heavily.
A second cablegram has been receiv-
ed from Hercules Robinson which
saws: "The British agent at Pretoria
teIegraphs under date of Jan. 2. i
have Just seen Gen. Joubert, and he
says that as far as he knows, DIR. Jami-
son has been driven out of several posi-
tions. The Burghers have twenty-five
of their wounded as prisoners includ-
ing three officers, and five corpses have
been buried by the Burghers. The
fighting is still proceeding. No force
has yet left johannesburg to assist
DIR. Jamison.
""The government has received in
formation that further forces of the
chatered South Africa Company, are
mobilizing to enter the Transvaal and
the Kaffir commands within the
Transvaal on the Bechuanalan border
of the Free State is ready to assist the
Transvaal if required. DIR. Jamison is
surrounded by a large force near to
Krugersdorf The railway between
Krugersdorf and Johannesburg has
been broken up.
1.-The acting President of the Free
State telegraphs me that 1000 Burgh-
ers have been commanded to take up
position sixteen miles this side of the
Vaal River
A third cablegram from Sir Hercules
forwards despatch from the British
agent Mt Pretoria saying that DR. Jami-
sons force has surrendered.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain on
the reply has cabled to Gov. Robinson
his regret that DIR. Jamison's disobe
dience has led to this deplorable loss
of life and to do his best to secure gen
erous treatment of the prisoners and
care of the wounded and to telegraph
the names Of the killed and wounded.