The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1900-04-10

lauybrana was forced O. retreat MUIR
redly before a larger number OF Beers
who may have been part OF Olivler''
command Firing ha. b EN- heard at
Modder Point which would seem 20 be
near Modder Poort. 10 the southwest
of Clocolan Possibly the Boer rear
guard has been engaged there.
Boer Council Of War.
NEW YORK, March PA sun cable
from BloemfOntein says: The Boer
commandos are assembling in great
force at Kroonstad, where, il Is said, a
Boer council of war is being held.
A dispatch from Lourenzo Marques
says the steamship Gironne has ar
rived with large contingent of foreign
volunteers for the Boer army. Many
Irishmen are in the contingent. Among
the passengers is Michael Davitt, for
merly member of Parliament for South
Mayo, Ireland. Davitt says he is ira
yelling for his health.
KruegeI's Threat to lombard.
LONDON, March 3l.-The Bloom
fontein correspondent of the Daily
Chronicle telegraphng Thursday,
March 20, says
President Krueger's latest proclama-
tion warns the women and children to
leave Bloemfontein within five days, as
he intends to lombard and destroy the
city and to shoot the burghers whom
he captures there.
Vigorous measures have been taken
by the British to harass marauding
bands of Transvaal Beers. The latter
are resorting to guerrilla methods,
chiefly against Free Staters who refuse
TO join Kruger"
LONDON, March 81, AIS a. m.-The
head of the army of Lord Roberts is
now about twenty-one miles north OF
Bloemfontein. II occupies cluster of
hills won from the Beers after a stin
fight, in which the British lost seven
officers and 100 men.
The Beers had been using these
kOpjes as a base for marauding bands
that have been beating up the country
adjacent to Bloemfontein for supplies,
driving off cattle and forcing non-res-
ident Free Staters into their ranks
again. The enemy must have been in
considerable force, as Lord Roberts
sent 5000 infantry and 5000 cavalry
against them.
Lord Roberts progress to Pretoria
will probably consist of such forward
movements in which Boer positions
WIZ w AbNtANhNN W q BNi S4OAi VI IAiN a.
my advancing rapidly with wheel
transport, the main army coming up
as the railway is repaired.
Lord Roberts is stripping the forces
i'll the minor spheres of operations OF
their wagons and transport animals in
order to hasten the advance. This is
understood to be the reason why he
recalled Lord Methuen from Barkly
West TO Kimberley. Lord Roberts has
10 have Methuen's transport.
The reason why a hot chase was not
made afteP Commander Olivier Is that
Lord Roberts did not wish to wear out
the cavalry transport. General French
lost 1900 horses in the relief of Kim
berley and the pursuit of General Cron-
je Lord Roberts lost 5000 transport
cattle at Waterfall Drift, and it is es-
timated that he has lost 1900 other
animals since the forward movement
began on February Is.
The advance beyond Bloemfontein
is through bare country and the sup
ply officers foreSee an increasing diff
hculty in providing for a great army
moving along a single line of railway,
even when the latter is working
smoothly and with ample rolling stock.
Relief Column Repulsed.
LONDON. March 23.-The Mafe-
king relief column has been repulsed.
The Beers drove back Colonel Plu-
.mer's advance guard and then attack
ed the British camp. The English
were compelled to retire and succor
must now come from the troops sent
out from Kimberley.
Roberts Latest Dispatches.
LONDON, March 81. 1l:45 a. NJ
AFTERNOON Service. THE War Office
has posted the following dispatch from
Lord Roberts, dated at Bloemfontein, |
March 80, evening:
Reports point to the enemy's leay. |
Ing Brandiort and proceeding in a |
northerly direction. The casualties in /
yesterdays engagement were more nu-
merous than at first reported.
Officers killed .; wounded, S. rank !
and file killed 10 query l9); wounded,
1853; missing, g."
From Cape Town it Is reported that
President Steyn has gone TO Pretoria
after, according to refugees, issuing an
order that all British burghers rcfus-
ing to join the Boer army shall be
shot. The stories of refugees, howev-
er, are VIGOROUSLY unreliable. The
news from elsewhere is meager, the
last reports from Natal indicated the
speedy clashing of the armies
LONDON, March 3l.-Even the de- !
tails of the engagement yesterday at
karce Siding station, few miles south
OF Brandfort, fail to instill much in
terest. 1t appears to have been a one
sided affair, although the Beers stout
~ held their ground against force
three or four times their size for three
hours, when, forseeing the danger of
Ihe britlsh cavalry enveloplns their
Ranks, the burghers withdrew in rood
order on their main body at Brand
1ort' which, according to Lord Rob-
erts' they seem later to have decided
20 relinquish with the view, doubtless,
OF occupying prepared position fur
ther north. There will probahIv he a
general shifting OF camps on the MARI
Of the British, the new position being
made the base of further advanra rs
soon as the railroad is prepared.
Lord Roberts today reported TO tbel
War Offlee that he had raonivoa .- I