Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-02-23
STIRRED TO THE DEPTHS.
London Uneasy Over Roberts Battles and
breads the Casually List

| New York, Feb 22.-LOndon is stirred
to the depths by war rumors. accord
| ing to cables to New York papers ANA
| is anXiously awaiting details from
! South Africa of the battles which ii is
| known Lord Roberts has been engaged
| in That the fighting has been serious
| all know from the names of officers
sent in who have been killed OF
! wounded.
OF the severe WOundinG of Cen. Mac
| Donald. the Herald correspondent says
| that this news had an effect which Few
people outside Of England can fully
gauge. Hector Macdonald TO the null
| titude is the man of war. The public
have surrounded him with thu halo IF
| heroism. They consider him lionhrJrt-
cd and invincible. and, above all, one IF
| their own body. for Macdonald is a
self made man. 50 when the placLrds
came out with flaring type, Fighting
Mac seriously wounded, The man in
the street was very much distressed.
In the face Of the long. list Of officers
reported killed and wounded the gener-
al question asked is, IF 50 many Off
GERS. then how many soldiers?" and
there is no answer as yet.
Leader says: The struggle with Cron-
j. seems to have begun, early on sun
day. and he held his own with an in
feriur force at Koodoersrand, south of
Boshof. yesterday. He mas made us
pay severely for getting him into i
trap. for Generals Macdonald and
Knox are wounded ana nine other Off |
GERS killed and - wounded. There can
|, ,1t l..
for we are three to one; our communi- |
cations are intact while Cronje can get |
no supplies and further reinforcemtnts /
for him will be headed off.
winston Churchill from Chieveley |
Camp. sends long dispatch in which |
he says: The late successes should not |
induce the government to relax its mil
itary preparations. The first object
before everyone is to bring this horri-
Bile war to an end. and the shortest way
is to pour a continual stream Of men
and guns and supplies into the cape.
80 that the Roer republics will be not
only exposed to the beating OF
the waves but also to the force
of rising tide The Sky al
ready brightens with promise Of
victorious peace. At last. for the first
time during these operations we found
the Boer flank a strong force at right
angles to his main position. The fruits
Of this We're plucked, on the 18th tSun-
day). when the action was recon-
mcnced. at dawn. by the Beers shell
ing our cavalry and endeavoring to en-
trench their new positions: but Gen.
Filvard forthwith began vigorous a.
tack across the mex on Monte Christie.
The guns and the other brigades as
sisted.
"Fiercc musketry fire burned AMI
7r3cklcd till about 10 O'Clock, when inc
Of the English brigIde-the
West Yorks leading began to glitter
,nong TIE trees close to the summit "i
he hill. The Beers now commenced re-
re3tins toward their bridge across thg
rur,Il river behind IIlangWan1 hill LORD
cavalry Immediately SelZvd
he. ridge bringing an effective IRE. H.
,,ur on the Bocr retreat. Whlcn rafiulf
into flight. The Wh"Ir ilnr
N abandoned trenches. TWO miles hiis'
we're captured with loss to tme aS13u'.
mr. brigade of three mon. The BociN
inn tlrd across the TugcfI river at great
wood with disorder. but hraVclT coNrrc"
II thoir artillery They left in their
INN some prisoners ana much matcfE!!.
rLn Rritish loss was comparatively small
...rhn general result is that the lipti@
,a,-n bcen nut t. flight for the first time
II Natal since ElandslaaSte.