Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-04-04


Fl: Cape Town, April 3.-Gencral
Cronjc Colonel Schiel and 1000
Bocr prisoners sailed for ST. He :
lena tonight. ::
London, April i.-4:4O a. m.-No news
has yet been received of the expected
battle between General French and the
Beers. There il now but remote
prospect of the recapturc of the guns.
This. however. is regarded as quite
trining compared with the political ef-
fccts OF the disaster AS the Blocmfon-
TEN CORRESPONDENT Of The Times re-
marks, Commandant Olivcr's strategy
in reoccupylng I.adybrand and Thaba
N'Chu was bold ana even brilliant
Most Of his force is composed OF Free
Statcrs. and tho advantage gained by
them will have "a most disturbing CT
feet on the mind of the Free State
popula ton.
The impossibiliiy OF afrordinG COM
plete protection, for the moment, to all
farmers in the South and Southeast
sections of the Free State is recognized
at Bloemfontein. Men who surrender
ed under the proclamation of Lord
Roberts are now being punished for
the reliance they placed in the ability
OF the British to protect them. Mafc-
king WAS still besiegcd on March 20.
and there are rumorS that General Bull
Ter is preparing to advance.
1t is announced from Springfontein
that the censorship has again curtailcd
the dispatches. Therefore important
developments must be impending.
RELUCTANT TO BELIEVE.
The British public is reluctant To be-
lieve that an American led the Boer
forces which attacked the convoy i 10
Daily Chronicle says:
"Reichmann may be. like some other
Americans, i'm sympathy with the
Beers. He may even have unofiicially
advised the Boer commandant, al
though this would have been exceed
ingly improper, but we cannot think
he would take the command without
previously rcsigning his commission.
TXPELLINCi BRITISH MINERS
London. April 4.-Thc correspondent
of the Times at Lourenzo Marques
teiegraphing Tuesday says:
1T is reported here that all the Rand
mines closed down last Thursday
British Workmen and their countrymen
in other parts of the republic are being
expelled Wholesale from the Transvaal
1t is impossible TO induce many OF the
Beers now on furlough TO return to the
front.
'They are generally averse to de-
Tending Biggarsberg and are divided
with reference TO the wisdom of con-
tinuing the war. President Kruger has
prevailed on Mr.. Steyn to make one big
stand before surrendering."
LORD ROBERTS DESCRIBES BAT
TIE.
London. April 3.-The War Office has
posted II dispatch from Lord Roberts.
reading as follows:
"Bloemfontein. April . Q0:30 p. ND
In continuation of my telegram of
March 81 there has been considerable
delay I'm getting accurate returns of;
the casualties. as the action took place
twenty-five miles hence; the telegraph
cable has been interrupted several
times; cloudy weather has interfered
with signalling, and although there has
Deen no engagement since the force is
continually in touch with the enemy"
There were many acts OF conspicu-
Gus galiantry displayed during the day.
g, battery remained in action under
a cross-firc at 1000 yards for some
hours, the officers serving the guns as
the casualties reduced the detachments.
Several gallant attempts were made 10
bring IN two guns. the teams of which
had been killed, but at each attempt
the horses We're shot.
The ESSEX. Munster, Shropshire and
northumberland mounted infantry and
Roberts Horse covered the retirement
OF the guns from that position to the
crossing of the drift found by the cav
airy two miles further south and with
STOOD the determined attacks of the
enemy. who. in some cases. advanced
within hundred yards o. battery.
of the Royal Horse Artillery, was sud
denly surrounded in the drift and the
officers and men We're all made prison
ers without shot being fired. Bit
Major Taylor and sergeant major
succeeded in escaping in the confusion.
Five guns were captured ut the same
time. Further details tomorrow"
NO GUNS RECOVERED.
Lord Roberts dispatch seems to
finally dispose of the earlier report of
the recovery of the guns and the fact
that the Beers remain in occupation
of the water-works is taken as an in
dication that they intend to make a
stand at least sufficiently long to cover
the withdrawal of the guns and wagons
to q place of safety.
A dispatch from MaZeru. Basuto-
land dated April I'd, says the Earl of
Rosslyn, who is acting as war CORES
pondent for the Daily Mail in South
Africa and who left there on April 1st
on his way to Thaba NChu. has
probably fallen into the hands of the
Beers.
- Messages from Springfontein suggest
that the fact that press messages are
keenly censored indicates an early adj
vance northwards although there Is