The sun., 1900-05-01
.E0nRS ESCAPE TRAP.
Federal Forces From lie Wcts Dorp
and Wepener IRE Safe.
THE SITUATION In MAFEKING
Dispatches Up to tpriI ~ show That
Everything Was satisfactory at
That Date From n British
Standpoint.

London, April 3O.--A dispatch from
Pretoria says that Couman,iant Grnyrtt |
telegraphs from the Bocr camp ut Brand |
fort that the federal forces from De
Wctsdcrp and Wepener have arrived
safely.
Julius We'll. who has branch office 1T
Mafcling, has received dispatches from
that point up To April II by runner to
Kimberley. The latest dispatch says:
We are most cheerful Everything is |
moving along satisfactorily. Tie semi
anniversary Of Tie beginning of the siege
WAS celebrated hy the Borls firing hcav
lily into the town. The attack WAS re-
pulsed III 10 il. n,. On April L we re-
ceived iiS shcl,s, hut there We're no casu
alties.,
The latest nrws from the Orange Free
State indicates that though the Rael'S
have evacuated ThaMnrhu they have
only done 50 70 occupy stronger pesti1GS,
| General he Wei on Sunday tii,d 10 tilt
General lfrrnch'S eastern flank and wnS
only fnilcd by the cavalry after vigorous
Mancnycring The Boels hold Tie rilges
| n the eastward whence they VII pua-
| ably fall hack when tho pressure of 81
prrior numbers increases, lhp British
casualties sustained during the TMlllan
rlu fighting MAS Slight.
General Frrnch'S object. now that al
chance Of catehing main bodies Of the
hurghcrs has disappeared, is t. haraSs
the enemy and prevent any well olEnn-
lied retreat
Canadians at neirn.
From Bcira. Portuguese East Africa
under date of Monday. April %, comes
tho news Of the arrival there of Il Cana
dian II FOUNDER battery. II is added
that General Sir Frederick Darlington,
who is to command the British troops go-
ing to Rhodcsia, has been cordially vel
coined by the Portuguese officials and
that he has reviewed the Portuguese
troops.
Cape Town reports say that DIR. Jane.
, son has recovered from the severe attack
of fever from which he has been suffer-
! ing, and he is mentioned as candidate
for one Of the seats in the Cape parlia-
: ment representing Kimberley, i'll success,
3 sion to Dr. Frederic Rutherford Harris.
The continuous ravages of the war ear
: be gathered from Il Cape Town dispatch
: briefly announcing the arrival from Ma
! tai of 81 officers and 252 men invalided
home and the sailing of the Aurania fol
t England with 400 sick and wounded sol
e diels.
Endcavors are being made to remedy
: the rcmount question, Simla dispatch
, announcing that 800 experienced native
horsrkrcpers. $50 Shoesmiths and 30 vet
erinaiy officers have been drawn from
g India for service in South Africa.
Y In the House of Commons.
q In the house Of commons Mr.. John Gnr
: don Swift MacNeill, Irish Nationalist
member for South Donegal. resumed tht
Interrogation If the parliamentary sec
i rctnrN If the war Office. MIR. GcalEt
y Nlndh&m III regard 10 the South .Slri
/ cam War, hut t9t litlp satisfaction. 'Ihi
d speaker Mi. William CaUrt Gully, innl
:. Is eilrd Mr.. MaeNeil n orpr t,I tr
I ialn,asle q kHoN WfUher TIL operation
Z Jt Ma4er.tohlnin Wprc pN,nr from cril
G ioi$m FL thp commander III chie IT til,
y lsliiish f0recs iii South Aftiea ha0usi
i Lord Mpflurii was "a s9e,ty prgl ana
court gnrte.
1 Mr. Myudham said that tlc war oHr
i had NOT communicated with Ehntnal Rul
i,r III connection with HE Spian I1ap dis
; patches bu, that communications ha,
e passed hp'W"pn Lord Roberts ana Gnn
+ eral Butler iii reference To The pablica
! tion Of the dispatches IN question.
The government lcaler, MI. a. i. Bal
!. FOUR subsequently announced flat will
o "A view 10 cleiring up mis,nnrcptian
n which had gathered round the pahlic;l
. tiun of the dispatches" he would plate
: the salary Of the secretary of state 10
g war among the votes to be taken Fritla,
is and thus enable debate to lie had oi
n the subject.