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about $50 into the native location which
had been burned.
The enemy broke into two parties.
one being penned in the stone cattle
kraal and the other hemmed in a hollow
behind kopJe. inside the -euter defenses.
They had no water and but little food.
Beers Finally Surrender.
Meanwhile, strong party. estimated
at 800. ran around the railway. There
they surprised, and after sharp fighting,
captured Lieut.. Col. Hore, Capt. Single
ton and Veterinary Surgeon Dunlop
smith, who for time was penned in
with forty Beers in the ONCE OF the Brit
ish South African protectorate. This po-
sition was covered by our forts. The
Beers were called upon to surrender, but
they refused, and the fighting was re-
sumed for some hours. The Beers lost
heavily. Finally two parties of the enc
my surrendered. one party escaping. The
casualties are not yet fully known. The
Beers lost about $50, but our casualties
were under twenty. Angus Hamilton,
correspondent of the London Times, is
missing"
Preparing Siege Trains for Pretoria.
The railway head is expected to be at
Kroonstad today Tuesday The con-
Roberts advance. but his cavalry con-
tinues active through a wide radius east
and southeast OF Kroonstad.
The infantry advances steadily. Gen.
Colville and Gen. Rumble shift their
headquarters each second day. The Beers
are retreating northward from Harri-
smith Raiding and sniping are deereas-
ing.
Lord Roberts is advised that little sue
cess need be expected south of Kliprivers-
burg, where the natives are digging
trenches. but the position. according to
correspondent. can be turned. The
same authority thinks that there will
not be any desperate defense south of
Pretoria, and that even the capital Of
the Transvaal Is likely TO be evacuated.
The orders from the war Office direct
ing six more siege trains to go out,
however. indicate preparations in expec-
fancy of siege.
CnsunIties Among Correspondents
Twenty-one war correspondents have
been killed or have died of disease dur
ing the war In this respect the Daily
Mail has been unfortunate. ten of its
representatives having been put out of
service by death or Illness.
4:20 a. m.-The war office announces
that eleven vessels will leave home ports
during the next thirty days with 1899
officers and men and 1855 horses.
The promotion of Col. Baden-Poweli
is generally expected to be followed by
further honors, probably an important
command with n temporary rank of
lieutenant general He only got his
colonelcy I'm 1897 and he now goes ahead
of long list of seniors.
Passed Through BOer Lines.
dispatch to the Daily Mali from Ma
janamablli, dated May II. says:
Lieut.. Moorsome, with the lProtectorate
regiment from Mafeking. Joined us. They
went first to Col. Plumer. making a wide
western circuit and got through the Boer
lines with many hair-breadth escapes.
reaching Nryburg after a daring ride of
nearly 800 miles through a country scourg-
ed with a destructive fever similar to the
influenza. There was hardly a Boer house
or native kraal without a case OF the
disease, and hundreds died; The column
is continually moving, and Is healthy, ac-
tive and clean. The troops entirely es-
capped
covered and their owners arrested prompt
ly. They inform against their neigheors.
The natives render every assistance. Mafe-
king knows the column ia coming
beers Left Thirty Dead.
LONDON May 22.--The second edition
of the Daily Mail this morning contains a
dispatch from Janmadadibis under date
of May Is. which says: The British left
Salagol Sunday at sunrise, making a de-
tour to the westward In order to avoid
Koodoos rand where there was strong
force of Beers. The maneuver was sue
cessful. but "A large force of Beers In am
bush was encountered column of lilh
horse dislodred the Beers. who endeAv.
ored to entilade the convoy, but were pre-
vented by the artillery. and the enemy
fed, our rear guard, composed Of the
Kimberley horse. enfilading their retreat.
Capt Hands was wounded The Beers
this morning and met Col Piumer'
force"