Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-15
Beers FIRED THE GRASS.
British Force Ha5 % lace he Terrible Smoke
Tia. Arose
FIGHT IS ON AT NAFEKING.
"oers Occupy kaGir Location With a
Loss Of li-Hritish Loss said
10 bo Heavy.

london May l5, 1886 p. m-The war
once has received tie following dis
patch from Gen. Buleu
Dundee May 10. %. m.-We have
occupied Dundee About 500 OF the en-
envy lci. yesterday flr Glencoe where
they outralueJ Their wagons ais, ,eft
yesterday hy Deiagers Dult ana DE
plnnahauser road Their kan.a said
they were going % Lalugs Nea AZ
most every house ia Dundee ls COM
p'etely looted. The Navigation eoliery
is al right
Ihe machinery OF the Dundee COLI
Htlits .s Destroyed, The houses of the
| t'Nh a.t damaged, but are Ftructurally
/ intact
ego D. m-The war office today fur
nishes ardy confirmation of the Assoc
clated Press story of yesterday telling
OF Cen. Buffers move ou the Blgearg-
Dell in "a dispatch from Gen. Butler a.
follows.
kemps Farm. May i5-rhe follow
ing kilograms sent tu Roberts are nav
repeated 90 you They begin under date
Of May l2.
To accordance with instructions 10
Keep the enemy occupied at the Biz
gaisbcrg on May -. ! concentrated
t1e third cavalry brigade of the second
DIVISION and some corps of artillery
at sundays river drift on the uelp-
ulahaaf road, ana directed Col Bethune
20 advance 1u GreytoWn with the
bethune mounted infantry. the Umyotl
mounted rifles and the Imperial iight
Infantry
BRITISH LOSS is SMALL
Ion May n, we moved 70 Wachbank
and Bethune t0 PomerOy. while Cen.
Hildyard from Elandslaagte occupied
lndoda Mountain. on May 49, ! sent
Gen. Hamilton with three battll0ns
up the slope of Witheck Hii. The third
c1Faln brigade crgV pes a hili on a8rh
SIDE oI the main road ard Bethuna at-
tackled by the PumCroy road from three
sides The enemy hurriedly abandoned
the position which they had strongly
entronched ana retired 90 the Mex In
front " Helpmak8ar whore we hope
% dislodge them tomorrow as many yf
hem have retired. We have gained The
summit of the berg with tha loss "
only few men wounded advance 90.
morrow on Beth and Hildyard moves
on Vessels Mex. our small loss.
think was certainly due 20 the excel
lent troop leading Of Generals HamIl.
ton and Lord Duudonald. and Col
Bethuna'
MARCHED ~ DENSE SMOKE.
May 49, The enemy evacuated
Helrmakaar during thl night leaving
"a rear guard of about "a thousand men
Boo front of us. These we have forced
back throughout the day under cone
siderable difficulty as they fired all the
grass 0u top of the berg as they re-
treated asa Che wind triag ulfavor-
able to us we were scarcely able 10 see
at all I halted the infantry who
marched very well through the hot
smoke, at Beth. The cavalry have not
yet reported but are some miles ahead.
We have taken a few prisoners. our
casualties are small
Beers RETREAT SAFELY.
'Eemps Farm. May l5.-Dundouald
reported late last night that be had
driven the rear guard on t0 the main
body OF the enemy near Buulndeu,
where they occupied boz force "a strong
position with three powerful guns Ma
l0r Cough with the composite regiment,
maneuyered % the right round their LETT
flank and they retired, Dundlnald then
halted.
'Ie was 20 miles. as the crow nies.
from hIs previous nights h.y0u1c, and
had covered q WatgrIgss country most
0f Lla time riding through msia. From
prisoners ! learn that ths enemy num-
1..al 1900 at Hgipmakaar and being
uYU Joined by those who lalt Van Jln-
Ie.s Pass they must total nearly 800