Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-03-29
FEELING IS BITTER.
Transvaalers and Free staters, Once
Allies, Are Now Foes-Situ-
alton at Mafeking.

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London, March ga Bloemfontein
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,
in a dispatch dated Friday, March %,
says: The late allies are now bitter
foes. So strong is the popular feeling
here that, were it desirable, a large
body of Free Staters would take the
field and fight Immediately against the
Transvaalers.
London, March ga, dispatch to
the Daily Telegraph from Kimberley,
dated Sunday, March rs, says: Prison
ers brought in here report that force
of British cavalry has entered the
Transvaal and penetrated to point
18, miles north of Christiana. The
British forces at Fourteen Streams are
being strengthened. A movement
northward is expected soon.
London, March 26.-The Daily Mail
publishes the following from Mafe-
king, dated Wednesday, March IA: We
are still being heavily shelled. There
have been several casualties. Skir-
mishing continues in the trenches.
The native food question is becoming
difficulty. The Beers have broken
the arrangement to respect the Sab
bath by not firing and have seized the
opportunity to extend their trenches.
Lady Sarah Wilson, in a dispatch
from Mafeking, dated Wednesday,
March IA, says: t-s...
eve have received news of the relief OF
Ladysmith, but it serves to increase our
disappointment, as there is no prospect of
our relief. The town remains closely in
vested. The Beers are reported to be very
numerous and strongly intrenched between
us and Col. Plumer's force. Some of the
natives are dying of starvation, owing to
their prejudice against horsef1esh.''
London, March 26.-Winston Church
says:
1T is imperative to continue shipping
troops to South Africa. The stream should
never cease until the Beers surrender I'm
conditionally. At the end of the war Great
Britain will possess the finest army in her
history. This, however, must not lure the
nation from the fertile fields of trade and
commerce into the stony wastes of mill
tarism.'
London, March 26.-At a late hour
Saturday night the war Office posted
the following dispatch from Gen. Rob-
erts, under date of Bloemfontein,
March "a:
Yesterday Lieut.. Col. Crabbe Capt.
Trotter and Lieut.. E. Lyon, of the Grena-
der guards, and Lieut.. COL Codrington, Of
the Coldstream guards, rode eight or nine
miles beyond their camp on the Modder
river without escort except one. trooper
They were fired upon by party of Beers
md 3n,,f Ill
Crabbe, Lieut.. Col Codrington and Capt.
Trotter were seriously wounded. The
trooper also was wounded. One of the
wounded officers held up a white handker-
chief and the Beers came to their assist
ance and did all they possibly could, at
tending to their wounds. The Beers then
conveyed the wounded to the nearest
farmhouse, where they were taken care
off,
London, March 26.-The total Brit
ish losses, exclusive of the invalids
sent home, are AIS in killed, wounded
and missing. ..... -.
London, March 26.-Advices received
here announce the death in the Mooi
hospital Friday of Gen. Sir Edward
Woodgate, who was wounded in the
engagement at Spion Kop on January
"a.
Barl1ly West, Saturday, March a.
Griquatown was reoccupied Thursday
by 400 Beers. A column left Kimberley
yesterday (Friday) to drive them out
1t is reported that all the loyalists
there, including the women, have been
imprisoned.
Philippolis, Friday, March 23.-Gen.
Clements entered Philoppolis at noon
to-day. He assembled the burghers.
addressed them, and read Lord Rob-
erts' proclamation in Dutch and Eng
lish. The future of the Free State, he
declared, would have to be decided by
her majesty's advisers; but the
burghers might be certain that the
late government at Bloemfontein
would never be restored. He advised
all the inhabitants to accept the in
evitable and to obey all the orders
of the military and other authorities
duly appointed, intimating that the
1anddrost and sheriffs had been re-
appointed under the queen. The
burghers began taking the oath of
allegiance and surre1ldering their
arms.