Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-03-28

LONDON, March 27.-Reconnoisanc-
es of slight Importance continue to be
the only features of the war in South
Africa Lard Roberts wires to the war
Office as follows, under date of Bloem-
fontein, March %: Capt Slonae-
Stanley, of the Sixteenth Lancers, was
slightly wounded in an affair of OUT
posts, north of the Modder river, March
25." This bare statement is all that
comes from the commandments.
A dispatch from Bloemfontein, dated
March IS, and published in the second
edition of the Times, amplifes Lord
Roberts dispatch as follows: "A W.
airy reconnaissance was made yester-
day toward Brandfort. The Sixteenth
Lancers, by skirmishing. drew the
Beers from their position into tho
open, when the Ninth Lancers attempt
ed to outfank the enemy while they
were engaged from the front by a dis
mounted esction of the Sixteenth Lam
GERS. Our casualties are reported to be
few"
A dispatch from Maseru, Basutoland.
dated March &c. says: THE Basutoland
government is collecting natives to be
employed at Bloemfontein in repairing
and laying railroads. The natives re-
port that the Free Skaters on the bor-
ders of Basutoland have refused to go
to Kroonstadt and are staying on their
farms, as 1t is now the blowing season
and they are inclined to keep their
land and submit rather than give 1t up
and fight"
Boer reports from Natal show no de-
velopments of Importance have OCCUR
red there up to March 20.
A dispatch from the Boer camp at
Glencoe, dated March 20. says: mo
attack is expected to be made on the
Boer forces In Natal. eGn. Botha and
Meyer have been joined by their wives.
Pretorius, with a patrol, got between
an advance guard of the lancers and
its main body March %. One lancer.
who refused to surrender. was shot.
Gen. Botha denies the reports that
Transvaal ome were wounded In
the Tugela trenches. Gen. Butler has
sent the Beers a list of their wounded.
stating that he had buried so men.
Gen. Botha says this Is impossible, as
his rolls do not show any such loss"
A Ladysmith special says: "a print
ed document has been found giving
the Boer losses at Spion Kop at over
$500 but this can scarcely be credit
ed"
Advices to-day from Cape Town
says: rains are general throughout
South Africa and rivers which have
been dry for years are being flooded.
Many camps are transformed into
swamps. This will still more initiate
against an immediate British adj
vance,"
"A meeting of the Bund was held
at Paarl March &c and was attended
by several members of the Cape AS
sembly. 1t passed resolutions regret
ing that the Cape Government was
not consulted before the war and de-
claring that any settlement which did
not respect the independence OF the
republics would be detrimental to the
highest interests of the British en-
pire. Mr.. Hargrove, the chief speaker
~prophesied another war within six
years unless independence was grant
ed, and Assemblyman Marais charac-
terized the war as a continuation of
the Jameson raid.
Czarina Responsible.
BERLIN, March N.-The Lokal Anzieger
has a dispatch from st. Petersburg as
sorting that the Czarina is responsible for
the delay in the Russian answer to the
Kruger-Steyn Intervention appeal. She
has been striving to prevent a pro-Boer
reply, such as Count Muravieff, the Rus
sian fnreirn minister. has prepared.