The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-04-13
TRANSVAAL WAR ITEMS.

ment of hostilities. He threatened
those who had surrendered TO the Brit
ish and announced that the Free State
had borrowed $500, 900 from the Trans
vaal for the purposes of war. England,
he declared, had broken every conven-
ton. Referring to the correspondence
with Lord Salisbury, he observed:
"The destiny of the republics is in
higher hands than those of the British
government, namely in the hands OF
the people of France, Russia and Ger
many, who are agitating for interven-
ton. The war will soon end. If it be
true that Boer prisoners have been sent
to ST. Helena we would be justified in
consigning British prisoners to the
lowest depths of the Johannesburg
mines"
A dispatch from Bushman's kop dated
April says: The Beers are still occu-
plying the water works. The fight was
marked by many acts of individual
courage The first man to warn the
British of the ambush was sergeant
of the army service corps, who shot a
Boer dead with his revolver. Explosive
bullets were found on some of the
Beers who were captured. During the
engagement the Beers pursued the
British for miles, killing, wounding
and taking prisoners. One squadron
of the 9th Dragons, which entered the
action 30 strong, mustered at the end
only 10 mounted men.
Methuen telegraphs from Boshop lin
the Orange Free State, a little north
east of Kimberley, as follows: Sur
rounded Gen. Nillebois Mareuil and a
body Of Beers on the 9Th. None es-
! capped. Villebois and seven Beers
killed, eight wounded, so prisoners
Our loses were: Killed, Capts. Boyle
and Williams, both of the yeomanry,
also two men of the same company.
| Wounded, about seven men. The at
| tack lasted four hours The corps be-
! haved very we'll Our force was COM
posed of yeomanry, the Kimberley
mounted corps and the 4th battery of
artillery.
A dispatch from Lord Roberts on the
| 9th says: A very serious loss has oc-
Cured resulting, | fear, in the capture
of party of infantry consisting of
/ three companies of the Royal Irish
Fusilicrs and two companies of the 9th
! regiment of mounted infantry, near
| Reddersburg, little eastward OF Beth
any railway station, within few
miles of Bloemfontein. They were
surrounded by a stronger force of the
enemy with four or five guns. There
can be no doubt but what the whole
party has been made prisoners.
The amazing activity of the Beers
southeast and southwest of Bloemfon-
tein continues, the Boer commands
seemingly coming and going Throughout
n wide region as they please, but TAX
ing good care not to throw themselves
against strong bodies of the British.
The regiment of the Irish Rifles from
Rockville 10 Aliwal leaves Gen. Brab-
ant without communication with the
other British forces. He has 1000 OF
1900 colonials holding a defensive
country, but he is apparently invested
SO far as London knows.
One of the greatest demonstration:
of sympathy, both in the number o
participants and in enthusiasm dis
PLAYED. ever shown in Philadelphia
for any foreign nation, took place OF
the night of the 9th when the Academy
of Music was damned with people fo1
the purpose of taking part in the Phil
adelphia school boys pro-Boer rally
The primary object of the gathering
was to send a message of greeting u
President Kruger, signed by 22,0O
pupils of the schools of the city.
The condition of the Boer prisoner
, is deplorable. The medical authorize
seem unable to cope with the spread o
typhoid fever. There were four ad
ditional deaths on the Sd, and the sicl
1 are panic stricken. The dead ar
; buried with as much respect as the eX
; igencies of the place admit, but tn
gun carriage is no longer used, wagol
being requisitioned to convey a mum
Der of coffins at single trip.
A Pretoria dispatch dated April ct
saws: 1t is reported that Gen. Dewe
attacked and defeated a large force c
!, British cavalry at Dewets dorp, south
east of Bloemfontein, capturing A.
prisoners and a large quantity of an
munition and camp stores and inflic
ing heavy loss. The federal loss wa
: two killed and four wounded. All
n quiet with the other commanders.
> The Britons are now beginning
. though reluctantly, to realize that Lor
Roberts is in for winter campaign
|. lasting several months. This is the en-
- in few words of the high hopes base
on Lord Roberts brilliant dash to Kin
= berley and Bloemfontcin.
The report that Mr.. Steyn had bee
appointed to the command of the Ere
> Staters and the further report that tt
!. Free State has arranged a loan fro
- the Transvaal for war purposes a
= both confirmed.
Kinsardt was formally re-annex'
10 to Cape Colony April 1, amid the chez
n of the assembled troops. A large nur
10 Der of insurgent colonists, includir
a many of their leaders, are now impri