Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-04-19
THE BOERS WIN AGAIN.
THIRD DEFEAT OF BRITISH WITH.
IN A WEEK..


4 Full Summary Of tho Transvaal
War News-Progress Of the Con
filct From Day to pay-Tha British
Encouraged.
Winston Churchill, the London
newspaper correspondent, predicts
that the war will prove costly one
to England and that 250,00O troops
will be necessary in South Africa to
ensure triumph for Lord Roberts.
Lord Roberts has protested to Pres.
ident Kruger against the treatment
of prisoners, sick and wounded, in
the hands of the Beers, and has for.
mally demanded the observance of
the Geneva convention.
1t is officially reported that the Brit
ish losses at Wedener in four days
fighting were Is men killed and 132
wounded.
The Boer Peace Commissioners in
Europe have gone to The Hague, DR..
Leyds, the diplomatic agent of the
Transvaal, accompanying them from
Milan to Brussels.
The Committee of the American
Woman's Hospital Ship Fund at Lon
don has received cablegram from
Lady Randolph Churchill announcing
deria. and will reach Southampton on
April %.
The steamship Saraha has sailed
for Cape Town from New Orleans
with 1000 mules for the British army.
So great has been the rush of Wis.
itors to South Africa recently. espec-
tally ladies, that Cape Town is over
crowded. and the cost of living ma
terially increased.
Public interest in London centres
upon the personality of the new COM
manders in Africa and in the suppo-
sitiOns as to whom the next General
will be TO be sent home.
Nothing definite has been learned
in London regarding the rumor of
Colonel Baden-Powelrs death.
Twenty-Five out of seventy arrivals
at Delagoa Bay ON Il German steamer
have been refused passports to the
Transvaal, at the instance of the Brit
munition was found in their posses
sion.k
Buffers line of communications Is
threatened now.
Gen. Sir William F. Gatacre has
been ordered home.
A Pretoria despatch reports that
Col. Baden-Powell, the defender OF
Mafeking, is dead.
The British losses in the war to
date, including the sick and wounded
in hospital, foot up more than $4,000.
The Boer Government has notified
Portugal that they regard her permit
ting British troops to cross her ter
ritory an act of war.
Cable dispatches from South AT
rica state that the Beers under Gen.
eral De Wet fought a great battle in
the Free State on Saturday last, in.
flicting the third defeat of the British
within week, killing or wounding
600 and capturing 900 prisoners. The
Boer loss is said to have been trifiing.
Remounts are continually arriving
at Bloemfontein, but competent au-
thorities estimate that the wastage of
horses monthly by the British forces
in South Africa is not less than 5000.
The British War Office proposes to
land at Cape Town before the end of
May 10000 horses, which will be con.
veyed there in steamers from New
Orleans. Buenos Ayres and Australian
ports.
The Transvaal Volksraad has been
summoned to meet in ordinary session
on May z.
Lord Roberts's army in and around
BlOemfOntein is unable to move for
lack of horses and supplies, and that
the garrison is seriously menaced by
the Beers, who are massed only eigh-
teen miles away, where they still con-
troll the water works.
The Bloemfontein correspondent Of
the London Times says: Two cap
tured Beers agree that only fifty men
remained unwounded out of the whole
British column captured at Redders-
| burg"
Fifty-two Boer prisoners, who were
| captured at Boshof, have arrived at
Kimberley. Only three are Dutchmen,
the others being Frenchmen, Ger.
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