The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-04
BRITISH TAKE BRANDFORT
LORD ROBERTS PUSHING HIS AD-
 VANCE YARD PRETORIA.
Col. Broadyvood's Cavalry Now Twenty Eight Miles North of Thaba N'Chu- Success in the Advance from the Latter
 PIace-FOrward Movement Believed to
 be Under Way at Kimberley-Corres pOndeMts Forbidden to Send out
Anything for Several Days.

Anything for Several Days.
 London, May At is announced that the British have captured Brandfort.
 Brandfort is on the railroad line thirty-five miles north of Bloemfontein. The Boers retired there in force when defeated around Bloemfontein.
 Broadwoods cavalry brigade has reached Isabelfontein, twenty-eight miles north of Thaba N'Chu. General Ian Hamilton is bivouacking at Jacobs rust, fifteen miles north of Thaba N'Chu. General Fuckers division is moving eastward from Karee Siding. The divisions of General French and General Bundle are in and near Tbaba N'Chu. Thus Lord Roberts has 50,oOO men operating clear of the railway along front of forty miles.
 He is advancing slowly with some successes, but nothing decisive. Yet, at all points of concentration, the Boers appear in force sufficient to compel the British to proceed with caution. Their wide front in rugged country makes turning movements off-hand difficult.
 The Boers, Winston Churchill says, have enormous herds of cattle ana flocks of sheep gathered in the south east. These they are driving north ward.
 The correspondents at Kimberly have been forbidden to communicate for seV- eral days the deduction being that forward movement Is under way there , The Boers in Natal are restless. Two hundred crossed Sundays river We'd nesday and tried to engage the British outposts.
 Early on Thursday the war office is sued the following from Lord Roberts dated Bloemfontein May 2:
 General Hamilton met with consid- erable success yesterday and drove the enemy out of the strong position they had taken up at Houtnek, with compar- atively small loss to us The Boers dis persed in several directions, mainly to the east and north. leaving twenty-six prisoners in our hands, including one commandant and sixteen other wound ed men. General Hamilton Is now in camp at Jacbosrust. As the men needed rest dLleT HSLllIlS ScNeil JUL ol tAiS i'Se ten days. I ordered them to halt for Ho-day General Broadwood's brigade of cavalry arrived upon the scene in time to afford valuable assistance by threatening the enemy's rear. During the afternoon General Ian Hamilton was joined by General Bruce Hamil- tons brigade of infantry.
 "The enemy admit having twelve kill ed and forty wounded yesterday. Among the former was Lieutenant Gunther, a German officer belonging to the Fifty fifth regiment and among the latter Maximoff, Russian commander of the foreign legion. Twenty-one out of fif- ty-two of the enemy's casualties oc- cured among the members of that le- zion. Two Frenchmen were among the killed.
 General Hamilton speaks in high terms of the good service performed by the Eighth Hussars under Colonel Cloves, and made up into regiment of lancers which came into General Broadwood's brigade and assisted in making the Boers vacate their posi- tion.
 "The final stroke of the enemys rout was given by the Gordons and two companies of the Shropshire Light in- fantry. who cheered loudly when they got within two hundred yards of the position. Kitcheners Horse Is also spoken of in terms of praise.'