The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-03-29
ALLIES BECOME FOES
Bitter Feeling Between Free Staters
and Transvaalers.

London, Marca A B1oemfontein
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,
in 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
Eransvaalers.
British Enter the TransyaaI.
London, March ga dispatch to
the Daily Telegraph from Kimberley,
dated Sunday, March 25, says: Prison
ers brought in here report that force
of British cavalry has entered the
Transvaal and penetrated to point
Is miles north of Christiana. The
British forces at Fourteen Streams are
being strengthened. A movement
northward is expected soon.
Situation at Mafeking.
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
a 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:
1--WE 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. Plumers force. Some of the
natives are dying of starvation, owing to
their prejudice against horsefesh."
More Troops Are Needed.
London, March 26.-Winston Church
i'll, in dispatch to the Morning Post,
says:
at is imperative to continue shipping
troops to South Africa. The stream should
never cease until the Beers surrender un.
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."
Fall Into n Boer Trap.
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
and Lieut.. Lyon was Killed and Lieut. Col
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
Of"
Killed by Mounted Police.
Bloemfontein, Saturday, March a.
The Beers who yesterday killed Lieut..
Hon. Z. Lyon, of the Grenadier
guards, and wounded Lieut.. Col. Crabbe,
Lieut.. Col. Codrington and Capt. Trot.
ter, of the Coldstream guards, who
had ridden eight or nine miles beyond
their camp on the Modder river with
out escort, except one trooper, were
members of the johannesburg mount
ed police. After dressing the wounds,
the Beers sent them to the British
camp in an ambulance.
The British Losses.
London, March 26.-The total Brit
ish losses, exclusive of the invalids
sent home, are 16, AIS in killed, wounded
and missing.
Gen. WoOdgate Dead.
London, March 26.-Advices received
here announce the death in the Moot
hospital Friday of Gen. Sir Edward
Woodgate, who was wounded in the
engagement at Spion Kop on January
"a.
ReOccupied by Beers.
Barkly 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.
Clements Talks to Burghers.
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