Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-05-03
THE BOERS AND BRITISH
BOTH SIDES STILL ACTIVE AND
Aggressive.
A Full Summary Of the Transvaal
War News-Progress Of the Con-
fliet From Day to Day-Ths British
Encouraged.

A despatch from Thaba N'Chu, de-
scribing the recent fight near that
place, in the Free State, says the
British forces, led by Canadian troops,
carried the Boer kopjes in a rush, and
that at one time the fighting line was
ten miles long and the conflict fierce.
The British loss in killed and wound.
ed was TO- including Colonel Otter,
wounded, and no mention is made of
Boer casualties.
Colonel Dalgety's force at Wepener
numbered 1900. His losses during the
siege was 80 killed and 149 wounded,
GO missing.
A despatch from Aliwal North says
it is reported there that Boer Com.
mandant Olivier is wounded.
A committee claiming to represent
100 German societies in Cleveland
Ohio, and 10000 persons of German
extraction, has forwarded to Presi.
dent Mckinley petition asking him
to use his influence to stop the war in
South Africa.
Although the British troops have
followed as rapidly as possible the
retreating Beers through the Free
State. and after some minor fighting
have occupied the town of Thaba
N'Chau, yet the main body of the
burghers appear to have made their
escape from the big net spread for
them by Lord Roberts.
A despatch from Pretoria says that
United States Consul Hay is pursuing
an impartial policy. and has succeeded
in considerably ameliorating the con.
dition of the British prisoners.
Lord Roberts campaign plans, ac-
cording to official reports from Bloem-
fontein, have resulted in the relief of
the besieged garrison of Colonial
troops at Wepener and the occupation
OF De Wet Dorp, both important STRAIT
egic points in the Free State where
considerable forces of Beers had been
massed. There was some fighting,
i,lJnf no official record of casualties II
reported, and there is no record Of
prisoners captured.
The British loss at Mefeking up to
March 81 was 368 in killed and wound.
ed. The garrison is much depressed.
The British authorities have already
listed 10000 alleged rebels in Cape
Colony and Natal
\ Cape Town correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says that General
CarringtOn's force is the only one
going to the relief Of Mafeking. and
that no force of any kind is operating
| from the south.
The Transvaal Government has
asked Lord Roberts to be allowed to
send Il clergyman to st. Helena, and
also n neutral consul to watch the in
| terests of the prisoners, in the same
manner that Adelbert S. Hay guards
the interests of the British at Pretoria.
\ Pretoria despatch says the latest
| official news was that fighting was
proceeding within half an hours ride
| of De Vets Dorp, with no results.
Gen. Charles Warren has been ap-
| pointed administrators of Bechuna,
| land
| \ despatch from Ottawa, ontario,
says the government has no evidence
of any conspiracy In the United States
for the purpose of attacking Canada
because of its sending troops TO South
Africa.
At banquet of the Cape Town So
ciety of st. George, given at Cape
Town yesterday, Sir John Gordon
Sprigg. ex-premier, spoke hopefully
regarding the early termination of the