The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1900-01-06
BRITISH WHIP The 3
Beers NEAR BELMONT lONl
Colonel Pitcher Reports a Victor,
Over the Enemyat Sunny
Side Lager.
FREacH's SUCCESS CONFIRMED
British Press Inclined to ExagGcrats
It's Iinpcrtanee.---No News
From Ladysnith or
Gen. Methpcn.

London, Jan. 3.--Thc following wa.
received at Cape Town this morning
under today's date:
Colonel Pitcher reports through thu
officer commanding at Orange river:
II completely defeated hostile tom
mand at Sunny Side lager, this day
January !, taking the lager and forty
prisoners, besides killed and wounded
Our casualties were two privates
killed and Lieutenant Adj wounded
Am encamped at Dover farm, twenty
miles northwest OF Belmont, ten miles
from Sunny Side"
Frcnrh's Victory Confirmed.
The success of French's column is
confirmed officially. The war of1ice
this afternoon issuing a dispatch from
Cape Town dated as follows:
French reports at 2 p. M, from
Colcskop, by Photograph, as follows:
Leaving at Rensburg, heading c
envy in front, half of Fourteenth Sufe
folks and a section of Royal artillery
l started thence at 5 in the afternoon
December 81, taking with me five
%squadrons of cavalry, half of the Sec
ond Berks, eighty mounted infantry
infantry carried in wagons, and ten
guns. l halted for four hours al
Maidor's farm, and at $3.50 this morn
ing occupied a kopje overlooking and
westward of Colesberg. The enemy's
outPosts We're taken completely by
surprise. AT daylight we shelled the
lager and enfiladed the right of the
enemy's position. The artillery fire il
reply was very no. from a 15-poundx
using royal laboratory ammunition
and other guns. We silenced the guns
on the enemy's right flank, demon
strating with cavalry and guns to III.
north of C~olesberg, towards the juno
ton, where a strong larger of the en-.
envy was holding q high position
southeast of Colesberg, as far as thu
junction. Our position cuts the line
of retreat via road and bridge. Some
thousands. of Beers with two guns urt
reported to be retiring toward Nor
walls Pont. All Remington's scout
proceeded towards Achterland yester
day morning. Slight casualties, abom
three killed, few wounded. Detail.
later"
Brief independent messages from
Rensberg filed the evening of Januar,,
supplement French's dispatch bn!
slightly. According to them the Brit
ish were still Smelling the Boer posi-
ton at 5 O'Clock Monday evening anc
expected to enter Colesberg today
The British losses We're three killed
and seven wounded. The Beers ar,
supposed to have suffered heavily FROM
the accuracy of the British artillery
fire. French's statement that TIL,
Beers We're using a 15-pounder anc
Woolwich ammunition evidently re
fers to one of the British guns secure
at Stormberg. The Boer strength il
the engagement with French is esti
mated at 5000 to 1000 men.
Will Have Good Moral Effect.
While the afternoon newspapers ar,
disposed to overrate the br~iiiiancy o.
French's success, it will doubtless,
have O good moral effect and, il;
promptly followed mp, as seems likely
from the fact that Remington's guiarT
IRE already advancing on.Aehterland.
may result IN securing the NorvaFt
ntsshridgesSsthuasgaining an impor
stAnfastrategic advantage, as thence,
French probably will be able to thrent
en- Bethulie bridge, which is the mali
line of retreat for the Beers facing
Gatacre. Other official dispatcher
dated January 1 say Methnen's posi-
is unchanged.