The Worthington advance., 1900-03-30
FEELING IS BITTER.
Transvaalsrs and Free staters. 0nce
Allies, Are Now Foes-situ-
.ss' alton at Maleking.

F. London, March ga Bloemfontein
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, large
body of Free Staters would take the
field and fight Immediately against the
Eransvaalers.
London, March 26.-A dispatch to
the Daily Telegraph from Kimberley,
dated Sunday. March IS, says: Prison
ers brought in here report that force
of British cavalry has entered the
Transvaal and penetrated to a point
Is miles north of Christiana. The
British forces at Fourteen Streams are
being strengthened. A movement
northward is expected soon.
London, March 26.-The Daily Mail
publishes the following from Mafe-
king, dated Wednesday, March II: We
are still being heavily shelled. There
have been several casualties. Skir-
mishing continues in the trenches.
The native food question is becoming
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 II, 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. Plumer's force. Some of the
natives are dying of starvation. owing to
their prejudice against horseflesh."
London, March 26.-Winston Church
i'll, in dispatch to the Morning Post,
says:
1T 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."
London, March 26.-At a late hou,
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. Lygon, of the Grena-
dier guards, and Lieut.. Col Codrington. OF
the Coldstream guards, rode eight or nine
miles beyond their camp on the Modde1
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 white handker-
chief and the Beers came to their assist.
ance and Gid 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"
London, March 26.-The total Brit.
ish losses, exclusive of the invalids
sent home, are 10, 41S in killed, wounded
and missing.
London, March 26.-Advices received
here announce the death in the Moo
hospital Friday of Gen. Sir Edward
Woodgate, who was wounded in thu
engagement at Spion Kop on January
a.
Barkly West, Saturday, March a.
Griquatown was reoccupied Thursday
by 400 Beers. A column left Kimberley
yesterday (Friday) to drive them out
It is reported that. all the loyalists
there, including the women, have beer
imprisoned.
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, ht
declared, would have to be decided b,
her majesty's advisers; but thu
burghers might oe certain that tn,
late government at Bloemfonteir
would never be restored. He advised
all the inhabitants to accept the in
evitable and to obey all the order!
of the military and other authoritie,
duly appointed, intimating that the
landdrost and sheriffs had been re-
appointed under the queen. The
burghers began taking the oath Of
allegiance and surrendering thei,