Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1900-01-05
NOTHING TO
BRAG OVER
Later Dispatches Disclose That
General French Did Not Ac,,s
compIish Anything at
sunnyslde
zuLus GETTING RESTLESS
SF
Believed That Butler Has Again
Attempted the Relief OF
LadysmIth.

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Rensberg, Cape Colony, Jan. g.
Colesburg has not yet BEEN occupie,
The Beers UNEXPECTEDLY yatfacked ;th
British, left at daybreak this mornin,
but were repulsed. They occupie
the hills to the north Of town, BIZ
were eventually driven out OF thei
positions after an hours shelling b
our guns. They still hold, however
the hills Immediately surrounding tn
town, preventing the. British frou
advancing along the railway. TIL
British loss in today's engagement
was light, while the Beers are report
ed to have lost 100, including twent,
prisoners. The Boer attackers mum
bered thousand men. The Innisldl
ling Dragons cut their way through
The Beers, were forced to retreat
by the heavy artillery and masketFy
fire.
London, Jan. 5.-General Gatacre
report OF the MoltenO affaif,. confirms
the Associated PressdSpatches show
ing it to be merely determined at
tack on the police outpost, which was
successfully repelled. There were nc
British casualties. . 49, 81
Pietermaritzburg, Jan. 5.-Restless-
ness of the Zulus is increasing. Many
are on the verge of starvation, and
there has been several Instances of
looting stores. 1t is feared that the
magistrates will not be- pable TO re-
strain the warriors much longer. 1t
is asserted that they are anxious to
attack the Beers a a.trf..fs
London, Jan. There is still no
important news from the fFont,v hut
the silence which descended on Gem
eral Buller's hugesforce at Tugela
River is believed, to be a prelude to
another attempt to reach Ladysmfth.
Meanwhile the extraordinary tenaci-
ty which the Beers are displaying
around Colesburg, where they even as :
sumo the offensive, tends to .detract
from the success which General
French is supposed to ohave achievetstd1.s
The latest news of ColonelsPilcher's
raid shoyvo that -so...e- s-si slAe fret ac-
counts had a considerably exaggeraJeu
effect on the Beers and theft sympa-
thizers. While it is true that he sue
cessfully drove a couple of hundred
rebels from Sunnyside, killing Or
wounding thirty and capturing forty
threes Colonel sRilcberss ! immediatet
evacuation Of Douglass seems to prove |
that he had information that there |
was sufficient numbers Of Beers inzthe
neighborheod.to to make his position un-
safe. Indeed, there is reason to be-
lieve that the only dispatch Of cav
airy brigade, from the -Modder River,
preventedt600 men sent by General
Cronje from attacking Pitchers col
umn, and as soon as the cavalry re-
turned to. Modder River, Cronje's
troops re-occupied -Sunnyside. Ac-
cordlng to advices from Sterkstf0om
the Beers have completely retired
from the neighborhood of MoIteno,
but General Gatacre does. not appear
to have pursued them, aas reinforce
ments from Sterkstroom returned
there. -ts
Cape Town, Jan. 5. The Trans
walls high sheriff, Juta, while at
tempting to sail for Delagoa Bay to-
day, wasarrested here. HE was sub
sequehtly paroled. 9
London, Jan. 5.--The war office this
afternoon published a dispatch from
Cape Town, dated January 3rd., say,
ing at General French's special reS
quest that the Household cavalry,
battery. of field. artillery and the first
battalion of the Essex regiment, have
been dispatched ,tq reinforce him
temporarily.
London, Jan. Sit is rumored at
Cape Town that Colonel Baden-Pow-
ell has again defeated the Beers at
Mafeking.
Belmont, Cape Colony, Jan. 5.71Cols
Pitchers column, with the Douglass
refugees, returned to camp this morn
ing. snr~.-e-@
London, Jan. 5.--A special from
Rensberg says that Mayor Harvey, Of
the Tenth Hussars, was killed and
Msjor Alexander wounded while the
Hussars were pursuing retTeating
Beers after the attack On the British
left, January 4th, near Colesburg