Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-02-15
INSIDE BOER FRONTIER
British There For the First
Time Since the War.
ROBERTS TURNED CRoNJE's LINE.
Has ut Least 10000 infantry, 1000 Cav
airy and $50 Guns-Relief of Kimber-
ley Within Reach and Way to Bioeni-
fontein Seems Easier.

LONDON, Feb. I5.-4:20 n. m.---The
British army, for the first time since the
war began, is inside the Boer frontier
Lord Roberts, with at least &c, 900 infan.
try, 1000 cavalry and 100 guns, has
turned the Magersfontein Ines before
which the British forces have been en-.
camped for ten weeks, and with half his
corps he is already operating i'll Free
State territory.
A battle has not yet been fought, but
large tactical advantages have been
gained. The relief Of Kimbs riley is
within measurable reach and the way To
Bloemfontein is appreciably easier.
LONDON, Feb 15.-The war office
made public dispatch from General
Lord Roberts, which contained the fol-
lowing:
"DEKIEL's DRIFT, Feb. 14-S:10 a. m.
General French left this POINT at IL 80
yesterday morning, with three brigades
cavalry, horse artillery and mounted in
fantry, including several Colonial contin-
gents, in or toder seize crossing of the
Modder, distant about "a miles, He re-
ports, by diepatch, dated 5:35 p. m, that
he has forced passage at Clip drift,
and occupied the hills north of the river,
capturing three of the enemy's laagers,
with their supplies, while General Cor
don, of the Fifteenth Hussars, WIKI his
brigade, who had made feint at Ron
deval drift, four miles west, has seized
it and q second drift between that and
Chip drift, together with two laagers.
General French's performance is
brilliant, considering the EXCESSIVE heat
and binding dust storm which ragged
during the latter part of the day.
lowing to the rapidity of his move
ments, General French met with but
slight opposition, and his losses were
small. Lieutenant johnson, OF the In
niskilling Dragons, is the only officer
reported severely wounded.
"The Sixth division was last night ON
the north bank of the Riet at Waterfall
Drift and is moving to support the cav
airy. The Seventh division is here and
will go ON this afternoon
-Four officers and 90 men had to be
sent last evening, in the returning OK
wagons, to the railway line, Frustrated
by heat and exhaustion"
LONDON, Feb. 15.-The Daily Tele-
graph received the following, dated
Tuesday, from it's special correspondent
at Frere:
On Sunday the Beers advanced down
the Ladysmith road toward Potgieters.
Three hundred men on horseback, with
others, proceeded to point where they
began to construct new rows of trenches
at right angles to the road. This was
about two miles north of the drift.
A party of Beers also crossed the Tu-
gela, now very low, about six miles be-
low Potgieters Drift, where they sniped
the South African light horse, who re-
pulsed them.
Several other skirmishes have taken
place and the Beers are evidently anx-
ious about their positions. They have
heen throwing up defensive works from
Trichardt's drift and the Spion Kop
range eastward to the Hlangwana and
Monte Cristo hills, both on this side Of
the Tugela. They also have three
wooden bridges spanning the Tugela in
the bend and a wire rope apparatus for
the conveyance Of food and ammunition
across the river.