The sun., 1900-03-28
THESOUTH AFRICA WAR
Reconnaissance Of Slight Importance
the Main Features. "a
NATIVES BUILD RAILWAYS.
sickness Among the Boer Prisoners
ON the British Transports He-
ported to Be Incrensing, and
Fever Epidemic Is Feared.

OF slight Importance continue to be the
only features of the war news from
South Africa.
Lord Roberts wires to the war office
as follows, from Bloemfontein, March
80:
'Captain Sloane-Stanley of the Six
teenth lancers was slightly wounded IN
an affair of outposts, north of the Mod
der river, March %"
This bare statement is all that comes
from the commander in chief, or at least
all that the war Office permits to be pub
lished. Il
A dispatch from Bloemfontein, dated
Monday, March %, and published in the
second edition of The Times, ampllhes
Lord Roberts dispatch as follows;
"a cavalry reconnaissance was made
Yesterday toward Brandfort. The Six
teenth lancers, by skirmishing, drew the
Beers from their position into the open,
when the Ninth lancers attempted to
outfank the enemy while they were en-.
gagged from the front by dlsmounteu
section Of the Sixteenth lancers 0ul
| casualties are reported to be few"
A dispatch from Maseru, Basutoland.
| dated March 26, says:
"The Basutoland government is busy
| collecting natives to be employed al
| Bloemfontein in repairing and laying ran
roads. The natives report that the hree
Staters on the borders of Basutoland
have refused to go to Kroonstadt and arc
staying on their farms, as it IS now INC
| blowing season, and they are inclined to
keen their lands and submit rather than
give it up and fight"
Quiet In Natal.
Boer reports from Natal show no de,
velopments OF importance had occurred
there up to March %. A dispatch from
the Boer camp at Glencoe, dated March
%, says:
''No attack is expected to be made Oh
the Boer forces in Natal. Generals Botha
and Meyer have been joined by theii
wives. Pretorius, with a patrol, got be
tween an advance guard of lancers and
its main body March %. One lancer
who refused to surrender, was shot
sGeneral Botha denies the reports that
Transyaal women were wounded in the
, Tugela trenches. General Butler has
sent the Beers list of their wounded
stating that he buried 60 men. General
Botha SAYS this is impossible, as his rolls
do not show any such loss"
. A Ladysmth special says:
"Boer patrols endeayored to entrap a
party of the Thirteenth hussars March
25 at Waschbank. A hot chase ensued
Several Beers were wounded"
The same dispatch says:
"a printed document has been found
giving the Boer losses at Spion Kop at
over $500, but this can scarcely be cred
ited."
Advices fropl Cape Town say:
''Rains are general throughout South
Africa, and rivers which have been dry
for years are being flooded. Many camps
are transformed into swamps. This will
still more initiate against an immediate
British advance.
: BOer Prisoners Ill.
sickness among the Boer prisoners oil
/ the transports is increasing. Three
e deaths occurred March %. The bodies
were buried by the British, with the
Transvaal flag on the collins, the leading
! Dutch of Simons. Town attending the
!. funeral. Typhoid alone claims 100 vic
q tins among the prisoners, and the popu
e laton of Simons Town fears an epidemic
d "a meeting of the bond was held a
d Paarl March 26 and was attended 10y
u several members of the Cape assembly
3 1t passed resolutions regretting that tho
. Cape government was not consulted be
q fore the war and declaring that any set
!. tlement which did not respect the indie
% pendence of the republics would be detri
IN mental to the highest interests of thu
F. British empire. Mr. Hargrove, the chic
m speaker. prophesied another war within
~ six years unless independence was grant
~ ed, and Assemblyman Marais character
~ | lied the war as q continuation of tn
i. Jameson raid"
General White was presented with al
address by the mayor and municipa
council of Cape Town assuring hir
~ ~ of their sympathy in his enforced HON
~ going and declaring that the records o
- y the siege of Ladysmith are among tn
~ ~ brightest annals of the nation.
81 ss 1t is announced that Lord Roberts
~ ~ going to Cape Town to meet Lady Rot
co erts.
nd nd Mr.. Michael Davitt arrived at Lourer
Nv co Marques March 24.
80, A dispatch in the second edition of Th
=, ~ Times from that port declares the Boei
are using natives from the mines to col
- struct trenches around Johannesburg
r. adding that the mines are expected I
w. ~ shut down owing to the military deman
M for Katiir labor.
- In response TO the executive commi
" tees request that the American hospit
nj ship Maine be permitted to remain
a. South African waters, General Bull'
m. has cabled as follows from Ladysmith:
1--WE think that the ship in going
nt. England confers the greatest benefit upt
of the sick and wounded, as, with her q
,ce cellent medical staff, she best aids in th
way the evacuation of our congested no
nm pitals of bad cases. The Trojan al
,er Spartan are ample for local transfers.
an the Maine goes, we hope she will retu
oll as soon as possible"
do. Living Cheap at Nome.
&C. Victoria, B. c., March 21.-The stear
nd er Danube brings news Of the arrival
BILE Skaguay of probably the last trayele
the who will come from Nome this winte
McRae and Nagel, who were deputiz'
lis. to carry to San Francisco the report
ing the engineer on the railway to be bu
the from Port Safety to Cape York, came
rto the river in 46 days with single tea
;es. of dogs. They say the winter has be-
unprecedentedly mild at Nome, that
necessaries of life are plentiful and che
uh there and the streams in all directio
as are prospering well.
cad Slayer stricken Dumb.