The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1900-01-19
TIE BOER WAR.

Beers demolished one OF the derense
forts at Mafeking Monday.
British force in South Africa is 100
ooO, with 10000 on the way.
Deaths from entric fever and dvsenterv
aC Lauysmlth average or 10 daily.
A British column of II 900 men, NOV
ing to relief of Ladysmith, crossed Little
Tugela river Sunday.
British authorities have released the
German steamer Herzog, seized January
., While on the way to Lorenzo MARQUEE.
Inc BOer successes have been followed
Dy tremendous Outburst OF enthusiasm
ana Boer sympathy in the western part
OF Cape Colony.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts and Cen
eral Kitchener, chief of staff, landed Fri
DAY at Cape Town. They are followed
by 10000 fresh troops.
The embargo at Delagoa Bav upOn
IransVaal imports is the question Of the
hour with the burghers. If this is not
removed, 1t Is asserted that steps will be
taken preIudicial to prisoners and aliens.
The Suffolk regiment of the English
army near COlesburg moved out and at-
tacked hill. The commander was
fatally wounded, three lieutenants and
20 men killed, p wounded and ia are
missing.
Inc portuguese government has pro-
hlblted the passage of travellers from
Delagoa bay across the frontier into the
1ransVaal, unless they give satisfactory
evidence that they are not going to fight
for the Beers.
Fridays dispatches gave British losses
at the assault on Ladysmith at IA Off
GERS killed, 81 wounded, and over 800
men killed and wounded The English
heard the Boer losses to be between
1000 and 5000.
Lord Stratheona, of Victoria, b. c..
has offered to equip mounted corps of
400 Canadians for South Africa service.
which, II the offer is accepted, will be
composed of British COumbians. II
will cosC him 81 100000.
A Transvaal telegram of January 10
gives the BOer losses at the assault on
Ladysmith at the ridiculously low figure
OF four hilled. Natives assert $50 were
killed in one commando alone and that
there were wagon loads of wounded.
A newspaper correspondent in South
Africa reports that November % the
Yorkshire and Surrey regiments of the
British army fought each other in the
darkness, killing and wOunding many.
They even came to the bayonet point
without recognition.
Butler reported January 10: 81 occu-
pied the south bank of the Tugela river
at POtgieter's drift this morning and
seized the point. The river is in a food.
The pDpmU iS cfrODnIyy
four and One-half miles to the north"
Beers attempted Monday morning to
rush a hill at Rensberg held by a COM
pany OF Yorkshires and New Zealanders.
They got to the trenches when the
Britons jumped out with bayonets and
chased them away. They left 81 killed
and so wounded.
A Tuesday dispatch from Pietermar-
ltzburg says: "There was very heavy
firing to the north yesterday. I believe
the Beers are cOntesting General Buffers
passage OF the Tugela river. Howitzers
are evidently being used, as the firing is
the heaviest yet heard in Natal"
Enthusiasm for the Beers is assuming
substantial shape among the French
military men. Investigations show that
211 French officers have thrown up their
commissions and taken service with the
Transvaal army. Popular enthusiasm
in France, however, is not caused SO
much by love for the Beers as by hatred
OF the English.
The Boer strength, originally 10000,
is now heavily augmented by Cape Col
Onists, and the enemy's fighting forces
may be estimated fairly at 100000 men
and 2O6 guns. The Beers are not COM
PEELED to guard their communications.
Their grass is good, the crops are grow
ing, vegetables; cattle and sheep are
plenty and game is abundant.