The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-03-31
FEELING IS BITTER.
rrnnsvaalers and Free stnters, once
Allies, Are Now FOes-Situ-
alton at Mafeking.

London, March ga Bloemfontein
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,
in dispatch dated Friday, March 20,
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
rransvaalers.
London, March pa dispatch to
the Daily Telegraph from Kimberley,
dated Sunday, March 25, says: Prison
ers brought in here report that force
of British cavalry has entered the
Transvaal and penetrated to point
Is miles north of Christiana. The
British forces at Fourteen Streams are
being strengthened. a movement
northward is expected soon.
London, March 2G.-The Daily Mail
publishes the following from Mafe-
king, dated Wednesday. March IA: We
are still being heavily shelled. There
have been several casualties. Skin
nGshing continues in the trenches.
The native food question is becoming
difficulty. The Boers have broken
the arrangement to respect the Sab
bath by not firing and have seized the
opportunity to eNtend their trenches.
Lady Sarah Wilson, in a dispatch
from Mafeking, dated Wednesday,
March Il. says:
| r I'VE have received news of the relief o.
Ladysmith, but II serves to increase our
| disappointment as there Is no prospect OF
hour relief. The town remains closely in
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numerous and strongly intrenched between
us and Cor Plumer's force. Some of the
! natives are dying of starvation, owing to
| their prejudice against horsefesh."
| London March 2G.-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 i'm
conditionally. At the end of the war Grea:
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 hour
| 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.. +. Lyon, of the Grena-
| der guards, and Lieut.. Col. Codrington, OF
| the Coldstream guards. rode eight or nine
miles beyond their camp on the Modder
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
| nff hal mn urbf bap
chief and the Beers came TO their assist
nce ard did all they possibly could, at
tending to their wounds. The Beers Their
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 TO- AIS in killed, wounded
and missing.
London. March 26.-Advices received
here announce the death in the Moot
hospital Friday of Gen. Sir Edward
Woodgate, who was wounded in the
engagement at Spion Kop on January
"a
Barkly West. Saturday, March "a
Griquatown was reoccupied Thursday
by 400 Beers. \ column left Kimberley
yesterday (Friday) to drive them out.
1t is reported that all the loyalists
there including the women, have been
! imprisoned.
Philippolis. Friday, March 23.-Gen.
Clements entered Philoppolis at noon
to-day. He assembled the burghers,
addr, ssed them, and read Lord Rob-
erts' proclamation in Dutch and Eng
lish. The future of the Free State. he
declared, would have to be decided by
her majesty's advisers; but the
burghers might be certain that the
late government at Bloemfontein
would never be restored. He advised
all the inhabitants to accept the in
evitable and to obey all the orders
of the military and other authorities
duly appointed, intimatng that the
landdrost and sheriffs had been re-
appointed under the queen. The
burghers began taking the oath of
allegiance and surrendering their
arms,