The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-05-09
HARD PROBLEM. more AFRAID THAN EVER
BOIRS IN HIS FRONT SEEM
UNDIsMAYED.
Dickson's Attempt to Surround Cen
eral Botha's Force Fails and Almost
Results in His own Capture.

LON DUN, May at is uiuculI TO
unraVel the tangled stores coming from
the north OF lnapanChu, but apparent
ly the British forces are engaged III "A
movement having Tor It's OBJECT the
hemming in of the Beers still in that
district. While. Generals french and
Rumble are holding the Beers az ina
banchu, General Broadwood's cavalry
has been pushed on Houtnek in the
hope of intercepting the Federal con-
Voys between Ladybrand and VIM
burg. AS General BUtha has been re-
inforced there is every prospect of
sharp lighting. The new scene OF oper-
atoms and the general movements or
the various columns are taken to indi-
cate that Lord Roberts is deploying mis-
army preparatory to beginning his
northern march. 1t now seems nkely
that it is the COmmander-in-Ch Chiefs in
tention to advance simultaneously from
Kimberley, Bloemfontein and Lady
smith, with the view of preventing the
Beers from concentrating their forces
at any given point. a dispatch from
Bloemfontein, dated yesterday, chrOni-
cles the prevailing opinion among the
townspeople there that the war is not
likely to last more than six weeks, once
the British advance begins, but adds
that the correspondent has been un-
able to discover any ground for this
opinion beyond the fact that General
Darlington has arrived at the Maran-
dellas base, whence a flying column
will be dispatched in direction not
made public.
dispatch from Pretoria gives the
text of President Kruger's proclama-
ton expellng British subjects from the
! Transvaal. 1t says:
LAS numerous burghers insist on the
removal of the British, and as the Gov
the wishes of burghers and others fav-
orable to the Republic, all Britishers
| residing in the district and town of
Pretoria and the Witwatersrand gold
fields must leave the state within
thirty-six hours from noon, April 80
Exceptions will be made in the case
of those obtaining special permits"
Lord Roberts forwards list of the
casualties of General Ian Hamilton's
force, April 30, as follows:
Killed; Major Showers, Lieutenant
| Parker and one private. Wounded:
Four officers and five men. Missing
Two officers and ten men.
A dispatch from Mafeking, describ
ing the Boer attack of April II, says:
THE bombardment of the Creusots
was the hottest of the siege. Many
shells entered the hospital and woman :
lager. Under cover of the artillery a
large force commanded by CrOnje (the
younger), including the German corps
advanced close to Fort Abrams. The
garrison laid low until the Boer force
was at close range, when they fired a
Volley, killing five, wounding many, and
the attack was repulsed. The lombard
ment then ceased The Beers, under q
Red Cross flag. later were permitted t.
recover their dead"
An order has been lately issued an
order that every burgher between thu
ages of sixteen and sixty must report
in lager at one of the camps and as
q result of this order every able-b bodied
man is in the field. Yet no amount o
figuring will show that the Beers hav,
anything like 10000 men pitted agains
the British POO, 900 or more.