The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-28

TN Natal.
London March 27-Reconnaisances of
slight Importance continue to be the
only features Of the war in South AT
RIGA Lord Roberts telegraphed to the
War Office as follows:
"Bloemfontein, Monday, March &c.
Captain Sloane-Stanley of the Sixteenth
Lancers was slightly wounded in an af-
fair Of outposts, north of the Modder
river, March 25."
This bare statement is all that comes
from the COMMUNICATIVE A des-
patch from Bloemfontein, dated Mon
day, March 26, and published in the sec
ond edition of the Times, amplifies Lord
Roberts's despatch as follows:
IA cavalry reconnaissance was made
yesterday towards Frankfort. The Six
teenth Lancers by skirmishing, drew
the Beers from their position into the
open, when the Ninth Lancers attempt
ed to outf1ank the enemy, while they
We're engaged from the front by a dis
mounted section of the Sixteenth Lam
GERS. Our casualties are reported to be
few"
dated March rs, says:
THE Basutoland government is busy
collecting natives to be employed at
Bloemfontein in repairing and laying
railroads. The natives report that the
Free Staters on the borders of Basuto-
land have refused to go to Kroonstadt
and are staying on their farms as it is
now the ploughing season, and they are
j,1 to hot, 1o,.
rather than give it up and fight
Boer reports from Natal show that
no developments of Importance had talk
en- place there up to March 90. A des-
patch from the Boer camp at Glencoe,
dated March %, says:
mo attack is expected to be made on
the Boer forces in Natal Generals
Botha and Meyer have been Joined by
their wives. Pretorious. with patrol,
got between an advance guard of Lam
GERS and its main body, March %. One
lancer, who refused to surrender, was
shot
General Botha denies the reports
that TranSvaal women were wounded in
the Tugela trenches. General Butler
has sent the Beers a list of their wound
ed, stating that he buried sixty men.
General Botha says this is impossible,
as his rolls do not show any such loss"
A Ladysmith despatch says: "Boer
patrol endeavored to trap party of
the Thirteenth Hussars March % at
Waschbank A hot chase ensued. Sew
eral Beers were wounded
The same despatch says: "a printed
document has been found giving the
Boer losses at Spion Kop at over $500,
but this can scarcely be credited"
Advices to-day from Cape Towns say: |
'Raina are general throughout South
Africa, and rivers which have been dry
for years are being flooded. Many
camps are transformed into sWamps.
This will initiate against an immediate
British advance. Sickness among the
Boer prisoners on the transports is in
creasing. Three deaths occurred ON
March 26. The bodies We're buried by
the British with the TransvaaI flag OH
the collins, the leading Dutch of Simons
Town attending the funeral Typhoid
alone claims one hundred victims
among the prisoners and the people of
Simon's Town fear an epidemic.
A meeting Of the Bond was held at
Paarl on March rs, and was attended
by several members of the Cape AS
sembly. 1t passed resolutions regretting
that the Cape government was not con-
suited before the war, and declaring !
that any settlement which did not re-
spect the independence of the republics
would be detrimental to the highest in
terests of the British empire. Mr.. Har-
grove, the chief speaker prophesed an
other war within six years unless indie
pendence was granted, and Assembly
man Marais characterized the war as
a continuation of the Jameson raid"
General White was presented with an
address by the Mayor and Municipal
Council of Cape Town to-day, assuring
him of their sympathy in his enforced
home-going, and declaring that the rec
ords of the siege of Ladysmith are
among the brightest annals of the ma
ton.
1t is announced that Lord Roberts is
going to Cape Town to meet Lady Rob-
srts.
A despatch in the second edition of
he Times from that port declares that
The Beers are using natives from the
mines to construct trenches around Jo- {
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