The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-04
DEWET KILLED.
Report That Boer General
Is Slain by Shell
Battle With Ian HamiItOn'S
Column at Magoli.
WOUNDED IL BRITISH.
Lord LennOx and 40 Men Cap
tured in a Train.
We're Released at Request of
American Consul.

London, Aug. 4.-LoId Roberts te1e-
graphs to the war office that General
Hunter reports that 3,348 men have sur
rendered to him altogether.
General Hunter also secured 3,056
horses and three guns. Lord Roberts
adds that General Ian Hamilton con-
tinuing his movement toward Rusten-
berg, engaged the Beers near the Magali.
Lieutenant Colonel Rhodes and Major
G. A. Williams We're among the Al Brit
ish wounded. The Beers left two dead
and several badly wounded. Thursday
night a train was derailed and attacked
20 miles south of Kroonstad, four men
being killed and three wounded.
Lord Algernon Lennox and forty men
were made prisoners, but are released at
the request of the American consul
general, who was in the train.
A Boer force attacked by General
Knox near the railway north of Kroon-
stad Wednesday, August 1, and left
five wagons and a lot of cattle.
A dispatch from Pretoria, dated Au-
gust A. to a news agency here says:
1T is reported that General Christian
Dewet is dead from a shell wound. The
report has not been confirmed"
Fouriersberg, Aug. 4-There are $500
camp and 1900 prisoners and nine
guns at General Ian Hamilton's camp.
There were about 5000 in the Caleden
Valley originally, but some refused to
acQuiesce in Gen. Prinsloo's surrender
and slipped away in the night. These
have now sent in, asking for terms of
surrender. 1t will take some days to
ascertain the exact number The Beers
who excuse themselves for not fighting
say they are in a hopeless position. The
ravines were choked with wagons, which
were placed in the most dangerous spots
of the roads, which were blocked for
twenty miles.
SAD DAYS FOR -BOERS.
New York, Aug. A dispatch to the
Tribune from London says:
War news from South Africa re-
mains indecisive, with the general trend
in the direction of a speedy close of hos
tilities. The muster of General Hunters s
prisoners is still incomplete, but it will
approach four thousand, without doubt
Lord Kitchener is in charge of the
operations against General Dewet's s
commando, and the BOer diversion at
FrederickStad has been easily checked.
The seriousness of the investment of
General Baden-POwell at RuStenburg is
shown by the rapid march of General
HamiltonS column for his relief, al
though Lord Methuen had previously
been reported as having undertaken the
same mission.
The story of the war is now so badly
told in press dispatches that it's politi-
cal sequel excites more interest than the
campaign itself. There were two of
these episodes in parliament yesterday.
One was the spirited reply by the
Marquis of Lansdowne to Lord Rose
bery's charge that Lord Wolseley had
not stood up as an expert to declare
that he approved of the plans of the war
office, and the other was the reference
by Mr. Chamberlain to letters from two
members of parliament found among
the secret correspondence captured at
Bloemfontein. There have been many
rumors about this correspondence, and
it was expected that there would be a
lively scene when Mr.. Chamberlain re-
ferred to it, but the opposition bench
was deserted and the Liberals could
not be entrapped into any discussion of
the matter.