Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-05-15
BOERS CHECKMATED
G Gen. Rumble Prevents Their Going
South Again to Harass the
British Rear.
BRITISH OCCUPY DUNDEE
Mafeking Still Holds 0ut-The Beers Are
Concentrating On the Vaal-Many Free
Staters Are Surrsndering- The
British Advance.

die completely checkmated the attemp
of the Beers to come south again, an
the enemy are retiring before the per
sistent advance of the British. Man.
have been captured or are surrendering
There were 150 of these yesterday, ant
to-day among them was Presiden
Steyn's brother. The Ladybrand dis
trict is clear of the Boers They evac
uated Mequatlind's Mex and are nov
near Lindley.
DUNDEE OCCUPIED.
London, May 15 35 p. NIT is off
cially announced that Dundee has beer
occupied by the British.
SITUATION AT MAFEKING.
Plumer's Camp, via Oootsi, May T.
The natives who arrived here say the
bombardment of Mafeking on May !
was not heavy. Twelve hundred and
eighty refugees from Mafeking reached
here. Patrols who returned from the
northern borders of the Transvaal say
that they saw no sign of the Beers. All
is quiet here. The Beers regularly pa
troll the neighborhood of Mafeking, but
do not seem disposed to be aggressive
BOERS ARE CONCENTRATING.
Kroonstadt, May Alt is reported
that the whole Boer force is concen-
trating on the Vaal, withdrawing from
Biggarsberg and the southwestern bor-
ders. 1t is computed that not more than
1000 Free Staters will fight on the Vaal.
The railway communications with this
place are expected to be open Thursday.
The transport is working smoothly,
troops and horses receiving full rations.
Water is plentiful, and the health of the
troops is excellent.
DUNDEE WAS LOOTED.
London, May 15.-The war office re-
ceived the following dispatch from Gen.
Butler:
Dundee, May Is, 1 p. m.-We occu-
pied Dundee, and about $500 of the en-
emy left yesterday for Glencoe, where
they are intrenched. Their wagons also
left yesterday by De Jager's drift and
the Dannehauser road. Their Kaffirs
said they were going to Laing's Mex.
Almost every house in Dundee is COM
pletely looted. The Navigation colliery
Is all right. The machinery of the Dun
dee collieries is destroyed. The houses
of the town are damaged, but structur.
ally intact"
BATTLE OF BIGGARSBERG.
The war office to-day furnishes tardy
confirmation of the Associated Press
story yesterday telling of General Bull
lers move on Biggarsberg, in the dis
patch from General Butler, as follows:
"Kemp's Farm, May 15.-The follow
ing kilograms sent to Roberts are now
repeated to you. They begin under date
of May 13: In accordance with instruc-
tions to keep the enemy occupied at
Biggarsberg, May II, concentrated the
Sd cavalry brigade of the second divi-
sion and some corps of artillery on
Dunday's river drift on Helpmaakar
road, and directed Colonel Bethunes
advance on Greytown with Bethune's
mounted infantry, the mounted rifles
and the imperial light infantry. May 12
we moved to Washbank and Bethune to
Pomeroy, while General Hildyard, from
Elandslaagte, occupied Indoda noun
tain. May 10 I sent General Hamilton
with three battalions up the steep slope
of the Withock hills This cavalry bri-
gade crowned the hill on each side of
the main road. Bethune was attacked
by Pomeroy from three sides. The enc
my hurriedly abandoned the position
which they had strongly intrenched,
and retired to the mex in front of Help
maakar, where we hope to dislodge
them tomorrow, as many of them re-
tired. We gained the summit of the
hill with the loss Of only a few wound
ed. I advance tomorrow on Beth and
Hildyard moves on Vessels mex.
SMALL LOSSES.