The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-04-24
HIS MARCH STOPPED.
English Advance Guard Meets the
Beers Strongly Entrenched.
Gen. Brabant's Relief Column Is Re-
ported 10 Be In the NeighbOrhOod
OF Bushman's KOD, Twenty
Miles From Wepener.

'DOCAo hClu d SLIC1lS poSllAOn t4cIt
with two guns. The engagement
opened at sunrise, with heavy rifle
FIRE. At 6:3O a. m. cannonading be-
gan and continued for several hours.
Gen. Brabant's forces are on the
plain and have fairly open country all
the way to Wepener, 20 miles away
Four BOer guns we're hard at work
all day yesterday on Col. Dalgety's
position. The British guns replied at
intervals.
The Beers are divided into three
divisions, two being in positions to
-cpel the relief columns, the distant
roar of whose artillery is audible
Evidently the Beers re-attacled Col.
Dalgety to-day.
Col Dalgety photographs: 'All well.
Beers had 300 shells yesterday with
out doing damage"
The Basutos are posted on the Dor
der for defensive purposes. They are
behaving in orderly fashion, but are
showing the most intense interest in
the outcome of the developments of
he next - hours.
London, April 23.-The Daily News
has the following from Lorenzo Mar
gees. dated Friday, April 20:
1T is reported here that Gen. De-
wet has been killed.
''Other European ambulance corps
besides the Irish-American are taking
up arms in behalf of the Beers. The
latter are unable TO obtain smokeless
powder.
Trenches are being constructed for
eight miles around Pretoria. There
are 60 guns in position at Kroonstad
and seven French guns at Pretoria.
Twenty-Five mines at Johannesburg
have been charged with dynamite and
the johannesburg fort has been dis
mantled."
London, April 23.-The Lorenzo
Marques correspondent of the Times,
under Saturdays date, says: "Infor-
nation received from responsible
sources shows that at one time the
two republics had 10000 men in the
field, including the colonial rebels.
According to the same informant,
they can still muster $4,000, of whom
$4,000 are in the Free State, 10000 are
in the Biggarsberg district and $4,000
in the districts of Fourteen Streams
and Klerksdorp. 1t is now believed
that before the war the burgher lists
were deliberately falsified in order to
deceive the British intelligence de-
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London, April 23.-The Kimberley
correspondent of the Morning Post,
telegraphing Sunday, says: THE
Beers are reported TO be near Frank
fort, where the country is very diff
cult. At Klipdam they are entrench-
ing their positions"
London, April ga dispatch to the
Times from Johannesburg, dated Sum
day, says: ''The Beers are displaying
renewed activity. Five guns were used
freely to-day from four different posi-
tions against ours. A rife firing to
the south and west was heavy and
continuous. Officers and men are on
duty day and night in the trenches,
and the heavy rains of late have made
their task a great feat of endurance
and pluck"
BlOemfontein, Friday, April 90
Continuing their march on Friday
Gems. Chermside and Rumble came in
to contact with the Beers near De
Welsdorp at noon. The fighting con-
tiued in the dark and was principally
carried on by the artillery which tenn
porarily silenced both of the Beers
guns.
BlOemfontein, April 2O.-The Brit
ish command the hills for miles
around the Beers, who are reported
to hold strong positions, but are
probably retiring.
The casualties on the British side
were slight and most of them oc-
CURED among the yeomanry and
mounted infantry.
The firing was at long range. Mole
OF the British troops were killed.
Boshop, Orange Free State, April %.
AT midday yesterday Gen. Methuen's
field force at Swartzkopiesfontein
was ordered to return to Boshof Its
convoy extended over six miles. The
escort took up a position on a hill
commanding the road, just in the
nick of time, as a force of 1900
Beers with two guns and a pompom
suddenly appeared in the vicinity and
opened very heavy fire. The British
however held them in check until
the column reached a point of safety
when they retired. The British had
several casualties. The Beers fought
determinedly and must have suffered
considerably, as they once advanced
to within 300 yards of the hill, whence
= concealed detachment of the British
opened a heavy fusilade on them.
Refused Admittance.
Seattle, Wash, April 22.-Thirty Of
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