The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-07
TO MAKE GOOD THREAT
Continued From FIRST Pare,
NUHIIHucu FrOm FIrst PaKe.
more afraid of the TransvaaI than the
British"
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more afraid of the TransvaaI than the
British"
GEN. METHUEN'S VICTORY.
The Daily Telegraph has the following
from Boshof, dated Thursday:
Lord Methuen's Mafeking relief force
was concentrated here today. The Beers
are in force a few miles distant. on the
vail. This town Is practically deserted
all the men being with the commando
under Commandant Duplessis, who COM
mands the district
Lord Methuen commanded in spirited
little action nine miles to the south.
where he surrounded seventy Beers en-
a kopje. Not man escaped. We took
f1fty-four prisoners, sixty horses and a
quantity of baggage. Gen. de Viilebois
was killed during the action. A Boer
hoisted a white flag and then fred imme-
diately after, killing a British officer. The
murderer was Immediately shot
VILLEBOIS' LAST APPEAL
special dispatch from Kroonstad, dat
ed Monday, gives the last appeal of Gen.
de Villebois Mareuil to the French le-
gion;
THE legionaires who have known me a !.
their comrade, officers and men: l know
you have not forgotten me, and we I'M
derstand each other. Therefore, I appeal
to you. There is here in front of the
Vaal a people whom it Is desired 10 rob
of its rights, It's properties and its lib
erty in order to satisfy some capitalists
by its downfall.
THE blood that runs in the veins Of thi ;
people is in part French blood. France.
therefore, owes to it some striking mani
festations of love. You are the men,
whom a soldiers temperament apart
from all the great obligations of national
ity, has gathered under this peoples flag,
and may that flag bring with it the best
of fortune to IT. You are the finished
type of a troop that attacks and knows
not retreat.
BRITONs ORDERED OUT.
LOURENZO MARQUES, April 5.-Ac
cording TO a dispatch from Pretoria, all
British subjects have been ordered to quit
Pretoria and Johannesburg Immediately,
except some 400 who are permitted under
a recent law to remain in the rand. Those
who are expelled number about 500
The prisoners and guns taken at Sannas
post have arrived at Pretoria.
LIVELY sKIRMIsH
BLOEMFONTEIN. Thursday, April o.
The Fist cavalry b.igade, under Col Por-
ter, reconnoitered eastward today, be-
You'd Louw Kop. They found 100 Beers,
and opened upon them with shells. TIL,
Beers dispersed instantly:
PARIS MOuRNS HIM.
PARIS, April 6.-The news of the death
of Gen de Villebois Mareuil was posted
in the chamber of deputies and senate
yesterday, and caused painful impress
sion The deceased officer had many
friends in the parliamentary world, and
his graphic letters conveyed from time
to time to the Paris papers by members
of his family. have been eagerly read.
The public, therefore, had followed his
movements in the Transvaal with great
Interest.
TO AID FUSILEERS.
NORvAL3S PONTE, Thursday, April 5.
"A detachment of hussars who were pro-
ceeding hence to Bloemfontein. are le-
ported to have been detained at Edenberg,
about fifteen miles southwest of Redders-
burg in the Orange Free State, and dis
patched to the assistance of the Irish Iu'
sileers captured near Reddersburg.
PRISONERS IN BAD SHAPE.
SIMONs TOWN, Cape Colony, Thurs
day, April 5.-Another batch of 1900 Boer
prisoners was removed from the transport
Cambridge. The men presented Woe-
begone appearance, many of them were
sick, and their baggage consisted mostly
of Kaff1r blankets, canvas water bottles
and cooking utensils. One Of the prison
ers died of smallpox, and four others are
fatally Ill.