The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-04
Beers NEAR WATERWORKS.
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in some cases advanced within a hundred
yards
Battery F, Royal Horse Artillery, was
suddenly surrounded in the drift and the
officers and men were all made prisoners
without shot being fired. But Mai
Taylor and a sergeant major succeeded
| in escaping the confusion Five guns
were captured at the same time. Fur
Their details Tomorrow
Lord Roberts dispatch seems to finally
| dispose of the earlier report on the con-
| troversy of the guns and the fact that
/ the Beers remain in occupation of the
water works is taken as an indication
| that they intend to make a stand at least
| sufficiently long to cover the withdrawal
| of the guns and wagons to a place of
safety. s8s
Anxiety for Earl of RossIyn.
A dispatch from Maseru, Basutoland,
| dated April 2, says the Earl of Rosslyn,
who is acting as war correspondent for
the Daily Mail in South Africa, and who
! left there on April l on his way to Tha
banchu has probably fallen into the hands
| of the Beers.
Messages from Sprngfontein suggest
| that the fact that press messages are
! keenly censored indicates an early ad-
vance northward, although there is a
question whether the loss of guns and
| chiefs movements.
| The alarming increase in the mortality
among the Boer prisoners at Simonstown
| has induced the authorities to promise to
| remove to the mainland the prisoners who
! are not going to 81. Helena.
dispatch from Van Wyck's Wei dat
ed Monday, April ., indicates the pacif-
cation of the northwest part of Cape Col
! ony. The refugees are returning to their
! homes.
The British Casualties.
An official list of the casualties sus-
| tanned by the British officers near the
Bloemfontein water works is as follows:
| Killed, Northumberland Fusiiers, Maj
! Booth. Roberts Horse Lieut.. Crowler;
army medical service, Lieut. Irvine.
/ Wounded artillery Col. Rochefort and
! five others; Royal Horse Guards, Lieuten-
ant the Hon. A V. Meade Roberts Horse,
three; mounted infantry, four.
| Missing, artillery, Capt. Wray; Tenth
| Hussars, Lieutenants the Hon. d. R. H.
| Anderson-Pelham and c. w. H. Critch-
| ton.
A dispatch from Pretoria announces the
| arrival there of overweight prisoners,
mostly residents of Ladybrand, who We're
| seized when the Beers forced the British
! to eVacuate that place.
The German liner Koenig has again
reached Lorenzo Marquee, this time hav-
ing on board 257 passengers bound for
| the TranSVaal
Royal Opinions of Kruger.
An interesting item appears in a period
ical called the Gem giving the opinions
| of the royal family on President Kruger.
culed from an album belonging 10 the
Duchess of Fife. The Prince of Wales
wrote:
Mr.. Kruger is a good judge of tobacco,
and a bad judge of the English people,"
The Duke of Cambridge, former COM
mander-in-chief of the forces, wrote
81 am an old man, and so is Kruger.
| AS he is. so am Ian old soldier.
have so many faults myself, how can l
| judge ano&her?'
The Queen wrote:
May God guide him and all of us out
! of our troubles and difficulties"
The war office informs the Associated
| Press that it has no information as to
who commanded the Beers in the affair
| leading to the capture of the British guns,
| but il places no credence whatever in the
report that a United States attache or
! any one connected with the United States
government took part in it.