The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-20
THE B0ERS WIN AGAIN.
THIRD DEFEAT OF BRITISH WITH.
IN A WEEK.

Full Summary Of the Transvaal
War News-PrOgress of the Con.
fiict From Day to Day-Ths British
Encouraged.
The War Office has made public
the report of Gen. Roberts on the
Splon Kop disaster, in which he Sc
Verely censures Gen. Butler, Gen. War.
rem, and others. The recall of the
Generals named, it is believed in Lon.
don, is certain to follow. Gen. Rob.
erts reports that the Beers still sur.
round the British forces at Wepener.
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London awaits confidently for al
most immediate announcement of
news favorable to the British. Dis
trust exists, however, as to any rapid
continuous advance toward Pretoria.
chiefly on account of the lack of
horses, many of which die in the case
OF the long voyages.
According to a cable despatch from
Bloemfontein, Lord Roberts's plans
for an invasion of the Transvaal have
been seriously interfered with by a.
heavy rain storm
Lieutenant Smith-Eman, a Rhode
sian scout, who entered Mafeking
through the Boer lines, has returned
to Colonel Plumer's camp with des-
patches from Mafeking, saying that
all was well there April 8.
A cablegram from Pretoria saws
that President Kruger keeps in ex-
cellent health. General Botha is there
consulting with the Government.
The members of the Irish-American
Ambulance Corps are treated as
guests of the Boer Government at Pre-
toria.
Winston Churchill, the London
newspaper correspondent. predicts
that the war will prove a costly one
to England and that 25O,O0O troops
will be necessary in South Africa to
ensure a triumph for Lord Roberts.
Lord Roberts has protested to Pres
ident Kruger against the treatment
of prisoners, sick and wounded, in
the hands of the Beers, and has for
mally demanded the observance of
the Geneva convention.
1t is officially reported that the Brit
ish losses at Wedener in four days
fighting were Is men killed and 1872
wounded
The Boer Peace Commissioners in
Europe have gone to The Hague, DR..
Leyds, the diplomatic agent of the
Transvaal, accompanying them from
Milan to Brussels.
The Committee of the American
Woman's Hospital Ship Fund at Lon
don has received cablegram from
Lady Randolph Churchill announcing
that the Maine has arrived at Ma
deria, and will reach Southampton on
April %.
The steamship Saraha has sailed
for Cape Town from New Orleans
with 1000 mules for the British army.
So great has been the rush of Wis
itors to South Africa recently, espec-
tally ladies, that Cape Town is over
crowded, and the cost of living ma
terially increased.
Public interest in London centres
upon the personality of the new COM
manders in Africa and in the suppo-
sitions as to whom the next General
will be to be sent home.
Nothing definite has been learned
in London regarding the rumor of
Colonel Baden-Powelps death.
Twenty-Five out of seventy arrivals
at Delagoa Bay on a German steamer
have been refused passports to the
Transvaal, at the instance of the Brit
ish Consul, owing to the fact that am
munition was found in their possess
sion.
Buffers line of communications is
threatened now.
Gen. Sir William F. Gatacre has
been ordered home.
A Pretoria despatch reports that
Col. Baden-Powell, the defender of
Mafeking, is dead
The British losses in the war to
date, including the sick and wounded
Al AOoplIdl, lOOL up A1OlO Ihdh 6o,VVV'
Cable dispatches from South At
rica state that the Beers under Gen.
eral De Wet fought great battle in
the Free State on Saturday last, in
flicting the third defeat of the British
within a week, killing or wounding
600 and capturing 900 prisoners. The
Boer loss is said to have been trifling.
The Boer Government has notified
Portugal that they regard her permit
ting British troops to cross her ter
ritory an act of war.
Remounts are continually arriving
at Bloemfontein, but competent au-
thorities estimate that the wastage Of
horses monthly by the British forces
in South Africa is not less than 5000.
The Transvaal Volksraad has been
summoned to meet in ordinary session
on May Z.