The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-10-18
BOERS STILL
FIGHTING.
HEAVY BRITISH Lu>sEs IN
THE TRANSNAAL AND
ORANGE RIVER kE
PUBLIC.
HOPES IHAI sonf Fokfica aArloa
WILL lnrtsftRt.

H. w~a oi.-- tA- hrtstsAs TAr~- lay
fisht .sa Ts.s n-&r~ss. -css- Ts~s
D~tOA ls-aass -nrssa.A MsAfsS Co.
s~aI, " ar On we@a~a a.1 sAlaz~~.
Sot~ithstAndin az the fAcs that
most o. the war ne~s from roatn
Africa comcs from Britisa sources,
aud 10 10 .Sident that tn. British
War Department 10 doing its b<st
10 suppress all Information unfa-
vorAoIe 10 the British. enough 70
liable news leaks through IN. o~n-
sors' of'lc. To show that the Bosrs
are stIii nghting bravely and pr
sists ntly for Independence. and that
the South African war 10 far from
being over. The cAptus VI :hs
Beers on Oct 81 Of . convoy OF Brit
lsh wagons and its escort of siIty
mount. q men In the sputh-ast1rn
part of the rrAn-s4~l, the d~raliing
OF q train near Pn.toria causing con-
sid.rAbl. loss of life and the battle
with Gen. Kelly. Kenny near Bull
font.in, in which Nv. British on
GERS were wounded, while one 4.
missing. displays the d.termina-
tion OF the Bo.rs 10 carry on the
fight 10 the last ditch. Il In stated
on good authority that it L. not nov
safe for q Brltlsher In any part of
the TrAnyasl or Orange Free state.
In tn. latter country the British
aaNe evacuated Two thirds of the
towns they occupied early In the
season. and Boer raidIng parties
have again appeared In Tn. north
ern districts OF Cape Colony.
London special dated Oct. lith
states that the Boer General de-
Wet had a three dAys' tight with the
British mounted Infantry NJ keltz-
berg. and made saf. retreat across
the NAal river.
Gen. Roberts reports therv are
several large forces OF Beers, both
IN the Trznsvzil and The Orange
Free state. and that they have
thus far foiled the British In every
attem pt made TO surround and capt
ure them.
A trsin conveying British fup-
plies was recently derailed near
Kaap river and three men were
killed and fifteen injured. An en-
gine conveying two royal engineer
officers and fifteen men from the
rilakfonte'n garrison proceeded TO
ascertain the nature OF the DANA
ges. The Beers were living In wait
tor the party and opened fre. On
hearing of the attack, Capt stewart
and forty men OF the Rifle Brigade,
went To the support of the engin-
GERS. Stewart and one private were
killed, two officers and i've men
w.re seriously wounded, and one
officer and ten men were imprison-
cd.
The Beers still infe.t the vicinity of
Johannesburg, and are constantly
"sniping" the British outposts For
weeks Delarey has been hArassing the
| British west of rretorIa. General Bo-
tha. the Boer commander Ia chief, has
been i'll, and General viljo-n t~mpors-
rily in command OF the Fed.r.l i army.
Botha's army has gone north and 10
preparing for an active campaign.
BRITISH "ovrIcIaL" LossEs.
The British report Of casualties Ia
the Boer war up 10 sept ID shows that
the list il growing large. even upon Of
fetal admission which 10 iar b-lo ~ the
ac ual count. Th- total los -es are giy.
en- AT 40,075. OF which 2s ,iys ar. per.
IONS cent home "a invaiids, 255 offic-ri
aud AIS men killed IN action, 80 on
GERS and 1s7 men died OF wounds, IA
officers aud 5.bsz men di-j Of diseas~,
officers and 5Us men are missing" %
IN captivity and 8 officers AID lU7 mel
were killed in accidents. Every we~l
uses up nearly half n regiment. In th
week ended sept Is, for example. toes
were "a officers and 40 men killed
wounaed, died Of disease or invalIde
home As many a. Ito died in Sout
Africa Of disease during the week men
toned. here were i,y7S officers Ap
1901 men wounded during the wa
: The British taken prisJn-rs, or miss
ing, were zS4 officers and z .SJs men. G
whom 2Sg officers and e.44i men hay
been released .r have escaped. Tbs
i. were losses of an army aggregatiu
about 10000 men. including cosonialI
= The tot 81 of 20 ,075 cAsuAI tie-. IL will b
= OBJ eryed, about equals the sggregai
z Of B Der soldiers OF the Trsnsvaai an