The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-24

| hoHUon, AprH Z4'-1ne war ONCE has
issued the following dispatch from
Lord Roberts. dated Bloemfontein.
Monday, April %, 2:5O p. m:
Yesterday / despatched the Elev-
enth division, under General Pole
Carew, and the brigades of cavalry I'M
der General French from his point to
assist General Rundle The force
reached Karriefontein without much
opposition.
Casualties reported: Welsh regi-
ment-Killed: Captain lfrothero Mot
ley. mortally wounded, aid seven men.
YorkShires-Eight wounded. Eighth
HUsSars-One killed, one wounded.
Fourteenth Hussars-One wounded.
Royal artillery-Two wounded. Sew
enth ragoOns-Lieutenant Jenkins
and ten men missing. Captain Rotton.
Royal artillery, broke an arm by a
fall
General Pole-Carew' mounted in
fantry seized Leeuw kop, a high hill
few miles north Of their last nights
position. The enemy evacuated hur-
| rledly, leaving some rifles and ammu-
nition
General Rumble reports that TWEEN
ty-five men of the First Worcesters are
missing. Fifty-three were sent with
Wood TO an outpost after dark. and
only eighteen returned. Their num-
| bers and names will be reported today,
as well as four wounded yesterday
The war Office has given no explana-
ton of the apparent Discrepancy in the
figures as TO the men OF the Worcester
regiment.
Under Heavy SEts
The Bloemfontein correspondent of
the Standard, discussing the operations
at Leeuw kop, says: "At an early
stage the cavalry came under a heavy
t1re from a pOmpom on a ridge adjoin-
ing Leeuw kop. Unable to continue it's
march to the southeast, General Dick
sons brigade fell back to the north to
await the infantry attack.
THE thanking movement having
failed, General Pole-Carew, with Cen
eral Stephenson's brigade, advanced
in crescent formation from the south
and west with the object of enveloping
the kopjes. The Welsh, Warwickshire,
Essex and Yorkshire regiments ad-
vanced in extended line, covering the
west, while the guards brigade took up
position to the south, with two field
batteries and naval guns. Sheltered
by the rocks, the enemy opened a
=
Our men advanced over the open
ground in splendid style by a success
sion of short rushes, falling prone while
pouring in their VOaleyS. The approach
of darkness threatened to leave the
Beers in possession, but just before sun
set, the Essex regiment calamity
pressed forward and drove the last
man of the enemy from Paardee Kraal,
a bold spur of Leeeuw kop."
Relief For Wepener.
The strong body of reinforcements
which Lord Roberts sent TO assist the
relief of Wepener md to endeavor to
envelOp ard cut or the Beers from a
retreat northward furnishes further
evidence that the Beers are assembled
in much larger forces around Wepener
than had hitherto been supposed. and,
as the Times in an editorial this morn
ing remarks, whatever may be the diff
culties of roads and rains, the Beers al
ways appear to have guns, and some
times big ones, where they want them.
A BOer dispatch dated Thaba N'Chu,
April 20, says that a fresh supply of
cannon and ammunition has reached
General Dewet at Johannesburg Drift.
1t also asserts that one of Colonel Dali
gety's guns has been smashed.
Karriefontein, mentioned in Lord
Roberts message to the war office. is
fifteen miles southeast of Bloemfontein.
Leeuw kop is two miles further. south.
The BlOemfontein correspondent of
the Daily Telegraph says: THE resist
ance of the Beers at Leeuw kop was
contemplate, considering the strength
of their position. They escaped in an
easterly direction, the guard failing to
get quite around them"
The Daily Telegraph has the follow
ing from Boshof, dated Monday. April
%: The Beers are closing in on Bos-
hof. Their nearest lager is five miles
distant Communication with Kimber-
lev is still nnhn''