The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-03-15
Beers Make a Stand Against the
Forward Movement of the
British Forces.
AN ALL.DAY BATTLE WAS The RESULT
The Beers Driven From Their Center
Position Leaving a Number of
Dead and Wounded.
During the Night the Enemy Re-
tired, but Are Being Pursued by
the British Troops British
Casualties So Far 1867.

Casualties So Far 1867.
Driefontein, Orange Free State,
March IL, 6:35 a. m.-Broadwood'
cavalry brigade. advancing on Bloem.
fontein, unexpectedly found the
Beers in a strong position in the
Driefontein kopies yesterday. Gen.
Kelly-Kenny's division arriving, Sc
we're fighting ensued. The Beers re-
SISTED stubbornly, but were driven
from their center position, leaving a
number of dead and 40 prisoners. The
British force is moving forward to-
clay.
During the fighting, in which five
regiments took part. with artillery,
che Beers, though forced from their
center position, cltlng tenaciously TO
the other kopies, shellng the British
freely with three guns and two Nick-
ers-Maxims. The British cavalry be-
"an to turn the Boer position, but
night fell before the movement was
completed The Beers retired during
the night.
large number of Australians were
engaged in the battle. The 1st Au-
Stralian horse brigade, with the Scots
Grays. advanced to within 500 yards
of the Beers under heavy fire.
The New South Wales mounted in
fantry joined in the pursuit of the
Boers northward.
The action began at in the morn
ing with an artillery duel. Gen.
French's cavalry and Gen. Porter's
brigade supported out guns. The
Boer artillery was accurately han
died, and the British cavalry found "A
task harder than they had expected.
Ehe Beers also maintained a stub
born rear guard action along a run
ming front of II InI,eS on Il very diff
ficult ground.
Gen. BrUadwood will ,!ogged per-
severance moved altogether six miles
southwark. trying 10 Ind n means to
get round, but the Beers followed be-
hind rising ground and even attempt
ed to outfank him. NJ, ,anwhile tic
sixth division OF ,nfantry. advancing
on the Boer left. slowly forced the
enemy to retire. il"d IL infantry
been able to move t@#;cr. ;he Peers
would have been enveloped, Thr '3st
shot was fired at 7:30 p. III. Th" r.i@-
oners belonged to President Eiu-a -
own commando.
The British reported ca Ia'.i,s up|
TO this date are as follow: iIl'Hd
2.41s: wounded. s.7tf: dee - Z sr%Se.
1929: missing. 3.4S3: total l".3j1.
Cape Town, March -l1.--%cws ,''rr
Lady Grey, Herschel and AI;val Nnrth
shows that the rebels are laying, down
their arms in large nEmLers .ld tat
the Beers all along the Dorur-' are iu
serious straits.
The rebels assert that the B0VT; are
subsistng on bread and water and So
called coffee made from rye. Other
rebels are leaving to fight in the Free
State. British rule has been rest ored
at Lady Grey, where a big fight is re-
ported to have occurred, many rebels
being killed.
1t is reported that thousands of
rebels contemplate surrendering to
Gen. Brabant.
London. March IA correspond
ent of the Daily Mail at Lorenzo Mar
ques, telegraphing Saturday. says:
according to Boer reports, the fall
of Mdfeking is certain. There has
been heavy fighting this week, and
the Beers have been shelling the town
from all the outlying forts, which
they have captured. Col. Baden-Pow-
ell cleared all the natives out of the
town. but the Beers drove them back.
''The Beers are preparing for Il
final assault, with the idea that the
capture of Mafeking will raise the
dropping spirits of the burghers.'
London, March 12.-The Daily Mail
has received the following dispatch
from Pretoria, dated Saturday,
March 10, and censored by the Boer
government:
president Kruger and President
Steyn have wired to Lord Salisbury
peace proposals, on condition that
the independence of the two repub-
lies be respected and the rebel colo
malls amnestied.
Yesterday the foreign consuls
were called into conference and were
requested to invite the intervention
of the powers they represented in Or
der to prevent further bloodshed."
London, March 9.-The full extent
of Lord Roberts success is not clear,
but the best informed appear salts
fed that it brings peace perceptibly
nearer. Experts anticipate that the
burghers will make no further stand
west of the Free State capital, and
some of them even deduce from the
fact that the Boer forces are divided
and have retreated in different di-
rections that Generalization has set
in, and that the Transvaal forces will
next be found carefully entrenched
III positions north of the Vaal river,
while the bulk of the Free Staters
will abandon the contest and sue ior
peace.
Trolley Competition.
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