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Hold the British At. Bay for Sir
Hoprss At, Mafetkop Near
Brandfort.
ROBERTS REPORTS; ENEMY NlIHDRlWlHe.
Gives British Casualties az NearIy
Gen. Botha Appointed ommand-
er in Chief OF the Transvaal
Forces-Steynt at Pretoria,

London, April 2-The war office
has posted the following dispatch from
Lord Roberts, dated at Bloemfontein,
March 30, evening" fss .
Reports point to the enemy.s leaving
Brandfort and proceeding in a northerly
direction. The casualties in yesterday s
engagement were more numerous than at
first reported: Officers killed, two; wound
ed, eight; rank and file, killed, ten; wound
ed, 1853; missing, three ..--.. -. +
Death of Col. Cough.
London, April 2.-Lord, Roberts
reports the death at Norvals Pont
Wednesday, March 20, of Col. Hon.
George Hugh Cough, C. B.
Col. Cough had been private secretary to
the commander in chief of the British
forces, Lord Wolseley, since 1897. He was
born in county Tipperary Ireland, July %,
1852, and was the second son of the late
second Viscount Cough. He joined the
Fourteenth hussars in 1871, passed through
the staff college 1883, commanded mounted
infantry, Soudan- campaign, 1Ss4-S5, and
commanded the Fourteenth hussars, 1851
SO.
Boer Statement of Battle.
Kroonstad, Orange Free State, March
30.-Gen. SHUTS to-day engaged the
British at Mafetkop, south of Brand
fort, and held them. at bay for six
hours. The burghers fought well. The
casualties are unknown.
The Free State raad will assemble at
Kroonstad April 2.
Botha to Succeed JOubert.
New York, April "A dispatch to
the Herald from Pretoria says: Gen.
Louis Botha has been appointed to sue
ceed Gen. Joubert as commander in
chief of the Transvaal forces.
London Takes News Quietly.
London, April 2.-Even the details
of the engagement Friday at Karce sid
ing station, few miles south of Brand
fort, fail to instill much interest. It
appears to have been one-sided af-
fair, although the Beers stoutly held
their ground against force three or
four times their size for three hours,
when, foreseeing the danger of the
British cavalry enveloping their TANKS,
the burghers' withdrew in good order
on their main body at Brandfort,
which, according to Lord Roberts, they
seem later to have decided to re-
linquish, with a view, doubtless, of oc-
cupying prepared position further
north. There will probably be a gen.
eral shifting of camps on the part of
the British, the new position being
made the base of a further advance as
soon as the railroad is prepared.
Word from Mafeking.
Lord Roberts Saturday reported to
the war office that he had received news
from Col. Baden-Powell at Mafeking
up to March 1, when the general health
of the garrison and it's spirits were
good. The locally-made gun, search
light and ammunition were working
well, the food was holding out we'll and
the paper currency which. the British
commander had issued was satisfac-
tory.
Steyn Goes to Pretoria
From Cape Town it is reported that
President Steyn has gone to Pretoria
after, according to refugees, issuing
an order that all British burghers re-
fusing to join the Boer armies shall be
shot. The stories of refugees, however,
are notoriously unreliable.
The news from elsewhere is meager,
though the last reports from Natal in
Dictated the speedy clashing of the OPP
posing armies.
Sensational Arrests.
Columbus, O., April 2.-Post Office