Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-09
B0er Rumor That HuSSarS
Are Captured.
THE BOERS ARE ROASTING
President Steyn Issues an Address
Threatening Those Who Sur
rendered to the British-Free
State Loan.

London, April 8, $40 a. m.-There are
rumors from C~apetown that the tele-
graph wires were already cut yesterday
Sunday and also hat the hussars, who
were sent to the relief of the loyal Irish
Rifles are also missing, although these are
probably the outcome. of Boer
tons designed to encourage the burghers.
The attempt of General Colville to
catch the Boer leaders in conference at
Reitfontein failed, probably, as usual, be-
cause of the lack of cavalry.
The result of these serious checks to
the British arms is that the whole Free
State is up again and that the Beers are
full of activity yer the entire field.
A belated Boer dispatch says tina
bayonets were made for the foreign le-
gion under the late General de Vile
bois Mareuil.
The Beers are Boosting that the Cole
berg and Stromberk comandoes. number
ing 5000 men with 10 cannon and $50 wa
CONS, have gotten safely through, thus
performing a magnificent strategic
feat"
A Boer account of the Bloemfontein
waterworks affair says: Colonel Broad
wood evacuated Thaba N'Chu owing to
the advance OF C"Ommandant Olivier from
the south. The federal troops found the
British camp in peaceful slumber without
sentinel or an outpost to give the alarm.
General Dewitt Immediately placed guns
and the commanders in such positions
as to surround the British, who did not
have time to recover from their sur
prise"
The Capetown correspondent of the
Times, discussing the affair, says: "All
the details only serve to bring out clear
ly the marvellous cleverness Of the
ROprS no less than the ma rya1O1S % p
lessness and improvidence of the Brit
ish officers whom, it would seem, NJ
serious of disaster will ever teach then.
to keep wide awake.
THE Beers in Colonel Broadwood's
rear drove his force into the party at the
drift exactly as cartridges are driver,
to a gun. At the drift itself, as each
wagon descended the hollow, it was
shown which way to drive. so as not to
block the convoy. When the guns ar
rived the trap was all clear again for
their reception. AS one who was pres
ent said: 1t was like a cloak room. The
Beers politely took your rifle and asked
you to kindly stand too one side. There
was nothing else for you to do"
The American scout, Burnham. tes-
titles to the terrific pace with which the
Beers commanders cover the ground and
the ease with which they move their
guns. The Beers are displaying in
creased activity in Natal. but there IL
Az stSA h1oI ~ GlAC Is How
ing.
Mafeking was still besieged on April
J.. The garrison wal suffering severely
from lack of bread and a mixture OF
oats. bran and meal was doing duty for
that article, which is described as
coarse in substance, of the color OF
ginger bread of of the consistency OF
Norwegian pine"
Pretoria, Friday, April 6. via Lourenzo
M~arques.--it is reported that General
DeWett attacked and defeated a large
force of British cavalry at Dewetsdorp,
southeast of Bloemfontein, capturing 45O
prisoners and a large quantity of ammu-
milton and camp stores and inflicting
heavy losses. The federal loss was two
killed and four wounded. All is quiel
with the other commanders.
London, April 9.-The Bloemfontein
correspondent of the Daily Telegraph in
a dispatch dated Friday says:
"All is quiet here. Remounts and re.
Inducements are arriving and prepara-
tons are being made to deal with the
enemy. Last Tuesday many of the his
toric regiments, like the Scots Greys
the l%nniskilling dragons and the lancers
men while artillery horses were very
scarce.
1.-THE enemy have now beer entirely
cleared out from the position they late
ly occupied north of Glen n the Brit.
ish forces there are being considerably
augmented.
Lord Kitchener commands the railway
to the south and our positions are secure
against interruption. The troops are
all in good spirits, though badly in need
Of clothing and boots"
Lourenzo Marques, April 6.-President
Steyn. in his address to the Free State
volksraad, at Kroonstadt, on Wednesday,
April 4, said the burghers were in a bet