The Wilmington daily Republican., 1900-04-07
A B0ER
TORNADO.
Five Hundred British Car
ried Off Under
Roberts, Nose.

! London, April 6.-The announcement
that Lord Metheun has crushed small
I Boer force ut Boshof and killed General
Nillebois Mareuil, the late Joubert's noted
French chief of Staff, is overshsdowed by
the staggering news that 500 British
troops were captured near Bethany OH
Wednesday, night making a loss Of near
| ly 1000 men to Lord Roberts in five days.
Large armed parties of Beers are on all
sides of BloeinfonteIn. They hold the
Bloemfontein waterworks and small par
ties have approached to within sight Of
Lord Roberts army
The raily Telegraph correspondent ut
! Boskop, Orange Free State, cables under
date OF April s, that General Methuen' Q
Mafeklng relief force concentrated there
| on that date, The correspondent recites
| tho action in Which Villebois- Mareuil was
killed and adds that one British officer
was killed after tho white flag was hoist
| ed.
The Beers are in force on this Vnal Riv-
or, u few miles distant. Bosk0p is practi-
cally deserted by tho DuJCh inhabitants.
Tho Boer los has been great iu various
recent actions, hut the enemy baso great
hopes Oh the position which they have
takeD up at kroonstad to resist Roberts
advance.
1t is officially announced that he Brit
ish casualties in tho Boer ambush. near
Sanna's Post, total as follow: Missing,
1868; wounded. SO; killed. 4. The missing
include 1874 nrtillerists 20 Life Guards, 23
men of the Tenth Hussars md 81 of Rob-
er''s Horse. The others are divided among
numerous regiments.
'lhe British scouts reported yesterday
that force Of from IL, COO to 1900 Beers
had been seen beyond Bosmans kop.
moving from lhaba N'Chu to tho south.
The enemy, by appeals and menace COM
bined, ara yainy y trying to induce the
burghers to take the Geld again. Tho
farmers are more afraid OF Tho TransVaal
than of the British.
''fhe Boer, have cut tho telegraph wires
between here aud Boshof,'
'Lord Methucns Mafeking relief force
was concen rated here tc-dny. The Beers
arc in force few miles distant on the
Vaal River Commandant Duplessi COLI
tro's tho district"
The correspondent says that large
nmoun OF baggnge was captured in the
battle in which Mareuil was killed.
Dunruvon's sharpshoOter5 sailed yester-
day for Beria to join Major General Car.
rlngton's forco for sprvlce on tho northern
border Of tina Iransvaal.
Lord Dunrnvsn At the last moment de-
cidcd to accompany the force, and has been
posted as n supernunerary captain on tho
ba tasi0n staff.
LEO lieh OF forming the corps originated
with Henry Seton karr, well known in
ranching circles in the western part of tho
United States Tho men were chosen for
their shooting capabilities.
DEAD GENERALS LAST APPEAL.
A special dispatch from Kroonstadt
dated Monday gives the last appeal Of Cen
erul De VillebOis Mareuil to tho French
Lcgions:
Il know you have not forgotten mo and
that we unders land each other. Therefore
lnppcal oyou. There Is here in tho
Vaal people whom II is desired to rob of
It's rights its properties and Its liberty in
order 10 satisfy some capitalist. by its
downfall.
The blood that runs in the veins Of this
people is in pa't French blood. France,
therefore, owes to 1t some striking mnnis.
festations of help. You are the men whom
o soldiers temperament, apart from all
the great Obligations of nationality, has
gathered under this peoples flag and may
that flag bring with it tho best Of fortune
to me- You are the finished type of a
troop that attacks and knows not retreat