, 1900-12-01
BOERS STILL UP
THEY HAVE CAPTURED A CARR
SON OF BRITISH SOLD
IERS.
Meanwhile Lord Roberts Says the War
Is Ended-kitchener Assumes
Command Of the British Forces
Great Things in the Way Of Pun
ishment Are Expected of Him.

London, Nov. 3O.-Lord Roberts ca,
bles from Johannesburg, under date of
Wednesday, Nov. %:
The DewetsdOrp garrison. of two
guns of the SiXty-eighth field battery,
with attachments of the Gloucester
shire regiment, the Highland Light in
fantry and Irish Rifles, 400 in all. sur
rendered at 5:45 p. m. Nov. 2S. Our
losses were fifteen men killed and for
ty-two wounded, including Major Han
said to be $500 strong. Four hundred
men were dispatched from Edinburg
to relieve D~ewetsdorp, but they did
not succeed in reaching there in time.
Knox joined this force and found Dew
etsdorp evacuated. Seventy-five sick
and wounded had been left there. Knox
cessfully engaged Stein and Dewet
near Vaalbank Nov. 81. They retired
west and southwest. KnoX's messen-
ger failed to get through, so l ms We no
details"
Angry Feeling in England.
London. Nov. 30.-The British disas-
ter at Dewetsdorp has caused a very
angry feeling here. The Evening Sun
welcomes the fact that General Lord
Kitchener takes up the command to.
day. 1t says:
Most people are glad that the end
ing of the campaign is entrusted to a
man who knows no qualms and is no
respecter of persons. Roberts. after
all. is too much of a humanitarian for
such work. Once Kitchener gets to
work OF the Beers nothing will stop
him."
The Evening Sun says the reverse
will eat like vitriol into the heart of
the nation, which Chamberlain has
deluded into the belief that the war
was over.
The chagrin felt over the Dewets-
dorp affair is not diminished by the
fact that for the past week newspapers
have been giving out the impression
that Dewet had been worsted by the
British. This hoodwinking serves to
make the British public skeptical {
press dispatches from the Boer coun-
try.
According to a dispatch from the
Orange river, dated Nov. 90, Colonel
Settles column fought a commando Of
the Beers under Hertzog who were try
ing to join Dewet for five hours, near
L%uckhoff, in the southeastern part of
the Orange river colony. The Beers
are reported to have been dispersed af-
ter losing heavily. Settles occupied
Luckhoff on Nov. 2S.
There is Still War.
London, Nov. 30.-Roberts' dis
patches furnish most startling proof
that the war in South Africa is
still full of vigor. 1t is poor c~onsola-
ton that the British have since reoc-
cupied Dewetsdorp after the Beers had
withdrawn.
To add to Great Britain's uneasi-
ness, news comes from Paris that Pres
ident Kruger has made an unexpect-
ed change in his plans. and hat instead
OF going to Netherlands for a long rest,
he will start on Saturday for Berlin.
The reason for this sudden change in
his program is not explained. but in
political circles on the continent it is
asserted that he has received advices
which encourage him to believe that
the kaiser is ready to join with other
} powers in insisting on arbitration.
Some satisfaction is expressed in
news of the action of the French cham
, Der Of deputies yesterday. Friends OF
Kruger made their long-threatened
demonstration, but the vote of sym
patty was the best of French parlia
ment would do for him.
Cape Colony In Revolt.
The latest striking success of the
Beers as reported by Roberts, cannot
fail to encourage in Cape Colony a re
volt, which is now a most imminen'
danger.
The truth is, according to most re
l liable information, that the situation
in Cape Colony is now more perilou.
than at any time since the outbreak O.
: the war.
} The farm burning policy in the 30
ers' country is having its natural eff
feet, and it will be surprising If the
British escape the dilemma in which
they have involved themselves without
: precipitating a rebellion which will Sc
: verely test all their military resource:
in Africa.
It is not likely that the Beers will at
tempt to hold the prisoners taken a
: Dewetsdorp, as this is no longer theil
t policy, but the moral effect on Brit
: ish prestige will be one the less ser
GUS.
Lord Roberts also reports a skirmisI
on Nov. ~ at Bultfontein. Three hun
. dred Beers were d~islodged and pull
: sued, losing several men. Bruce Ham
IItoo hos o1oorod fh, country botwael