Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-03-01
IER DEFEAT FOR Beers
Pc Hill Captured Tues
day by the British.
10 BY SOUTH LANGASHlRES
Taken, and the
4 Enemy Scattered. :


ii Press Dispatch by Special Wires. ].
3don, Eng, Feb. %. The War
y has received the following dis
Gen. Butler: !
11&duuarters, Hlandwani, Feb. %,
.ilz Finding that the passage of
|SWacht's srruit was commanded
|}xdng intrenchments, / reconnoi-
I;f0r another passage of the Tugela.
5s found for mo below the catar-
NJ Col. Sandhach, Royal Engineers,
tY6bruary 25th. We commenced
IHx an approach thereto, and on
.uSry Goth, finding that / could
5Sfbe passage practicable, ! crossed
Ss1pns and baggage back to the
n hide of the Tugela, took up the
<a& bridge on Monday night and
|BHsit at the new site, which Is Just
sthe cataract. During all this
/. the TROOPS had been scattered,
dhing under hastily constructed
Ilitone shelters and exposed to
ILL., shell and rifle fire, and through
thsy maintained the most excellent
~ esterday, Gen. Barton, with
battalions of the Sixth Brigade and
4 Dublin Fusiliers, crept about o
md half down the banks of the
VI md, ascending an almost precipi-
f7dsSff of about 500 feet, assaulted
'0Sfried the top of Pieter's hill.
g3hill, to certain extent, turned
\ vs1emy's left, and the Fourth
MID, under Gel. Norcott, and the
|S<th Brigade, Col. Kitchener COM
|{i{de, the whole under command OF
\ Warren, assaulted the enemy's
|tj0n, which was magnificently car
IS the South Lancashire Regiment
1t dunset. We took about go pris-
d. Ind scattered the enemy in all
I11Ihns. There seems to be still a
nidmable body of Beers left on and
VI Bulwana Mountain. Our losses,
1p6, are not large. They certainly
Yhich less than they would have
4 3fere it not for the admirable man
jflwhich the artillery was served,
I0i3yly the guns manned by the
i'll Naval force and the Natal Naval
ui9feers.
|ha Queen has telegraphed Gen.
Isfsas follows: ~ have heard with
lsdSepest concern the heavy losses
2Gyned by my brave Irish soldiers,
4 4 desire to express my sympathy
of the splendid fighting
|1lties they have exhibited through
yhsse trying operations
'1lbnaon, Eng, Feb. 20, 2.1O p. m.
Huller's account of the t-emend
|ftsistance he is encountering in hi
|fin Ito reach Ladysmith has brough
Una interest with sharp turn from
s61ncent contemplation Of LORD
S6f{s' victory to a realization of thu
Ions conditions still existing il
4I Though Gen. Buffers length.
n6t1h is construed as a victor.
'xSiy. won, the commander of tn
2sG IL Natal has SO often reported
lilar victories without achieving hi
IA ob jective that the public ha
fi3ad to contain its JubIlation unit
dy6initb is actually relieved, Will
Ifldng list of casualties invariabl
lowing any apparent gain by Gen
|Ilar is always awaited with drea
4 npxiety, which temporarily rob hi
rt1ni success of its acclaim. How
III, lis the generally accepted belle
II Con. Butler is determined to reac
ii, White this time, and, though th
I9es are disappointingly slow. tn
tIon confidently awaits the news
B relief of those 5000 besieged trcops
ID, Buller's reports show there
4ent need of Lord Roberts exertin
arg sffort to still further draw off til
ibid from Natal to the Orange Ere
Rte That he will do so, quite like
Slready doing, by marching uro
0e{nfpn tein, is regarded as almc'
rtniu by the military critics here.
Wild the additional 600 Beers r,
rtad To be prisoners at Kimberley,
8inH HAT the number Of meE capture
1Sfd Roberts nearly reaches 500
~ S{ternoon newspapers continue
d1uent on the hero of kandahar
sxf soh ievement, laying special sire
TIL gallantry of the Canadians, VIII
Ic0rdlng to a Paardeberg special, we
Ituhlly fighting hand to hand in I'll
qar trenches when Gen. Cronje gu
nddfed, though this scarcely agre
ith Lord Roberts dispatch.
nRifIsH AGAIN OCCUPY RENsBERe.
I, 63Sp m.- A dispatch from Arund
Wv tbat the British troops have aga
sonrjad Rensberg.
Lord Roberts has forwarded an add
onal list of the British casualties du
Il ths three days fighting at Paard
Sd Moving II killed, SO wound
ID four missing, and including sew
1lqers and four Canadian priyat
oundod. .-