Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-17
british SUFFER
A BAD REVERSE.
II. Beers Surprise the Victorian
Mounted Rifles.
poTIRED IN A DEADLY FIRE
-, Tvo officers, sixteen Men
captured one Hundred and Four
,een aud Two Pom-pans.

tondon June 16'-Lord Kitchener
mas cabIed from Pretoria under to-
laws date as follows;
sNear Welmansrust, twenty miles
18th Of Mddlesburg. $50 Victorian
.oarted rifles from Gen. Beastons
,nmn were surprised in camp at
s,esrkoospruit by a superior force Of
Doors at 1880 p. M June 18th
arhe enemy crept up to within short
.,roe and poured a deadly fire into
,sn Camp killing two officers and six
w men and wounding four officers
va thrtv-siX men, of whom twenty
g l,h, we're slightly wounded
usorly Two officers and fifty men es-
.cJ IN Gen. Beatsons camp. The
.'mainder we're taken prisoners and
ynasel Two pom-poms We're cap
sred bv the enemy. Full details have
~ vet been received
Tho serious reverse which Lord
g,chener reports is the first accident
q tbe kind that has happened to the
,,stralIan contingent, and It Is sup
S aUs IN be due to neglect Of proper
5icketing. Although IL Is offset by the
KAT inflicted upon Dewet, the loss
~ the guns Is regarded as a serious
natter. which will encourage the Beers
"a continue the struggle.
More or less fanciful accounts are
,nhlished on the continent Of alleged
pace negotiations, but there is Moth
ing in them and nothing has come Of
%s interview between Mrs. Botha and
Ne Kruger beyond revealing the fact
mo-, Mir. Kruger will listen to no pro-
rosals unless they are accompanied
Vim a guarantee of the independence
Of the republics
The Daily Malls Capetown CORES
,,r5ent says that Cecil Rhodes,
snsaking at Buluwayo Saturday pre-
Ncted that a federation OF South Al
rlcan states would come In three or
tnr wears; but he contended that to
Grant self government to the republics
Ssiore federation would render feder-
alton impossible
BoERS WILL CONTINUE FIGHT.
nepyer. Colo. June 17.--Commandant
" Syman, Of the South African re-
onbllr is In Denver on a lecture tour
mo proceeds of which are to aid the
Boer prisoners.
THE struggle in South Africa is not
,.ca anmoslty" said Commandant Sy-
nan 1T is an awful war, a political
yor brought about by political gamblers
ami SPECTATORS, and so long as they
nave lie the Beers will fight for their
1barty. our wives and daughters viii
nav and fight with us. Mothers SEND
her sons into battle with a prayer
Widows and orphans are suffering, yet
Nleyeng that God will bring them
snly to victory.
SOUTH AFRICAN SITUATION BAD.
New York. June 17-The situation In
gonth Africa il far from satisfactory
ust now for Englishmen, says
the Tribune's London correspond
emit II is believed that the Beers are
gaining many recruits from the Dutch
districts IL Cape Colony, and In spite
Of Mr. Chamberlain's calm assertion
that the embers Of war are only smoul-
derIng, It looks very much as II they
had burst into flame.
A question win shortly be put In the
liberal benches in the house OF commons
as to the proposed suspension Of the
constitution in Cape Colony. There Is
a general belief that Mr., Chamberlain
and Lord Miner will hesitate before
taking this step. Lawyers are of the
opnon that the only way It could be
legally accomplished would be by an
act Of parliament and in the present
state OF public business the government
viii scarcely care to invite opposition
On such an issue.