The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-09-29
FIGHTING Beers Ire
HELPING THEMSELVES
Celebrate Kitchener's
Famous Surrender
Proclamation.
81 -FOUR NOTABLE SUCCESSES
THEY CAPTURE FIVE CANNON
AND THREE HUNDRED
MEN.
An outburst Of Evaporation Against
the British Observation-Disclosures
Of Not Furnishing Kitchener the
Proper Requisites.
BY FOUR NOTABLE SUCCESSES
An outburst Of Exzsperation Against

LONDON. Sept. 2L-while Kruger
and Dr.. Leyds are drawing up petit
lions to President Roosevelt and the
Gar. asking them to intervene. the
fighting Beers are helping themselves
in South Africa by celebrating the ex-
piration Of the period in which Lord
Kitchener proclaimed they must sur
render, by four notable successes,
killing SIS officers and men, wounding
SO, and capturing five guns and 800
men. The situation is singularly like
the opening of the war to years ago.
the names Of the same places recur-
ring in the dispatches. Utrecht, the
place where Major Cough was entrap-
ped. was the scene of similar am
buseade eighteen months back. Ac-
ton Homes, where the Beers yesterday
reappeared. is eighteen miles south
west of Ladysmith, prominent in the
early hostilities. and the Natal colo
MES are mastering for the defense OF
the Tngela. as when General Joubert
invaded Natal in 1899.
In Cape Colony lighting is again
going on south of Stormberg, In ter
ritory traversed by raiders and their
pursuers half dozen times.
The governments publication OF the
reverses causes an outburst OF exas
peration against the conduct of the
war. not in South Africa. but against
the ministry. The great ministerial
journals accuse the government Of try
ing to run the war @on the cheap" by
not providing Lord Kitchener with SUI
ficient resources.
The Times. while it has no misgiv
ings as TO the final issue, accuses tht
home authorities of lack of organized
sustained effort; of disposition Il
postpone military for financial consid
erations. and of failure to grasp tn
moral and intellectual damage which
the prolongation of the struggle in
fiicts upon the empire. Other minis
terial supporters aver that precious
months which should have been spen
in preparing for another campaign
we're wasted in electicneering, ant
that Lord Kitchener has not been SUP
piled with the requisites.
LONDON, September 20.-Genera
Kitchener reports that the Beers hav
captured a company Of mounted In
| fantry and two guns at Vlakfontein
One officer was killed The Beers. il
superior force, surrounded the British
Lord Kitchener is making a strict in
vestigation and has sent columns o
troops in pursuit of the Beers
The succession of ssregrettable Incl
dents" which Lord Kitchener has re
ported has evoked editorial counsel
to the government to cease to endeav
OF to wage war by proclamation ant
to recognize the need of crushing tn
Beers by force of arms.
No news has yet been received tina
the Beers have liberated the prisoner
recently captured, and. according Z
Boer circles in Brussels. -Commandan
General Botha intends II hold tn
$50 British prisoners FL hostage
against the CARRYING out 81 the term
of Lord Kitchener's proclamation.
The Daily Chronicle today hndi
great satisfaction in the alleged au
thoritative statement from Washing
ton correspondents, TO which it give
great prominence, that President
hQOSSFell Is hui pIO-DOCf Al AAS SCAAA-
ments and will maint in Presiden
McKinley-s policy in regard to Soutl
Africa Therefore, says the Chron
icIe, sany trusting to a chapter OF in
cidents, so far as the United States
Is concerned. on the part OF the Beers
will be doomed to disappointment
LONDON. Sept ia dispatcl
from Lord Kitchener from Pretoria
dated September 18th. announces tina
/ the Beers. on September 18th. am
pushed three companies Of mounte'
infantry. with three guns. commando.
BY Major Cough. in the vicinity o
Scheepers Mex. After severe fight
ing the British were overpowered ans
lost Their guns. the sights and breech
blocks OF which were first destroyed
Two officers and fourteen men wer'
killed and I've officers and twenty
1--WE men were wounded. Five ofhcsr
and 80 men we're made prisoners
Major Cough. who escaped during IN
night. reports that the Beers number
ea thousand men and that they wer'
commanded BY General Botha.
General French reports that Com
mandant Smntz. in order to breal
through q Gordon, rushed on q squad
ron Of the Seventeenth lancers q
Esand's River Poori. killing three Of
Hcers and twenfv men and woundinl
one cficer and thirty men. The Beers
who we're dressed IN khzki and VII
we're mistaken for British troops. los
/ heavily