The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-06-13
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BoERs AND BRITISH IN SOUTH
AFRICA.
jamestown Surrenders to the Beers
and is Looted, But the Loot is
Recovered.


LONDON, June 4.-The War Office
tonight published the following dis
patch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pre-
toria, June 4th.
Jamestown (Cape Colony surren-
dered to Kreitzinger's command on the
morning of June I'd, after four hours
fighting. The town guard and local
volunteers were overpowered before
our pursuing column could come up.
Our casualties were three killed and
two wounded. The Boer loss is said to
have been greater.
"The stores were looted but the garri-
son was released.
Have placed General French in
charge of the operations in Cape Col
ony."
Lord Kitchener, in another dispatch,
says: "Dixon's report( of the fighting
at Vlakfontein, forty miles from Johan-
nesburg, May 29th) just received. On
our side 1450 men with seven guns were
engaged. The force was returning to
camp at Vlakfontein when the enemy,
under cover of a veldt, fired, rushed the
rear guard, consisting of two guns of
the Twenty eight Battery and $50 men
| of the Derbyshires and the Yeomanry.
| They temporarily captured two guns.
| When the remainder of the force came
| into action the Beers were driven off
and the guns recaptured and the Boer
/
were 6 officers and 81 men killed, 6 Off
GERS and 115 men wounded, and one Off
/ Ger and seven men missing. One officer
and four men have since died of
wounds. Forty-one Beers were killed
on the ground. The further Boer cas-
ualties are not known. Re-enforcements
are being sent"
| Details regarding the fighting at
| Vlakfontein show that it was one of the
| most desperate engagements of the war
! General DiXon's column was traversing
! the district and establishing posts,
when it was attacked by 1900 Beers un-
der Commandant Kemp. The Beers
were so close that fifty British fell at
| the first volley.
! The Yeomanry held the position pro-
tecIing the guns until they were nearly
| decimated, and then finding it mpos-
sible to save the guns, the arulIerymen
shot the gun horses to prevent the
Beers moving the guns. The column
| quickly recovered from the shock of the
unexpected attack. The Derbyshires
charged with bayonets and after a
short desperate fight drove off the
Beers and recovered the guns. The
Derbyshires and Yeomanry both lost
very heavily.
1t is asserted that while the Beers had
temporary possession of the guns they
| shot two artillerymen in cold blood fol
refusing to work them against their
| own comrades.
The appointment of General French
who has been recruiting his health in
! Cape Town, to command the operations
in Cape Colony indicates that Lord
Kitchener attaches considerable i'm
! portance to the invasion. The recru-
descence of such fighting brings fur
ther demands for the sending out of re-
endorsements.
The surrender of jamestown is re-
garded as a disagreeable incident, be-
cause it has provided Commandant
Kritzinger with a fresh supply of the
| sinews of war.
CAPE TOWN. June 5.-The garrison
of jamestown, Cape Colony, which sur
rendered to Kritsinger's command
June I'd, numbered sixty men in all
Kritsinger's force is estimated to have
totalled 1000 men. The British killed
twelve and wounded fifteen Beers be-
fore they We're overpowered by num-
| berS.
ALIWAL NORTH, June 4.-Colonel
Whites column came in contact with
Kritsinger's command northeast OF
jamestown, June Sd, drove the Beers
back, capturing fifty horses and NUM-
tions and recovered the stores looted
| from jamestown.