The Telegram. — 1900-04-10 (Weymouth, Dorset, England)

BLOEMFONTEIN. April sth, 11.20 p.m. Lord Methuen telegraphs from Boshot to day : Surrounded General Villebois and a body ot Boers to day. No one escaped. Villebois and seven Boers killed. About eight wounded. Fifty-four .pr wooers. _  Our loss.—K.illed, Captain Boyle, Oxfordshire Yeomanry; Williams, Lincolnshire Yeomanry; also two other yeomen wounded, about seven. The attack lasted about four hours, and the corps behaved very well. Our force was composed of Yeomanry, Kimberley Mounted Corps, and 4th Battery Field Artillery.  BOSHOF, April sth. There was a moat enceessfill tight today abont nine miles east of 13oslief. Sixty-eight Boers were surrounded on a kopje by a body of Imperial Yeomanry, under Lord Chesham, and the Kimberley Mounted Corps, under Cul. Peakman, with the 4th Field Battery. The Boers lost eight killed and six wounded ; the remainder surrendered. The French General, Villebois, WWI among the killed. A Scotch cart containing dynamite was captured. The Imperial Yeomanry behaved like veteran troops. One British officer was shot dead after the white flag had been hoisted. Hie murderer was killed. The conduct of all our troops was excellent.— Times. _  BOSHOF (Oiatme Free State), April sth, 7.0 p.m. Lord Methuen's Nlafeking relief force concentrated here today. The lkers are in force on the Vaal River, a few miles distant. This town is praztically deserted by the Dutch inhabitant., and all the males are in commando, under Commandant Duplessis, who has control of this district. _  The Boer loss has been great in the various recent actions, but the enemy are basing great hopes on the position which they have taken up at Kroonstad to remist Lord Roberts' advance. Telegraph. BOSHOF, April 6th.  The prisonere captured iii yesteida- v.'s action were brought in hero this morning. Many of them wet,. Frenchmen. They presented a bedraggled app. it mice owing to thp heavy thunderstorm which cominenced at the close of the engagement,  Ac parade this morning Lord Methuen warmly complimented his litt.ll oil their behaviour, awl pointed out the lessons to be learnt from the pre• cisiou of the niodern rifle lire. Our casualties would have been much heavier had not the men taken advantage .4 the little cover afforded. The British officers who were killed were buried to-day with military honours, 33 was also Colonel de Villebois, the French Coininands.W.—Press Association.  PA MS, April Bth. M. Christian de Villebois-Mareuii, in an interview, states that his brother ia his will expressed a  wish to be barie4 wherever be might fall. M. Christian de Villoboi.-Mareuil will not, therefore, go to Africa for the present. —Reefer. Roberts' Communication Threatened.  BLOESIYONTEIN, April 7th. The Boers are reporter! to be in force to the mouth, and to be threatening the railway line, which, however, is strongly protected. Om outlying pickets at Springfield, eight miles from here, were attacked to-day by the Boers, who advanced from the water works. The railway bridge at Glen was completed yesterday, and the rails are now being  Remounts are arriving here daily, and everywhere in camp there are scen.s of great activity. The men are in the best of spirits, aud eager to move forward.—Press Ass,,ciation.  President Steyn's Brother Captured.  BLOILMFONTICIN, April 7th. A brother of President Steyn was captured yesterday in the neighourhood of Karee Siding by a detachir.ent of the Norfolkslure Regiment, and was brought here to day.—Reuter.  The Ambush at Saunas Post. The British Losses.  Below we give a is of the casualties in the aniline)] of the British corivoy at Saunas Post on March 31st. Summarised, the losses were :  illnd 3 Wounded Alisslng  441 Arrival of Reinforcements.  Reinforcements continue ti-.) arrive. Sixteen hundred troops reached Capetown on Sunday, and landed at that port. They belonged mainly to the Eighth Division. It is proposed to send out two snore batteries of Horse Artillery—N and S—to replace the guns lost. Colonel Lawrence, of the Remount Department, states that 6,000 horses are now on their way to South Africa.