The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 24, 1900, Page 3

Addas Lan FLRANCISCU CALL, SATURDAY, VEBRUARY -24, 1900. 5 SURROUNDED BOERS CUT THROUGH THE BRITISH LINES T BriNcCiING FIERCE FIGHTING i e ® Y LAST IT WAS IMMEDL AL FITZROY HAR ING THE TUGELA AT COLENS( @roer e INDOO BEAXERS [From London Sketch.] ON THE EVACUATION OF HLANGWANA HILL BY THE BOERS ON TELY OCCUPIED BY THE BRITISH THEIR 47-INCH NAVAL GUNS, UNDER THE COVER OF WHOSE E &y I oFF THE WOUNOED | | e . % | P . ® . ON THE TUGELA. BRIGADE EFFECTED THE CROSS- ). * B e SR S S S SR AP CEN. WELLY- STAF® WATCHING THE SHELLING OF THE Bo=R posiTioN | pected to-day. De Wett tele- HENNY AND RETORIA, Wednesday, Feb. 21.— The following . official war bulletin has been issued here: “A report was received this| morning of cannon fire west of | Colesberg. At Petrusburg can- non firing commenced at 6 in the | morning. A big fight was ex- graphed yesterday from Petrus- burg that all was quiet except several cannon shots and small skirmishes. Yesterday evening the British stormed the Federal positions as far as Chauser, but were driven back. A message from Cronje is to the effect that his loss yesterday was. fourteen ' dead and wounded. ADVERTISEMENTS. DRINK HABIT CURED Mrs. May Hawkins Will Help Every Woman S Drunkard. A Trial Package of Her Marvelous SEIZURE OF THE SABINE LONDON, Feb. 22.—The inquiries of th United States ! LOOKING INTO THE | | Embassador, Joseph H. | Choate, on the subject of the selzure of ixho British steamer Sabine, from New | York January 4, with a miscellaneous cargo, which was captured by the British gunboat Thrush and taken to Delagoa Bay, have elicited the statement that nothing is known there except the facts contained in the dispatch announcing the | release of the steam Pending the re- | ceipt of official reports by the Foreign Office nothing will be done in the matter. WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—A good deal | of doubt surrounds the circumstances con- | Eome Treatment FBEE for the asking. | e | nected with the seizure of the British Any true woman might well be proud to have | ., Sabine, and while the action of the State Department in instructing Mr. | Choate to look into the matter and to | deplore such interference with commerce was Inspired by a desire to avoid any criticism for lack of diligence, it appears that some points about the seizure are so obscure as to make it questionable at | least whether or not there is yet sufficient | ound for protest. In fact, there is some bt as to the actual seizure, and sin- | saved one poor soul from the shackies of drink, but Mre Hawkins has redeemed thousands by hergoble and work among those who bave been victims of intemperance. Mrs. Hawkins for years ed the grief and anguish shared by somany nd £ women of America to-day, who bave drink-afflicted fathers, husbands or sons. She etermined tooverc fearful evil if pessible. i ess, perfect and secret home as atlast rewarded when an oid friend came ve her 2 remedy which had never beea r=. Hawkius gave the remedy sec- e to her groat joy,her dearest ured of his appetite for drink red tohealth and manhood, derful result, Mre. Hawkins de- her Jife to the work of helping her e, whom she found suffering as she s of alcohol upol. a hus- 4, father or son. With the assistunce of others ected the original trcatment and now osend this treatment free to any distressed other or sister who will write for it. Mrs. great desire is that every woman who medicine will write at once to beg and get it. = | over, in the many published columns there .1ne into my home. ak oy ink ot alooholle Setaks. ¥ can “.’éi.{ .?h 5 Yarlontd Y ' East Hampton, Ma., Feb. 14, 1865, onesby thisremedy ber if you only wish it. meed haveno hesitancy whatever in writing ber for assistance. Donot delay; write her today. Address “Regust y and giving it to my kusband, ‘what your remed ;. sy Thousands have saved their bomes and Joved E tsevery Jetter she reorives sacredly confidential and you Mrs. May Hewkins, Box 128 GrandRapids, Mich, | gularly enough the British Government it- | self has not been informed of the event. It is seeking information as to the details, and when these are ascertained the an- swer will be made to Mr. Choate. The State Department in this case has no direct information, relying on the state- | ment of Peabody & Co. of New York that their goods to the value of $30,000 had been | seized on the Sabine, according to report. | There is no certainty that any American | goods were seized, the original telegraphic | statement being that the vessel had been seized and towed into Port Elizabeth to | be searched for contraband goods. But | the basis of the department’s objection to | a seizure of this kind lles in the fact that | as the Sabine was bound for a British port she might have been allowed to pro- ceed without interference to her destina- | tion and there have been examined. 'WAR CORRESPONDENTS | MAKE SHARP CRITICISMS Correspondence of tha Associated Press. TLONDON, Feb. 14.—The last mails from South Africa brought a bountiful supply of dramatic accounts of the war. From Ladysmith, the Tugela, Modder River, Reénsberg and Mafeking come thrilling epi- sodes and deeds of daring that make the | | English justly proud of the men who are fighting their battles on the veldt. More- are minute explanations furnished by war correspondents that help to take away the sting of defeat, though these writers do not hesitate to criticize bluntly when oc- | casion demands. For instance, the Cape Town correspondent of the Times scath- ingly rebukes the insular prejudice of many British officers. “The news of Lord Roberts’ decision to | create an independent colonial division,” | he writes, “under command of General Brabant, an experfenced colonial soldier, | dite and machine guns, although the lat- | of baggage this army takes with it on and officered in the main by colonlal offi- | cers, has caused the greatest satisfaction everywhere in Cape Colony. From the very first there had been frequent com- plaints from the English population in the olony that they had been set back and hat no sufficient use had been made of thelr readiness to serve in the defense of their country. Full of self-sufficlency and professional pride, the majority of our officers displayed the supremest con- fidence in the capacity of the British to do anything and everything, and the suprem- est belief that volunteers or civilians could not do anything but get in the way. Colonial advice was, as a rule, contemptuously neglected and the offers made by prominent colonials to raise local forces met at first with the greatest indifference, almost with hostil- ity” Trained by experience of many Kaffir wars, the English borderer is in every way the equal of the Boer at his own game, and adds to the Hoer's skill and watchfulness a dash and gallantry which the latter rarely possesses.” » From Buller's forward lines, Bennett Burleigh writes to the Daily Telegraph in an equally outspoken way: “As for cannon,” he says, “it is little short of a scandal after the lead the Sir- dar gave the Woolwich people with lyd- ter did not get to the front in the Soudan, that the army artillery with Buller only comprises the fifteen-pounders and one five-inch howltzer battery.” Winston Churchill, in the Morning Post, also has his fling. Writing from Spear- mans Hill, he declares “the vast amount the march hampers its movements and ut- terly precludes all possibility of surpris- ing the enemy. I have mever before seen officers accommodated with tents on ser- vice. But here every private has canvas shelter and the other arrangements are on an equally elaborate scale. The con- sequence Is that marching troops are de- | layed while the enemy completes his for- tifications. It is poor economy to let a soldler live well for three days at the price of killing him on the fourth.” FREE STATERS MAY MOVE GOVERNMENT LOURENZO MARQUES, Delagoa Bay, Feb. 2.—The Transvaal Government Is reported to be seriously alarmed at the de- feat of the Boers at Kimberley and the re- treat of the famous General Cronje. The newspapers are most reticent, but the Standard and Diggers’ News claimed that General Cronje’s movement is bene- ficial as it increases the mobllity of the burghers’ army, enabling it to conducy Barnacles on Ocean Cables. The recent investigations for cable-laying tn o Rl e S o 1 fact that, e L s, Phl b o s i | the bayonet in the more effective operations on a carefully prepared plan.” There are persistent re- | ports that the seat of the Free State Gov- ernment is being moved to Wyndburg. 1t is sald that 6000 burghers have been sent from Ladysmith to Bloemfontein. Pt S COVERING RETREAT OF JOUBERT'S ARMY COLENSO, Natal, Feb. 21 (via Chieve- ley, Feb. 22.)—The British have crossed | the Tugela over a pontoon near North Hlanwanga and Fort Wylle. While the naval brigade was bombarding Grobler's Kloop, the Boers' big Creusot replied vesterday. After the occupation of Colenso a small party of Thorneycroft's Horse crossed the river, but were driven back by fire from the trenches. The Boer guns are still shelling the re- lieving force from the hills south of Lady- smith, but the impression is spreading that they are merely covering the retreat of the entire Boer force. General Buller's casualties Tuesday, February 20, and Wednesday, February 21, were: Killed—Captain Crealock and Lieuten- ants Keith-Falconer and Parry of the Somersetshire Light Infantry and nine men, ‘Wounded—Six officers and ninety-seven men. Missing—Five men. BOERS DRIVEN OUT FROM THE HILLS ARUNDEL, Thursday evening, Feb. 22.—Colonel Henderson's squadron of the Inniskillings, with two guns, reconnoiter- ed westward to Mooifontein farm on the direct road to Colesberg and Hanover. They got close to the Boers in the hills and were fired on. They quickly got thelr guns in position and shelled the hills. Eventually the Boers were driven out, retiring northward, when they came un- der the fire of two other guns, supported by a company of Australlans near the British western post on Dragon Hill. Colonal Henderson proceeded to Mooifon- tein farm, which he now occupies. The British patrols from Hanover also came out that far. The Boers are not in great force. They have been persistently fol- lowed all day and have withdrawn a con- siderable distance northward. Gt e SPLENDID GALLANTRY: * OF MOUNTED TROOPS LONDON, Feb, 24—The Dally Tele- graph’s correspondent at Kimberley, in a dispatch dated Thursday, says: I have had a chat with Cecil Rhodes, who de- clares that not half enough has been made of the splendid gallantry of the mounted troops, mostly local men, in the numer- ous engagements fought during the in- vestment, Many of the men, he tells me, had never used the bayonet before and did not know how to fix one. Yet, in fln Boer red:lubu on Novamb:r E-3 ey ly charged vn the riages, nouing {he rifle 1n one hand ana BOERS CROSSING THE SWOLLEMN TUGEL. A AFTER THE BATTLE—-GATHERING UP THE DEAD AND WOUNDED. (From a sketch by Lester Ralph, special artist in Black and White.) Commandant Fronoman reports | fight. The British prepared to' AT MAGERSFONTEIN AS SOON AS THE “CEASE FIRING” WAS SOUNDED THE AMBULANCE CORPS WENT OUT WITH WAGONS AND STRETCHERS TO GATHER UP THE DEAD AND WOUNDED. AS IT WAS NEAR THEIR POSITION THE CAUTIOUS BOERS, WHO HELD THE FIELD, REQUIRED THE BRITISH STRETCHER-BEARERS TO BE BLINDFOLDED AND THEN LED THEM ABOUT IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR SAD DUTY. the fighting general. that from February 15 to Febru- | surrounded by 2500 British, five | three prisoners ary 20 he was almost surround-| miles from the chief laager. At|have been forwarded. ed by the British at the Modder | night we cut our way through| sixteen wounded. thé British was heavy. Greeee® “De Wett’s losses will be nil.|lay siege to the Boer laager with|through to reach De Wett, who We were | was in the neighborhood. Fiity- formerly taken “It is reported that the British River, when with a small num-|with the loss of seven dead and|were continually attacking Koo- { ) ber of men he broke through. | “On Sunday there was a heavy | The loss to|dosrand yesterday with infantry and Lancers, but that they were “Yesterday we cut our way'driven back.” ADVERTISEMENTS. QUESTIONS FOR If you were offered sure aid in time of trouble, would you put it aside and accept something of doubtful efficiency? If you saw before you a strong and safe bridge leading to your goal, would you ignore it to try some insecure and tottering structure ? The answers to these questions are plain. You would, of course, choose without hesitation what all evidence showed to be, thes safe thing, and you would risk nothing in useless experiments. Why then do some ‘women risk one of their most precious possessions—their health—in trying medioines of unknown value, which may even prove hurtful to them ? own merit. prove our claims. 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