The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 25, 1900, Page 15

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1900. REAT @ oo eieiesedesd L T S SPRP TR EE 'BRITAIN R e S S O O SCa SSORS S0 ¢ A FRIEND IN NEED. é British Trooper Takes Up a Comrade Who Has Lost His Mount, and Both Escape the Pursuing Boers. 4 Lond sraphic | GOt Ot Ot Dttt 0 0ttt 0 000000000Vt 0090 4000000600000 00003 e to The and the New York | of to have further re-, the least squeamish of Parisian gutter | PyTIE ew York | 5 r anticipate sheets has found impossible to print. 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Like who has found his native t for him, the French pr: ements anguage whi h one of REVIEW OF THE GAME FIGHT @S MADE BY CRONJE LONDON, Feb. 2 encer Wilkinson, summing the week’s events in the war in South A » for the Assoclated Press, to- t of Thur » marche tween General French, who ntered Kimberley, and General then Klip Drift, on the r. The next day General pursued him, attacked his nd delayed m until the ade was on its way to stop e south banks of the Modder French could pass him on the v, February from Ma- at three days’ running fight Gen- was stopped at Koodoosrand rg. where he was surround- rce was betw the river ch gave him a defenslve posi- ither Way, 8o that attacks on heavy loss, but he was held rd Roberts arranged girdle of infantry in while cannonading him with lading the river bed. In the d Roberts, with a spare di- beyond the three brigades himself to intercept away any Boer reinforcemen the s ation on Wednesd: offered a reasonable possibility of ure of Cronje’s force and of the of any reinfortements. We have le news beyond Wednesday. On Thurs- je, set ntervals, bly involving a too lavish use of ammuni- tion. The Boers have been giving them- selves up by fifties a day. On Tuesday Lord Roberts drove off reinforcements coming from Colesberg and from Natal. “A Berlin report declares that Cronje had forced his way through. This is im- probable, but may refer to a small party who may e escaped in the night. “Lord Roberts’ advance has drawn away some of the Boer forces from Coles- berg, Sterkstroom and Natal, as Is seen | from the diminished resistance to the British at all those points ‘General Buller, after taking Hlang- wane Hill, has crossed the Tugela River nd, according to the latest telegrams, has been fighting continuously since Thursday morning. This looks like a de- | cided attempt to relieve | wherein I expect General Buller will suc- | ceed, if he does not, as before, interrupt his advance by stopping to count his | losses and declaring that he has lost | enough. A general has never lost enough to justify the giving up of his enterprise with him. Ladysmith can probably hold out for several weeks longer and In that time the effect of Lord Roberts’ advance will probably be even more marked than it has yet bee: MENELIK AT PRESENT IN MOST PEACEFUL MOOD MARSEILLES, Feb. 24.—Herr Tlig, King Menelik’'s chief counselor, arrived from Abyssinia to-day. He will pass a year in Europe, during which he intends to visit Premier Waldeck-Rousseau and M. Delcasse, Minister of Foreign Affairs. In an interview Herr Ilig sald King Menelik's intentions were most pacific and 50 long as his troops are willing to go on | | that country - | buying orders havin ty in England. He is| The Berlin Stock Exchange s eve reason to be | strategical view of the situation the is sending Perha one of the most elo t Eng-|s | tion, probably due to the earthworks. the shelling of Cronje was continued | continuous shelling proba- | | there was a universal feeling of joy and thank- Ladysmith, | admits having sent his royal cong tions to the hor of a disgust scene caricature of our Queen. Th en will refuse to m told by an a Mr. Pardy, tha Cronje means that the three weeks. His opinion I find echoed by those who have had experiences with the Boers The city uthority on South Af- . 1l over out of which is not often at fault view, backing its oplx The h 1s taken place brought Rands almost to their former palmy po- sition in the market. This has been done entirely from the inside, for the public ap- parently will not come in at any price Rerlin, it Is true, has helped, fairly heavy come from there. rise whi buying. ns of the African mes lay in the smiling faces financiers as we saw them that the King desired to li peace with all neighbc powers. ery frontier incident to g Italy or Egypt, he de- clared. had either been settled or was on the way to a friendly arrangement. King Menelik hopes to visit the sition. The foregoing statement yoses of the sensatic storfes ished in certain to the effect t at Menelik was ntage of Great Bri- uth Africa to make newspape: inclined to ta tain’s difficul a move towarc Nile. KIMBERLEY'S DISTRESS BEFORE RELIEF CAME CAPE TOWN, Friday, Feb. 23.—Ex- tracts from the diary of the Reuter cor- respondent at Kimberley give an insight into the trials of the garrison. They are in brief as follows: 12—Scurvy attacks the natives They are dying fast. The anti- £ are exhausted. Vine cuttings being | tried in lieu of green food. | January 12—Typhold 1s prevalent. Failure | to boll the water the probable cause. | January 12—Fifty typhoids in the hospital. | January 16—The military authorities have | commandeered all the foc chandise. Leave has heen granted to the in- habitants to shoot small birds for food. | January 17—The mules slaughtered are pro- nounced superior to horse flesh January 23—Five hundred shells poured into the town at haphazard, the hospital, scurvy | compound and residences receiving the atten- the January alarming! scorb January 2%—A small tfamily shell-proof shel- ter has been dug in nearly every garden. February 11—Twenty-five hundred women and | children were lowered into the mines through- | out the night. The men-are also selecting | places of eafety. | v 15— All the morning there was a cross fire of the British occupying Alexandersfontein. The hundred-pounder and shrapnel are bursting over Kimberley. Every cne is lying low. The shops and banks were closed. At 2 o'clock this afternoon there was a kaleldoscopic change. Hellograph _signals were discerned announcing General French's approach. Clouds of dust of the rapid advance of the advancing cavalry were then seen and almost simultaneously the enemy was observed limbering up and fleeing eastward. The glad tidings spread with marvelous rapldity. From all directions mounted and unmounted men hastened to welcome the re- Those remaining hoisted flags and lfef column. fulness. BRITONS ARE REPULSED WITH A HEAVY LOSS PRETGRIA, Friday, Feb. 22.—A special dispatch from Colesberg, dated Thursday, February 22, “Commandant Delarey moved out and occupled a position east and south of Arundel, where the British were en- camped. At sunrise the British attacked the Boers with cannon, infantry and cay- alry, the Boers replying. Late in the evening when the Boers were attacked in their rear by a force presumably from Naauwpoort, rendering the Boer position untenable, the British attempted to storm the Boer cannon, but were repulsed with heavy loss. The Boer casualties as far as known were two men wounded.” o Gt The Sabine’s Seizure. WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—The incident connected with the seizure by a British gunboat of the British steamship Sabine, with a cargo of goods from New York, is closed. A cable message was recelved to-day at the State Department from Em- bassador Choate stating that the vessel, which was at Port Elizabeth, had been re- leased and allowed to proceed on her way. TO BATTLE NEXT WITH FRANCE R S N A D R s i o R e e o o e e o e e e e A e e S e ] R o e FOLLOWING CLOSE AFTER CRONJE. tritish Cavalry in Pursuit of the Boer Forces as They Retreated From Magersfontein Toward Koodoes Drift ’ London Graphic. 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