The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1900. BOER e < . | 4 < . . o . B < . . ;e . Nev R AT THE BOMBARDMENT OF LADYSMITH. ‘““Now then, sisters, do get in, please.”’ TNYNGHAM, WHO WAS KILLED IN THE FIGHT AT WAGON HILL ON JANUARY 6, IS PER-¢ WHO HAD NURSED HIM AFTER HIS WOUND AT ELANDSLAAGTE TO TAKE REF- CONVENT CELLAR. WHEN THE SHELL FIRE WAS GROWING TOO SEVERE.—From the London o S ESCAPE THE TRAP | SET BY LORD ROBERTS Abandon Their Trenches and Fall Back Before the Exhausted British Cavalry Is Enabled to Cut Off Their Retreat. PEL D202 020900990000 09000000 0090000000000 0+00009 S S S N e e e R e e R e S e R D R S SO SO = S R IR SRR Hede s e L 4 ® G e beb et eB et tD I L BeIeB Il eDEDI e Deb et it et eieoeQ *LTORIA, March 6, via Lourenze Marques, March 8 —It is offi- ciaily stated here that on Sunday last there was heavy fight- ing at Dordrecht, that the British were repulsed with great loss and that the Federals captured three cannon. headquart a nece: vance is likely Modder River or Kaal Spruit. From General Buller no news has been yeceived, but we hear indirectly of some of his doings and of those of the com- mandos opposed to him through bulletins iesued at Pretoria on Monday. vsmith is alluded to airily as “other stanees which obliged the take up different positions.” The f their commandos are reported to etired to Biggersford Range, where e of Sir Redvers' report as to the nee of N Van Reenans Pass Van Reenans Pass has been practi ned. The move t of Bull- far as can be ed from supports this view | Gatacre has ex- 1 and has been able rp Junction, where the Free State by pringfontein meets nch. There are no ween Burghersdorf and The rellet | Boer | 1, they prob- | while’a few retired in the | | Bethulie, so that at any moment we may | deliverance of the olden time is the same f his reaching er place or | God now.” 1st south | The speech of the venerable President brought tears to the eyes of men and women alike. The Free State’s Volkluad (national anthem) was then sung. The visit of President Kruger has done much g00d and has cheered the despondents. President Kruger more recently has baen visiting the commandos south of Bloem- | fontein. Fighting is proceeding at Mafeking. All the outside forts except one have been | taken by the Boers. Much satisfaction is expressed at the courtesies extended to General Cronje by the British. Secretary of State Reltz has issued war bulletins, in which, after saying the Gov- ernment has no official tidings of the sur- render of General Cronje, but must accept it as a fact, however painful, he adds: “The Government remains assured that | the surrender will not discourage the | burghers in their defense of their inde- | pendence and standing as a nation. The | struggle thus far has shown that the re- | publics have vindicated themselves as an | Independent people. This reverse will not | stagger us. In the struggle for our cher- ished rights our bellef remains that what- even happens, the Lord still reigns. | “Owing to the invasion of the Free State by a large force of the enemy and other | imstances, it hecomes necessary to ke up other positions; hence the burgh- ers in Natal have retired to Biggersberg. | A1l the commandos have reached there dent Kruger, addressing a crowd of peo- | safely, except a few who retired in the sald | direction of Van Reenans Pass. Thus Although God is testing our people, my | Ladysmith and Kimberley are no more =ongl opinion i that the limit of the | besieged. In retiring the enemy was time is nearly reached. If the peopie are | after time driven back, so that our sustained by faith in the time of adver- |jaagers were not cut off. In these fights | sity God will soon again turn the tide in | a few men were killed or wounded and |our favor. If we have strong faith in [the enemy lost heavily. | God he will surely deliver us. The God of | *In spite of all repo rembling se who hope for th 1g to lose heart now. ing the siege fore it can . !s. the Boers get a prize that will please them, for Baden-Powell's officers are Lord n of the Prime Minister, and Lord Charles Cavendish-Bentinck, brother of the Duke of Portland and a great-grand- son of King William IV. 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HELENA, WHERE ENGLAND HAS IMPRISONED GEN. CRO R SLY AND ISOLATED ST. HELENA. IS OF ABOUT 20,000 ACRES IN EXTENT, WHICH RISE TO A HEIGHT OF 2000 AST AND IS STRONGLY FORTI- N A DEEP GORGE RUNNING DOWN N DURING HIS CONFINEMENT, IS OCKY EMINE! AREST POINT "ES, SOME O THE AFRICA FIED. THE ON TO THE SEA. absence of rife among the garrison. resources. exhausted or have been commandeered for the hospitals, which are filled to overflowing. The children's graveyard, close to the women's laager, grows week- ly as the vou tves are cut short pre- maturely by chell and fever. We look with hope deferred for relfef. The cheerfulness which was character- istic of the carly days of the siege has almost deserted us, the men preferring to remain at their posts rather than move about and work up an appetite which sfied. The natives are in Those who are unable = allowed a small hand- -, Many, braving the dan- ger, wander about the town with gaunt and hungry faces in search of work, which entitles them to an extra ration of meal. If th ind work they are gener- ally too weak to perform it. From their advanced posts the Boers rake the streets and market square. It is impossible to dodge their bullets. We have taken remarkable precaution, ever, and the how- casualtles, though heavy, might have been had n at the head of affairs. Even the he ers mess fares scant- ily. Like saints under the altar we cry, “How long, O Lord. how long?" Two hundred and ninety-two persons | have been killed. wounded or died of dis- | ease. The on is so small that it would be cr ! to make its weakness public, but there is never so much as a whisper. If any one suggested the possi- bility of surrender it is because we do not mean to get beaten. and we are cheerfully enduring the iships of to-day rather than' to make ler in any degree possible to-morr NORVALS PONT NOW 0C"UPIED BY CLEMENTS Lord Roberts Repor's the Cap- ture of a Krupp Gun, Tents and Wagons TLLONDON, March 8.—Lord Roberts tele- graphs he has captured a Krupp gun and a number of tents and wagons. He als) announces that General Clements has ce- cupied Norvals Pont. The following is the text of Lord Roberts' dispatch: “POPLAR GROVE, March 8.—Two bri- gades of cavalry, with horse artillery an1 Kelly-Kenny's division, marched to-day ten miles eastward. “The Boers were quite taken by surprise vesterday. They moved off so hurriedly that they left cooked dinners behind., Weu captured a Krupp gun and several tents and wagons. The total casualties were: “Killed—Lieutenants Keswick and Fries- lick. “Wounded—Lieutenants Balley of the Twelfth Lancers and De Crispigney of the Second Life Guards, both severely, and Lieutenant Smith of the Shropshires, who is belleved to have been picked up by a Boer ambulance. Two men were killed, forty-six were wounded and one man i1 missing. “Gatacre reports he intends occupying Burghersdorp to-day. Repairs to the rail- roads toward both Stormberg and Leyns- berg are being pushed. Clements now ce- cuples Norvals Pont. on the south bank of the Orange River. The bridge was blown up March 6 and the enemy is holding the north bank of the river, but not, it is be- lieved, in any great strength.” The full extent of Roberts’ success yes- terday is not clear, but the best informed appear satisfied that it brings peace per- ceptibly nearer. The experts expect that the burghers will make no further stand west of the Free State capital, and some of them even deduce from the fact that the Boer forces are divided and have re- treated in different directions that demor- alization has set in, and the Transvaal forces will next be found carefully in- trenched in positions north of the Vaal River, where the bulk of the Free Staters will abandon the contest and sue for peace. Elsewhere the news indicates that the conditions continue hopeful frum a British point of view, the telegrams from Mafeking alone showing any de- spondence. GENERAL FRENCH STILL PURSUING THE BOERS OSFONTEIN, March 8.—Lord Roberts’ movements to-day again thoroughly sur- prised, outwitted and outmaneuvered the Boers, who fled almost without firing. The plan of battle was as follows: General Colville’s division, extending along the north bank; General Tucker held the cen- ter reserve and the Guards Brigade had the center advanced. 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