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THE DALLES, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 1900.
NO 199
BRITISH LOST
VERY HEAVILY
Cms, 350 Men art Baggage
Caplnrci 1? Boers.
REINFORCEMENTS
- SENT FORWARD
Boers Cut Off the Hloomfonteln Water
Supply and Arc Closing In in Full
Force.
London, April 2, 2 p. in. The war
office Ims received the following die
patch from Huberts, dated Bloemfontein
Sunday .
"I received news late yesterday even
ing from Colonel Broadwood at Thabao
cbu,.'!8 miles east of here, that informa
tion hnd reached him that tho enemy
was approaching in two lorres from the
north nnd east. He stated that it the
report proved true, ho would retire tow
ards the waterworks, 17 miles nearer
Illooinfontein, where we have had a
detachment of mounted infantry for the
protection of tho works.
"Hradwood was told in reply that the
Ninth Division, with Martyr's Mounted
Infantry, would march at daylight to
support him and that if he considered it
necessary he should retire to the water
works, lie moved there during the
night in nl bivouacked. At dawn today
lie hub shelled by the enemy, who at
tacked him on three sides. He immedi
ately despatched two horse artillery bat
teries and his baggage toward Bloem
fontein, covering some of them with hie
cavalry.
"Some two mileB from tho water
works, tho road crosses a deep mullah
or spruit, in which during the night a
force of Boers hud concealed themselves.
So well were they hidden that our lead
ing scouts passed over the drift without
discovering them, and it was not until
the wagons and guns were entering the
drift that the Boers showed themselves
and opened fire. Many of the drivers
of the artillery horses were Immediately
shot down at short range, and Beveral
guns captured. The remainder galloped
away, covered by Roberts' Horse, which
suffered heavily.
"Meanwhile Lieutenant Chester Mas
ters, of the Remington Scouts, found a
passage across the spruit unoccupied by
the enemy, by which the remainder of
hroodwood's force crossed. They re
formed with great steadiness, notwith
standing what had previously occurred.
Broadwood's report, which has just
reached me, contains no details, but
"lutes that he had lost seven guns and
all lils bagcage. He estimates all his
casualties ut about 350, Including 200
Missing.
"On hearing this morning that Broad
wood was hard pressed, I immediately
ordered General French, with the two
remaining cavalry brigades, to follow in
support of the Ninth Division. The
letter, after a magnificent march, ar
rived on the scene ot actiou shortly after
- I1- in. JJroadwood's force consisted of
tlie Iioyul Household Cavalry, the Tenth
Hussars, the Q. and U. Batteries of the
al Horse Artillery, and Pitcher's
battalion of mounted. The strength of
the enemy is estimated torn 8000 to 10,
MO, with guns, the number of which Is
not yet reported.
London, April 2 A rumor of the re
capture by the British of seven guns
taken from Colonel Broadwood's force,
based on n dispatch to the Chronicle
"roin Itloeiufonteln, which is in all prob
ability correct, falls to compensate Lun
Uo for the severe shock experienced by
a humiliating defeat sustained within a
'ew miles of the headquarters of the
"ntisli army of occuDation.
Aho public ia painfully surprised to
cam after all that British officers of
"Kh position can still neglect precau
Uoiih which the veriest tyro might be
xpected to observe, and blunder into
,ral8 which observance of elementary
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military rules would have revealed.
There is no attempt here to minimize
tho diecreditableness of the whole offair,
so far bb the British are concerned, or
detiact from the dexterity of the Boers,
who were apparently commanded by
General Dewit. The tantica of the
burghers were evidently excellently con
ceived, and boldly carried out, and un
less the reinforcements sent by Roberts
have turned the tide, and recaptured
the pri9onore, a couple of hundred men
from two crack corps of the Household
Cavalry and the Tenth Hussars, are
now on their way to swell the growing
deposit of British prisoners at Pretoria.
President Kruger is said to have prom
ised to reoccupy Bloemfontein this week,
and the stubborn burghers eeem to be
closing around the place in such force as
promises to be troublesome, especially
when it is realized that tho activity of a
strong Boer force in the vicinity of
Paardeberg Iiob already interrupted
direct communication between Roberts
Biid Kimberley. But for the overwhelm-'
luii numbers at the disposal of Roberts,
the situation would juBtly cause Great
Britain anxiety. As it is, the nation is
beginning to realize, from the nature of
the guerilla warfare, that it is liable to
embarrass the future movement of
British troopB.
A special dispatch from Bloemfontein
this morning says that the water supplv
of the place has been cut olT. This is a
natural sequence of the Boer success at
the water works. But the authorities are
honeful that the strong reinforcements
sent by the commander-in-chief will
promptly remedy this. It is evident
from Roberts' that a big engagement is
in nroarress. Although it is difficult to
estimate the number of British engaged,
they probably exceed even the 8000 or
10.000 men which the Beers are estimated
to number. The scene of the British
disaster appears to be Mealie Spruit,
where the Bloemfontein road crosses a
tributary of the Modder river.
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REMONSTRANCE
LETTER TO THE COUNCIL FROM
W. d. ROBERTS.
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Proposed Sewer Hjrstem Defends
the System Against the Ob
jections of the Itemonstrants,
Concluded.
The old saying that "water seeks its
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same elevations as in river. The bottom
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