THE WAR.

Te Aroha News, Volume XVI, Issue 22213, 15 March 1900, Page 2

THE WAR.

ANOTHER BRITISH VICTORY, London, March 11. Mn jbr-Genei al Broad wood’s cavalry of* General Kenny’s division bad ft; severe but successful engagement at Driefontein, south of Abraham’s Kraal, on Saturday; Forty Boers were taken and many left dead. SHARP ACTION AT foMEROYA THE WHITE FLAG AGAIN: London,. March 12. Colonel Betliune, with the Mounted' Um Yoti Rifl :, s an ' Natal with;three maxim , heavily clreenemy at- Pom roy on the 9th. The enemy possessed too many guns, and Betliune was unable to dis--lodge them without artillery. Oonse-. quenily he retired south of.-h Tugela., One Britisher was wami..eii. but tliGi Boer-loss was c-ousi*;erab!& Lord Robe.-ts telegraphed to the presidents, protesting against the tinued abuse of tho white flag, and stating ‘ Your Honor*’ ’ troops have committed breaches of the recognised: usages of war and the Geneva C n-. vertion that are a disgrace to any;civilised power.’"

SIEGE OF MAFEKING, RAISED.',. KRUGER’S"CHEEK. „London, March 12. Boer prisoners affirm that the sieg6. of Mafeking has been raised. At the Drisfontein engagement the' Welsh in the evening carried the-, central position at the h lyoret’S pobV., The cavalry th n turned - position, the Bo prs fleeing norfh wards; under cover of night. The Australian cavalry alone were. able to pursue them. After Driefontein, Lord Roberts re-, snmed his advance and arrived within, 20 mile of Bloemfontein. Kruger’s overtures for peace met. with a chilling reception. onf the con-, tinent. Presidents Kruger and SteynJ invite the Powers to intervene, toy secure an honorable peace. On the Continent President Kruger’s < overtures for peace are admit! 6dty;inadmissible.. The Presidents’ overtures represent-, that the British territory was ,i ecu pied { Strategically and defensively. JPThe . loyalty of the Colonial Dutch is un-. shaken, and as British prestige has, been re established they, claim independence and an amnesty for loyalists,. The war was ‘ one of conquest ’ andi they resisted.to the utmost,.

LORD ROBERTS TURNS THE: POSITION. London. March 11. Lord Roberts succeeded in turning* the position held by 12,000 Boers w’-thi 18 guns on kopies commanding t.he-> C. road to Bloemfontein,General French occupied the bills.; commanding Bloemfontein on Monday..night. - - The casualties, are 60 killed land 3‘2op wounded.. Steyn’s brother was captured: ■?< Berlin, March 13.Germany, in reply to Kruger, de--dined to intervene, on the ground that she is.in nowise concerned,in.ihe com flict.

FRENCH SEIZE S THE RATE*, WAY. London-, March 11. General French has seized the railway six miles south; of Bloemfontein.! and cut the telegraph to the northward. Lord'Roberts, referring to the deathfW of Colonel Umpholby and others, saicll the wounds are generally owing to the Boers using expandingbullets. Mafeking-was reported safe on the. 6th inst. The Northern relieving columnunder Colonel Plummer had reached; Dobntsi 35 miles north of Mafeking.. The Portuguese authorities at Lorenzo Marques, at British instigation,, arrested four German ex-, officers who landed with, arms and? ammunition.