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The Rescue Was Made by:
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OF ALL ARMS
AND RELIEVED THE BESIEGED
CITY YESTERDAY.
Text of Lord Roberts’
Despatch.
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- SECOND EDITION,
THE RELIEF OF KIMBERLEY.
Lewxpen, Feb. 16.—There is tremendous satisfaction and jubilation here at Robert’s and French’s success; but these best fitted to judge the situation are inclined to the Opinion that, pending more definite iaflormation, the news had better be regarded as assuring rather thas as accomplishing the relief of Kimberley.
A careful study of the ambiguity of the wordieg ef Lord Robert’s despatch leads those people to believe that the actual re- lief of the place is etill a matter of time
Kimberley, it is pointed oat, can scarce ly be termed relieved until it is feasible to take provisions there.
The rapidity of Genera] French’s march indicates that he was unable te do this and whether he left hia lines behind him open is only » matter of eurmise.
I: is considered most probable that Lord Reberts and Genera] French’s brilliant tactical euecess resémblea the first relief of Luknow when the di-persal of the { enemy's forces was by no means im-
mediately effected.
SpecIAL DESPATCH TO THE EXAMINER.
London, Feb. 16, 9.51 a.m.— War Office reports that General French reached Kimberley Thursday
evening.
War Office :—
The following is Lord Roberts’ message to the
“ Jacobsdale, Feb. 16, a m.—French, with a force of artilllery, cavalry and mounted infantry; ‘ym Kimberley last evening, Thursday.”
NOTHING IN THIS.
Loxpon, February 16 —As was only to | @s expected, there is a lull in t 1¢ war news | this moraiag, following the initial stage of the great movement.
Tue telegraphh wires are inevi ably silent and ia al! prebability no fur her wews will be sent by Lerd Reberte uniil some definite result has been achieved as the oatcome of General French’s brilliant advance.
The invasion of the Free State appears te have pracsically suspended eperations elsewhere.
REPORTED EVACUATION OF RENB.- BURG.
Lexpox, Fetraary 16.—A Cape Town correspondent ef the Chrenicle mentions a repert that the British treops have evacu- ated Rensburg aad retired on Arundel. Tae Cape Town telegram ie unconfirmed, bat the report is quite possibly true al- though the Cape To yn messages,‘as a rule, are most usreliuble.
Arundel is eigh\ miles south of Rena- burg,sad twelve miles north of Naauwpoort Jat. The seizure of the latier place by the Bosrs would enable them to intericre with railway commua'‘cation between Port Elizabeth and DeAsr. But such a eontin- gency is unlikely at presest.
MILITARY SGHEME ADOPTED
Loxpox, Feb. 16.—A Boer iieca from Ladysmith, reporting thata large British army has advaneed on Boseh Kop on the read to Celense has not attracted much attention.
The Heuse of Commens has adepted the government military scheme by a vote
| of 9239 against 34 the minority consisting chiefly of Irish members.
A BOBR REPORT.
ue Laaeer, near Ladysmith, Feb. 3,—Yesterday, General Botha, with a oS force crossed the Tugela to the deserted British camp, where he eneoun~ tered 60 Lancers, of whom 135 were killed, 5 wourded and 9 takem prisoners,
FACTS AND CRITICISMS Lowpoy, Feb. 16, 4.808. m.—As the
from h m bas been communicated to the public, ue m litary aiopts are figuring ont the possibilities of Lord Roberts com-~ munica.ioa, aad what is left for the Boers t» do.
Cronje’s communication with Bloem- fontein is already cut eff.
The best news Eagiand could hear would be tha: he elecia to give battle among
the low hille and ridges west of Kimberley. Should we detersaine aot to do this, he must raise the siege of Kimberley aad re- treat to@ point where he would prefer to fight. [his retreat weald be along desour areund the head ef the British advance te Bloemfeatein ; or, as seems to military Siudeais mere practisable, he could wita- draw ta the morta using toe railway for higarms aad heavy tagsage, meving to Fentein Streams Biatiou and thense to Transvaal terrisery.
Tue Boers have made no preparations to defead Bloemfouteic, and taere is no particular reason why Cronje thould risk battle to protect the eapital of the Free Biate,
Operations suspended.
CORRES PONDENT’3 REPORT, .
Loxspox, Feb. 16.—A correspondent writing from Chieveley, Feb. 13, says: ‘“We are still hopefal of relieving Lady-
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Colenel Badea-Pewell, in a despatch from Mafeking, dated Jan. 29, after men- tiening the matsers already sent out bya cerrespendent, gives his total casualties up to Jan. 25, as fellews :
Killed, 5 efficers and 60 mea; wounded, 8 officers and 123 men; missing, 34.
No werd has been received regarding Genera! Gataere’s 12,000 men at Storm- berg.
Tae impression is that these ferces are on their way to join Lerd Roberts.
Ax OLp ayy Watt Triap Rauzpr.— Mre. Wisrlow’s Seothieag Syrup has been used for over fitty years by millions of mothers for their ehildren while teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, aeftens the gums, allays the pain, cures wind celic, aad is the best remedy for diarrhesa. It is pleasaat to the taste. geld by druggists in every part of the world. Twenty-fve cents « bottle. Its value is imcalculable. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup,
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A remarkable feature of Robert’a cable gram is the tact that itis dated from Jacobsdale, whieh was General Cronje’s advance base of supplies, and there is no word explaining the British commander’s presence there, cor a word of any opposi- tien.
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LETTER FROM SJUIH AFRICA:
Alfred Riggs Describes the Country —The Beers and the Natives.
Mr. W.N. Riggs, baggage marter of the Jeland railway, has received the fol lowing letter from his s02 whe is with the Canadian Coatingent ia Sevuth Africa. The leiter is dated Beiment, January 6, 1900:
Dear Faraer,—I only have time te drop rou s few lines as the mails leave shortly; the Eoglish mail leavea the Cap every Saturday. I am in pretty good health, feeling eplendid. We were al! rather disappoivted at wet receiviag eur box from home, ferit has not eceme to hand yet. We have given up expecting it each train, and are resigned to wait uu- til it reaches us. 1 have net received any letters since the owe you sent ecoptaining the ekildren’s letters whiehI answered over a week ago. There is @ grea: deal of delay before we receive eur mail owing to the large quantities being sent here. The post office staff at the Cape are unable to keep up with it, so de net be surprised if you do not receive my letters promptly. We were paid for the menth about the let inst., seme $9.30 im Kaglish mooey. Lam just getting tic hang of £.8.d. new. i. am seading methera aovereige. I have been out on duty onthe ridgesand on the examining post all thie week Lam sendieg you a ekeich of tent and surrousdiage where | have been stationed. It is at the feot ef a kopje, and we have to take it dowa every. night aud goon sentry duty. We have blaakets to keep us warm aad rubber blankets te put usder us atnight. We have te turn outat three iu the merning fer we expect to be attacked abeut that time. “C”’ company and part ef “G” compaay, withthe maxim guns and the Australian Herse, about 150, together With some English companies, went out te a small town sbeut 20 miles from here where there were about 600 Beers. They drove the Beers out and captured 40 of them, killed twelve and wounded a lot mere. Some of the Causdians were hurt. There were enly three casualties ameng the Australians, two killed aad one wounded. There were no casualties among the Maglish. A large number of retugees arrived here with the transports frem Douglass. All the English residents left there; alee the negroes whom the Boers did not catch. They make the negroes work for them aad will not
ythem. The darkies say they hate the ies, There are @ great many Boers around ; but we are only waitiog te get another ‘chance at them.
We have been in Belmont now for month and we are getting rather tired ef it. The ostriches here are iike fowls home and are always warderiag among the tents. Talk about them being able to swallow ! When you see one pick off a couple of sight protectors from your gues and swallow them as uncencernedly as if they were @ nice piece Of grass and then go over and torment the cook by eating the hot coals off the fire, it’s time then to step
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vortoise here for a pet with a boo'lace ‘orough a bole in his shell amd tied to a bush. There are quite a lot of them here and the shells are very pretty.
The place we are in, in faet ever since we left DeArr,and DeArr iteelf, 1s situated in what is called the Karoe Desert, cover- ed over with small «stunted sage brush vuich leoks like eo many reets turned up in the air. Here and there we see a stray rree that looks aehamed ef being found in «such a place, The veidt rune fairly level for perhaps five miles or ¢o and is then stopped by a ridge of rocks of kopjes. After you croes the hills the same view is before you as behiad, the monoteny of the place being broken occasionally by the farms where you fiod a number of nice green trees and @ pond ef water and sma!) gars dens, about 10 «cree in all. The desert commences right at the end of the wire fence, for there are ue ploughed and har-« rowed fielas such a6 we see home.
We are scw having what a tradesman would call a choice selected tine of weathers and we get them al! ia one day, and wholesaie, too. First we have a tropical sun simost buraing the top off your head with eo antarctic breeze blow. lag at the same time; then we have ao dust ba'h or whirlwind of dust 80 heavy that you Wantto ston everything you own in order t» know it again ; then comes a regular old fashioned thunderstorm and rain in tor- rents. Small rivers start coming down the slopes and it looks as if everythiag would be swept away; and you think of Noan’s Ark. Whenthe rain cesses, as suddenly us it started, and the sun comes out again, we have the only comfurtable time of the whole day. At- night you will think you need about three dozen blankets and two or three overcoats to keep you warm. Justthe same,we are havinga coed time. We have just put on a pot of cocoa for tea. There are several places to buy things here but the prices are very high, two shillings a loaf for bread and other things in proportion. We had plum pudding canned,for our Christmas diaoner; it wus very good what there was of it. I hope te be hone to eat my next Christmas dinner and I guess I will enjoy it as well as araiden mother’s. cupboard. If we can get inte the Trans- vael we will have a goodtime I hope we will get there. The war seems to be going ov very slow to us here with no fighting going on,butl expect we will get enough of it before we reach home again. The ground here is covered with lizards but they are voly too gisd to keep out of our way.There arequite a number of s¢orpioss, taran- tulis asd other reptiles but we are not bothered with them. The negroes hang out principally within eaey reach of the railway statiens. They live in little mui huts which are invisible until you are almost upon them. Ail those whom we have seen are civilzed and can nearly all talk English. We have a great many of them employed on our transports, as they are excellent toule drivers. They get good wages.
Taisis Sucdsy morning. I did not post the letter yesterday as I had te leave it and go for the dinner as I was orderly. We bad church parade this morning at half- past six, about half hour service. There are (wo companies of the Queensland light Horse from Australia camped with us here, also two companies of the Corn- walls andone of the Munster cavalry Ea-~ glish regiments, about 1,609 of us all teld. Lam sending three small ostrich feavaere., I pulled them out of an estrich myself, 17i] get some big ones when I’m coming iome. [ trust you are well and not worried over your troubles and [ hose moth+r is well and happy, also the chil- dreo. Remember me to all and all isquir~ ing friends and those in church and Sun- day achoel.
I will be giad to hear from heme at al times. I suppose I will get three mails at owce judging by the way things are working now, and perhaps some of it Tehall never get. I shall be satisfied if T get any at all. I will close now. It is haid writing en the kind of flocr we have.
With bast wishes to every one.
Acrrep Ries.
Fatal Railway Accident
(Sreciat ro Tie Bxamiver},
MoyrrzeaL, Feb. 16.—Four people were killed by thecollision of two trains with the Canadian Pacific Quebec Express at the cressing near Three Rivers, yester- day.
Magineer Bellmoir was killed instantly and his wife died in the statien at Three Rivers asdid her brother, Charles Le- francois, while tae remainiag victim, a sister of Lafranceis, died as she was beiag taken tothe Three Rivers Hospital. All were residents of Monte Carmel.
E SURE that your blood is rick an pure, The best biood purifier,
| enricher and vitalizer is Hood’s Sarsa- parila. Be sure to GET HOOD’S.
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