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E. ISLAND, MONDAY JANUARY

22, 1900

Advance.

WARREN HAS FORCED THE ENEMY BACK

find has Captured the Key of Their Position.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN C. A. HENSLEY.

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Some heavy fighting has taken place.—The fiank- ing movement expected to be a success.— Ground difficult but the advance steadily pro- ceeding.—Partial lists of the casualities—

SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS.

Lonpon Jan. 22.—Genaral Buller cables the War office as follows :—

Spearman's Camp, Jan. 21,9 p. m.,—

|General Warren has b2en engaged al! day

chiefly on his left which he has ewung forward a couple of miles,

“The ground is very dificult, aed a3 fighting is all the time up bill, it .s diffi- cult to say exactly how much we have gained. But I thiak we are making sub- stantial progress.”

THE ENEMY FORCED BACK.

SpeaRMAN’s Camp, Jan. 21, 930 a, m, Geaeral Warren’s engagement contioues, He has forced the enemy from thzee p)3i- tione. The Lancashire and lrish brigades are advancing steadily.

The fire is very severe occasionally.

Lonpon, Jan. 22,—The War office has received the follow'ng from General! Buller dated Spearman’s Camp, Jan. 21, a. m.:

“In order to relieve the pressure of General Warren and ascertain the strength of the enemy in their position in front of

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@ reconnaissance in force yesterday.

This kep: the enemy io their trenehes ie fal strength all day loag.

THE CASUALITIES.

Our casusltes were:— Third Roya! Rifi2s, 2 killed, 12 wauilsd aad 2 miss- ing.

The War Offise has yo ited this despatsh from (reneral Baller dated January 21, 10 a,

Tne following were wouadedin the action near Ventor’s Spruit yesterday:

Officers staff—Co!, B. Hamilton, und Major G@ MeGregor.

Second Lancashire Fusiliere—Captain R B Blunt and and 2nd Lieutenants M G Crofton and E J Bennet.

First Border Rifles—Capt C D Vaughan and 2ad Lientenant Muriors.

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First York and Lancashire—22d Lieut A H Kerrey.

Secend Dublia Fasiliers—Capt C A Hensley, (siuce dead) and Major P Eag- lish.

Second Gordoas—2ad Lieutenant P D S:ormont and 279 non-commissioned offi- cers and men.

FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Lonpoy, Jan. 21.—The Daily Tele- graph’s despatch, dated Spearman’s Cump, Saturday evening, says that the por tion of Genera! Baller’s force, which is under Commander Warren, has fought a deliberately planned aad [successful | battle.

This important engagement took place

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‘to the west of Spion Kop and has prac-~ | tically rerulted in our securing the rough table-land which constitutes the key ef the Boer position.

Soon after midday, the battle om the

Potgeitert’s drift, Geaeral Lyttleton made

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hills became furious, and from 3 o’cleck in the afternoon, the firing of both can- non and rifles was¢x'remely heavy.

Point after point of the enemy’s posi- tion was se ized by the British troops and eventually the Boer right broke aud was forced back toward Spion Kon.

Our force is bivouacking upon the ‘round they have capsured in to day’s tightiog. Our losses were trifling but the Boers suffered severely.

While Gencral Warren was fighting his engagement an effiectual demonstration was preceediog at Potgariter’s Drift the enemy’s positions mear there beiog shelled vigorousiy by the British batteries.

At the same time the guos of General Warren’s force were heard,

Four more Boer prisogert, who are slightly wounded bave been brought into camp making a total so far captured of twenty-three.

HART AND €LERY MOVE.

Spzarman’s Camp, Jan 21.—After ten hours continuous terrible fighting oo Sat~ urday. Geaersls Hart and Clery advanc- ed a thousand yards.

The Boers maintained an irregular fight during the night. But the British out- posts did not reply. This morniog at day- breok the Boers opened a stiff fire. The Britich replied vigorously.

A rumor that Ladyemith had been re- lieved reached the British, who eent up ringing cheers av this was taken for an alivance. The great kopj> was carried at the point of the bavonet andthe Boers re- treated to mext the Kopjz. The Britieh advanced speedily and the Boers relaxed slightly,

The latter did not show such tenacity as previouly. Appareatly the Boers were short of ammunitien.

DISHEARTENED BOERS.

Londen, Jan. 22.—A correspondent of The Times at Lorenze Marques telegraphe “TI learn from an absolutely unbiased ard trustworthy informant that the Boers in Natal are disheartened.”

CAPTAIN HENSLEY’S DEATH CON. FIRMED.

Harirax, Jan, 22.—Captain C. A. Hensley, of the Dublin Fusiliers, who was kitled in the battle near Venter’s Spruit, on Saturday, was a Halifax man. His father rreceived a eable from the War Office this morniag aanouncing his wounding and death,

P. E.Istanp Hospitau.—A meeting of the women interested in the P. E. Island Hospital will be held in the Y. M.C. A. parlor next Tuesday morning, Jenucry 23rd, at half past eleven o’clock. A large attendance is aesired. 3in.

Will the persom who fou: d the shopping hag some time ago pleare call at Tae Exam! NER Office,

The British Bravely Continue to

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LETTERS FROM SOUTH AFRICA

The Examiner’s Corres-'

A STUBBORN FIGHT JS RAGING.

flying together as thick as a snowsto-m. On eur way upto this piece we sew thousands of ostriches as well as wild- goats and other animals traversing the country.

Provisions are awfully dear. To give you an idea of how prohibitive the prices make luxuries for the Canadian Tommies I quote the ruling market prices in camp: Condeased milk, 50: per can, (the Char- lottetown factory should make us a dena» tion) ; lobsters, 50; a casa, and think of them eelling on the market square for 5c cach ; sardines, 40 cents a can. Bread you cannot get for love or money, and we cannot call up * telephone 98.” Don’t I wish we _ could. Everythizg else is twice the price that is charged athome. Whiekey can hardly be i obtained at all, but any that is procured costs the consumer about four dollars a bottle, and not many of us are breaking

pondent at Belmont

WRITES OF THE EXPERIENCES OF THE ISLANDERY.

The Sampaign a Fatiguing One. In-

teresting Details of Camp Life.

Royal Canadian Regiment, Camp Belmont, South Africa, December 16ib, 1899.

Well, here we are we “distinguished Islanders abroad”’—right in the thick of the fray, and a bard campaign :t is tura- ing out to be. Not that I allude to any actual fighting that we have todo but itis work, work, slmost never-snding fatigue from early merning. Notwithstanding thi-, the Prince Edward Ielaeders sre a! well aad wonderfully cheerful.

Most of us have brea over tbe bettle- field at this plece, where the Boers got euch a “cleaning-eut.” We saw inany of the dead bodies of our enemies that had only been talf-buried—the sight «f them was -ickening and I shall pever forget it. Nearly all of us picked up from the ground souvenirs of the fight, such as guos, watebes and evyerythipg imaginable,

‘The regiments we have been attached te—the Seaforth and Black Watch High-~ land-r regimeate—are cemposed of fiue fellows, brave men al! of them, who are ready to follow on the instant where many of their comrades have sl-eady gone tor- ward to death. Pleaty ef them, now io the ranks, bave been woua+ed in previous battles, some men in halfa d« zen places; it is wonderful how slight the wounds are in the the majoricy of cases. Nearly all of the men appear to have been Lit in the legs or ia the arms.

What 1 have seen on this trip to South Africa has been truly wosderful, avdif | co:se back alive [ will be able to tell yarns to no end. It is not possible to write at any length io present circum- stances, as everything is upside down here in this bustling camp, and we seem to have

no time to do anything. We are on the

move continually.

We have captured a number of Boers and a lot of Kaffirs when we have beer out on outpost duty. Our company was detsiled for thin work tbe other night, and I can tell you it is exeiting enougu for anvthing.

We have not as yet received any Cana~ dian mail and we are al’, »aturaily, un- easy at the lack cf news from home. If it be possible we are geing to telegraph home direct in the event of any of us being killed or wounded. Trere is no sickness worth mentioning among the Cavadians at present.

Since we arrived here we have 2x- perienced two of the severest rain storms [eversaw. I mever dreamed rain could fall as it did en those oecasions —every- thimg was simply fleeded. Flies are a terrible pest—their bites are fearful. Clouds of grasshoppers also pay us virils ; millions of them, I fancy taere must be

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We had very little time at"Cape Town to do anytking, and[ hai to leave my eamera behind me there, as [ could not | take it to the front ; anyway the heat here weuld spoil the films. We breught no- thing from the Cape be: what we really

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