Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1901 — FIGHT ALL DAY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FIGHT ALL DAY.

British Lose Heavily in Engagement with Botha’a Force*. A force of 1,500 Boers, commanded by Gen. Botha, made an attack, which lasted all day long, Sept. 20, on Portitala, on the border of Zulnland. The burghers

were finally repulsed, but at a lieaA’y cost to the garrison whose losses Avere an officer and eleven men killed and fh’e officers and thirty-eight men wounded. Ia addition, sixty-three men are missing, of Avhich number many are belieA’ed to have been killed or wounded. The Boer commandant, Oppermnn, and nineteen burghers are known to have been killed. . Tbe London Daily Express publishes a report that Lord Kitchener has asked for 25J)00 more seasoned mounted men and for rebels, traitors and murderers wit hoar., inference to the home government. A dispatch from Brussels says that the council of The Hague permanent court

of arbitration has unanimously decided that the question of assuming the initimti\’e in arbitration or Intervention in any form in regard to the South African war must be definitely abandoned.

GEN. LORD KITCHENER.

GEN. LOUIS BOTHA.