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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1900-05-18, Page 5• r*. • • lerme"mealeee"^". KROONSTAD CAP URED. ROB RIF ENTRY. The Boers Fled Without Firing -a Shot. • CARRIED EVERYTHINGWITH THEM • Union Jeek 1-1i:dated Over the Town --..-Transvaalers and Free Staters Quarrel Steyn Fled to Lindley -Colonials Beaded Procession ---One Cnnediari, Killed anti Four Wounded--(leneral Buller Reported • Fighting in Natal ---The !Enemy Overwhelined by Rebuts' Flanklag jdovensent---Another of Steyn's Brothers CaPtured-Oerrnan Press Ibises Roberts! Tactics. •, • 'London., May •18. -The. War Office nublialme, else followingdespatch from Gen. Roberts, detain).* the entre bato Kroonsead • • • • • • 4eKro5neta,(1, May 12, 2 Ple.-X ea- tored Kroonstsia at 1.80 Without on- Positthe to -day, wilen the Union Jack was In:doted amidst Moen • from the • tete, British reeldents. e President Wean fledlast evening, ,after vainly endeavoring to persuade the. belrghees to. poutin,ue opposing us, • The eTranitaaalere slate they -veould no •• tenger tight on Orange Fre e• Stets: .o11, and made off for the •Vaal River. '4! The . •Free , Staters accused the Transvasilers of having made use of them end then, deserting. Mane of tee •Free Staters have gone to their - lion:tete • "The. procession entering the town was 'headed be me bodyguard, ail of . whew. were colonlals, After my staff e and „foreign. officers came elte North Somerse.t. Imperial' Yeemartr.y, foIlo- P11 by Pole.C•arew's division, consisting • of the Guards and the Eighteenth Bri- gade, N'avals„ the Eighty -tiara, efeeightynourtli and Eighteefittle Bat- ' laajtes, two live -idea guns, manned by -nee Botta' Artillery Company, and the Twelfth Lancers:: " The rase of the 'force encamped • . und the town.•• • ' • • ' • 4" Before. leaving . Kroonstad Prest- l . • ent Steen • issued a epreclaniation making Isixidese theeereat of• gement.-- - -meat. of tee "Free abets.' • • Generals •Botlitt. elude . et •ac- • • eompsiniea the Trstnevaalerse • Lietelity, which Mx. Steyn lies desig. •'- anted 'as ;the new 'seat of the 'Free eState Government, is between forty and • titv Miles mtea and • aligettly of • Kramstad. • • - . - . • • Cauadian Killetleeabrec • Wounded. Ottawa, May 18. -The Government has received a cablegram front Lieut. - Col: Otter, announcing that the • foie II:Toeing casualties in tite. Royal Cause aliens occurrect. on Thursday last • • KILLED: ' Pte.: F. G 'Floyd, '7th Vueltas; • London; • . • • \ • . . . • . WOUNDED. 'a • . • Pte. E. A:rnestrotig, R. C. A., Quebec. Pte.- G. W. Leonard, • -220 Oiciord . Rifles/. • . ' ••• • •Pte. A. • *Lead 80th' Date* - _ \ • . , • No information, is given' as .to the seriousness of the injuries to the Wounded. •_, ; • • eirell Londoe. Loudon, te May •18. ----George W. Floyd, age 28, was the son 'of .eVnt. Floyd, of the .Proof Line Read.- He Joined the '7tit• Fusiliers when the:regi- ment wee reorganized some time ago. ; lee eta& one of the firet to Volunteer . for 13 Company, of tile .first cooties - gent, and one of the first te he sic - Opted. Floyd was employed as driver for Masuree Be Co., whole:idle . grocers. . 'He was a aoueg.. man. of flee physique, and was prominent in • 'Christian movementa A false report • Of his death in the first engagement Ili ' whielt the Canadians tookpart was circulated some time ago,. Stanley Brown. Wounded. • Kroonstad, Orange Free Beate, May was 'wounded • in the fighting near Ventersburg on Thursday. The wound is net -serious. Private Floyd • was killed, and Privates 'Armstrong, • Leonard, - and MeLean wounded, in seine engagement -Stanley Meleeoven . Br.01W-11. • . • t • Roberts' •Triumphaee. London, May 10. -Lord Roberts cap- . tured Kroonstad, • the new Orange Tree State capita, Yeeterday, and thus practically ends the war lathe Tree febate.It alga practteallY Wittell out • of 'eels/tamer tbat Republic, for barring a few sesitteeed •comMaa- &els along the mountain rangers in , the northeast comma the • entire • Geeing* Free abate is new ender Brit. ioh rule, •• , The entry of Lord Rob " erts' array into the Free State stronghold wee like the agereh of a triumphant • con- queror, his oven. body guard lead- ing the proteesion. 011.0110h the streets Item which. the Free Staters. fled .iltize eatteg,.theepeevlous -slight- • . ,.„ There is also; competes/ion is Eng- land for these, thefirst conquered people.. Timer had no .quarrel of their eeen with England. They but took up the quarrel of their Transvaal brothers, and have had to bear the Orunt Of the fighting. • elunereds of thele btfrghers have been slain, and their country devastated and ruined by marching armies!. Finally, their national existence is ended. Roberta' campaign .has eortainTy been a Magnificent euecess, • proving 11111 Military genius!, And: t� -day he 00.11• have almost any honor England has to give. When he take e Pretoria Ito will halve the nation at his feet, and take 'rank with Wellington and Nelson as oree of the Country's great- est heroeti. • • Meantime the final etertmaign Is moving, like cleeksvork. Each army . in its ',et:Leiria marching on toward the final goal. Sall stereo Africa, from the eat to the west. the lbetish army extends-Roberte pierc- • ing the centre, Buller forcing hieleay through tile matinaten pewee from Nebel, Hunter berrying in desperate hasteto the relief of Mafeking, 'Whence he min turn and march due alit acreee the Transvaal toward Pretoria. lust ,as Roberts marched stertele tete Free; State from ley to Bloenifonteln. Destroyed the Stores. • „rounon, envy 14.-Tlie rated steel cais Of Gen. Rebertie Mitech 011 Bloetu- • eilatein and Kroonstad and the ilea. Of the 11001.s. not to defend the latter Nate, notwithstanding its stroesely-prepars; _positions, WWI eienere owing the great nuttier'. e 1 euperierity o the British seriny, total! Might have been the Street-eV:0 the Boer entrenehmente en the' Vasa River tend their (rental position, whleli wit8 • sea to ease been virtually linpregs able, they toilet itot beve tee:tiled • againit MI eileniy adeasteing in SO ek.. tensive a line es the British. Gen. Roberta' tremendous sweep and his flanking operations, which his huge • mounted force made possible, defeat - al the intentions of the • burghers, .whose positions were completely over- lapped, leaving them no option except to retreat or be encircled. Had the British generals in the earlier stages of the war been able to dispose of such Mounted troops as are at Gen. Reb- erts' commane, the story of the past few months would balm bestn far dif- ferent. The Boer commanders conduct- ing the rear guaree action in the dieee- tem of ICroonstad realized this intime to prevent a disaster. They promptly cleclded o evacuate Kroonstad, an this they did, so far as can be ;weer - tabled, in an orderly fashion, securing all their guns and .a large cenvoy of railway stock, beside deetroelhg ,quan- tales bt stores which they were enable to remove. This latter included several thousand pounds' worth' of mealiest and general 'provisions. With the ex- ception of the engine shed, pumps, and tank, thee-a/00M to -have eat nothing In thetown that he valuable to the Britieh, and that these remain was . owing to the failure Of two attempte. to wreck the main Wage acmes the Valsch River, which made :the final exit of the 'Boers sonsehwat hurried. A small bridge close to the town was lett intact.' Major Weston, of the Engineers!, and Scout Burnham; tried to repeat the •Iine cutting which secured the roll- ing etock , at Bloemfontein for the - British, but in this ease they were too late, and the Boers thus 'saved seven engbses and several trains, ono - of which contained 8200;000, in specie. An immense quantity Of stores was carried off. There are no very reliable 'particu- lars concerning; the nureber of Boers. who, quitted Kroonstad, but they are desterlbed -as being several thee:Maid. One correspondent places the num- ber at 10,000, andsays ehat a feat of the residents accompanied tbe fighting force.. The Landdrost went with obvious reluctance to meet gen. Roberts, who waited outside the town while the head of the column. passed, in. He led the Guards' Bri- gade in. When be arrived the band of the Scots Guards played the National Anthem in the market place, while' the Union leek was hoisted by Mrs, , Lockheed, an American, who is the wife of a•Scotchman. About five hundred. Tree State Boers surrendered their rifles. •, Bennet Burleigh, the correcrondent of the Daily Telegraph, Bays: "Moot • of the jtorses of the Boers are in a wretched condition but President Kruger declares he will continue the war. It appears thee the Boers at Kroonstad • bad been reinforced by 13,000 men from Natal last Friday, and that altogether 10,000 men, witb 20 guns, trekked from Kroon- stad on the approach en Lord Rob- . erts, The Boers. made. an ineffectaal stand at Boschrand and had elab- orate entrenchments in front of Beroonstade when offered ..trent tau, • fifties (Or a rear guare tuition. Their only anxiety, boWever. appeare to ,have been to get away safely with - alt their gene and convoys, whidle again they have successfully accent - plaited. The few stores they were unable to carry •ativay they burned. over. All the primonere here agree that the quarrel between the rive altaters aril the Trestle/eaten lit so • acute that the Tranevasilere have de - aided to leave their allies, whore thee °wear of vowel:dice end leek ot patri- • tbtilttige e • t11114rarzelgactfestinarg the Vaal Over, the Boers tvill retreat to Pretoria, but there appears to be a growing dietruet in the Transvaal • GovernMent. In n, word, the back of thee Boer reelethece seemo to have been broken. Bergliere are fighting without' thelr previous etebborness. • nee' eeem ready teiretreat on the sligirteet pretext. The Preenters, even the Transvase ere, ,appeer glad to levee been eale tercel. !pay say_ they are stick of it war ^.winali. ,ean WOO may one mu. eeveral have exclainted ; "We ltave lest our Ili:arty, but Ivey should we Mee our, lives" • • Prepliring to Vice. • Loudon, May' 14.. --The Tilnee eekre- eleattleat at Krooneted gays it is re- ported that President Kruger tent remove to I,..yclenburg as soon. tes PreSi- (lent leteyee joins him. . Surprise in Germany. " Berlin, May 13. -The occupation of Kr:iota:tad by Lord Roberto without resistance bag caused the greate.st aur - arise here. The military- expert of the Loita)e:Anzeiger finds an •explanation in the fact that many of the Been have deserted. . He says: Lord Roberts' advance was splen- didly executed. It is worthy to be placed beside the Kandahar expedi- tion. •The eituatIon is now changed so greatly ine-favor of • the Britisb that the fate of the Transvaal Boers is settled. Fresident Stones movement eaetward 15 interpret:se as .confirneing the rumors of bickerings between. the, Transvaalers and the Free Staters." Claimed to be a. -Joernallet, /3randfora, May 11. -Among the prisoners of 'tile Foreign. Legion ..ca.p. turect during the fighting at the eland River was a German named Tricktuan, from Erfurt. He claimed to be a Jour- nalist, but was found 'hiding in the cactus bushes evitif•e, elite tn Ills hand. More Prisoiters.at St, Helmut-, • Jamestown,. Staelelena, May 13. - Two hundred additional Boer prison - era arrived here yesterday Minting. • . •••7•`--"-' • • . Is Miller Fighting? Loewe, May 14.-Peesiatent ru- mois come" from Durban that. heavy , fighting hastaken place on Buller's front: SeAtulberdadyCralltttr.421.. bIt fort•he ..11431..t.11 One Durban correspondent reports thee -art -Leal there Saturday of more than. 0 hundred 'wounded' troops. •The censo• mita> eontinues • most etringessie and it is 1.mpowible to es- • timate the•vaine of the rePartse. ' • : • Cause of .Johiennesitura.,Isixelosion, • •Loisdoe, May 18.e. A clesealteh from Lorenzo Marquez 'says positive evi., deuce talc been .obtained that,the elt••• plosion in the 'Begbie engineering works at Johamtesbueg was due to the awoken/mess of • ,inexperte work- men. • • .• --,- • . eadybrand tiocre Alarmed. „ London. May .11. -The Boers who have •been holding Ladybrand and the country in that nesghborhood are re- ported to have: taken alarm. and are eitactratirtg their for:titled hill. pest - tons andare retreating to Liud'ay.. the new Tree State capital, • General Renate holds Thaba Nchu strongly, and lies a continuous line of troops thirty mete east of that town. . A party of Brabant's Horse have occupied the Lienw River mete with- out•Opposttion, and captured an enor- mous stock of -grain. Four. hundred Boers evho attempted to , save this grain retreated towards Clocolan. - The prospect of the burghers glie Ing trouble in this neighborhood seems at tee moment greater than near the Breath headquarters. They 'are very mobile . and thoroughly. know the country, which favors their methods. .Their chief concentration is, -perhaps, • broken up, but separate commandoes are moving withoub transport, ready to strike any areak.point in the British Itnes. • ------ •• S. Interrelation. • Berlin, May 18: -Discussing the sit - ea on on Saturday before tite an- nouncement ot the occupation of lerooustad, the Kreuz Zeitung, in an inspired sertiele, discusees the Boer 41188'00 to ,Amerlea, saying it con elders American intervention, proba- ble. and advisee Britain to accept it and finish 'the War if Britain wishes to •retain United States friendship. Roberts, entry Into Kroonstad. - London, May 14. -The Times has the following special to -day: "Crepitated, • May 12. -Lord Rob- erts' official entry was an impressive ceremony. The Field Martha' Ilind his staff rode in at the head of General Pole-Carew's division, and took their stand at the Market Square, where the *whole of the infantry and artil- lery filed past. As Lord Roberts took his position a Union Sack was float ed over the • Court House. The ash ambled -crowd cheered vociferously; only these who hn,d been recently dlearmed stood aloof, evidently vastly inspreseed. Tee infantry had mareeett 17 miles', yet, .withe-the doubtful 'exception of the 'British an try into 'Ladysmith, no *vette so im- pressive has been witnessed during the war. The Guards, swinging past to the accompaniment of drunte and seemed - vaetiyproud of • this fulfilment of Lord Roberts' promise to mareh' at their „bead into the next capital occupied; The LandrOst sent n. deputy to Lord Roberts, who refused to allow hira to surrender the town exeept in person. Prom the burghers began surrendering their nwseoamponents. the entry was made the Staters Captured. Brand's Drift, May 12. -An extend- ed reconnaissance yesterday from Ropuis Pep along the ridge behind Ilstepeirok showed that the Boore had retired. The natives reported that they had taken up a position u,t Korannebek, but the latest ilittrie08 Indicate that the enemy, alarmed at Lord Roberts' progrees, Is joining the main body north. Over 50 area od prlsoni,rs have been taken by out :stouter, Inetuding another of Mr. Steanet brothers. All tite commandos are rqtreeting On Lindley. Enormous stocks/ of Free State Government grain were captured at Lame River • Boers tlitlite of eeritelte,. ' . London, May 14. -The Times has the folloWingspecial. to -day : Lorenzo Marquez, May 18: Rumors are current here that the Transvaal Read, in secret seasion, resolved te order ail resident, irreOpective of nationality, to midst in the defence of the Republic, according to the terms of the amended military law. Park, Neale and Berry, three British subjeete, who were arreeted when the Boers re-entered Ladybrand, and afterwards reloaded, have arriv- ed here. They were shockingly treated by their captors, who not only threatened to shoot them but Slogged them so severely that the ,Boor Generals elopelees. . London, May 14. -The correspond - ante at Xeroonstad with Geo. Roberts send the most positive aseurances concerning tile demonslizatton of the Free State Dom. One ascribes to Gen- erals Botha, and De Wet. the asser- tion that they are hopease of ever getting the burghers to face the British again. All are convinced that there will be no further fighting 'eolith of the Vaal River, and some doubt that a stand will even be made there. They say that very few Free State Boers went north with the Trams- Vat:tiers. A majority of theirs dispersed and are now trying to reach _their homes unobeereed. There seams to be an inclination in tee Britisit• camp . to predict the speedy end of the war. 00 VS0 other hand, President Steyn, who is vari- ously bellevee to have gone to Pre. torka, Lindley and Helibron, Is repre- sented as determined to pentium tite struggle, oven if he treks with the Treasvasiliers to Limo's° River, tio, northern beundare er-the South Al- riea,n Republic. . Om or two of the correspondents say that President Steyn, after tear. fully appealing to his countrymen at Kroonotad not to retreat, resorted to force, idjamboktrig and kicking in. &Victuals who refused to cornOlY. These and simitnee stories emanate from residents/ of the town. • All Must tight.• • London, May 14.-A despatch from Lerma° Marquee says it fa rumored there that the Tranevaal Volkeratid, at a secret Hesston, resolved to or- der all residents, irrespective of ea- tionality, to assist In the defence of the republic, Line Cut Too Late. Kroonstad, Oraeige Tree State, May 12. -The arrival of Lord Roberts was hailed with entitle/lam by all the. in- habitants. Three hundred Free Seat - era . were anxious to surrender. The bridge to the math had not been dee • titroyed, but the large 'hedge near the town had been demolished. tehe Irish brIgade with the eatierais Yeeterday burned tho frelethteshed. AO- -cording SO the tewnepeopla many of ,them were. drunk. = The Beers are new trekking to the • Vaal laver, where they are eneamped. General Prom% encamped northestet of the town, and Idespaeclied a force to cut the ifise. The project succeed- ed kite at • night, but, untottetatele, after the departure of the loot 'traits. Althovigh tho trootee heal inarelted 16 mike, theywere lit excellent •form ott entering the town. Many arrests have been nettle, ehiefly nI these who hail realigned tho > British It wits found that Many persons!, bee° been deported from Ladybrand for ,nitra•. Sympathy with the Britieli. Draildent Steyn has grme to Lindley., kite new neat of the Mee State Gov- ernment. A number of the burghers are trekking homeward. The oppo- sition in the. Prets State le practically bruises it'll remain ou their Willie ; The retinas* expulsion of women and children Is giving riee to pitible sight*, a* .Tolianneeburg and here. The 13oor officiAte were placed in a dilemma, by the rattail of hundreds of women to quit their Mimeo. A irt"If tfgut rtn only n. 0 W dragged s bedside in the hoppital, handeuff.'• sod placed on a train, his request i be allowed to weapon° hie doper- ' are for a tangle day being refugee. Siegetobe Raise4 • London; 12. ---The despatch Irene •• steattered bodied, they say, will pow. eibly Itold Out bore anti there for memo time. At this same time a des- patch from Cape lioivar -dated to• Rani n proclamation Will be :publiebed this sveels annexing the Or- • aeonge Fred' !tete; poo r It ssettsald trott lei:. Bort t„ titre:item to resiga 11 any prepare - Hone are made for the wanton de- etructiou or property. ° Mr. Cecil Rhodes starts for Beira, nortuguesse Enet Africa to -day. To Repudiate davls. Tee correspondent of the Reuter the correspondent at Pretoria, briugs •F:thetirilotonsgetii-nb:azketi-for informatiou that a the relief of efafeleing vvhen the dos - patch column 1.8 moving rapiclly to t,r4eilteed tobratttivetowinv le n014 expecte(' that the siege will be raieed by. Monday or Tuesday. "" This despatch will he received with 10503 and the most ardent hope tierceigbout the entire land. thAoll&s"pcierteinihr isrtntlipattletetrif esQlsnitarnsitliseatInigil has :taken place in the Kelpinsectiar Pees. This hada to the assumption that Gen. Buller bas commencer lag/ aciTvncitae•Le'orenzo Marquez correspondent of the Daily Mail, in a, tlespateb :dated Pricier, May lith, says "'P110 Boer papers report severe' fighting on the Western border. The facts: are very much confused, probably by design, to conceal the truth from the burghers, but there is enough to eleew that the Boero admit a British occupation of Taungs." Taungs Is 40 miles soutb of Vryburg. A. epeciat despatch from. Christiana, Transvaal, Published Wednesday by the Standard and Diggers' News, says: "Six hundred British cavalry crossed the Vaal Friday at Kaluberg, about eighteen ranee below Fourteen Streams, and went to Taunge, follow- ed by commandoes. _ A second detach- ment of the. British crossed at the. same place Saturday. The Griqua - 'antlers, under Gen. Asivegen, after being reinforced, repulsed the British and forced them back in thedireetion of .Taungs. Gen. Aswegen was killed. The other Boer casualties were seven 'wounded. The British lose yeas heavy. tie.Esierfataliginergs.weaxsce,ptat,wt brought aseeiltsfrioatint to attract the enemy's shells. Taungs is occupied by about 8,000 riritishe • A epecial 'telegram from .Pretoria. dated Monday, in the same paper, records: the British seiaure of Four. teen Streams, Sunday afternoon.It says,: "The British force at Wileand was l• overwhelming. Subsequently, the enemy moved their line toward our posltions, bombarding them With such effectthat the burgher* were 'compelled to retreb,t; which they did Iii regular • (t.rder: To -day a. forward move of the -British was checked by Our forces, who • drove them back in two places.' e •_ • A• telegram from Piatorla, dated . Tuesday, Iii the Standard and Dig gars' News, says "Tho Britrsh, 111 their passage along thee Stelittland border toward' erafekiug, .weee en- gaged by Commandant Bissell, neer Taungs,with great _success. ELM- • drede ofeBiltigh troopers; met a Wat- ery graft while aitedepting to erose the Vaal. A second advanee was ranee upon Ta.uegs, by, 73000 Britisb troops and 14 guns., Communication with Taunge was cut Sunday 'after. • noon." • . . Pretoria, Salt Hopeful. . Pretoria, -via Lorenz.) Marques, MAY ,le. -Tee• federal forces are rapicliy concentrating, • and a magnificently stubborn resieten.ee south of the Vaal River ls certain. • • • • ,o.APrixerooiciengtnt a:Sate, eaiff_t-ererarivivedeey,segtheer.a(1, fighting, All Appeal for Matching. • London, May 12 -Lady Georgiana Curzon has Wetted an urgent appeal, for 'tells. for Mafeking She says: "Nothing but absolute knowledge of the suffer- ings of the people ot Mafeking prompts. ,ate to inaugurate another_ fund ; but the h'etirtrendleg accounts received from my sister, Lady Sar,all meet be •my excuse.". • • Telegram • Company at Cape Town says the Anserican residento aro tak- ing step e to repudiate the statements et Mr. Websiter Davis, the former IL • Gatitcre in England. • London, May 12, -Gee. aataere has arrived from South Africa, les cons- oinfgabenyingkinintrked b. y..no desnonstration • A despatch received here to -day froin Cape Town says. that Gen. Sir Charles Warren hesbeen gazetted military governor of Cape Colony, north of the Orange River, with the exception of Kimberley. . Plate for Ceonjc. ' 'efoscow, May 11.-A subscription has been started here to purehase- a, large piece of plateto be sent to General Crones, the Boer commander, whois now a prisoner of the British at et. Helena, as a token of sympa- thy. It is hoped that 80,000 roubles ($22,500) will .be subscribed. , London, May 14.-A despatch • re- ceiveci by the Associated Preps from Pietermaritzburg, Natal, timed 12.05 ti. M. to -day, brings the first liveliest - then of emcees attsened by Gen. Buller In northern Natal, The sender of this despatch evidently assumes that news of the affair has been received direet from the scene of hostilities; for he merely Says: • "Gen. Buller's .official telegram notifying his sueeess at the BIggarsberg, received here° an hour age, tins given keen satisfaction," Xt Is confidently anticipated thee Dun- dee will be occupied by the British to- day. The redden:a of the north cone- ereenre delighted; as .forcing' the. Big- garstterg means that they will' speed- ily be enabled to • retuni • to thelr hoines. • Boers. Laid Not Walt. At about the time this message was Eiled arrived .another deopateh to ti.e Associated Press, dated Stonehill 'Farm, 8.20 this morning. It nays ; "After four days' marcbing eastwards at the foot of the Biggarsiberg ridges, in the direeton of Ilelpsnakaar, wbieh Was oecupled by the fetter:tie, the sec- ond brigade on tatintlay led the attotek. Dundonald's ea,Varry broke the Boer centre .and Bethune's Horse, advanced on their extreme right. In the direee • o o 'oineroy a, ernall parby 0 b0rgher8 occupied a ridge overlooking Ifelinnarittar, but they did not wait for the assault" Aetive. Recent British neouting in the de realm oa Dundee. hail shown that the fedetatvere in greab fere° on the Inggarsberg.So, apparently, Gen. Buller conelieled that It was necessary to dear them • from his rear before commericing a movement in the -direction of tbe Drakeneberg range. If that is MS plan he tuts poesibly divided bis • totem!, sending one column en/Award to threaten Vryhtid and Etrecht and take Laing Nek in the rear while a "net bound colurrni atterepte to form a junction With the ferrets of Lord Roberts via the liarrisenitbi Railroad. • Keeping. in Touch, TolegraMS (tom Krainetad indicate that Gete French's cavalry 18 keeping In touch with the Boers. But perhape Lord Itobertet will be compelled tome der a brief halt of ids main body in order to allow the troops to map/or- ate after their matches of the past week, Split In 10-Remy's Torres. All the correspondents agate that to all ittenta and purpotita the Tree Staters Intve layered their militlry alliaitel with the Transvaal, though t„,Aterrotrebensvria. oigr News from Mafeking is eXPecreo speedily. 'Ti10, War Office is reported to have expressed the opinion that newe of raising the Mege of that place may be expected by Wednesday. ItepeirIng Railways, leroonetad, May 12. - President Steynhag gone to Heilbron, not adnelley- He has declared the roman the new capital. Four hundred bur- ghers eave given up their arise aere, and in this neighbothooce Although the bridge across the Valet* has been destroyed, a good deviation ex- ists where the road ran before the bridge was constructed. • The Transvaalers are reported to be massing at the Veal. The Standard and Diggers' News of Johannesburg meows that Mewl, stone exiet in the Transvaal Volk - read. . Railway repairs • are progressing rapidly. Tho town necepte the oe. eupation quietly. • , She Tolled Keichenere New York, May 14-A bateli of correspondence from the London 01- ( fice of • the Associated Press con- tains the following: "While Lord Kitehener was engaged in . suppreea ing the Preisicaerebellioe he ordered the destruction or a .certain farm house. Not geeing any signs of ids orders being carried out, he.' rode ever with his staff, and found an interesting situation. In the door- way of the farm stood a pretty young Dutch girl, .her 'hands. clasp- ing the door poste and her eyes • flashing fire from beneath her sun- ' bonnet. • • • • •• "The' Irish Sergeant in charge Of the party of des/tinsel:Ion was vainly endeavoring to persuade her to let them P003 tn, but to all hid bleadiele enents "Arra.h« daellat ; wisha now. acushla V. the maiden turrLed' a 'deaf ear, aite a deedkreeketrevalime Lore leitchener's shierp ''What'e these" put a climax to the &eerie. The girl evidently, guessed that this was. the dreacied chief .61 . staff, add her lip': .trembled in spite of herself, . • • "Kitchener gazed sternly at her, eta ncleng bravely, though tee,rfulls; thera, -and tamed to lee military Ser. rotary and said : "Put down that 'the commander's orders with refer - mice to the destruction of Rightmana fairn could not be carried out, ow- ing to imexpected opposition.' . For- ward, mea." Tiesis 'melted •for be C. A. Me. Nuellai, an • englneer recently return. ed from. Johannesburg. ' • • London,' May 15.--liedie Gen. Rob- erts Is Apparently ;halting at _Kyoort- eted to repair the railway. and bring up him transport, the °Mee interest in the Baste. Afriean campaign once More centres hi Natal. There is as yet no official now of. Gen. •Buller'e move, width . began Thursday, and according to severalcorrespondents, was admirably carried but, and com- pletely successful. The unofficial re- ports are meagre and do not enable a reliable estimate tobe made of ' the streugth of the Boers in the Biggatta berg:range. Apparently, 'however; a determined stand by• a concentrated force wag not intended, staid the com- paratively slight opposition to ehe' British , hitherto :reported indicatee that the fighting was a rear 'euare defence, covering the Boor retreat, which some reports Bay began early twit week. The latest despatch received is •from teemp'sefarm, having beentont from here, at 6.15 p.m. Monday. • It says tita,t the Boma have evacuated. HMO'. makaar, and that Gen. Dundonald is pursuiug themeto Bleskoplaagte, seven miles from Dundee, where they were making a stand at the time the de- spatch was sent. It is assumed here that the movement aims, after clear - leg the Biggarsbere, to secure Van 'Beene/fa and the other passes. In the Dra,kencherg, thus en.abling 'a junction with -Gen. Roberts. ' • • There Is little news • from other Mame. The British operations in the Free State east of the -railway are not reported. A despatch sent from Kroonstad on Sunday represents the Eleirrismielt Boer commando as retir- ing from Bethlehem, and others from Vrede and Frankfort, all .concentrat. ing at Heilbron. Poem foraging parties beve lately •beert reported west of Kroonstad. It I e now 'stated that they have with- drawn across the Vaal Rteer to op. pose Gen. Hunter. Butler's Bold Moverneet. London, May 15. -General turning of the Bigtraysberg position was effectee by a bold movement. Tem Boers: had evacuated eleipma.kaar, but Weie oinking a stand Monday evening* • at- --Bilskoplangbeaeoevele miles from Dundee. Tee correspom dente on the spob regarded this as 4 rearguard action intended to cover the retreatl of the army. At the seine time, General laildyard took Deloba, and reported that- the Boers withdrew in disorder. General Bulier, eise seems to be em- ploying his full strength, is eXpeeted to push on. Ilia first marches were 45 miles in three dem He is thus brenkinglato British territory, width had been administered for sixmenthe bet Transvaalere tie though it 'were pate of the Itepublie, they holding courts and levying ttxXes. His sue - cease theretore, has political as sv'ell ns military consequences. 'While Lord Roberta' infantry are concentrating at Kroonstad, witero they will rest for a day or two, his horsemen have pene- trated 18 miles northward. Two hum dred Boers Who had hidden its the river jungles neer Kroonstad to ea:tape service have surrendered to the Batelle and taken. the Oath of al- iegianee., Tito Boers are deecribel ste quite dieorganized and as retreating northward. President Steysta lieu. tenants are trying to rally them. The game stOties of dieintegratIon come from nearly every point Where the English correspondents are. Mr. Ilellawell, formeriy a entree, pendent at efeteeking, who was put over the 'Transvaal border, tele- grephing from Lorene() efartitiez. Sunday, says: "Judging Heim talks have had with the Boere• tile end tef the war Wii1.00/00 itl it Month or sli weeks. Mr. .ateynektoup, member of the :aeon() read, meta traVelled With MO.- love that if the burghers were premed frons Pretoria they would retire to tee dietrict of the leydelsburg mountain* which had al- ready been provIslona Ile remarked that he hoped the burghers would stand firm, btit he feared they wore too broken in spirit. I gathered from hint CM the whole available force ot Tranevaalers was now in the 1ield. . t 1. • . Nt• e eaa.a.eadeetA • nit se the final commandeering having ten en place hot TaUreday, and that it's only the powerful magnetism of Prewident Kruger that iseepo the burietero together." says:• "The 01141117 40Y saalsaar Nek durieg ithe t lag a rear pier. srf. Men in trent Of us, W. ver forced back throughout the day une der considerable difficultlea 411 they fired all the grata on top of the teurtarliar iltrette"(1 a" VI: wlnd b uf jo no, , were scarcely able to 1100 at AM halted the infantry, who marched very well through. the hot smoke at 11 sliettle The ettenary have not report- edyet, but are some tones Memel. We have taken a few prisoners!. Our case-. elttel tire Small." Twelayetive Hate a Doe. ' A third elespatelt, 'dated front ieemp's farm. Mae 15th, toys: • 'Dun- donald reported lite Mot evening that he bed (trivet) the rear guard on, to the assain body of the enemy, near Burnlinder, where thee' held itt force it strong position with three power-, ful gun:4.'31:4er Gough, with the 00M- ° posit° regiment, manoeuvred to the right round their left Hank, and they rettred. Bondi:maid then baited, eletwele% twenty-five miles; as the enter efiles from hiesprevioue night's bite:mac, and Ita,d covered nearly forte miles -dur- ing the day in a waterless country, most of the time rillug through - smoke. I think his pursuit a eeeer fine performance. From prisoners 1 learn" that the enemy numbered over 2,000 at Hellenakaar, and being now ectined • by those wh (deft Van aonder's passe , they meet total nearly 8,000 men. " We MOV0 on Dundee today. Illitlyard reports" the oceupatton Of WesseW Nek, and is repairing the line." Judging from the above despatches the British edvanest is little 'Mtge than an onerous! ,nwerch. The Boers, who were active a,t first appear later to have ehown the same rea,d1-* roe to retreat which is now mark. Mg the moveneente'of the Federaisen the. Free State. Apparently the burgbe • ers are about to, evacuate Nate" ,atal eoneeatrate for the defence et Nek northward and .Van Rea- • ' nen'a Pass westward. • The ie-occuoation of Dundee by the Britiehplace e the coal ' mippliee there agate in their. hands. • From eleewhere there is little' news of a definite eharacter. Iutereot for the moment is almost entirely -cen- tered Ln Mafektng, whence the wife of the Mayor ,to -day received a cable, gram setting forth all was well sm May Stli. -. -- Kruger Seeks More Trouble; • Beer Women Volunteer. • qu I o 450 a teltd;v114e4'4 L°r4ITIVg women heel patentee It wax resolved to ask the Government for ciente and ammunition anti to ouggeet that they (10 the work of the mete officiate in the town, who, they declared, "ought to be tighting at the front.' The reeolus IMO was careled Unanhnousite The Volketem aseerte that the Brit- ieh prisoners in the hands of the Been tviii rivet feel the effects; of tho em- bargo placed on tinned smote and clothing destined for the Transvaal at Delagoa Bay. Latest Front Necking., Phintera Vamp, bay 4, via Goan, May 7.-Nattvela who have arrived here &ay that the beafeertimeat of 'elareleng mt May lot was not lumay. Twelve Modred and eighty reillge01$ from efafeklug have reached here. Patrols who have returned from the northern borders of the Trans - veal say they saw no segue of Boers. All is quiet here. Tho Deere regularly patrol the magleborlaocre of Matelang but do not went to be disposed to be aggro/dire ' Hoer Forces Concentrating. Kroonstad, May .14. -It .14, reported teat the whole of the Boer forces are concetitaating on: -tine Vaal and •with- drawing from the Biggarsberg and the gouthwestern borers.• It is com- puted that not more than 2,000 Free etaters will tight on the Vaal. • Railway communica,thene with, • tha place are expeeted to ,be open on Thursday. The transport is working smoothly, the troops one horses are rateene, water is plena...- Aileen:1 the health of the troops is ex- cellent. • • • • With:Gen. Buller. • • London, May 15:7. Bulleravarmy line •been in motion since Teursday, and le; oue,ceeded in turning the Boer Posta° s on the Biggarsberg rouge• (118 three divisions have bon .eneamP- ed, since the relief of Ladysmith, east, West and south of the seenittoi the pro- longed' siege, with °aware scouts at Acton' Homes, on one flank, and at • Weasel's Nek, beyond Elands •Laligte, • on the other, and with reserves at Pieters and Coleus(); The Boers have held. the Eiggarsberg range, or . a series Of mountain spera,•running from Tintwa Pass towards Ileipmakaar. These sputa were over 4,009 feet ae • the highest points, and the defensive eueeittorts seleeted by the Boers served the doable purpose of bioulertg the British advanee northward toward Glencoe a•tirl Lainge-Nek, and prevent- ing the passage of the Buffalo River at Rorke's Drife and the invaeleu 01 the Vreaelii dietriet of the Trausvaril • W ic ft is True ? London.' May 15. -e -A. special de- spatell from' Lorenzo 'Marquez gays It is reported that a large force of Boers: bad- been captured by the British at Mafeking. • • Pretorie, itis added, reports on the other hand that Ma,feking bas • 'ellen. _ . 'Losses of May 10. London, May 14, 13412 p. w. -Tho War (Moe has received the following despatch from Lord Roberts:. Kroon- seed,. May 18. -There were more casu- alties in the cavalry division May 10th than repotted by'nee, X •haVer been un- able to get an exact account of what occurred, as the commanding officer, Captain Elswortiry, was • killed, and tNTO officers were. •Wounded at the same time and have been sent to the rear. But it would appear that a party of our men going up to a kraal on vehicle a white flag WON 1.1Y111g was puddealy attacked by a large number of the -enemy. Two Wirers, Captain Haig, of .the Sixth Dragoons, and Lieu- tenant, Wilkinson, of the Au/Arenas' 11-014enrWere made prisoners, and 21 mete sere still unaccounted for. Home of them may. have turned up, as the cav- airy covered a considerable distance' May 10th, anti meu reported missing have been rejoining during the last •few daps." ( The above' despateb refers to the losses eustainmeby the Inriekillinge on May lOtit, as detailed in the de- spatches �f -the Aosociated Pres*: Sat- urday Met. The troopers were flied On while unsaddling their horses, 'having approached• the kraal ensue Iciousi, sthilo a white flag was flying from it. '• BUilerqi 'Work. London, May 14.-X special despatch 'from Stonehill Farm, Natal, dated to- day, sae: "General Buller's advance commenced Thursday, when ite left Ladysmith in strength. When within two miles of lIelpmakaar the Boers opened a heavy artillery fire, and the British guns replied, while a portion of Beller's troops worked round the Boer flank. The British attack Was pressed home on Sunday. Bethune, on the right, outflanked the Po.. rs, whom splendid defensive poeitions on the Biggarsberg wercapeactically taken. . 'General Buller's march, subsequent to the attack, was carried out with - oat a 'hitch. "The British are still pushing one" ' ASS Inquiry About Matelane, London, bitty 14. -The Parliament- ary Secrete*. of ,the War Office, Mr. George 'Wyndham, in the Homo of Common�. to -day declined to divulge °Load 'Itolieetseplesis for the relief of Malekinge but added significantly that hie hoped they Would shortly be aceompligned. London; May 16. -The War Office to -day furnished confirmation of the Associated Press etory of yesterday Ulling.of General Beller'e move on tlie Inggaraberg. It Ls a. despatch from Oen. Duller, as follows: "Kerap's Farm, ,MaSe 15. -The following tee - grains sent to Roberts are now re- peated to you. They begin under date of Ma;v lath ; "In accordance with inetructiona to keep the enemy occu- pied at the Biggarsberg, on May llth I coneentrated tho third cavalry brl- gndu' of the second dlirlsion and some eOrpe of artillery at Suhda'y's Meer Drift, on the Helpmate/lirroad, and dieeeted Colonel Bethune to advance on Greytown with the Betlittne Infantry, Ilte TJmvoUin 1 th !Imperial Light ledentry. The Advance. "On lfay 1.211i we moved to Wasch- bank and Bethune to 1'omer0y, While Gen. Ifildyard, from Elands' Laagte, orkupled lndoda mountains. On May latis 1 sent Gent elaintitoe with three battalions up the stoop slope of With- oek hill. The third cavalry brigade erowdee a hill on esteh Elide of the man road, and Bethune attacked by the l'omeroy road froirt three sieve. The enemy iturriedlY abandoned the pest- tionovitieh they had etrotigHt este trenched, and retired to the Nek in front ed Ifehtmakaar, Witenesewo lense to 0141odge them to-morroW, as many of thein have retired, 'We have gained tbe Menet of the berg vvitit the 1060 of only a few men wounded. "/ *lawmen to-tnerrow on lielth, and Illidyard 010V08 011 Weemels Nek. Our small low, I think1 was ens,- tainly duo to the excellent • troop leading of Generale /Iarnliton and Lord Du:Womb:I and Col. Bethune." Boer* Piro the Grass. • A. wood despateb, anted Un,y 14th, • Lisbon, May 15. -It asf rumored here to -day that Preeldent ,Krfiger, has ordered the Portuguese Consul to leave the Transvaal Republic. RoPort of Matektmes ReUeI aondon, May 15. ---The eager expec- tatien for notes. of the relief of Mare - king has mot yet been gratified. A •despatch frons Cape. Town • asserts that it is believed there that the re-, laving force arrived at Mafeking 811.47, clay, but the slowness of communica- • tion by way of Buiuwayo precludes the. receipt of •news before Wednesday..• ' 1 Tile latest direct news from -the be- eleged town, comes by way :of Prete- • xts', to the effect that the Boereat- tavk�d the piece on Saturday ruotning with a heavy 'rifle and artillery fire. The Kaffir location was in flames' within an hour and was totally de- • geroyed. •' Kruger Consults it Seer. London, May •15. -The Times' cere respondent at Lorenzo Marquez !aye that Presiderit Kruger has been et:M- oulting a• youthful Dutch eeer'who prophesied the restoration of 'peace. by lune 14th, and the president's • death three months later... . The President and the burghers • are tulle convinced that the predic- tions are accurate. • • • • To Sue for Peace. Loudon, May 15. -According to' a despatch from Bennet Burleigh to . the Daily Telegraph, dated- May 10, - Paul Bothe aiid McDonald, members • of the Free State Volksiaad, demand- ed that the chairman should cairn, . • meeting to sue for peace, as further resistance wag suicidal and prpposed to make President Steen a peliainese • Testititon-y-Waitebels- . Kimberley, May 14. -The ' thirty. three alleged rebels arrested alWar- .rentoll were further examinee to- day. .t • - The chief, witness*, was the Reale(' r. Perot!, the Dutch Church minieter: at Warrenton, who, while professing 10Y- . alty and denying complicity with the Boer invasien, • admitted hating- en- kouraged the Warrenton commando . by speech :and letter, telling them that God blessed those who did their obey, and that they were stronger. -than the enemy and had won eignin- • cant battlaer, etc. . • Wittier/Fr explained his ateltede hy. staying ha wished to encourageehis people in their .trouble. He admitted his' oympa•thiete were with. thea Re- ' public, but denied halting proclaim- ed the fact from the, pulpit. 'Witness also ,confeased that his views ;sheep. ed as elm tide of (battle turned, When asked if ihe w•ais a British sub - ace witness smiled and admitted the fact. The Magistrate told him it was no taught:1g matter. Witness con- tended that if there had been, . pp , Boer invaalon Warrenton would haws rsernained loyal. The Warrenton Dutch . eympsithized with the RePubiics, but would not have rleked the 'sacrifice . of everything if they had net betel cent:polled. He claimed that. he had never anticipated or credited the in- tentkusof tha Boole to invadethe •• triet. Wa,rre'nton was proelarimed Free State territory. by Charles Marais, member of the Tree State Volk:wand« Other witnesses gaveevidence of . commeneeerieg by v.ir10Utiindiiltiji. among the accused. The woes ever° again adjourned. . • Temperance' lit reritish Arnie. Lout:Ione May -1.4.-At the. militia meeting to -day of the Army TOM- ' perance Aesoefation, Lieut. -General Sir George 'White. the 'defender Of Isnlyemith, presiding, a letter from Lord Roberts, dated BloeMfOntedti, April • 100., was read, 'tinting the elms. of which the writer*says •0. more temper- ate army than that which marched ureter my oonsnand front tho Moddeir River to Bloemfontein, teething but good can. reault from so many sol- diers being brought together in an arcluona etimpuign when they see how spienalelly our temperance men have borne agatnet the harcithip and tiengors Imre had to face," to:mune LOOTED., Hoere Tied Prom. 'there to Gletscota Where They Entrained, London, May 15, 1.54 p.•• in. -The War Office has received the Yellowing despatch froth. Gen. Buller: *Dun- dee,. gssy 15, 1 p. boast oe. (meted Dundee. About. 2,e00 or the enemy lett yeeterday fOr Gleba*, 1\471trieftthefeseictettrrdltiayite%ellieg ntrt4 ' Drift anti the Datouthaueer Road. Their kaffirli mad they were Oleg to ' i trge floe every UAW 0 Dundee is Completely" looted. • The • Navigation Colliery Is all right. The machinery of the Duiulee (Joineries Pt desitroyed, Tete house* of the town aro damaged, bob strueturallY In- Oritiels Geeispy Dundee. • London, May 13, LW p. officially announced that Vendee bag been oceupied by the Britiell,