Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-14
Begins ~ Advance That Promises
Vel. Beers Forced From
Strong Position.
Relief Of nafsking Seems to Bs AZ.
sured-Gen. Roberts at
Kroonstad.

aCtuleTy HEe anu ln6 brltlSn guns re-
piled. while portion of Buffers troops
worked round the Boer fianks. The
British attack was pressed home SAT-
urday. Bethune on the right cutflanked
the Beers. whose splendid defensixe po-
sltions on the Biggarsberg were practi-
cally taken.
.Buller's march, subsequent to tho
attack. was carried out without hitch.
The British are still pushing on.'
Z London, May 14.An Associated
Press dispatch from Pletermartizburg,
timed as noon today. brings the first in
timation Of the success attained by
Butler in northern Natal. The sender
of this dispatch evidently assumes that
news OF the affair has been received di-
rect from the scene OF hostilities. for he
merely says: Buffers official telegram
notifying OF his success at Biggarsberg
was received here an hour ago. and has
given keen satisfactiom It is confident
" anticipated that Dundee will be oc-
cupied by the British today. Residents
in the north country are delighted, as
the forcing Of Biggarsberg means that
tney VIII speeuliy oe ellau1eu @ " 1ee 1i1is =
to their homes
Another dispatch to the Associated
Press, dated Stone Hill farm, at 8:2O
this morning, says:
After four days march eastward
at the foot of the Biggarsberg ridges, in
the direction Of Helpmakaar. the same
.,,.,. n,o,, ,~far1 M, J,ex5orojsa rocopd hrt.8
Eade Sunday. Dundonald's cavalry
& broke the Beers, center and Bethune's
,ho,ea af,vanced on their extreme right
z 3. a,..at,o,, =, 5po,,,s,.y swan
=. ~ tha rid,s
= 80 So = 80 80 h,,t ,,a,. s,a
oSe1toohl.s Z. 80, >--s-
net vait tof tne asss W.
steyn's Whereabouts.
Kroonstad. May i2.-steyn mas gone
20 Hetlbrun. not L1ndley. ne &c mas ae-
clared the former the new capitals. ~ f,our
hundred burghers nave given up l'. lilelr
asms here ana IN this neighDorhoou. el1 ,
Altho the Drio&e across 1he sais y Is y. oe- les
stroyed. good deviation exists Wnere tls
the road ran before the pAdge was
constructed. TransVaaiers are repor.eu
as massfng ct Vaal.
The Standard and Dlggers News ol
Johannesburg shows tthat dissesslons
exist In the Transvaal yolkesraad.
Railroad repairs are progressing rap
idly. The town accepts occupation
quietly.
Ro.r. R.dIv scattered.
n,,r,,., Nfov 10 .,>ha aiphth
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.,.n., snru.o II
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s cap.ur1hg I,sa,ss.. ss ~. earas ,sitt, ~,
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,, = . ~ ,a,,s - oiaarads .ha co,,,.
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w. s SA .,'s,sas.,a.. ~ - r,,annia.d
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Killed Under White Flag.
London. May 1.-THE war ONCE has
4 received the foilo@ing from hoDerts' b
kroonstad, May lS.-ihese mere were
more casuAs'es ~ 1he cAsairy o'sisloi .Ntl
On May ~ atnen reporteu pS me. wat val
unable to get the exact q account OF VIVA
0ccurree, 9s the coMnaanolhs oHcer
capt. Ellsworth. wassKilled. ana Two OF
Z hcers were wounded az tne same time
ana sent TO the rear. BUT u wouid ap'
pear thae party of ocr men IN COINS
up TO . kraai on which white nag wa.
nytng were suduen!y attacked oy =
large numoer OF the enemy. Two ON
GERS. Capt. Haig. OF the sixth DIT Dragons pms
and Lieut.. wilkinson. OF the Australian
horse. were made prisoners ant
twenty one are stu unaccounted for
Some OF them may turn up, as the cav
airy covered considerable distance OF
May 10 and the reported missing hav'
been rej6ining during the past fev
days.
The above dispatch refers to losse
sustained by the InniskillingS May IL
detailed in dispatches to the Associate,
Press Saturday last. The troopers wer
fired on while unHaddling their hoses
having approached kraal unsuspi