Abilene weekly reflector., 1900-03-15
ADVANCING
The British General Said to Be
Misleading the Beers.
an APPEAL TO The GREAT POWERS.
President Kruger Aaks Them to Intervene
-Rumors Of the Relief Of Mafeking
Unc0nfirmed-T British Advance
Visited by American Consul.

London, March 13.--Lord Roberts Is
making very rapid advance and he
is again misleading the Beers by con-
tinuing the advance southwark in
stead Of through the fiat country due
east Of Aasvogel kop. He will prob
ably seize the railway south OF Bloem-
fontein and, although another battle
is possible, it is more than likely that
the Beers are only endeavoring to de-
lay his advance until all the rolling
stock of the railway and the stores
and troops from the Orange river
district can be gotten away north.
Such confidence is now felt in the
military operations that interest
rather centers in the political aspects
of the war. The Daily News quotes
Whitelaw Reid as saying in private
letter: Il give you hearty congratu-
lations on the changed aspects of the
war. 1t is an immense relief to us all
as well as to you" This view,' says
the Daily News, "is welcome, as ex-
pressing with an unusual measure of
authority, enlightened public feeling
in the United States.'
A dispatch from The Hague says
that it is learned from reliable
source that President Kruger, through
consuls at Pretoria, has appealed for
the intervention of the great powers
in the Transvaal war and has also ap-
<pealed to the governments of Belgium,
Holland and Switzerland,
Except in the case Of Germany, who
declines to interfere, the replies Of
the powers to the Boer appeals for in
tervention are not yet known public
ly here, but it is quite certain that
Austria Hungary and Italy will de-
cline to interfere and there Is no ap-
prehension that anything will come of
the overtures of the two republics.
All the morning papers take the
line that the government will decline
to open negotiations with the Boer
republics except upon the basis Of
complete surrender, and will also
make it perfectly clear that nothing
in the shape of foreign Intervention
will be tolerated. The Standard says:
"There is an idea in some quarters
that on arriving at Bloemfontein
Lord Roberts will issue proclama-
tion which will leave little doubt as
to the future of the republics"
Rulnors of the relief Of Mafeking
continue to circulate but fail of any
confirmation. From Natal, which
Gen. Butler so enormously declared
was free of Beers, and from Cape Col
ony, where Gen. Kitchener's stern
hand is upon the rebellion, there is
no news of any Importance.
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London, March 13.-The Daily
News has the following dispatch
dated March 12 from Venters Welt;
ave left Aasvodel kop this morning
preceded by cavalry and marched
here, a distance of about Is miles.
The army has been following Kaal
spruit and we are now rather to the
south of Bloemfontein and only
about 12 miles off. All the divisions
have now joined the main advance.
Lord Roberts headquarters are now
at Gregorowski's farm, You will re-
member. that the reform prisoners
were tried before Judge Gregorow-
ski. BY advancing along Kaal spruit
Lord Roberts has again outwitted the
Beers, who had entrenched them
selves along the Modder. thinking