The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-19

Roberts IS not idle. While waiting Tor
stores at KrOOnstad. he is using his
mounted men TO search a wide tract
OF country Colonel Broadwood occu-
pied Lindley on Thursday and the
same day Colonel Hutton captured one
of the BOthas, thirty miles from Kroon-
stad. General Rumble. on Thursday,
encamped at CIocolan. British sue
cesses are thus reported at every point
from which news came yesterday.
Kruger Goes to Lynchburg.
According to advices from Lourenzo
Marquee, President Kruger and other
high officials purpose leaving almost
Immediately for Lydenburg. The Brit
ish prisoners viii be convened there,
and the foreign consuls at Pretoria are
leaving for Lydenburg.
In KTOOnstad it is said that President
Kruger VIII surrender when Lord ROD
erts crosses the Transvaal frontier.
Lord Roberts is accUmulating i'm
mense quantities Of supplies, and the
preparations for another movement are
we'll advanced. The next stop viii be
Johannesburg. Two thousand men are
working on the railway deviation at
Nalsch river.
There are 1900 Beers at Rhenoster
Spruit. Accommodating parties are
-
Desperate Efforts of Beers.
Commaadant Mel. with the johannes
burg "Zarps.' is actively commander
ing fifteen miles northwest o. Kroon-
stad. Desperate efforts arc being made
by the TransVaal to get every man on
the fighting line. All exemptions have
been Cancelled. The civil administration
is reduced to the lowest limits. The
Beers have dynamited I.aings tunnel,
and the railway is completely wrecked.
The work of repairs viii occupy many
weeks. The Beers now hold the best
positions for defending the pass.
Comment of the Papers.
That not only Mafeking, but the
whole United Kingdom is relieved is
demonstra ted by the utterances of the
morning papers.
The Daily Telegraph says: "Mafeking
is small place. It's fall would have
made no difference during the course
of the war, but while the balance of
battle was redTeSSed upon the great
fields of conflict, the uncOnGuerabfe
little town shut up in the north saw
the few weeks for which it was expect
ed to hold out pass inUo months of lSo-
.ation. Never viii England forget the
happy, hopeful thrill that came to her
when Colonel Baden-POWell said: Ma
ieking cannot be taken by sitting down
md looking at it There is no adj
gancement which the nation would not
hail as a fair reward for the brilliant
capacity, cheerfulness and iron courage
IF the hero of the empire
The Standard says: AS a final blow
to the hopes of the enemy. comes the
news from Washington that the United
States cabinet met to consider a Pre-
toria dispatch asking Intervention, and
that President Mckinley and his col
leagues decided that they can take no
steps whatever. If the Beers want
peace. they must sue for it from the
imperial government
The Times says: The demonstrations
last evening in London had no parallel
in recent times. Nor was this surpris-
ing. There has been nothing like the
defense Of AIafeRlng in modern history.
Kars and Lucknow were fine examples
of valOr and endurance and resource
fitness, but the means of defense in
those cases was Infinitely greater than
what was at the disposition of Colonel
Baden-Powell and his valiant COM
rades. 1t should not be forgotten that
Colonel Baden-POwelPs most energetic
and most capable helper was Lord Ce-
I'll, son of the premier, whose mother
died while he was doing duty far from
home and cut off from communication
with MS family"