The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-08
BRITISH ADVANCE
IS MOVING ALONG.

Beers Steadily Falling Back
Before Them.
SOME SHARP FIGHTING.
May Be a Stop for a Few Days by
Roberts at Smaldeel.
Nothing Heard for Several Day. in
the Dispstche. OF gen. Frcneh
and HIS Cavalry Division of Ten
Thousand Men, Who Are Evident-
Iy Engaged in some Operation,
the Details of which Are Being
Kept quiet for the Present-Boers
Retreat From Warrcnton. OPEN
ing Way for Relief OF Mafesing.
LONDON. May S. 4;eo a. rn.--1@he Boers
are everywhere retiring before the British,
except on the Natal frontier and az Mste-
king TO the inner circle OF their detenses.
They appear determined nor 20 flght until
the kroonstad hills are reasAed.
yIny Rest AUbIe
IeTd Roberts ia expected TO DO another
forty or nfty miles and then walt for a
time IN order to bring up supplies ana 20
repair the railway. There are one or two
hints in the dispatches from the front that
he may rest for few days al smaldeol.
Nothing Heard From French.
Cen French's 1000 cavalry have not
been mentioned In the official or unofficial
dispatches FOR four days.
1t IS by no means likely that he il Idle
and the conjecture Is that he is either
detouring toward Kroonstad or ralding
the Ladybrand district. Fifteen thousand
British are now operating on the western
frontier of the Free State.
Moving Toward MafekIng.
As the deadlock at warrenten has hrox-
en- and the Boers are retreating. there IS
nothing formidable. except distance. be-
tween Warrenton and Mafeking. The most
hopeful adviees from MafeI<ing Of Apfn
2. were that tho garrison would be barely
able TO hold out for a month, AZ that time
the fever was spreading.
Free slater. Have mtg Herds.
According TO advices from Maseg,l Basn-
toland. several thousand F'ree staters ara
n "a.
iected great herds. The district Is r,ch In
food for men and horses and the Beers
seem resolved not 20 move northwara but
to be prepared to resist who're they are. II
they are let alone they win menace the
line OF communications after the main
British army has passed into tho Trans
vaal.
Lord Roberts and Lord Kitchener person.
ally directed the artillery in tho Vet river
engagement
Queen Victoria win sena signed photo
graph to Col. Keke1ich. the hero OF kim
berley.
Six thousand four hundred and nfty-
eight troops are row az sea on the way
to South Africa
No others are under orders 20 go. az
cept as recruits to nll up the losse@ OF resl-
ments at the front
Roberts omciai Report.
The war office has received the follow
ing dispatch from Lord Rotayts dated
smaideel. May :, ios'5 a. IN;
Gen. Hunter after defeating the enefry,
May :. Joined hands with Paget near wsr-
Tentou The enemy left tbsftcsa KILLED and
wounded on fhe ground. and We captured
several prisoners our losses we're slight
Hunter epoaks in high terms 0f the gat-
lantry of yeomanry unior Col AlaybFiek
The enemy have retired from IN ff8nt
Of Taaha NChu. and the exceesiineiv
strong position thsy bold Is noS occupied
BY Hundle's division
Position OF the Armies
The capture of wtnburg by the British
is confirmed and the main advance on Pre-
ioria continues. ny the occupation af
wiubsrg Gen. ian Hamilton puts himself
nearly parallel with Lord Roberts ana only
twenty miles eastward while he has the
additional advantage ~ being contested
with bis chief hy means of the railroad
that runs from smaldeel. or WinhaFg
road station. 50 g ~ sometimes c4lled.
Lord Roberts 81 now nine miles n6Sih ~
the Vet and sxty.three Hllen npfth -
Blacmfonteln. Evidently he is not letting
grass grow under ne feet though the
Boera are equally anxious tq retreat To-
waFd Kr0oBstadt. and are "a doing
Critics satisfied for once.
The critics II the newspapers view the
situation With iha greatest saiistactioa.
a special dispatch from suisldeel dated
o.E D. "a. May g. gives details % tue ocea-
patton " WtBbufg by fae Briilsh. II
rays. "Nezs has 3ust come here that 0ea
Hamilton ls giving tHe Eoers no rest ard
,Aat they are falling hack hUfriedlY lie
catered WinbarE today after brisk
agtt. ia which the B0era seli hack - quick
that ore og their guns. IN aa4ilon 20 a
Maxim, Sas abandoned
Crs.siag of the Vet.
The same dispatch. describing The ereas-
lng u the Vet river By the Briash, says.