Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-04
Strict Censorship Indicates
Important Developments.
EXPLOSIVE BULLET USED
Mafeking IS Still Besieged and 1t is
Believed That Butler is Preparing
to ADVANCE Magnificent Courage
Displayed.

London, April 4.-4:4O a. m.-No news
has yet been received of the expected
battle between General French and the
Beers. There is now but a remote pros
pect of the capture of the guns. This,
however. is regarded as quite trifing,
compared with the present effects of the
disaster.
AS the Bloemfontein correspondent Of
the Times remarks. Commandment Oil
vler's strategy in r~e-occupying Lady
brand and Thaba N'Chu was bold and
even brilliant. Most of his force is COM
posed of Free Staters, and the advantage
gained by them will have a most dis
turbing effect on the minds of the Free
State populations.
The impossibility of effecting complete
protection for the moment to all farmers
In the, south and southeast sections of the
Free State is recognized at Bloemfon-
TEN. Men who surrendered under the
proclamation of Lord Roberts are now
being punished for the reliance they
PLACED in the ability of the British to pro-
tect them.
AZ the correspondent further re-
marked: This is a hard consideration.
AhSS "a ASPCANol1t DClllkcI.
ents at the hands of their fellow country
men cannot be suffered to prejudice the
military plans of Lord Roberts"
The Daily Telegraph, which takes a
more humane view. says TT is Just as
important to protect those burghers who
have trusted in our power and surren-
dered all means of defending themselves
as 1t is to win victories against those who
are still in arms"
The Daily Chronicle. whose Capetown
correspondent joyfully predicted that the
war would be over in three months, says:
In order to re-establish our position in
the Free State We need a brilliant sue
cess. Won on the scene Of our latest re-
verse;
1t is from Springfontein
that the censorship has again curtailed
the dispatches. Therefore, important de-
velopments must be impending. The
British public is reluctant to believe that
an American led the Boer forces which
attacked the convoy.
The Daily Chronicle says: "Reichmann
may De, X some other Americans. In
sympathy with the Beers. He even NAV
have unofficially advised the Boer COM
mandant although this would have been
exceedingly improper, but we cannot
think he would take the with
out previously resigning his American
commission"
There is little news from other noints
Mafeking was still besieged on March 90
and there are rumors tina General Bill
ler is preparing to advance.
B~ushnan's Kop, April 2.-Hearing that
the Waterworks were deserted. the cor
respondent of Reuters Telegram agency
rode forward to-day. Arriving at the
crest of a hill a volley was fired at him.
and a moment later a man onnnn rod OF
the top OF the crest. Calling on him to
stop firing, and saying he was unarmed
and desired to talk with him, the corre-
~spondent discovered that this man was
an American, who declared tina he ac-
companied the Beers only as a sight
seer. He said that never during his
whole life had he witnessed such mag
nificent pluck as that shown by the Brit
ish on Saturday. and he asserted that not
only himself, but the whole Boer army
was profoundly touched with admiration
at their gallant behavior. It appears
that the Beers never doubted their abil-
fty to capture the whole British force,
n were dumbfounded at the courage
displayed and the mastery way in which
the force was able to escape from the
death trap. The correspondents inform
ant refused to give any information re-
garding the BOer forces or their move
ments, but it appeared that the present
force was detached from Kroonstadt,
Joined the ~Ladybrand force and again
divided north Of Thaba N'Chu, one por-
ton following the other and meeting Col
onel Broadwood's command, which was
accompanied by many foreigners. Com
mandant John Y. Blake was present with
the Irish brigade and other foreigners.
The fight was marked by many acts
OF individual courage. The first man to
warn the British of the ambush was a
sergeant of the army service corps. who
shot a Boer dead with his revolver. A