Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-22
British Forces Are Moving
in Free State.
ROBERTS IS PREPARING
To Move His Forces Against the boer
Army in a Short Time-No News
of Importance is Given out IN
London.

London. March %, 4:12 a. m.-Sevefai
kilograms nave passed between Presl-
dent Krunger and the British govern
ment in addition to the Salisbury hfu-
ger correspondence already puolisileu'
,rha foreign Office received a dlspatch
from Pretoria yesterday. The contents
ne tho communication can not yet De
obtained. ;.
So far as the military situation IS
concerned there is practlcaily ~
change. Lord Roberts is quietly max
ing preparations for the next move. AS
necessary to a beginning General Bra
han1 and General Gatacre are swiftly
moving from point to point IN the
southern districts of the Free eta>a,
dispensing or accepting the suften'~'
of any remaining soldiers. thus insuI-
munica,ions before starting toWaru
pretoria. A correspondent OF the Dally
News at Sprinfontein, describing tneese
says: Gataere -
sweeping through the country IKE a cy-
clone. with flying u in all dlfec-
tins His swiftness and strategy have
nroved of inestimable value of Lord ROD
erts.' h,;r,ao
at Norvalspont will occupy two months
The temporary prog Z va n,biIa
pleted in about 10 days.
supplies are transported by an aerlal
across the gap. Ihese "orks
necessarily delay the providing OF sup
plies for the advance. 20
Lord Methuen's movements north OF
Kimberley are believed to be a pre-.
hide to the gathering of a column OF
20. GOO men with Kimberley as a Dase.
to strike eastward from Fourteen
Streams into the T~ransvaal.
Of the relief of Mafeking has not yet
been received. Mr.. Schreiner, the cape
premier, has granted the request or
the MAYOR of Capetown that a pubic
holiday be proclaimed 'he
colony on the relief of Mafeking.
J,ondon March pa dispatch to the
STANDARD from Bloemfontein, TUESDAY,
saws: -Four thousand T~ransvaalers
from Colesberg trekked on SATURDAY and
of the Basutoland border. They VIII
probably be caugmt in one of the passes
"A striking feature of the advance or
Bloemfontein was the abandonment o.
our communications with Poplar Grove
Lord Roberts confident in the ability
of his transport to meet all the lmme-
diate needs Of the army, deliberately left
the enemy at Abraham's kraal to &C
what they liked. The result fully justi-
fed him. The enemy to the south were
paralyzed by the %boldness and rapidly
of the stroke and Generals Clements
and Gatacre were enable to cross thu
Orange river almost without opposition
London, March 22.-The correspondent
of the Times at Lorenzo Marques, tele
graphing Tuesday, says: ut is reported
from Pretoria hat a scheme has been ar
ranged for the amalgamation of tn
Transvaal and the Free State. Kruge
will become president of the federate,
states and Steyn commandant genera
of the Boer army. The flag will be tn
same as that of the Transvaal, with al
additional orange color. Although thi
story is not confirmed, it is not improb
able. 1t is a notorious fact that Genera
Joubert has lost the confidence OF tn
burghers simply because of the fact h
refused to shut his eyes to the inevitabl
result of the war. With all the burgher
in The field it might not be difficult to sc
cure a formal endorsement of this ru
mored scheme
London, March PA Daily Chronicl