The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-22

London, March pa dispatch to the
Daily Nail from Pretoria, dated Mon
day. March 10, says: president Kru-
ger returned from Kroonstadt yester-
day. He says the fight in the Free
State will be desperate. lam informed
that the Transvaal government has
taken no resolution to destroy mines
or property as a last resort"
The Cape Town correspondent Of the
Daily Mail, teiegraphing Tuesday,
March 20, says: Il have just arrived
that no further movement is probable
for three weeks, as negotiations are
proceeding. / failed TO ascertain the
nature Of the negotiations. or whether
Sir Alfred Miners departure from Cape
Town is connected with them. but l
should not be surprised if the war col
lapsed quickly
Several kilograms have passed be-
tween President Kruger and the Brit
ish government in addition to the Sails
bury-Kruger correspondence already
published The foreign office received
dispatch from Pretoria yesterday.
The contents Of these communications
cannot yet be obtained.
SITUATION IS unchanged.
So far as the military situation is
concerned. there is practically no
change. Lord Roberts is quietly max
ing preparations for the next move As
necessary to a beginning, Generals
Gatacre and Brabant are swiftly NOV
ing from point to point in the southern
districts Of the Free State, dispensing
or accepting the surrender Of any re-
naming Beers, thus ensuring the
safety of Lord Roberts cOmmunica-
tons before starting toward Pretoria.
A correspondent Of the Daily News
at Springfoatein, describing these
movements. SAYS: General Gatacre
is sweeping through the country like
a cyclone, with flying columns IN all
directions His swiftness and strategy
have proved of inestimabie value TO
Lord Roberts.
The rebuilding Of the railway bridge
at NorvalSpont will occupy two months
The temporary bridge VIII be COM
pleted in about ten days. Meanwhile
supplies are transported by an aerial
tramWay across the gap. These works
necessarily delay the providing OF sup
plies for the advance.
No News From Mafeking.
Lord Methuel's movements north Of
Il +
to the gatherinc OF a column of 10000
men. with Kimberley as a. base. to
strike eastward from Fourteen Streams
into the Transyaal. The long and anx-
iously awaited news of the relief OF
Mafekfng has not yet been received
A dispatch to the Standard from
BloemfOntein, dated Tuesday, says:
-Four thousand Transvsalers from
Colesberg trekksd on Saturday and sun
day to the northeast, going by way OF
the Basutoland border. They VIII prob
ably be caught at one Of the passes.
"A striking feature of the advance
on Bloemfontein was the abandonment
of our communications with Poplar
Grove. Lord Roberts, confident in the
ability of his transport to meet all the
immediate needs of the army, de1b-
erately left the enemy at Abraham 5
KraaI to do what they liked. The re-
4ult fully justified him. The enemy TO
the south were paralyZed by the bold
ness and rapidity of the stroke, and
Generals Clements and Gatacre were
enabled TO cross the Orange river al
most without opposition"
Winston Churchill, in a dispatch from
Pietermaritzburg, says: Il think it
may be counted certain that the Trans
wall would Immediately comply If
Great Britain We're to demand equally
fair treatment for all prisoners by a
threat of reprisals on Transvaal pri-
souers."
The Cape Town correspondent OF the
Morning Post SAYS: 'On the best au-
thority, I learn that the real objective
Of the F'ischer-W OlnarenS deputauon
is Russia. I also hear that they have
taken away all the secret discriminating
documents from Pretoria, thus making
it difficult to imphcate Steyn and the
Bondites."