Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1900-03-30
BOER VS.. BRITON.
Military Movements in South AZ
RIGA Progress Slowly.
Eng1ishmcn Arc Puzzled TO Know
Whether Steps Arc Being Taken
to Relieve Mafelking = Lord
Roberts IL I'm No Hurry
to Advance Toward
Pretoria.

London, March S4.-Loru hoDerts
main army continues waiting at
Bloemfontein. The sentimental inter
est in the fate of Mafeking has inten-
sitied with Col. Plumer's forced retire.
ment to Crocodile Pools, where he was
two months ago.
London, March ga dispatch to
the Daily Telegraph from Kimberley,
dated March 25, says: Prisoners
brought in here report that force OF
British cavalry has entered the Trans
vaol and penetrated to a point IS miles
north of Christiana. The British
forces at Fourteen Streams are being
strengthened. A movement northward
is expected soon.
A Bloemfontein correspondent OF
the Daily Telegraph i'm a dispatch da-
ted March %, says: The late allies are
now bitter foes. So strong is the pop
ular feeling here, that were 1t desir-
able. a large body Of Free Staters
wonld take the field and fight imme-
diately against the Transvaalers.
The total British losses, exclusive Of
the invalids sent home, are 16,41s in
killed. wounded and missing.
| Except for the occurrence" asLord
Roberts calls it, which resulted in the
killing of Lieut.. Lyon and the wound
ng and capture of Lieut.. Col. Crabbe,
Lieut.. Col. Codrington and Capt. Trot-
ter, the campaign presents no new
features. The mishap to the Guards
officers is testimony to their BRAY
cry, but not their discretion. They
met q party of the Beers, whom they
tried to capture. The Beers took ref
uge on n kopje, where three of their
comrades were hidden, and within five
minutes every member of the British
party was hit.
Mail accounts of the capture of Gen.
Cronje, Just received, bring out inter-
les.ing points as to the rapidity with
(which Lord Roberts changed his plans
when he found that Gen. Cronje had
escaped from Magersfontein, where it
was originally intended to attack or
close in upon him. Lord Kitchener
was sent forward to intercept him and
at the battle of Paardeberg, Lord
Kitchener seems to have shown that
ie is better as an organizer than Us a
fighter, for it was at his order that the
British infantry repeated the blunders
Of other generals, attaclIing intrenoh-
ed Beers. who allowed the Britishers
TO get within 1000 yards before open
ing fire. AS the British had no cover
they lost heavily and uselessly and
were compelled to fall back momen-
tarily with confusion and to withdraw
their transport to safe distance.
London. March 27.-Nfilitary observ
ers here, and even those in close affil
iation with the war office, are consid
rably confused as to what is being
| ~ fal- - ,sr
, Some 5000 or 5000 men are engaged
with Lord Methuen ait Warrenton ant
Fourteen Streams and now anothel
column is about leaving Kimberley, 1
, it has not already started, for Griqua
town, los miles westward. Its osten
sible purpose is to drive out the Beers
The force is described as "a strons
one" and the expedition as "lilSely t.
!, attract much attention"
, Gen. French is reported from Bloem
fontein rs returning from Thab
Nchu, without apparently havin!
headed off Commandant Olivier, wit
; his IS guns and miles of baggage.
, Boer horsemen are in contact wit
: the British outposts from Biggarsber
to Warrenton. Gen. Buffers patrol
had n sharp slSirmash Sunday a
: Waschbank. Lord Roberts infantr
: have now been quiet for IA days.
t London, March 2S.--The Beers ar
: having little good luck and are show
Y ing some boldness again, as n Iaidin
0 party estimated at 400 is believed b.
}. the British forces at Warrenton t
1 have crossed the Kimberley
G tein wagon road Monday and to hav
2 headed for Jacobsdal, with the inter
ton of cutting the railway ten mile
west.
Commandant Olivier appears to hay
gotten his 5000 men and 25 niles c
II wagons into rugged country, wher
he can make an easy rear guard III
fense. Charles Williams, the militar
expert, says:
n III this column gets through, Con
q mandant Olivier will have carried OF
:, the greatest feat of the war, seein
- that he ran every chance OF bein
, ground between the upper millston
l. of Lord Roberts army and the netht
l. milestone of the broken Basuto frol
H. tier"
g 1t is given out at Cape Town thf
'e Lord Roberts advance may be delaye
r for months. Although such stat
4 ments should be received with reserv
Is it seems positive thnt he intends to &
to Cape Town to meet Lady Robert
le who is due to arrive there in ten day
,e The war Office has issued anoths
n table of British losses, showing n
A. aggregate of 1852, which does not il
n clude 4,0O4 who have been inyalide
- home.
- A special to the Daily Telegrap
DC from Ladysmith, dated Monday, says
- "There are about 10000 Beers guar
~ ing the nine passes over the Draken
sr berg range. They nre led by Cor
,e mandant De Beer, and consist Of FRI
p Staters. 1t is reported that the Boe
n have moved their big guns from Bi
garsberg, as it is not intended
make II stand there"
T. Xaquis TO be Extcrninated.
re Ell Paso, Texas, March 2s.--J.
~ Cronkhite, of Guaymas, Mex, manag