The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-18
Baden.POwell Set a Trap and Captured
Grandson Of Kruger.
FREE SKATERS ARE SURRENDERINC.
General Roberts Gives Orders thai They Bt
Kindly Treated.
THE WOMEN FORM A POLICE CORPS
In order that the Men May Go 10 the
Front and Fight--Dispatche De-
cidcdIy Pro-British.

London. May is. $3.50 a, m.-England
stin waits with intense and almost breath
less interest for news of the relief OF
Matching. A crowd, remarkable for the
number OF men in evening dress and IN
Guiding many ladies, fingered around the
war office even after midnight hoping for
come announcement. Only reluctantly
did the people dispense when the Hobbies
OF the war office were finally cleared with
the word that nothing had been received.
One thing seems clear The town still
holds out. Were it otherwise the Boer
wires laid to the camps OF the beleaguers
would have mashed the news.
Skeleton messages from LourenSo Mar
quez, based upon information that leaked
out at the Pretoria war office, shows that
the stormers Sunday fell into trap. Colo
mel Baden Powell permitted them to seize
one fort and he then surrounded and over
bore . IN before the large forces near at
hand II WAS thus that sarcl Eloff, Presi-
dent Kruger's grandson. and part of his
commando were taken and Atty Beers
killed.
/ The Canadian artillery contingent OF the
Rhodesian force Is now reported to have
reached Buluwayo, May 2. The distance
from Buluwayo to Mafeking Is 400 miles.
} AS the railway is open all the way to
pitsani, twenty eight miles from Mafeking,
where Colonel Plumer Is. the Canadians
may yet take part In the relief
General French, scouting northward,
found the Beers In strong force at Rhe-
La. rttft htrfN
stad. Generals Botha, Delarey and OIL
vier, with artillery. were holding the po-
siton,
President steyn, according to one dis
patch, has gone to Pretoria. Another
says he is fugitive at LindicI'.
The Free Staters are snrrenderng ON all
sides.
A dispatch from Oapetown says that
proclamations are being printed there to
be published on the queen's birthday May
"a annexing the Free state.
One of President Steyn's brothers, who
is a prisoner of General Brabant, says
that the Free staters Will accomplish an
nexation. Those who took Up arms the
second time, he explains, had to do ~
under threats Of Instant oath.
Five hundred arlfles have been surrel-
dered at Kroonstad In excess of the mum
Der OF Beers who have taken the oath
of allegiance Lord Roberts has directed
the British commanders TO receive all
comers in a good spirit and to issue to
them passes TO 90 to their farms.
General Butler is pushing straight ahead
without opposition. He has only lost hyn
wounded during the movement. Appar-
entity he is aiming at Lalng's nek, which
Is the direct road to the Transvaal, nj
though he may diyerge to Bothas Pass.
, General Hunters movements in he
Western Transyaal are rather puzzliug
h.. Cd .tf
y one brigade, leaving another. General
Bartcns. at Chrlstiana.
Lord Methuen is said to be ADVANCING
along the south bank of the Vaal.
Colonel Kekewich is with aim The
loop railroad line across the Vaal is fls
nearing completion. The probability Il
that General Hunter took back q brigad'
= to Fourteen Streams owing to scarcity o
4, transport.
General Rumble has captured 10000 bag
= of corn. He Is marching slowly througl
y district which is described as 'literall
toemlng with cattle, sheep and horses.
Michael Daviti, according 70 a dlspatc
from Lourenzo Marquee, Is said TO hny
advised the Beers. while he was in Pre-
toria that If they coud hold out unit
the presidential election IN the Unite
States that they might feel pretty sur
OF intervention"
AT johannesburg the women are rorm
ing a poire corps. so as 10 release even
~ man for fighting purposes AT the front
DR.. Archer who was at Dundee durn
the Boer occupation. asserts that ther
n are several hundred Englishmen seryin
II in tho Boer forces who would desert
IS assured Of pardon from the British.
x The Pretoria official list OF foreigners
IT shows 100 Englishmen who are nc
= hghting. but hold their residence in IN
Transvaal by special permission The
y are bank clerks. engineers and sbor
l. keepers.
Eurban reports the receipt OF tri'
gram from Lourenzo Marquee saying tbs
70 a Beer plot 10 blow up the British cruise
n Forte was discovered and that in eonsf
quence the warships steam out seven mills
4. nightly.
= president sieyn saw he fight al Ear
river. The impression nc got there w
thar bis burehers could not face Ior
Roberts in pitched battle and this result
ed according 10 adylccs from Lonrenz
y Msrauez In his decision to eyacuafe d
Ic Kroonetad works without q battle.
- The Standard says FROM pro- Doc
I, sources we learn that the first great star
- M the federals Will be on the ridges ne.
Johannesburg This position has bee
strougiv intrenched and the burghers b
lieye they can hold II for some time.
driven from this point the present for
ne will be thrown into Pretoria TO wltAstan
~ charge. while the main bodv wlll retire.
10 the Lydenburg district with the inter
as ,ion 81 keeping np a guerilla warfaT
from that mountainous region. They b
lieve ,hey can indefinitely postpone
paeifcation Of the country
!, This view II parily supported by az
ratch TO the Times from Lourenzo va
re auez, which gays There Is talk In Pr
n toria OF President Kruger contempiatil
a departure from the capital Inefe