The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-03-22
ANGLO-B -BOER WAR SITUATION
FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE BE- TWEEN KRUGER AND SALISBURY.


 terday Contents Not DivuIged -MiIi-
 tary Movements Said to be Ayvaitin.
 the Result of the Negotiations-Rob-
 erfs, However, Quietly Proceeding
 With Ills Preparations Gatacre
 Doing Excellent Work With Flying
 misrepresentation Regarding tho
 Movements of Methuen.
 London, March 22.-4:12 a. m.-Sev- eral telegrams have passed between President Kruger and the British gov ernment in addition to the Salisbury Kruger correspondence already publish ca. The foreign office received a dis patch from Pretoria yesterday. The contents of these communications can- not yet be obtained
 The Cape Town correspondent of the Daily Mail telegraphing Tuesday, March 20, says: T have just arrived rom Bloemfontein, where I learned mat no further movement is probable TOT three weeks as negotiations are proceeding. I failed to ascertain the nature of the negotiations, or whether Sir Alfred Miners departure from Cape Town is connected with them but should not be surprised if the war collapsed quickly"
 50 Tar as the military situation is concerned, there is practically no change. Lord Roberts is quietly mak- Ing preparations for the next move As necessary to a beginning General Gatacre and General Brabant are swift ly moving from point to point in the southern district of the Free State, thus ensuring the safety of Lord Roberts communications before starting toward Pretoria.
 A correspondent of the Daily News at Springfontein describing these move ments says: General Gatacre is sweeping through the country like cyclone with flying columns in, all di- rections. His swiftness and strategy have proved of inestimable value to Lord Roberts"
 The rebuilding of the railway bridge at Norvaps Pont will occupy two months. The temporary bridge will be completed in about ten days. Mean while supplies are transported by an aerial tramway across the gap. These works necessarily delay the providing of supplies for the advance.
 Lord Methuen's movements north of Kimberley are believed to be a prelude to the gathering of a column of 20,O0O men with Kimberley as base, to strike eastward from Fourteen Streams into the Transvaal. The long and anxious 1y awaited news of the relief of Mafek ing has not yet been received. MT. Schriener, the Cape premier, has grant ed the request of the mayor of Cape Town that public holiday be proclaim ed throughout the colony on the relief of Mafeking.
 A dispatch from Pretoria to the Daily Mail, dated Monday says: President Kruger returned from Kroonstadt yes terday. He says the fight in the Free State will be desperate. l am informed that the Transvaal government has talk en no resolution to destroy mines or property as a last resort"
 A dispatch from Bloemfontein to the Standard dated Tuesday, says: -Four thousand Transvaalers from Colesberg trekked on Sunday to the northeast, go- ing by way of the Basutoland border They will probably be caught at one of the passes. A striking feature of the advance on Boemfontein was the aban- donment of our communications with Poplar Grove. Lord Roberts, confident in the ability of his transport to meet all the immediate needs of the army, de- 1iberately left the enemy at Abrahams S TL T ,I.ot l., suit justified him. The enemy to the south were paralyzed by the boldness and rapidity of the stroke, and Generals Clement and Gatacre were enabled to cross the Orange river almost without opposition" A Daily Chronicle correspondent at telegraphing Tuesday, March 20, says: "The civil government l has been reorganized. J. A. Collins, un- der-secretary of the interior in Steyn's | executive, has been appointed land drost. Steyn is regarded as guilty of | fatuity but not influenced by nepotism. | He was always Kruger's tool. It has | been rumored that he has reaped finan- | cial benefits from his connection, but | the report is not substantiated. The Cape Town correspondent of the | Morning Post says: ''On the best au thority I learn that the real objective of the Fischer Wolmarans deputation is Russia. I also hear that they have talk en away all the secret discriminating i documents from Pretoria, thus making l it difficult to implcate Steyn and the 
 Winston Churchill in a dispatch from Pietermaritsburg says: T think it may be counted a certainty that the Trans vaal would immediately comply if Great Britain were to demand equally fair treatment for all prisoners by a threat | of reprisals on Transvaal prisoners"
 The correspondent of the Times at Lourenzo Marquez telegraphing Tues day says: Tt is reported from Pretoria that a scheme has been arranged for the condemnation of the Transvaal and the Free State. Kruger will become president of the federated states and Steyn commandant-ge general of the Boer army. The flag will be the same as that of the Transvaal with the addition of another orange color Although this story is not confirmed, it is not improb- able. It is a notorious fact that Gen. eral Joubert has lost the confidence of the burghers simply because from the
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