The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-13
LORD ROBERTS NOW HAS
GREAT ARMY OF TROOPS
Commands 2l4,OOO Men, With 10000 AflOat--Pre-
pairing to Move on Pretoria.
ntmated That He VIII Soon Move From BlOemfOntein and
Crush Beers.

London, April 13.-It is calculated
that Lord Roberts now has 214,OOO ef-
fective troops, with 1900 more afoat
or under orders. The war Office has in
structed officers not to take any more
| expanding bullets to Africa for re-
velvers.
The seventh month of the war is be-
| ginning with Eastertide and the morn
ing paper editorials expiates upon the
need Of soberness
In a roundabout way London hears
that Roberts. when wiring to the Prince
4 OF Wales at Copenhagen, congratula-
/ tons upon his escape from assassina-
! ton, added two or three hopeful SEN
fences portending an early advance
with wide reaching combinations.
/ Quite assurances are passed around
among military men that Lord Roberts
! is employing his great army Effectively
and that the adventurous Boer COM
mandoes are likely to be enmeshed
| Scraps of news, a detail here and an
/ other there, have reached England to-
night over comparatively idle cables,
| but they do not illuminate the situa-
ton.
Hold the Beers OF.
/
/ OF the Beers. Lord Methuen has
worked eastward until he is within
eighty miles of KrOonstad. BOer scouts
| have gone around Ladysnith and have
| appeared at DeWsdorp and other places
on General Buffers TANKS and rear. The
/ officers Of Buffers irregular horse es-
| innate the Beers in Natal at $4,000, but
! these figures are probably excessive,
10000 being regarded here as the out
! side number.
! After General Harris brigade leaves
/ him, General Butler will still have close
| upon $4,000 men. It is generally as
sumed that this brigade is going to join
/ Lord Roberts, but its destination is
really unknown.
The Boer note TO Portugal regarding
/ the use by the British Of the Beira
| route for the transportation of troops
| to RhOdesia, may, if the Beers act
again Portugal, lead Great Britain to
/ land troops at LourenZO Marquee. This
/ possibility has been seriously discussed
and is referred TO at length in the
morning papers.
The work Of the Boer peace COM
Il n1issiOneTs had begun. Mr.. Fischer has
asked Italy TO intervene and the Ital-
/ ian minister of foreign affairs. the Mar
/ quiS Visconti-V enOsta, has replied that
/ while he would receive the ENJOYS, the
! best he could do would be to transmit
| their proposals to London, thus follow
| ing the course Of the United States.
VIII Be No Compromise.
Sir Alfred Miner, when replying to
a deputation OF clergymen in Cape
Town yesterday Thursday said:
." Never again must be the motto Of
all thinking and humane men, but not
| from lust of conquest or a desire to
trample on the gallant, if misguided.
There must be no compromise Or'patch-
work in the settlement. and no op-
portunity for misunderstanding. in
trigue, the revival Of impossible ambi-
tons, or the accumulation Of enormous
ornaments.
'AThe British will no longer tolerate
dissimilar and antagonistic political
systems in country which nature and
history have declared to be one"
In these absolute utterances Of Sir
Alfred Miner he speaks for the i'm
perial government.
Hilyard Steyn. brother Of President
Steyn, in the course OF an interview at
Bloemfontein, said: The original war
plan of the Beers was to Overrun all
Cape Colony, but, on becoming involved
in the SiegeS of Kimberley and Lady
smith. the burghers found the design
despoiled. To this I attribute the Boer
failure to conquer the British. 1 eX-
pect the war TO last until Christmas"
Fighting Is Renewed.
A special dispatch from Elandslaagte
dated yesterday, says: Fighting was
renewed beyond Elandslaagte this af-
ternoon. The Beers steadily advanced
upon the British positions. There was a
continuous rife fire and the Boer big
guns were in action. The British re-
piled effectively. and after two hours
fighting the Beers were checked
The BlOenfontein correspondent Of
the Times, telegraphing Thursday says:
1.-THE latest news is that Colonel Dali
gety's force occupies a position outside
Wepener, while the Rockville COM
mando occupies the town itself. The
pressure there should be partially re-
llieved within the next tWenty-four
hours.
Lieutenant Nix, the Dutch militia
attache who was wounded at Kr -
Spruit died today under an Ope- - on %
Elandslaagte and Wepener still mo-
nopoliZe attention. At both places a
series of indecisive actions are occur
ring. The Boer report of the fighting
on April 10 at Elandslaagte AYERS that
the advance on the British camp was
made with the loss Of only three mules
and two horses, while the British losses.
says the same report, must have been
heavy. The bombardment lasted all
day.
No News from Mafeking.
Nothing has been learned regarding
the rumor of Colonel Baden PoweITs
death. nor is there anything tending to
show how long the general advance to-
wards Pretoria viii be delayed.
In the absence of exciting develop
Tents public interest centers more. upon
the personality of the new commanders
and in the suggestions as to who the
next general will be to be sent home
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
LoUrenzo Marquee. dated Thursday.
says: 1T is reported from Pretoria
that a Boer commando is moving
through Basutoland. This is said to be