The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-05-25
The War in
South Africa.

reason for stating that in the last "a
hours a telegram has been received at
the foreign office, addressed personally
to the prime minister from President
Kruger, proposing terms of peace.
The exact terms of the message can
not be stated, but we believe it is
couched in an exceedingly humble
strain 1t is inconceiyable, of course,
that Lord Salisbury can have sent any
reply except the one that stands
ready on the lip of every Briton-
unconditional surrender.
Special prayers of Thanksgiving
were offered yesterday in the churches
of the United Kingdom. The lord
bishop of London, Or. Mandell Creiah.
ton, who preached before the queen at
Windsor, alluded to the relief of Ma
fcldng and clerglmen generally found
in the event their topic of the day.
Details of the relief are still want
ing, the British military authorities
being without dispatches. Lord Rob.
erts wires that he knows of the re.
lief only through a press agency.
Lord Lausdowne, however, announces
that the war Office expects direct
news to-day.
The situation i'm the field has
changed but little since Friday. Lord
Roberts troops are in fine form and
abundantly supplied. Indications seem
to point to an early movement, his
cavalry riding over several hundred
square miles in semi-circle beyond
Kroonstad has received the submits
sion of hundreds Of Free Staters.
1t now appears that the DeWet
who offered to surrender with 1000
men, was not the well-known Gen. De
Wet, but Commandant DeWet. lie
stipulated that his men should he al
lowed to return to their farms. Lord
Roberts replied that the surrender
must be unconditional.
Reports flow into Lord Roberts at
headquarters of the encouragement
of the Beers and of their willingness,
even in the case Of the Transvaalcrs.
to give up. President Steyn is de
scribed as having lost his head sev-
eral times recently.
The Daily Telegraph is advised that
a plot has been discovered at Pretoria
TO depose President Kruger and 70
surrender the Transvaal during the
present month Progressive Dutch.
men and members of the judiciary
are asserted to have been parties TO
the movement.
A Cape Town correspondent reas-
serts that the Irish-American ambu-
lance corps from Chicago suffered
heavily during the fighting at Kroon-
stad, and that the United States Con-
sui Hay has protested vainly to Pres
ident Kruger against using the corps
on the fighting line.
Gen. Butler is in front of Langs
Mex, hesitating to attack positions
of enormous natural strength. The
reports that the Beers have blown mp
portions of the tunnel are confirmed.
Although everywhere else they are
reported as retiring, they have eff
fected their retreats without losing
their conveys, or guns or prisoners
TO any extent. We're they disorgan'
lied they would strew the line OF
retreat with booty.
Gen. Colville's base is Winburg
Gen. Rumble is advancing upon Ficks
burg, trying to catch up with the re-
firing Beers Vrede, where the Free
State capital has been removed, is {
village of 200 inhabitants in the eN
IRENE northeastern part of the
country, on the road from Hebron Il
Bothia's pass and the Drakensburg
The British are contiscating the
cattle of the rebels in the districts
about Aliwal North. Col. Adye's mel
have driven in $500 head.
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
from Mequatlings Mex, dated Ma,
l6. saws: Gen. Roberts is reported
TO have captured 1900 Beers at Clio
colan."
London, May 22.-British horsemen,
according to a dispatch from Lou
reno Marques, are now close to the
Naal river, within 40 miles of Jo-
hannesburg. The migration from
Pretoria has begun. Women and
children are being sent in trains To
Machadadorp, on the way TO Lyden'
burg. Trains are arriving at Louren'
10 Marques filled with passengers
among whom are many Germans who
are bound for Europe.
\ correspondent with Gen. Hunter
telegraphs as follows from Fourteen
Streams: "Col. Mahon's relieving
column left Harllly West under secret
orders May !, and reached Vrybura
May If. The Beers marched ON the
right flank of the British and {
strange race followed Mahon press
ing toward MafeBing with the utmos
speed consistent with keeping tn,
force in condition and the Beers hur
rying parallel in an effort to pass hin
and to throw themselves across hi
path. The Beers succeeded. Mahol
then turned west during the night
The Beers followed, overlook and at
tackled him in the bush but wer
beaten Off" Then as Lord Robert
wired, Col. Mahon and Col. Plume