Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-13
ROBERTS WORK
Has Deceived the Forces of
the Beers.
in ADVANCE
Are Now Only a Short Distance From
the Point of Attack-The Railway
VIII Be Seized by British Forces
In q Short Time. y
IS
CAVALRY in ADVANCE

London. March 13. 4:2o a. m.-Lord
Roberts is making a very rapid advance
and he is again misleading the Beers by
continuing the advance southwark in
stead of through the fiat country due
east of Aasvogel kop. He will probably
seize h railway south of Bloemfontein
and although another battle is possible,
it is more han likely that the Beers are
endeavoring to delay his advance until
all he rolling stock on the railways and
the stores and troops from the Orange
river district can be gotten away Such
confidence is now felt in the military
operations that interest rather centers
in the political aspect of the war.
The Daily News quotes Whitelaw Reid
as saying in a private letter: II give
you hearty congratulations on the
changed aspect of the war. 1t is an i'm
mense relief to us all as well as to you."
This view." says the Daily News. lis
welcome, as expressing with an unusual
measure of authority enlightened public
feeling in the United States"
Except in the case of Germany, the
replies of the powers to the Boer APP
peals for intervention are not yet
f%0AA&Ay A4SASt ON& ~ 10 Au1IC XXI
tain that Austria Hungary n Italy
will decline to interfere and there is no
apprehension that anything will come
OF the Overtures of the two republics.
A dispatch from Lorenzo Marques an
nounces the arrival there of Mr.. Fisher,
the Orange Free State secretary. and
MI. Woolmarens, a emb of the
Transvaal executive council. It is not
Known whether they are bound on a
mission to foreign countries. or to Sir
Alfred Miner. Mr.. Woolmarens is in
President kruger's confidence.
Cecil Rhodes has issued a statement
that his forthcoming visit to England
has solely to do with private business
and is in no way connected with the
South African settlement. n
All h morning papers take the line
that h government will decline to
open negotiations with the Boer repub~
lies except upon the basis Of complete
surrender and will also make it per-
factly clear that nothing in the shape
Of foreign intervention will be ~tolerat-
ed The Standard says: There is an
idea in some quarters that on ARRIVING
at Bloemfontein Lord Roberts will is
sue a proclamation which will leave
little doubt as to the future of the re-
publics."
The Times says: president Kruger
and President Steyn should have count
Gu Tie COSI DeloTe tney maze war. Ihey
played for a great stake and have lost.
Until they are ready for unconditional
surrender they may save themselves the
trouble of sending kilograms to her
majesty's government. We are glad to
see that it is understood in the United
States as we'll as on the continent that
any proffer of mediation will be dis
tinctly repugnant to this n It
would be wholly inadmissable, and the
Dutch minister at Washington is en-
tirely mistaken in supposing we would
listen to such proposals if only they
came from a nation 'on terms of cordial
intimacy with u.s. We mean to settle
this controversy ourselves and in our
own way"
No further news has been received
from Mafeking. but it turns out that
Colonel Peakman the relief
column which is marching from Kimber-
ley.