The age-herald., 1900-05-15
GENERAL EULER
 GOING FORWARD He Turned the BiggaTsburg Posi- tl0n by a Bold MOVe' NOTHING NEW FROM WATERING Correspondent HoIIaweII Says He Be- lieyes Now That the War Will
 End in Six Weeks-The
 Boers DisIntegrating.
NOTHING NEW FROM MAFEK|NG

London, May 15, 3:45 a. m.-Genera1 Bull
 lers turning of the Biggarsburg position was effected by a bold movement. The
 Boers had evacuated Helpmaakar, but
 were making stand Monday evening at | Bleskoplaagate, seven miles from Dundee. The corps on the north regarded this as a rear movement.
 | At the same time General Holdyard took
 Indoba and 1t is reported that the Boers withdrew in disorder.
 | General Butler, who seems to be employ l ing his full strength, is expected to push on. His first marches were forty miles in three days. He is thus breaking into Brit ish territory, which had been administered for six months by the Transvaalers as
 though it were part of theirs, they hold
 ing courts and levying taxes. His success,
 therefore, has political as well as military
 consequences.
 While Lord Roberts infantry are concern trating at Kroonstad, where they will rest
 for day or two, his horsemen have pene- trated eighteen miles northward. In the squadron which cut the railway fifteen
 miles beyond Kroonstad was the American
 scout, Frederick Burnham. Two hundred
 
 near Kroonstadt to escape service, have surrendered to the British and taken the oath of allegiance
 According to dispatch from Bennett
 Burleigh to the Daily Telegraph, dated Thursday, May 10, Paul Botha and Me Donald, members of the Free State volks-
 raad demanded that the chairman should
 call meeting to sue for peace, as further resistance was suicidal, and proposed to
 make President Steyn prisoner. Nothing Definite from sIareking Nothing definite has been heard about 1 the expected relief of Mafeking. The Cape town correspondents continue to wire that relief is imminent, fixing Tuesday or Wednesday, as probable dates Inquirers at the war office are told that the news of the relief will be made public immediately
 on its receipt. No word has come to hand at midnight
 | The latest supposition concerning Gen
 eral Hunter is that possibly he is march, ing up the north bank of the Vaal with a | force sufficient, in cooperation with Lord | Roberts to render Boer defense on the | Vaal frontier impracticabie. East of Bloemfontein General Bundle is | advancing toward Ladybrand. His troops | and those of General Brabant are stretched over distance of thirty miles. The Boers | are described as quite disorganized and as | retreating northward. President Steyn's | Heutenants are trying to rally them. The same stories of disntegration come | from nearly every point where the English | correspondents are. MT. Hollawell, former | ly a correspondent at Mafeking, who was
 put over the. Transvaal border, telegraphine | from Lourenzo Marques, Sunday says: Win End in Six Weeks Judging from talks have had with the l Boers, the end of the war will come in a | month or six weeks. MT. Stinkamp, chair | man of the second raad, who travelled with
 me, said that if the burghers were pressed | from Pretoria they would retire to the dis | trict of the Lydenburg mountains, which l had already been provsioned. He remarked ] that he hoped the burghers would stand | firm, but he feared they were too broken in l spirit.
 | q gathered from that the whole available l force of the 3fransvaal was now in the field, | the final communicating having taken place | last Thursday, and that it is only the pow l erful magnetism of President Kruger get l ting his burghers together" At the British hospitals in Bloemfonteir | the deaths from enteric fever average from l eight to ten daily.