The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-17
TRANSvAAL
IS ENTERED.
Hunter is Within Ten Miles of
Christiania.
Roberts Advance Continues to
Be UnOppOsed.
SAME WITH BULLER.
Steadily Moving Toward a juno
tiOn With BObs' Army.
President Kruger's Grandson
Made Prisoner at Mafeking.

London, May II, 2:18 p. m.-The war
office has received from Lord Roberts
the following dispatch, dated Kroon-
stad, Wednesday, May 16:
Rundle yesterday occupied Mequat-
hng's Mex and Modder Poort without
opposition
Hunter has entered the Transvaal
and has advanced within ten miles of
Christiania.
'Methuen has reached a point twelve
miles on the Hoopstad road without
seeing the enemy
Natives and local whites have con-
firmed the previous reports of the disor-
ganization of the Free Staters.
THE situation here is unchanged.
The war Office has received the fol-
lowing dispatch from General Butler:
"Dannihauser, May 1.-THE second
division has reached Dannihauser, and
l hope that my advance patrols are at
Newcastle.
The fifth division is echeIonned from
Elandslaagte to Glencoe repairing the
railway. The fourth division is at Sun
days River drift, on the old Newcastle
road.
Several Natal farmers are handing
over their arms.
'.All reports were that about 1000 of
the enemy passed north very hurriedly
May IA and May Is"
NOBODY BELIEVED HIM
London, May lin the committee
room of the house of commons this
morning, Sir James Kitson liberal
member for Yorkshire, West Riding,
| Colnle Valley division, announced that
| Mafeking had been reliSVed. The war
! office, however. is unable to confirm the
| announcement.
STORMING OF MAFEKING.
Pretoria, Tuesday, May 15.-An off
| cial bulletin announces that the fed
| eral troops stormed and occupied the
| forts around Mafeking on Saturday
/ morning. The same night the fedora Is
| were surrounded, losing, so far as
| known, killed, II wounded, and a
| number taken prisoners. The British
/ casualties are said to have been sc
| killed or -wouf1d dc d.
It is reported that the advance guard
of the force proceeding to the relief OF
MafelIing from the south was repulsed
yesterday.
KRUGER's GRANDSON PRISONER
Cape Town May ia dispatch from
Lorenzo Marques, dated today, says
| that Commandant Eloff, grandson OF
| President Kruger with a patrol, en-
| tered Mafeking, whereupOn Colone
| Baden-POWel opened fire on the burgh-
| ers, killing II of them and taking Elof
and 80 of his men prisoners.
PROUD OF BADEN-POWELL.
London, May 1.-THE closing days OF
the drama at Mafeking have beer
| marked by intensity of dramatic in
terest, as unexpected as it is out of pro
| portion with the forces engaged. The
| news that the half-famished garrison
was not only able to repel an attack
but to infiict such heavy loss in killed
and prisoners as reported in the dis
patch from Cape Town, announcing tht
capture of Commandant Eloff the
grandson of President Kruger, and 80 0.
his men, makes Great Britain NOR,
than ever proud of Colonel Baden
Powell's little band and increases tht
national desire for their relief to
fever pitch. Lord Roberts and his larg.
army at Kroonstad and General Buller'
thousands forging over the Biggars
berg range. are almost entirely for
gotten. Every one is thinking or talk
ing of Mefelxing and the latest exploit
of it's defenders. RumOrs continue riff
that the relief of the place has beel
accomplished, but all official confirma
ton of the reports was lacking at
o'clock this afternoon. There was con
siderable speculation as to what Col
Baden-Powell would do with his ninet.
prisoners and whether the victory ha
not so depleted his force as to rende
him open to annihilation in the even