The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1900-06-01
BRITISHARMY UNITED
General Hamilton's Forces Join
Those Of Lord Roberts.
A RAPID ADVANCE IS BEING MADE
burghers Destroy Bridges on the Retreat
Across Yaal Rivor-Their Movements
Mysterious.

~ HhANNAWMAH
A London special says: The latest
intelligence from Lord Roberts head
quarters at Vredefort station, filed
Thursday at 5:45 p. m, was that the
British were rapidly advancing. Gen
eral Hamilton had effected a junction
with Lord Roberts. The country in
from Of them was clear Of Beers to vii.
lioen's drift. The Beers were evacuat-
ing oil their positions south OF the
Yaal river and 1000 had already cross
cd to the north bank. Probably Gen
eral French's cavalry is already recon
noitering the fords Of the Vaal.
War Office observers expect that the
next dispatch from the field marshal
will be dated in sight Of the Trans
vaal frontier.
Mr.. Bennett Burleigh, wiring to the
Daily Telegraph from Yredefort Thurs
DAY morning, said Lord Roberts would
doubtless cross the Yaal river Satur-
day or Sunday. The British outposts
were then at Erste Goluk, nine
miles north of Vredefort and
twenty-six miles south of the
Yaal river. The railway is much
damaged. While the British in over
whelming force are approaching the
\ Yransvaal the movement OF the Beers
are enveloped in mystery. The last
Pretoria news to reach Lourenzo
Marques was a week old. Everybody
seeking to cross the Portuguese Dor
der from the Tranvaal is searched for
newspapers and letters. Dispatches
and mail letters containing even
harmless references to the war are
suppressed; the only news that has
emerged from the TransVaal during
the last ten days has come by word of
mouth.
According to these oral reports the
Beers were quarreling among them
selves. TTansvaal paper money was
circulating at 80 per cent discount,
Beckets' firm was giving one pound in
gold for five pounds in paper. Krouz
and Klinke, the engineers who oppos.
ed the blowing up of the mines, have
been dismissed. Commandant Schultz
had been appointed to defend johann
I nesburg, and all the British subjects
had been turned out The Transvaal-
Jers fear that the British will blow up
the bridge at Komati poort, thus cut
ting off their supplies from Delagoa,
and a commando of 500 is guarding
the bridge.
It is reasserted that President Kru-
ger will retire to Lydenburg when
fighting is imminent at Johannesburg
9and Pretoria. Concern is expressed
at Pretoria with reference to the pos
sibility that General Darlington may
come down from Rhodesia with 5000
men to cooperate with as many more
entering the Transvaal by way Of
Mafeking. Horse sickness is said to
have broken out among General Car
rington's brigade.
Cecil Rhodes is at Bier, Portuguese
East Africa. Mr.. Fuller, a member
of the Cape parliament, who is sup
posed to be confdant of Mr.. Rhodes,
said in the course of speech at Cape
Town Wednesday, when proposing the
health of Mr.. Rhodes, that the latter
''was working to consolidate South
Africa from the Zambesi to Table
Bay"
Major Baden-Powell declines to act
on the suggestions of his friends that
he should return to England for rest.
He is determined to retain his active
command at the front Advices from
Mafeking dated May Goth, say:
"The Beers are intrenching at Pol
fontein, ten miles east of Mafeking.
The northern railway is now repaired
to a point within four miles of the
town. Ample supplies of plain food
are coming in.
''Colonel Baden-Powell voluntarily
gave up ffty-three Beers and eleven
wounded to the Boer commandantr
who thanked him for his kindness"
J, The Barantongs, stimulated by tho
z British success, attacked the rebe
natives at Belfontein May 10th, anC
took much loot They released SAM
the old chief, who rendered good ser
vice to the British in keeping Mafskin(
with news of the Boer operations.