The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1900-08-30
HAS The BOfRS WHIPPED.
l0q1.ROetRTS REPORTS THAT OtweT
IS on THE RUN

r..r ..nIcr Buries Gums Because h. Can
u,, 80 Away with Them Nothing
!g.a.onnble la Correspondence Receot.
10. , upturrd.
l,>p)S, Aug % "A report from
DD. r. ,berts indicates that the BoeI
OPP ItIon in South Africa is thor
ougu.y demOrallzed and decisive vic
torres Tor the British forces may soop
be expected. According to advicef
from the British com N snder- in -chiei
DeWet has been cut of from tn.
eastward al d has probably recrossed
tur Mtglesberg, in an fort TO es-
cape nis pursuers by plunges into the
dhcult country OF the Orange River
colony
zen. Roberts reports that the Boer
sader has only about three hundred
followers left and that DeWet has
uocu compelled to bury his guns,
probably because he was unable to
transport them during his hurried
marches.
According to official advices Pres
Jdent Steyn is making despe, at.
effort to get out of the deld OF mill
tary operations aud jjin Kruger al
Nachadodorp. Roberts says tha,
,teyn is reported to have recrosset
the Plepaars river for that purpose
Advices Indicate that the bur ghers
are IN most desperate straits aud o
tlclals here are expecting pews oi
DeWets surrender at any time. L.
rs also believed that Steyn will be
captured before he can join Kruger q,
MachadOdorp.
Butler has had some hard fighting
during h,s advance. Roberts reports
that ne was fifteen miles south OF
Belfast Tuesday and that his column
has had twenty casultieS.
There was an engagement Tues.
day between Baden Powell apd
Grobler's rear guard, the latter be
ing driven back. While the fl zhtine
was IN progress the advance guards
rushed into each other and the R1o
desians had lleutenant-eolonel and
four men killed and two Off GERS and
six men wounded.
Gen. Roberts dispatch to the War
Office as follows:
"Pretoris, Aug. % Butler was a,
Van WyK's Wei, fifteen miles south
OF Belfast, yesterday. II has had
twenty casualties. Baden Pow, II
drove GrobleT's rear guard back east
of Pienaar's river in fl gat yester-
dav During the fight the advance
guards galloped into Zach other, the
khodesians losing q lieutenant colo
mel and four men killed and two of
certain that Dew ct, who has no hope
OF getting to the eastward, has re-
crossed the Magliesberg with the in
tentiou of returning to the Orang,
River colony. He has about three
hundred followers. Most of his guns
have been buried. Steyn is stat,
to have crossed Pienaar's river With
the intention of j,ining Kruger at
Machadodorp."
The correspondence captured by
the British at Bloemfontein was pub
llshed today. 1t consisted mostly Of
letters from Cape Colonv politicians
20 president Steyn AID Kruger. Tn.
members of Parliament whose names
are mentioned in the correspondence
aud Henry Laoourchere, editor Of
Truth, DIR. Gavin Clark, formerly
consul general of the Trsnsvsal t.
Great Britain, and John Edward
Mills, Liberal member for Noting
hamshIre.
The alleged discriminating letters
were all written before the breaking
out of the war in South Africa Ths
sole aim of the writer's, apparently
was to secure peaceful solution II
the d difficulty by means of q compIc-
mise, aud they specially urged con-
cessions by the Beers. Iustead Of be
ing in any degree repreheusible, the
letters will impress impartial read
ers as being distinctly creditable t,
the writers.