Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-04-12
ROERS CHECKED
At ELANDSLAAGTE
,,.,diIy Advanced on British but
Stopped After Two Hours Fight
LITTLE FROM LORDROBERTs
,.,.poveII,s Death Doubted Con-
,aou Of ,afcklug- Sir Alfred Will
per Accused Of Falsehood'

Tany Dispatched
,,,5op April PA special dispatch
,,1m Elanlslaagte, dated yesterday
says ,...,s
sighting was renewed beyond
r,,rl.laagte this afternoon. The Beers
.,s,5ny advanced upon the British po-
.,i,,s There was a continuous rife
end the Boer big guns were in ac-
.,o The British replied effectively
.,5 after two hours fighting the Beers
we're checked"
GATACRE's SUDDEN REMOVAL
1oo5on. April 70. $50 a. m.-There Is
r,ts fresh Intelligence from the seat
=, war 30 south Africa. II looks as
Enough Lord Roberts may be preparing
"a lake a strong force to clear the
p,s-s from behind him. A Capetown
sspaich says he VIII not move for an
other week owing 10 the necessity Of
gathering stores and supplies.
sr william Gatacre's sudden re-
noyal Is the theme OF much specula-
zion The curt manner in which 1t is
announced causes much comment, The
general impression IL that It Is con-
psctei with the Reddersburg affair.
although there are many who consider
hat there must be something much
more serious. as other generals IN
south Africa have been retained in
command after biuuder5 more formlda-
de than Gatacre's.
BADEN-POWELLs DEATH DOUBT
ED.
The NaI Office has received no newe
Of the death OF Col. Baden-Powell, the
British commander at Mafeking, and
utterly dIscredlts the rumor The re-
port comes IN a dispatch from Pre-
t0ra
The operations In Natal have not yet
been fully explained. There appears TO
have been AN attempt to outfank the
British az Elandslaagte and TO sever
them from their base at Ladysmith,
The duke OF Marlborough has ar
rived az Boemfontein, There are now
fifteen grandsons Of the duchess Of
Ahrcom serving with the British
forces
u Is announced from Bloemfontein
that Col lnlFo Jones has been APP
pointed 20 the command OF the guards
brigade Col. Maxwell to the command
q The fourteenth brigade. Col Knox
% NE command Of the twenty-thlrd
brigade and Mai Brazier- Creagh Of
ue Indian stan corps to the command
q Roberts horse.
AMBULANCE CORPS FROM CHICA-
GO.
The correspondent OF the Daily Mail
81 LourenzO Marques telegraphing
Wednesday, says: 1.-THE departure Of
ne chicago ambulance corps for Pre-
fora was delayed on suspicion Of fill
Clustering, The members left By n spe-
cal train this afternoon accompanied
by q motley following OF French and
Germans 100 10 all The departure only
occurred after many story inter-
views With The Portuguese authorities
me members have no passports and
20 credentials beyond a letter from
Mss cara Barton 20 the effect that
enc Knows some Of them personally and
ttue'es them 90 be genuine. but many
nave openly expressed their intention |
Of fighting. The Beers are paying |
i.om $50 TO $40 per month for such re-
IhIrty-dye thousand Beers. with /
ninety guns. are concentrating on the /
tange of hills between Kroonstad and |
NnDlrg. The whole line Is fortified |
anl Is almost impregnabie."
FoRTIFYING BLoEMFoNTEN.
The BIoemfonteln correspondent OF
,le DdiIy Telegraph. In a dispatch dat
~ tuesday says. The permanent de-
t-'s' are nearing completion so that /
ue io"n can be held by a relatively
s.l'H garrison. A British scout who
.es visited the Bloemfontein water
sl.As reports that the machinery and
sai.9 are intact. Only a few Beers re-
il.aln DO ihe neIghborhood. The enemy
ssalp Ielfeated six miles north and
.H'l lager near Waterfall News |
wv zen. Bpbant az Wepener shows
Ttal aH ls going satisfactorily there.
nv NV troops are getting new khaki uni
forms and boots'
MAFEKING Is WEARY.
IN, Ing correspondent Of the Times az
''al'Nihs, under date OF March 9Oth
Nls upon the hopeless cOnfu-
,.,ln aH4 Uuctuau0n Of spirits In the
.'l'1N as 20 the chances Of relief !
tuesdays terrible b0mbardment.
uI upon the variety OF rumors regard |
~ ."e location OF the relief forces. ru-
.l.s involving. 80 Tar as the southern
"AINN D. concerned dlsrrenanrls- 81 90 |
hundred miles.
ne Lolienzo Marques correspondent
y "s llmes, telegraphlng Wednes-
~. says. 'Epler, an Austrian anan-
d "A9 ls acting as captain Of the |
'-.'l mines police In order 10 frus-
',l lue destruction OF the mines. sent
yulohsltance 10 Pretoria against
,,,'ls' win the result that State En-
, ,rg,I Muunniks' order for boring was
~ DURHAM correspondent OF the
o. telegraphlng Wednesday. |
~. a brigade Is being sent from |
~ 20 JON the main army under Lord
ip,,..., II Is under command Of Gen.
NO WAR IN EUROPE.
a..... r. ~ ANlA ia London cable /
~. -- 70 tne Tribune saws. THE Boer
,, commission has arrived In Eu-
W., "uere u win be coolly received al
sr,. continental capital. Whatever
50, sympathy there may be FOR the
gause no European government
~, ypared % declare war on Great
INK, ,''.' nor 10 undertake 20 dlspatch an
o sogb ~ ~ hundred thousand men
maui africa. Those are the only
.6ni5 ,'gls under which Intervention
n ~ serve any practical purDose. al.
.rtisl explicit warnings given by the
...IIlsh government
han ny. sApected IN diplomatic circles
,1s.' Hiessfs Fischer. Wolmsrlpes ana
,rti-s WIN make short stav IN ne
mn. ana viii cross the Atlantic In
~ ~. craving the Americans with
I art8.oi politicians, into some kind
iNcoNPETENcY IN WAR.
london April s.-Ccorresno,ae,oe
lmbe. ~ ffess)-Judging from the
r5 ',V ~ OF Prominent officers mark,ng
'"'lns the British lines OF comrnu.
.tt p.., many Of them. writes pen.
an. t-I.tifl 20 the Daily Telerrapb
N h found out"
sst l-l a llshed. % he saws. chat In AZ
u ,ne instance a certain leedsr H.
''"l'aucs allowed 1000 Boere a. 80.