New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-05-15
RETIRING BEFORE BULLER.
INDOBA FALLS INTO HILDYARDS HANDS
END OF WAR EXPECTED SOON.

END OF WAR EXPECTED SOON
London, May 15.-General Buffers turning Of
the Biggarsberg position was effected by a bold
movement. The Beers had evacuated Help
makaar. but were making stand Monday
evening at Beskoplaagte, seven miles from Dun
dee. The correspondent on the spot regarded
this as a rearguard action intended to the
retreat Of the army.
At the same time General Hildyard took In
doba. and ii is reported that the Beers withdrew
in disorder
General Buller, who seems to be employing his
full strength. is expected to push on His first
marches We're forty-flve miles in three days. He
IS thus breaking into British territory which had
been administered for si,. months by the Trans
vaal leaders though it part of the re-
public, they holding courts and levyng taxes.
His success therefore, has political as we'll as
military consequences.
While Lord ROberts's infantry are concentrat-
ing at Kroonstad where they will rest for a
day two. his horsemen have penetrated
eighteen miles northward. In the squadron which
cut the railway fifteen miles beyond Kroonstad
was the American scout Frederick Burnham
Two hundred Beers who had hidden in the river
jungles Kroonstad TO escape service have
surrendered to the British and taken the oath
Of allegiance.
According to a dispatch from Bennett Burleigh
to The Daily Telegraph" dated May TO- Paul
Botha and Macdonald, members of the Free
State Volksraad. demanded that the chairman
should call meeting to- for peace, as fur
ther resistance suicidal and proposed to
make President Steyn a prisoner.
Nothing definite has been heard about the
expected relief of Mafeking. The Cape Town
correspondents continue to telegraph that relief
is imminent, fixing Tuesday Wednesday
probable dates. Inqurers at the War Office are
told that the news of the relief will be made
public Immediately upon its receipt
The latest suppcsticn concerning General Hun
ter is that possibly he is marching up the north
bank of the Vaal with a force sufficient in CO.
operation with Lord Roberts, to render Boer
defence of the Vaal frontier impracticable.
East Of Bloemfonten General Rumble is ad-
vancing toward Ladybrand. His troops and
those of General Brabant stretched
distance of thirty miles. The Beers de-
scribed as discrsanized and as retreating north
ward. President Steyns lieutenants are trying
to rally them.
The same stories of disntegration come from
nearly every point where the English corre~
spondents are. Mr.. Hellawell, formerly CORE
spondent at Mafeking who put over the
Transvaal border teegraphing from Lourenco
Marques on Sunday, says:
Judging from talks have had with the Beers,
the end of the will come in a month or six
weeks. Mr.. Steinekamp, chairman of the Sec
ond Raad, who travelled with me. said that If
the burghers were pressed from Pretoria they
would retire the district of the Lydenburg
Mountains, which had already been provsioned.
He remarked that he hoped the burghers would
stand firm, but he feared they were TOO broken
in spirit.
/ gathered from him that the whole available
force of the Transvaal was now in the field, the
final communicating having taken place last
Thursday. and that it is only the powerful mag
netism of President KRUGER that keeps the
burghers together.
At the British hospitals in Bloemfontein the
deaths from enteric fever average from eight to
ten daily.