Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-13
Was Originally To 0verrun
Cape Coll ny.
AT DEWDROp
British Army Used Mos Effectively
General Hart to J oin Roberts
The Peace m ssionerS 9 Com.
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mence Work. 10 Z

London. April Is. $3.50 p. m:4-1n -
roundabout way London hears that Lord
Roberts when wiring to the Prince OF
upon his escape from assassination, add
ed two or three hopeful sentences pof-
tending an early advance with wide
reaching combinations. 81 ~
Quiet assurances are passed around
among military men that Lord Roberts
is emploing his great army effectively
and tina the adventurous Boer COM
mands are likely to be enmeshed. Scraps
of news-a detail here and another there
have reached England tonight over
comparatively idle cables but they do not
illuminate the situation.
The c%olonials at Weperer still hold of
the Beers. Lord Methuen has worked
eastward until he is within 80 miles of
k~roonstad.
Boer scouts have gone around Lady
smith and lave appeared at Dewdorp and
other places on General Buffers TANKS
and rear. The officers or Buffers irregu-
lar horse estimate the Beers in Natal as
Is. 900 but these figures are probably ex-
! c~essive, 10000 being regarded here as the
! outside number.
After General Harris brigade leaves
him, General Butler will still nave close
upon o0.UVU IIlen. IL Is ScucIdlly dSSuAACO
that this brigade is going to join Lord
Roberts, but it's destination is really un-
known.
The Boer note to Portugal regarding the
use of the British Beira route for the
transportation of troops to Rhodesia may,
, If the Beers act against Portugal, lead
Great Britain to Ian troops at Lourenzo
Marques. The possibility has been SER
iously discussed and is referred to at
| length in the morning PAPERS,,
| The work of the BOer peacecOmmlsslOn-
| ers has begun. Mr.. Fischer has asked
Italy to intervene and the Italian minis
ter Of foreign affairs, the Marquis di Wis.,
cont Venosta, has replied that while he
would receive the ENJOYS, the best he
could do would be to transmit their pro-
posals to London, thus following the
course Of the United States. a,
Sir Alfred Milne when replying to- a
deputatiOn of clergymen in CapetoWn
yesterday Thursday, said: Never
again must be the motto Of all thinking
and humane men,. but not from lust OF
! conquest or a desire to trample on the
gallant, if misguided. There must be no
compromise or patchwork in the settle
ment and no opportunity for misunder-
standing, intrigue, the revival OF impos-
sible ambitions, or the accumulation of
enormous ornaments. #s
The British will no longer tolerate dis
SlLIilAo LIN oIlIo6oA4olAS
in a country which nature and history
have declared to be one" In these absO-
lutte u~tterances of Sir Alfred Miner he
speaks for the imperial government. 6
1t is calculated that Lord Roberts now
has "a, 900 effective troops, with $4,000
more af1oat or under orders. The war
office has instructed orders not to take
any more expanding bullets to Africa for
revolvers.
Hilyard Steyn, brother of President
Steyn, in the course of an interview at
Bloemfontein, said: 1.-THE original war
plan of the Beers was to overrun all
Cape Colony, but, on becoming involved
in the sieges of Kimberley and Lady
smith. the burghers found the design de-
spoiled To this, / attribute the Boer fail
ure to conquer the British. I expect the
war to last until Christmas"
The seventh mont of the war Is begin
ming with easter tide and the morning pa
per editorials expiate upon the need of So
berneSS.