The Saint Paul globe., 1900-03-19
ADVANCE OF FORCES TOWARD
MAFEKING REGARDED AS
SATISFACTORY
NATIVES GETTING STIRRED UP
COL. BADEN-PONvELL HAS ARMED
THEM BECAUSE OF SOME RE
CENT HAPPENINGS
ANOTHER BRUSH WITH BOERs
A Cavalry brigade Attempting to
Cut Of 1000 That Are Making
Their Way Now to the
SOuthVVard.

LONDON, March 10, 4:SO a. m.-The
news from South Africa today is entirely
satisfactory TO the British public. The
relief of Mafeking is not yet announced,
but 1t is extremely probable that it has
already been accomplished by Col
Plumer Lady Charles Bentinck, at Cape
Town, has received a telegram from her
husband in Mafeking, dated March Y,
saying that he expected to join her short
ly. The actual relief movement has not
been publicly developed in detail, but it
seems that Lord Methuen only started
very recently and is rather engaged in
dispensing the Beers of the district than
aiming at actual relief.
Col Beakman has dispersed 800 Beers
at Fourteen Streams.
Lord Roberts probably ascertained from
MIR. Frazer, the new mayor of Bloemfon-
tein, before dispa tching Gen POle-Carew
southwark, that in all likelihood the rail-
way was clear. The next movement will
be to collect at Bloemfontein by railway
sufficient stores for the immense army
Lord Roberts will have when the Orange
river forces have joined him. This will
probably occupy from two to three weeks.
Therefore the next important operations
may be expected in Natal.
The cavalry brigade Lord Roberts
has sent to Thaba Nchu, thirty-five miles
east of Bloemfontein, is destined to cut
off 1900 Beers, who are escaping from the
southwark.
The Beers are reported to have destroy
ed the railway in the neighborhood of
Kroonstat,
Lord Kitchener is quietly organizing
IN, the northeast of Cape Colony. Predic-
tions and betting are beginning here that
the war will be ended by the middle of
May.
Dispatches from Durham, Pietermaritz-
burg and other South African towns de-
scribe most enthusiastic celebrations on
St. Patrick's day.
a London newspaper correspondent
says that Lord Roberts suggested the
queens order for the wearing of the
green. Whether this be so or not. it has
been most favorably received.
NATIVES BEING ARMED.
LOURENzO MARQUES, Sunday.
March 1S-A dispatch from Mafeking,
dated Saturday, March TO- says:
The garrison is holding its own. We
have heard numerous rumors that the
siege will be raised, but far that is
not the case. We are pegging along pa
tfently on quarter rations, supplemented
by the occasional capture of cattle. Our
own are making erTattc bombardment of
the Boer trenches. Horrible stories are
current that the Beers are irt1icting
nameless tortures upon captured native
runners These may not be true but they
are tending to inflame native passions to
such an extent that it may soon be i'm
possible to hold the natives in check.
owing to the Beers having deliberate
ly bombarded the native stadt, which is
full of women and children, Col. Baden
Powell has armed the natives, but he has
only allowed them 10 act on the defensive,
although they have ciamored to be al
lowed to go out and attack at the point
OF the assegai
"They will be prevented as long as pos
sible from inflicting reprisals on the
Beers"
DISPATCH FROM ROBERTS.
LONDON, March 1S.-The war office has
received the following 0lspatch from
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, dated Bloem-
fontein, Sunday, March Is:
THE Guards brigade returned yesterday
from NOrvals Pont. Several burgherS
have laid down their arms to Gen. Pole
Carew at Edinburg and elsewhere.
The officer commanding at Belmont re-
ports that some deserters have come in
with Maxim, a nine-pounder and an
other gun. Another nine-pounder has
been brought into Colesberg. The cavalry
brigade has gone to Thaba Nchu in order
to reassure the inhabitants of that dis
trict and to distribute copies of the proc
lamation to the people of the Free State
These prociamatiOns are being eagerly
sought after.
Lord Methuen reached Warrenton on
March 16. He was in time to prevent the
deviation bridge from being completely
destroyed and to clear the pont on the
Vaal. The English mail was dispatched
from here by rail yesterday and tomorrow
the regular railway service with Cape
Town will be reopened.
'Mafeking reports that all was well or
March g."
SURRENDERING ARMS
A dispatch to the Daily Mall from
Bloemfontein, dated Friday, March 16
says:
I'VE are getting rifles surrendered
faster than factory could turn then
out. 1t is quite certain that if a British
official can reach the northern Iaagers
with Lord Roberts proclamation the
whole Boer population will declare fol
peace"
), TALKING OF THE END.
n dlSpatch to the Daily News from
Bioemfontein, dated Friday, March l6
says:
Events have occurred which have in.
duced some to predict that the war will
last only 50 long as Il takes to march
to Pretoria. The educated Beers, ever
the Transvaalers are ready to accept tn,
InevitablS. l am told that a corps of 200
women has been formed at Pretoria. 1
is called the Amazon corps. All th.
members are uniformed in kills and ar,
armed"
TRANSVAALERS PLEASED.
The correspondent Of the Times at Lou
renzo Marques, teiegraphng under dat,
of March 16, says:
State Secretary Reitz, of the Trans
Vaal, in the course of an interview, saic
that the outcome of the American renl
was highly satisfactory and he believed
the United States would bring such pres
sure to bear as would bring about a set
tlement agreeable to the people of th
two republics. While admitting the Sc
riousness of the situation, Mr. Rc.tz sal,
he is convinced that the burghers of tn