Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1900-04-19

movement OF the Beers Is checked,
saws Lord Roberts. This is taken Il
mean, not by fighting but by DISPOSE
tions 10 head off their advance and bal
their way to vulnerable points in the
line Of British communications. Re
lief IS on the way to Wepener The
Beers in Natal appear incapable of de-
yeopng an aggressive movement at
Eandslaagte.
Lord Methuen is at Zwartkopfon.
TEN, T. miles east Of Boshof, and Is
sending small, swift columns through
the adjacent country. Lord Gresham
commanding one Of these, encoun-
tered a small commando about ten
miles southeast of Zwartkopfontein.
lie found most Of the farms occupied
by women and children only.
IN editorial note in the Daily Mail
avcrs, that Mafcking is in a very bad
way aud that the hope of relief Is far
or, ua no force is advancing from the
south.
The war office announces that 1000
horses will arrive at the Cape this
week, 1t is well understood that the
animals are not fit for work until
about ten days after the voyage. Two
thousand are due at the Cape next
week.
The I'oer peace ENJOYS have docu.
ments-t The Rome correspondent of the
Daily News says showing that urgent
advances to the Transyaal TO wage wal
were originally made by Germany
This correspondent also asserts that
Count Won Buelow, the German for.
eign minister, who was said to have
gone on a visit to sick brother, really
went TO Milan for the express purpose
of comforting with the delegates.
New Tactics Of tho Boers
London, April ,14.-The Bloemfon-
tein correspondent of the Morning
Post, teIegraphing Thursday, says:
"The enemy have evidently deter
mined to adopt entirely new tactics
Two columns are known to be moving
to the south of Bloemfontein. They
are relying on Cape carts for trans
portation and are carrying scarcely
any forage and only sufficient food to
meet the immediate requirements OF
the convoy, with OK transport follow,
ing at n secure distance. The Boer
columns are thus enabled to move al
most as quickly as cavalry. It is re-
ported that there are 5000 Beers tic
the south of DeWets dorp. The force
extends from that point to Odendahl
The burghers who had returned tc
their farms are undoubtedly rejoin
ing the enemy
The BOsr Losses
London. April 14.--'rhe Daily Mai
publishes the following dispatch
dated Friday, April 10, from Lourenzc
Marques "The Beers are manufac
turing shells, especially Vickers
Maxim, in large quantities at the Beg
bic foundry, Johannesburg. The actual
Boer losses to the end of March, in.
Guiding prisoners, are estimated at l2,.
600. At present there are several
thousand Beers in Natal and $4,000 in
the Free State"
Beers Relinquishsd the Attack.
Bloemfontein, April 14.-Accounts
received here of the fighting of the
troops under Col. Dalgety at Wepenel
show the Beers attacked them vigor
ously, but were repulsed with great
loss. The Beers subsequently relin
quished the attack and il is said here
they are returning northwards.
Nothing to Cause Uneasinsss
London, April 1.-THE Bloemfon
tein correspondent of the Daily Mail
telegraphing Thursday, says: "Thert
is nothing whatever to cause uneasi
ness. 1t will presently be seen that
the Beers are just where we want
them. In a word, we are all right"
Bloemfontein, April l6.-Lord Rob
erts, in his telegram of protest tt
President Kruger regarding the treat
ment to which the colonial officers
and troops who are now prisoners
at Pretoria have been subjected, com
plains that the Beers have treatet
them as il criminals confined in Jail
He points out that there are 80 cases
of enteric fever aud dysentery In the
prisoners camp at Waterfall; that the
Transvaal government failed to sup
ply, on demand of the doctor, tn,
necessary medicines and medical com
forts; that the prisoners were forced
to bivouac on the open veldt; thai
the sick were placed in an open shet
with an iron roof and that 1t wal
only when the new doctor threatened
to resign that medicines and mat
tresses were supplied. He invites
President Kruget to remedy this STATE
of things and contrasts it with tn,
treatment the British gives to Doe
prisoners, sick and wounded, who, Al
Lord Roberts says, receive the sam,
treatment as our own soldiers"