The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-02-28

BIoemfontein and Wineberg, which
would sever the connection between the
Beers in Natal and those south of the
Orange rveir
IF the Beers make a stand west OF
BlOemfOntein, so much the better.
With $4,000 men, Lord Roberts may
well be able 10 envelope and to destroy
a respectable force there.
The effect Of the Faardeberg victory
viii probably be a movement nOrthWard
of the BOer forces south of Orange
river. In Natal the effect will be moral
rather than straregical. The effect Of
elatiOn on one side and Of depression
on the other viii be equal, for the mo-
ment, to the addition of a brigade to
General Buffers forces.
Beers Face a Crisis.
''The Beers in Natal nave to face a
crisis. II they send troops TO the Free
State they viii sacrifice the whole re
suit Of the long campaign before Lady
smith. Not to send them win be to
render probable a second, and still
more important victory by Lord Rob-
eTts a few days hence"
The LourenzO Marques CORES pondent
Of the Times, telegraphing Tuesday.
says; Many foreigners are leaving the
Transvaal and numerous government
faAA-aafeA1 4AfAh z -trtA kEA III EAyiic1Atti.
Adelbert Hay, United States consul ae
Pretoria, is earning the respect Of both
Beers and Uitlanders and proving him
self tactful and aSsiduOus."
Inc morning papers are jubilant, but
they all warn the nation against over
confidence.
The Standard says: IF Lord Roberts
had been allowed to prosecute the cam
paign in 1891, how different history
would have been. But the wheel has
run it's full circle. The errors and hes
itation Of the Gladstonian era are at
length being retrieved"
The Times says: The British now
Will do well to avoid Illusions. The ef-
feet Of General Cr0nje's disaster is not
easy 20 calculate It may conceivably
lead both the Transvaal and the Free
state to recognize that they are over
matched but a defeat of this kind,
serious though It is, would not wing
the men of our race to their knees, and
the Dutch are almost as stubborn and
tenacious"
Praise For Canadians.
After advising the continuance Of the
war preparations. the Times concludes
as follows: But if anything could en-
hanCe the intense and widespread sat-
( isf0ctiOn Of the nation at The achieve
ments of our troops, IL is the knowledge
that the Canadian contingent played
the principal part in the decisive move
ment which forced tie stubborn BOer
leader 10 own that ne was beaten"
The Daily News says: ITO the Canad-
ians belongs the honor of having hast
ened the inevitable. It would be rash.
however, to suppose that the Beers viii
sue for peace, or that all our difficult
ties are removed. -
Mr.. ParslOw, the correspondent of the
Daily Chronicle a. Mafekimg, who had
previously been reported accidentally
SHOT and killed on Nov. ,, was, it APP
pears from the diary of a Morning Post
correspondent and from a letter re-
ceived by the Daily Chronicle, murder
ed by Lieutenant MurchisOn of the
British artillery. reputed TO be man Of
fine professional abilities.
1t. seems that Mr.. PaFs5OW and Lieu
tenant Murchison had dined together,
and that. when they were strOlling
across the square. Aiurchison was seen
to draw a revolver and to kin his COM
panion. An inquiry was held. and a
finding of willful murder was returned.
Lieutenant MurchieoR was tried by
courtmartial.