Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-15
DAYS EVENTS REVIEWED.

LONDON, May a., 3:45 a. m.-Gen-
Buffers turning of the Biggarsberg po-
sition was effected by bold move
ment The Beers had evacuated Help
makaar but were making a stand Mon
day evening at Bleskoplaagte, seven
miles from Dundee. The correspon-
dent on the spot regarded this as a
rear guard action intended to cover
the retreat of the army.
At the same time Gen. Hildyard took
Indoba, and it is reported that the
Beers withdrew in disorder.
Gen. Butler who seems to be employ
ing his full strength is expected to
push on. His first marches were As
miles in three days. He is thus break
ing into British territory which had
been administered for six months by
the Transvaalers as their part of the
republic, they holding courts and levy
ing taxes. His success, therefore, has
political as we'll as military conse-
quences.
While Lord Roberts infantry are
concentrating at Kroonstad, where they
will rest for a day or two, his horse
men 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 near Kroonstad to escape SER
vice, surrendered to the British and
taken the oath Of allegiance.
According to a dispatch from Bur-
leigh to the Daily Telegraph, dated
Thursday. May 10th, Paul Botha and
Mcdonald, members of the Free State
Volksraad, demanded that the chair
man should call meeting to sue for
peace as further resistance was sui
cidal, and proposed to make President
Steyn a prisoner.
Nothing definite has been heard
about the expected relief of Mafeking.
The Cape Town correspondents con-
tinue to wire that relief is imminent,
fixing Tuesday or Wednesday as prob
able dates. Inquirers at the war Of
flee are told that the news of the re-
lief will be made public Immediately
upon its receipt No word has come to
hand at midnight,
The latest supposition concerning
Gen. Hunter is that probably he is
marching up the North bank of the
Vaal with a force sufficient, in cooper
alton with Lord Roberts, to render
Boer defence of the Vaal frontier i'm
practicable.
East of Bloemfontein Gen Rumble is
advancing toward Ladybrand His
troops and those of Gen. Brabant are
stretched a distance of thirty miles
The Beers are described as quite dis
organized and as retreating northward
President Steyns lieutenants are try
ing to rally them.
The same stories of disintegration
come from nearly every point where
the English correspondents are. Mr..
Hollowell. formerly a correspondent
at Mafeking. who was put over the
Transvaal border, telegraphiag from
Lorenzo Marques, Sunday, says:
Judging from talks l have had with
the Beers the end of the war will
come in a month or six weeks. Mr..
Steynekamp. chairman of the sec
ond Rad, who travelled with me, said
that If the Burghers were pressed from
Pretoria they would retire to the
district of the Gutenberg mountains.
which had already been provisioned.
He remarked that he hoped the Burgh-
ers would stand firm. but he feared
/ they were too broken in spirit.
Il gathered from him that the whole
available force of the Transvaal was
new in the field, the final command
eering having taken place last Thurs
day, and that it is only the powerful
magnetism of President Kruger that
keeps the Burghers together"
At the British hospitals in Bloem-
fontein the deaths from enteric fever
average from eight to ten daily.