The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-14
BLOEMFONTE|N FALLS
INTO HANDS OF ROBERTS
General Kitchener Arrives at Free State CaDitaJ
and will Enter Today.
Another Big Fight Expected But the British Are Conf
dent Of Their Success.

Cape Town, March I3.-GeneraI
French has arrived ar Bloemfontein.
London. March IA. 1870 a. m.-Noth-
ing can be said Of the advance on
Bloemfontein beyond Lord Roberts
own dispatches. Nothing more has
been permitted to come through.
Doubtless Lord Roberts himself is fully
occupied with important military op-
erations. The dispatch from Cape Town
saying that General French has ar
rived at Bloemfontein,' probably does
not mean that he has entered the city.
Lord Roberts messages may mean
either that the Beers have cut the rail-
way TO the north. or that the British
cavalry have done so. If the former
case, then il may be assumed that no
rolling stock has been seized. but by
general assumption the latter inter
probation is regarded as correct.
This would greatly facilitate obtain
ing supplies from Orange river, an i'm
portant matter, as Lord Roberts line
of communication at MOdder bridge is
now 10 miles long.
The Beers may make another fight,
erts will occupy Bloemfontein Wedpes-
day. The Beers retiring from Orange
river will find themselves between TWO
British armies. and their guns are al
most bound TO fall into the hands of the
British while the occupation of the
capital of the Free State will strain
the alliance of the two republics TO the
utmost.
Government Is Determined.
The government will not allow the
Kruger-Steyn appeal 10 influence in
any way their determination not TO
spare any effort TO prosecute the war
There win be no diminUtiOn Of meas
ures calculated TO maintain the full ef-
ficiency of the field force, and whatever
reinforcements were previously cOnsid-
cred advisable will still be sent out
Lord Salisbury's reply meets with
unanimous approval among cOnserva-
tives, and il is the universal opinion
that the Beers. by their extravagant
claims and canting tone. meant to in
fiuence foreign powers. however, again
overreached themselves, as they did by
the ultinatum.
The war office has received the fol-
lowing additional dispatch from Lord
Roberts at Venters Wei:
There were 81 men wounded and
about sixty or seventy were killed or
are missing"
Colonel Umpheley has died Of his
wounds. Lieutenant Pratt OF the Is
sex regiment, was wounded severely
The wounds are as a rule more serious
than usual owing to the expanding bull
lets which are freely used by the Beers
The Daily Mail has the following dis
patch from Kimberley dated Tuesday,
March Is: Lord MethUen occupied
POshOf on Sunday. without opposition.
He left a garrison there and returned
here.
Railway Lines Repaired.
1.-The railway ana telegraph lines
have been repaired thirty miles north
ward to Slyp Kip. It is understood that
line between Fourteen Streams and
Vryburg is not badly damaged"
Winston Churchill wires 10 the Morn
ing Post from Durham, protesting
against the ceremoniOus treatment Of
General Cronje. He adds:
1.-THE stern decision not TO exchange
prisoners viii undoubtedly accelerate
the end of the war. but it will prove
very hard and perhaps even dangerous
for the British prisoners in Pretoria:
There is abundant evidence that the
Beers are becoming more cruel and that
the war will enter a darker phase. It
is very doubtful If the Boer government
will be able to control the wild passions
Of the exasperated ruffiianS forming the
noisy part of the Boer forces in the
event Of a siege of Pretoria. and the
position Of the British prisoners would
then become precariOus.
I have visited the dam which the
Beers began on Kip river below Lady
smith. If it had been completed it would
have submerged IntOmbi camp, where
there were 1000 sick"
Lady Sarah Wilson wires 70 the Daily
Mall from Mafeking, under date Of
March 6, by native runner TO LObasti
March 8, as follows:
Furious Boer Bombardment
"On Saturday. March 3. the Beers
furiously bombarded the brick fields
and trenches about a mile from the
town for three hours. killing one and
wounding two cOlonials.
ION Monday, March 3. they made a
determined attack. Owing 10 a mis-
understanding the cOlOnialS evacuated
the foremost trench. This the Beers Oc-
cupied, but reserves were called up and
the trench was recaptured with rush
We had no casualties
The Beers are very active and it
garrison very heavily 10 prevent them
encroaching on our lines Since Com
mandant SDyman returned from the
north the siege has been prosecuted
with renewed vigOr.
Dynamite explosions We're heard
during the last two days of February.
The Beers have been blowing up sec
tons of the Northern railway. show
ing that they fear the approach Of
Colonel Plumer's column
The new five inch gun made here has
proved very satisfactory and accurate.
Colonel Raden-PowelI warned Com
nandant Snyman that unless he dis
banded and disarmed the native Ievies
hllinS the BOer forward trenches by
March 3, he (Baden-PoWelD would no
longer be responsible for restraining
Chief LInchWe in the Sequani district.
Commandant Snyman declined 10 dis
band them"
In the Hobbies in the house of COM
mons rumOrs that Mafeking had been
relieved we're in circulation this even
ing, but they still lack confirmation