Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-03-31
II Is Believed That Fully $4,000
Foreign Troops Have Been
Added to Their Forces.
THEY ARE ALERT AND ACTIVE.
Boer Luck 10 the Ascendant - Oli,ier's
Column Believed TO BE
Safe.

Late dispatches received in London |
indicate that the Beers are having little
good luck and are showing some bold
ness again, as a raiding party estimated |
at 400 is believed by the British at War.
renton to have crossed the Kimberley. |
Bloemfontein wagon road Monday and
TO have headed for Iacobsdal with the in.
tentiou of cutting the railway ten miles |
west.
Commandant Olivier appears to have
gotten his 5000 men aud twenty i've miles
Of wagons into rugged country where he
can make an easy rear-guard defense.
Charles Williams, the English military
expert, SAYS: "If this column gets
through substantially Commandant oil.
vier will have carried out the great feat
of the war, seeing that he ran every
chance of being ground between the
upper milestone Of Roberts army and the
neither milestone of the broken Basuto
frontier. He will have done this within
| fifty miles or SO of Lord Roberts main
as though Lord Roberts held Olivier in
the hollow of his hand. If Olivier gets
through to Kroonstadt with even 500
men it will be an important addition to
the Boer gathering there. His escape is
attributable i'll part to the woruout condi-
ton of the British cavalry horses. Lord
Roberts transport appears to have been
badly dislocated by the loss at Riet river
before Cronje's surrender of the wagon
train, and in addition to this the army
with which he proposes to advance to-
ward Pretoria is nearly double taat of the
earlier rapid movements"
The Beers are concentrating in force
about fifteen miles north OF Bloemiontein
in the rear of Glen, and Lord Roberts is
sending forward troops TO engage them.
The Seventh infantry division and part
Of General French's cavalry have been
sent up to join the Fourteenth brigade
and the two cavalry regiments that are
holding Glen and its environs. II does
not seem probable that the Beers will
give serious battle in the fairly open
country north or Glen. Still their evil
dent strength indicates more than corps
of observation.
In small affairs the Beers are daringly
aggressive in all parts of the field of war
The johannesburg mounted police, esti-
mated by the Beers to be their best
mounted commando, are raiding the
country near Bloemfontein, harassinp
the farmers who have given up theii
arms to the British and carrying of
cattle.
The Beers have reoccupied Campbell
and are in strength near Taungs ant
Barkley West.
Lord Methuen and the forces that hay,
been operating in the Barkley distric
have been recalled to Kimberley by Lore
Roberts. No explanation has been givei
= for this, but the mounted troops are dis
satisfied at having been ordered back.
According TO Pretoria advces Mafekiut
was bombarded for seven hours on Tues
day.
1t is reported in London in well in
formed quarter that Lord Kitchener vii
be offered the post of commander-in-chie
'e in India, succeeding the late Sir Willai
y Lockhart, so soon as decisive successe
lie have been obtained in the Transvaal, an
10 that General Sir Archibald Hunter wi
IN succeed him as Lord Roberts chief ,
s. staff.
ie Only small part of Gatacre's fore,
I'd have yet arrived at Bloemfonteiu, All
X until that movement is completed it
II not likely that Roberts will start for Pr
e. toria.
ne The correspondent Of the Times a,
Ill the Boer forces have been re-equipps
Z. and he is fully convinced $1,000 foreip
re troops have been landed to aid the T
rn pubiics.