The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-17
WILL SOON GO TO PRETORIA.
THAT is VIEW AS TO ROBERTS,
NEXT MOVEMENT.

Mafeking Is Now the Only Point of
Anxiety, and Its Relief Is soon Ex-
pected-EHOrts to Secure Interven-
tion Were FutiIe-Stnmpede From
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Cecil Rhodes
Thinks of Butler Many Beers
Leaving for Their Homes.
London. March II, 4:20 a. m.-With the
| railway communication TO the Cape intact
Lord Roberts will in very few days he
in a position to begin the advance on Pre-
toria
His deep political intuition combined
with his bold strategy, is having the re-
suit desired in the southern sections of the
Orange Free State, which are rapil lly
| calming down.
Mafeking is now the only point for anx-
icy and it is known that force has left
Kimberley. Its relief may be announced
before many days pass. The efficiency
of the relieving column is heightened by
| the fact that 1t is partly composed of reg
ulars.
In the Hobbies of Parliament last even-
ing it was rumored that Lord Roberts Is
about to issue a proclamation announcing
that the former system of government in
the Orange Free State is abolished and
promising Free Staters who Immediately
surrender due consideration
As to Intervention.
1t is thought all the continental Powers,
with one exception, uncompromisingly re-
fused to intervene. The exception is Rus
sia, whose reply was couched in less firm
language, although like the others, she
declined to interfere. 1t is said that the
Pope was also appealed to, but that he de-
clined to do anything beyond writing a
letter to the Queen, appealing to her to
| stop the further effusion o. blood. DR..
Leyds' efforts with King Leopold were
quite futile.
The possibility of the destruction of Jo-
| hannesburg is still discussed here. but it
| is believed that the French and German
shareholders would offer a strong pro-
test.
The latest advices respecting the sur
render of Bloemfontein show that the ap-
| proach of the British caused a stampede.
Thirteen trains, each composed Of forty
cars, and all crammed with Beers, hur-
ried northward just before the line was
| cut.
President Steyn would have been COM
| he was going to. visit one of the outposts,
and at midnight took q carriage which
was waiting for him outside the town,
| and thus escaped. The Beers got the bulk
of their wagons and military stores away.
Rhodes Opinion of Butler.
| The Daily Mail publishes an interview
| this morning with Mr.. Cecil Rhodes se-
cured by Mr.. Julian Ralph, in the course
| of which, complaining of the\' 'bungling
| of the home authorities, he said:
Gen Buffers extraordinary orders to
Lord Methuen were to relieve Kimberley,
| to take all the people away, and to fall
| back to Orange river. You people in Eng
land have such wonderful ideas about
| GEN Buffers generalship; but such re-
| treat would have. been monstrous." "
| Mr. Rhodes declared that there had only
| been 80, 900 Beers in the field altogether,
and that the foreign mercenaries were
only about 1900. The numbers of the
| Beers, he said, had been exaggerated in
order to explain the British reverses
Beers Going to Their Homes.
The Daily Mail has the following dis
patch from Lorenzo Marquee dated Fri
| day. March 49,
| "Entrenching is proceeding on the Vaal
river at Vereeynig.
Late arrivals from Pretoria say that
| the Peers themselves now admit that their
| cause is hopeless. Gen. Lucas Meyer re-
fuses to fight again and has returned to
| his farm. Gen. Schalkburger has also re-
turned and the burghers are going home
| by hundreds"