The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-29
ROBERTS BEGINS ADVANCE
10000 MEN NOW TEN MILES NORTH
OF BLOElIFONTEIN.
Immense Quantities of Stores Accu-
mulnted-Garrisoning of Free State
Towns-Escape North of Large Boer
Forces - London Papers Comment
Kindly on Joubert-His Death Was
from PeritONitis.


Kindly on Joubert-His Death Was
from Peritonitis.
London, March 29 5;15 a. m.-Lord
Roberts has sent 10000 troops to Glen,
ten miles north of Bloemfontein on the
railway. This is preliminary to
the general advance Immense
quantities Of stores have now been ac-
cumulated at Bloemfontein and Lord
Roberts entire force is about to move.
Moving ten miles a day is probably
the best he can do with field transport.
Therefore he can hardly engage the
Beers in force for two weeks. The re-
construction Of the railway behind him
may even delay an invasion of the
Transvaal until May. Meanwhile all
the important towns in the Free State
within Lord Roberts reach are being
garrsoned. Thaba Nchu, Philppolis,
Fauresmith and Jagersfontein are thus
held.
Sir Alfred Miner is touring in the dis
turbed newly acquired territory investi-
cation conditions and arranging the ad-
ministration. He is understood to be
Chamberlain concerning a plan of civil
government.
All the morning papers print singular
ly kind editorials concerning General
Joubert. They praise his military skill,
uphold his ohivalrous conduct and re-
gret that so strong and moderate a
mind should be absent from the final
settlement of the dispute.
Although some of the younger COM
manders thought the old soldier want
ing in dash and enterprise, his raid into
the country south of the Tugela is con-
sidered the best piece of Boer leader
ship during the whole war. 1t is now
known that he crossed tho Tugela with
only 5000 ri1emen and six guns, but
so bold was the raid and his movements
that the British commanders thought
10000 Beers were marching on Pieter-
maritzburg. For a few days, although
in the presence Of greatly superior
forces he isolated General Hilyard's
brigade at Estcourt and at the same
time threatened General BartoE's
camp at Mooi River Then as British
reinforcements were pushed up, Joubert
recrossed the Tugela without losing a
prisoner, a wagon or a gun. General
Whites estimate of him pronounced on
Tuesday before he died, as a gentle
man and brave and honorable oppon-
ent, strikes the tone of all British COM
ment
The foreign office, according to the |
Daily Chronicle, is arranging with Por
tugal for some thousands of British |
troops to be landed at Beira and sent |
by the Rhodesia railway from Massi- |
Kesso to ,Umtali.
The Bloemfontein correspondent of
the Daily Telegraph, in despatch |
dated Tuesday, March 27, says: 1T is |
a matter of regret that owing to the |
state of the roads and Of our horses, |
Commandant Grobelar's commando of |
5000 men from Colesberg and the south
ern districts got away north by travel |
ing day and night close to the Basuto
border before our force could hope to
get near them. The latest news is that |
the Beers have forty thousand men still
under arms of whom 10000 are in and
around the Natal border. Although
tents and stores are reaching here, a
block on the railway is delaying ar I
rivals from the south considerable. 1t |
is asserted that 1000 Beers are massed |
at Kroonstad."
A despatch to the Daily Mail from
Lourenzo Marquee, dated Wednesday, |
says: THE French colonel Vilebois de |
Mareuil has been appointed to the, COM
mand of the foreign legion, which is
operating in the Free State. General
Prinsloo (recently arrested) is charged
by the Beers with high treason"
Great Britain, according to the Ber-
liner correspondent Of the Daily Mail,
has thanked Germany for the latters
warning of the Boer plans for attacking
'Walfish Bay, on the West African coast.
A permenant arrangement is under
stood to exist for the use of this route
to transfer the Rhodesia police The
possibility of foreign protest Is suggest
ed by the Daily Chronicle. Among the
items cabled from Pretoria is a state
ment that prominent residents there OBJ
ject to defense of Pretoria and desire
that President Kruger retire to Liden-
burg. 1t is alleged that the principal
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