Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-03-14
ROBERTS PREPARES
TO STRIKE HARD,
,,ti,h Army Expected to Enter
BIoemfontein Today
MORE FIGHTING EXPECTED
=, Boer strategy Danger 70
british Prisoners In pre'0',A
us,buen Advancing Nor'h'

,...,,un. March is-Gen. French has
~ "a a, Bloemfontein. This bulletin
s a,v mean that Gen. French has en-
lA Rloemtonteln or merely that ne
~e. .ss snyirons, thus belatedly con-
p,rs Lord Roberts advices to the
=, 6see this morning,
,,aon March IA. 4.So a. m'-Noth-
10 can be said OF the advance on
s ~ beyond Lord Roberts
avn dispatches. Nothing more has
W., permitted 10 come through.
n,nb,less Lord Roberts himself is fully
..ppled with important military oper-
tiions.
rho dlspatch from Capetown saying
a,, Gen. French has arrived at
plosnfonteln" probably does not mean
No, he has entered the city. Lord
pobsrts messages may mean either
ne, the Beers have cut the railway 10
,1a north or that the British cavalry
ave done 50. II the former, then II
NAY be assumed that no rolling stock
N. been seized but by general as
,snption the latter Interpretation Is
,'ysrsed as correct. This would great
h facilitate obtaining supplies from
orange river. an important matter, as
f,-5 Roberts line of communication
n Nodder bridge Is now 10 miles long.
me Beers may make another iighs
IN, there 4 little doubt that Lord Rob-
sts will occupy Bloemfonteln Wednes-
dy. The Beers retiring from Orange
rger will find themselves between two
Brtsh armies and their guns are al
rls bound 70 fall into the hands Of
NJ British. while the occupation OF the
apltal Of the Free State Will strain
ie alliance Of the two republics to the
utmost
SPENCER wilkinson, in the Morning
past saws: Lord Roberts is probably
now waiting In from Of Bloemfontein
Nm the Infantry divisions None OF
tsn could well be expected to arrive
t,iore dark. The three divisions would
tlotably be so directed that while the
.sdIng one would follow the cavalry
and turn the Boer defenses. the other
NO would come up In echelon on the
Ggnal Boer 'front.' SO that in case OF
resistance the Beers could be enveloped
efi compelled 10 retreat Under difficult
us and with heavy loss
Lord Roberts Is not the man 10 for
La Iafartnftsa Oh
Glaegical point, any measures likely
aeon,ribute toward crushing part Of
De snemys force,
There are abundant signs Of the de-
rfallzatlon Of the Beers. The first Is
y bad strategy Of their resistance TO
y advance OF Lord Roberts. Then
cnes the message u the Presidents TO
llri Salisbury. Kruger and stcyn, II
can be said have not yet quite realized
-sihsf position but Lord Saiisbdrys re-
~, being precisely what the British
ntion expected him TO send, may open
lAslf ewes"
Winston Churchill wires the Morn
hg Post from Durham protesting
against the ceremonious treatment OF
Gtn Cronje He adds: '"rhe stern de-
tson not TO exchange prisoners will
Undoubtedly accelerate the end OF the
var but Il win prove very hard and
rlaaps even dangerous for the British
Frsoners in Pretoria.
There Is abundant evidence that the
Beers are becoming more cruel, and
hli The war will enter a darker phase.
i Is very doubtful II the Boer govern
uenl will be able 10 control the wild
PASSIONS OF the exasperated ruhlans
lomng the noisy part OF the Boer
lo'ces In the event Of a siege OF Pre-
oiia and the position OF the British
lisoners would then become precarl-
Gus
u have visited the dam which the
boefs began on Kip river below Lady,
num- II Il had been completed II
you'd have submerged Intombi camp.
Nlere there were 1900 sick"
inc Daily Mail has the following dis
la'eh from Kimberley. dated Tuesday.
harth 18th: Lord Methuen occupied
irsnof on Sunday, without opposition.
tae. NV
me railway and telegraph lines
nave been repaired thirty miles north
safd 10 Slyp Kip II Is understood
way line between Fourteen Streams and
'V0urg is not badly damaged"