Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-03-10
LACK GUIDING SPIRIT.
All Reports Seem to Show Decentralization
B of BOer Forces S5Sy

AL IAepOftS seem 60 snow decentralization
of Boer Forces.
.5# LONDON, March TO-. From various
quarters come signs Of the possibility o1
peace in South Africa being shortly
within the bounds Of practical politics
All the dispatches from Lord Roberts
dquarters, including those Of the
command er-in-chief himself, indicate
the lack Of q guiding spirit among the
Beers and indiyid dual Decentralization
portending disinte alton unless speed
ily stemmed. The fight Of the bnrghers
from Poplar Grove, according to all &C.
counts, was wholly ing1orio a Times
dispatch from Poplar Grove under
Thursday date, goes SO far as to assert
that the rout of the Beers was complete;
that the submission Of the Free State is
being demanded by the burghers from
their unwilling president and it is Sex.
$pected that its submission will be made
within q week. The correspondent
adds: t 5
Probably the Beers wisest course
was flight, but it was most undignified
and is certain to produce CONSERVATION
at Bloepfontein. There is growing
outcry against any further Identification
of the Free State with the TransYaal' s
interests. ~ ,5.5.s
Dispatches from the Boer camp at
Glencoe, via Lourenzo Marques, depict
President Kruger as donning bando-
ier, seizing a rifle and inviting volun-
teers to accompany him, as he wished
to have a shot at the enemy himself.
n President Kruger is also quoted as
having declared in his address to the
troops that he .sdid not know whether
arbitration or intervention would end
the struggle, but that it would end
quickly, within the next month, he
strongly believed = js
In the meantime the British are not
staying their advance. Lord Roberts
has gotten 10 miles nearer Bloemfon-
tein, evidently with the view Of seizing
and utilizing the railway, possibly to
reach the Free State capital in three or
four days, whence he may begin repair
ing the railroad .southWard, meeting the
British advance from Cape Colony,
which may be expected to be hastened
as soon as General White takes control.
The British occupied Jamestown unop-
posed Thursday, March s, and the Beers
are reported to be retiring beyond Ali
wal North, SO that Cape,C Colony is prac-
ticaly clear of armed Beers. sss$ 4.
Reinfercements from Natal are going
to Lord Roberts General Warren's s
division and some artillery have already
been ordered to join the commander rim
chief so that the latter is pre-
pairing for all eyentualties, in
Guiding possible desperate opposition to
his crossing the Yaal river and the me-
cessity Of q siege Of Pretoria, where
thousands Of natives are reported to be
employed in the construction Of ;defen-
siye works concerning which such se-
cresy is main ntained that no one is
allowed to walk or drive ON the ont
skirts Of the town. y. &;
John Redmond's speech in the house
Of commons Thursday does not meet
with unqualified approval IN Ireland,
whence the Irish Transyaal committee
to Mr.. Redmond:
e challenge you to come to Dublin
and repeat Ia public the statement you
made in the house of commons in the
name Of the Irish people. :
The Prince Of Wales inspected,
.sPaget' Is Horse and Dunraven,s 8 sharp,
shooters, attached to the Imperial Yeo.
tnanry prior to their departure for
South va frica "a!