The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-05-01
Long Wagon Trains Loaded with
Wheat for the Burghers Not Mo-
Tested by the British
RUM0R CONCERNING BULLER
LORD ROBERTS Is SAID TO HAVE DE-
CLINED HIS RESIGNATION.
"somcthing Big Is Probably About to
Happen" i'm the Opinion of London
Writers-Many Horses Sick.


are now showing uncommon ACTIVITY west
of Bloemfontein. They are in force be-
tween Fourteen Streams and Kimberley.
On Sunday they occupied Windsorton,
west of the railway, and now threaten to
interrupt the communications of the Brit
ish force at Warrenton, to the north.
This. too, at a time when General Hunter
is about to start on a 200-mile march 10
Mafeking. probably with 5000 men.
To the east of Bloemfontein the Beers
on Sunday night were still holding the hills
near Thaba N'Chu. while behind them long
wagon trains, loaded with wheat for the
Boer army in the north, are moving
through Ladybrand. The British captured
one Boer convoy on Saturday. but its size
is not mentioned In the dispatch. which
barely announces the fact.
Wepener, lately the scene of incessant
fighting. is deserted. General Brabant and
Colonel Dalgety having moved northward.
A dispatch from Maseru. dated Monday,
says: 1.-The Basutos are a second time
astounded TO see the Beers peacefully re-
| tiring with herds. which the natives think
should be the bounty of the British, VINO
are said to be the conquerors. According
of the Beers reached Leeuw river, due
west of Ladybrand on Sunday. small
parties trailing behind at intervals of ten
| miles TO protect the rear and whip up the
herds.
Slight outpost actions take place daily
beyond Karec Siding, where the head of
| the British invasion is cautioned
African horse sickness has broken out
in General Buffers army. 1t proves espe-
cially fatal among freshly arrived animals.
| The BIoemfontein correspondents point
out that the deficiencies in the veterinary
department cause thousands of losses.
General Lucas Meyer, replying to Gen.
| Buffers complaint that some of the Brit
ish prisoners at Pretoria lodged in the
town Jail. says that only those are so
| treated who have tried, or who are sus-
rected of trying, to escape. He retorts,
moreover, that Boer prisoners are confined
in the town Jail at Pietermaritzburg with
natives.
| The morning papers give special promi-
nence to the statement of a news agency
| that Sir Redvers Butler sent his resignation
to Lord Roberts after the Spion kop cor
respondence was published and that Lord
| Roberts declined to accept it.
| The war specials to-day consist chiefly
of detached scraps, the favorite introduc-
tion of the military commentators and edi-
torial writer's being that. as only scant
news has been wired something big is
| probably about to happen
The Daily Chronicles expert saws: eff a
solid victory is to be attained, the British
must have different leadership from what
has been displayed in the Dewetsdorp op-
| eratons"
| From Beira, Portuguese East Africa,
under date of Monday. April %, comes the
news of the arrival there of a Canadian
| twelve-pounder battery. 1t is added that
| General Sir Frederick Darlington, who is
| to command the British troops going to
Rhodesia, has been cordially welcomed by
the Portuguese officials and that he has re-
viewed the Portuguese troops.
Cape Town reports that DIR. Jameson has
| recovered from the severe attack of fever
| from which he has been suffering and he is
| mentioned a candidate for one of the
seats in the Cape Parliament representing
| Kimberley I'm succession to Dr. Frederick
| Rutherford Harris.
/ The agent of julius We'll at Mafeking
| wrote, under date of April II, most cheer
fully, saying everything was satisfactory.
He added that the Boer guns were firing
heavily into the town and that a de-
termined attack had been repulsed without
casualties on the British side.
A conception of the continuous ravages of
the war can be gathered from Cape Town
dispatch, dated yesterday, briefly announc-
ing the arrival from Natal of 25 officers and
252 men invalided home. and the sailing of
the Aurania for England with four hundred
sick and wounded soldiers.
EndSavors are being made to remedy the
remount question, a Simla dispatch an
nouncing that 500 native horse-keepers. 15O
shoesmiths and so veterinary officers have
been drawn from India for service in South
| Africa.