The sun., 1900-05-15
VICTORY FOR BULLER.
Biggarsberg Ridges Reported Forced
by His Troops.
BRITISH ADVANCE GOES ON,
ihought That Lord Roberts May BE
Compelled to Order Brief Halt
to Give His Men Need
ed Rest.

London, May ia dispatch from
Stone Hill Farm. Natal says:
General Buffers advance commenced
Thursday, when he left Ladysmith il
strength. When within two miles oj
Ilelpmakaar the Beers opened Il heay,
artillery fire, and the British guns re
pied, while portion of Buffers troop,
worked round the Boer hanks.
The British attack was pressed home
sunday Bethune, ON the right, out.
fianked the Beers, whose splendid defnn.
slve positions of the Biggarsberg were
practically taken.
"ieneral Buffers march subsequent to
the attack was carried out without n
hltch The British are still pushing on. IS
dispatch from Pictermaritzburg, Ma
tai, says:
General Buffers official telegram noti-
Tying his success at the Biggarsbcrg, re-
celNed here an hour ago. has given keen
satisfaction. 1t is thought Dundee will
be occupied BY the British ut once. The
residents of the north country are de
llghted, us forcing the Bggursbrrg
means that they will speedily be enabled
to return to their homes''
Broke the Boer Center.
Another dispatch, dated Stone Hill
Farm. says:
"A fter four days march eastward nj
the foot of the Bggarsberg ridges i'm the
direction of Hclpmakaar, which was oc-
cupied by the fedcrals, the Second hri-
gade, Sunday, led the attack. Dundon-
aids cavalry broke the Bocr center. and
Bethune's horse advanced on their eA.
treme right. In the direction of pome-
roy small party of burghers occupied d
ridge overlooking Helpmakaar, but they
did not wait for the assault"
Recent British scouting in the direction
OF Dundee has shown that the federals
were in great force on the Bggarsberg.
Apparently General Butler concluded
that 1t was necessary to clear them from
his rear before moving in the direction of
the Drakenberg range. If that is his
plan, he has possibly divided his forces,
sending one column eastward to threaten
Vryheid and Utrecht and take Laing's
Mex i'll the rear, while a west bound col
umn attempts to form a junction with
the forces of Lord Roberts via the Har-
riSmith railroad.
kilograms from Kroonstadt indicate
that General French's cavalry is keeping
in touch with the Beers. But perhaps
Lord Roberts will be compelled to order
a brief halt of his main body to allow the
troops to recuperate after their exhaust
ing marches of the past week.
All the correspondents agree that to all
intents and purposes the Free Staters
have severed their military alliance with
the Iransyaal. though scattered bodies |
they say, will possibly hold out here and J
there for some time.
dispatch from Cape Town says a |
will be published this week |
the Orange Free State. 1t is |
also said that General Botha, the com
in chief of the Bocr forces, |
threatens to resign if any preparations |
are made for the wanton destruction of |
property. Cecil Rhodes starts for Beira,
Portuguese East Africa. ut once.
Steyn AIT HeiIbrun.
A dispatch from Kroonstadt, dated
May II. says;
president Steyn has gone to IIcilbrun.
lot Lindley. lic has declared the former
he new capital.
-Four hundred bnrghcrS have given up
heir arms here and III this neighborhood
Although the bridge across the Nalsch
las been destroyed. there is Il crossing
where the road ran before the bridge was
,uilt.
THE Transvaalcrs are reported to be
nassing mt the Naal. The Standard and
)iggers' News of Johannesburg shows
hat dissensons exist in the Transyaal
olksraad. Railway repairs are pro-
ressng rapidly. The town accepts the
quietly"
A dispatch from Thabanchu, dated
lay 13, says:
'"rhe Eighth division, with its front
xtending 30 miles, was yesterday NOV
lg forward.
General Grenfell and General Bra I
ant followed the Beers. reaching New
erry's mills and capturing great guam '
ties of -four and grain. General Bra !
ants main force, with Campbel's bri-
ade of guards and General Boyes' bri- !
ade. have cleared the country.
The Beers are splitting up and retir- y
lg in the direction of Clocoland."
Roberts Casualties.
The war office has received the follow :
g dispatch from Lord Roberts, dated
roonstadt, May 13:
There We're more casualties in the cav 7
ry division May 10 than reported by =
e. l have been unable to get an exact r
count of what occurred, as the com :
anding officer Captain Elsworthy, was I
lied and two officers were wounded at q
e same time and have been sent to the = =
ar. z
But 1t would appear that a party
our men, going up to kraal on which y
white flag was flying, was suddenly at n n
cked by large number of the enemy. n n
vo officers. Captain Haig of the Sixth =
agoons and Lieutenant Wilkinson of q
e Australian horse, were made prison Il
$ and II men are still unaccounted for. a a
Some of them may have turned up, p
the cavalry covered considerable -
stance May 10 and men reported miss "
have been rejoining during the last -
W days. "
The above dispatch refers to the losses y
stained by the Enniskillens May 10, us
tailed in the press dispatches previous ~
published. The troopers were fired on ni n
lille unsaddling their horses, having ap- D
oached the kraal unsuspiciously, as N
lite flag was flying from it. ~,
GoIuchowsIxi on the War. A
Budapest, May 14.-During the course ~
his customary speech to the delega- Z "
ms the Austria Hungarian minister of .; q,
'eign affairs, Count Goluchowski, de- w
red that the confidence he had pre- w
f,lt kh.k H. | L