The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-26
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For the English Being Pr, par, d
BY The Beers


LONDON. NAY 2G-2:30 4. M.-The lat
est int a,ligcate from Lord Roberts head
quarters a. Niedetort station, fled
Thursday, OLD y. M, was that the Brt
ish were roidly advancing. Gen Ham L.
tom had etsctej Junction with Lord
Roberts. The country I'm front of them
was clear Dt Beers To Niljoeus drift The
h'tfs WerA tNatudtiug all their positions
south OF tH" NaaI river and 5000 had all
ready cross TO HE north bank Prob
AMY Cen tt,nch's cavalry is already re-
connoiterirs the fords of the Naal.
War office observers expect that the
next u.epdlcl tro the field marshal Will
oe dated IN sight OF the T0nsvaal from
uer Nr b-Hnet Burle ght wiring to the
bally ieIea'Aph from Nrcdefort Thurs
| daN morn'7E sa d Lord Roberts would
doubtless e. 'as the Naal river on Satur-
| DAY or Sund7y The British outposts
| were lhen AT Erste Geluk, nine miles
! horih OF N'edefort and 2G miles south OF
! lhe NaM liver The railway Is much
! damaged.
Nhl'e tn British in overwhelming
Ioice are mas rapidly approach ng the
IrahSNaal' ihe movements Of the Beers
'N''l'N'' al iiiS HtNlN' 1 ne last Pre-
lorla neWsJaA er To reach Lorenzo Mar
ques was a week old
Every one seeking to cross the Portu-
suese oordc" from the Transvaal is
searched for newspapers and letters Dis
patches and mail letters containing even
harmless rat"eences to the war are sup
pressed The only news that has emerged
from the 1r'nsvaal during the last ten
days has come by word OF mouth.
According to these oral reports yester-
uay the BoeIe were quarrelling among
themselves. Transvaal paper money was
circulating Q. so per cent discount Beck
cts firm WIS giving one pound in gold
for five pounds in paper.
. Krouse q kinK, the engineers who op-
= posed The b. wing up OF the mines have
= been dismissed Commandant Schultz
= had been appointed to defend Johannes
= burg and al the British subjects had
been turned ,ut. The TransvaaIers fear
that the b. tisl will blow up the bridge
at KomatiD .'ort, thus cutting off their
=, supplies from Delagoa, and a commando
= of 800 Is qua ding the bridge against any
= such attemp' by British raiders
- IT is reasserjed that President Kruger
p will agree {, retire to Lydenburg when
: fighting is imminent at johannesburg and
- IitlbI4d. bICeTn IS expressed at Pre-
= t0ria with ref, renee to the possibility
that Gen. Darlington may come down
from Rhodesia with 5000 men to cooper
ate with as many more entering the
Transvaal ~ way of Mafeking. Horse
sickness is sad to have broken OUT
'r among Gen. Carringtons animals
II Mr.. Cecil Ehodes is at Bier, Portugue o
II East Africa. Mr.. Fuller a member of
l. the Cape pari ament, who is supposed to
u be "ontid .0te of Mr.. Rhodes said in
/ the course D. speech at Cape Town yes
i terday' When proposing the health of Mr..
~ Rhoues' ihdt me latter was working to
= cohsohdate south Africa from the Zam-
- oCsI 10 -ap' ny
- '"e'i uocllles TO act on
20 ,,,.,,,5 go, ~ ms iiie"uS orat ne
"a g. datonv,,.,, =. 49, 60" ioi i79'' ne
r nard Of tbs fror+ GUM
m Adv.ces ,,,-, Ntofo,,i,,,, ,o.o, ,, =,
he saws:
Ta
o. tein, 10 mEe seast of Mafeking. The
northern railway is nov repaired to a