The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-15
ASSERTED THAT FREE SKATERS
REGARD FURTHER RESIST
- ANCE AS SUICIDAL
HAFEKIHG not YET RELIEVED
BELIEVED, HOWEVER, THAT RE
LIEF WILL COME WITHIN A
FEW MORE DAYS
IBULLER's VICTORY IMPORTANT
1t VIII Have Political as Well as
Military bearing Upon the
SituntIOn-Gen. Rumble
Advancing.

LONDON May H-Gen. Buffers turn
ing Of the Biggarsberg position was ef-
fected by a bold movement The Beers
had evacuated Helpmaakar but wire
making a stand Monday evening at Bles-
lkoplaagte, seven miles from Dundee. The
corps on the spur was regarded as rear
guard action intended to cover the re-
treat of the main army. At the same
time Gen. HiIdyard took Indobay and it
IS reported the Beers withdrew in dis
order.
Gen. Butler, employing his full strength,
IS expected to push on His first marches
were forty-ftve miles in three days. He
is thus breaking into British territory,
which had been administered for six
months by the Transvaalers, as though 1t
were part of the republic, they holding
courts and levying taxes. His success,
therefore, has political as well as mill
tary Importance.
While Lord Roberts infantry have en-
tered Kroonstad, where they will rest a
day or two, his horsemen have penetrated
eighteen miles northward. Two hundred
Beers who had hidden in the river jun
giles near Kroonstad have surrendered to
. the British, and took the oath of al
legiance.
LEADERS DEMAND PEACE.
According to a dispatch from Bennett
Burle'gh to the Daily Telegraph, dated
Thursday May 10, Paul Botha and Mac
Donald, members of the Free State
volksraad, demanded that the chairman
should call for a meeting to sue for
peace, as further resistance was suicidal,
and proposed to make President Steyn
prisoner.
Nothing definite has been heard about
the expected relief of Mafeking. A Cape
Town correspondent wires that relief is
a imminent, fixing Tuesday or Wednesday
as the probable date. Inquirers at the
the war office are told that the relief will
be made public as soon as received.
The latest supposition about Gen. Hun
ter is that possibly he is marching up the
north bank of the Vaal, with a force
sufficient in cooperation with Lord Rob-
erts to make Boer defense further i'm
practicable.
GEN. RUMBLE ADVANCING.
A dispatch from Bloemfontein says that
Gen. Rumble IS advancing towards Lady
brand. His troops, and those of Gen.
Brabant, are stretched over a distance Of
thirty miles. The Beers are described as
quite disOrganized, and as retreating
northward. President Steyn's lieutenants
are trying to rally them.
The same stories of dsintegration
come from nearly every point where the
English correspondents are. Mr. Hol-
lowell, formerly correspondent at Mafe-
King, who was put over the Transvaal
border, telegraphing from LOurenzo Mar
ques, Sunday, says:
Judging from talks I have had with
the Beers the end of the war will come in
month or six weeks. Mr.. Steinkamp,
he r-T10 a of h. I
me, said that if the burghers were
pressed from Pretoria, they would retire
10 the district of Lydenburg mountains.
which had already been prepared. He
added that the burghers would stand
( firm, but he feared they were too broken
/ In spirit.
/ Il gathered from him that the whole
available force of the Transvaal were
now in the field. the final communicating
! having taken place last Thursday, and
/ only the personal magnet 'sm of Presi-
/ dent Kruger kept his burghers together. -
At the British hospitals in Bloemfontein
/ the deaths from enteric fever average
eight to ten daily.
GEN. BULLER'S ADVANCE
/ A special dispatch from Stony Hill
] Farm, Natal, dated today, SAYS:
/ Gen. Buffers advance commenced
/ l. Thursday, when he left Ladysmith in
/ strength. When within two miles of
/. Helpmakaar the Beers opened a heavy
4 artillery fire and the British guns re-
4 piled, while a portion of Buffers troops
I worked around the Boer f1anks The
| British attack was pressed home Sun
day. Bethune on the right outf1anked the
h Beers, whose splendid defensive positions
4 on the Biggarsberg We're practically
taken. Gen Buffers march subsequent
to the attack was carried out without a
hitch THE British are still pushing
on"
1 BURGHERS GIVE UP ARMS.
- KROONsTAD. May 12.-President
/ Steyn has gone to Hebron, not LindIey
He has declared the former the new
capital FOW hundred burghers have
given up their arms in this neighbor-
hood. Although the bridge across the
Valsch has been destroyed, a good devia-
tion exists where troops crossed before
the bridge was constructed.
The Transvaalers are reported to be
massng at the VaaI
The Standard and Diggers' News of
johannesburg shows that dissensions ex-
ist in the Transvaal volksraad.
BCERs. SPLITTING UP.
THARA N'CHU, Sunday, May 13.-The
Eighth division, with its front extending
thirty miles, was yesterday moving for
ward. Gen. Greenfel and Gen. Bra
bant followed the Beers, reaching New
/ /. berry = Mill ana capturing great Qudntl-
ties Of flour and grain. Gen. Brabant'S
main forces, with Campbelrs brigade of
guards and Gen. BOyes' brigade. have
cleared the country. The Beers are split
/ ting up and retiring In the direction of
ClOcOlan.
PRETORIA ADvICES.
M PRETORIA, May u Cvia Lourenzo
Marques).-A war bulletin has been issued
f here announcing that the British are ad-
/ Z vancing against the federals at Helpma
/ kaar and TondeIs mex The burghers
/ this morning attacked Mafeking. The
| { telegraphist at Maloopa says that a
I heavy rifle and cannon fire was heard be-
/ /. fore o'clock today and that the "Kaf-
IL fir location" was in flames within an hour
li and was totally destroyed. AT 10 o'clock,
NJ he adds, everything was quiet.
I4 At a meeting of $50 Afrikander women
n held yesterday it was resolved to ask the
! + government for arms and ammunition.
B and suggest that they do the work of the
/ i nen officials In the town. who, they de-
( \ declared, "ought TO be fighting at the