Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-22

king Was Relieved on May II.
Major G~eneraIship for Col. Baden
Owe
| LONDON, May 21.-The Associated
Press is able to say that no message
from President Kruger. direct or indi-
rect, has recently been received by Lord
Salisbury or by any department of the
British government. nor, it may be
added, is any communication from him
dealing with the question of the cessa-
ton of hostilfties expected in the i'm
mediate future.
The proximity of peace, according to
the government point of view, will re-
main a matter of military progress.
How soon the latter may bring about
the former is still too suppositioius for
a serious forecast OF the part of any
government official. The concensus of
opinion, as CLEANED by the Associated
Press at the government Office, is that
the Boer delegates will exhaust every
effort in the United States before Presi-
dent Kruger sues directly, though Lord
Salisbury himself does not believe that
the delegates will accomplish much in
America.
The official confirmation of the relief
of Mafeking does away with the linger-
ing doubt which existed in the minds
of a few people who have got into the
habit of believing nothing but war Of
flee dispatches. With belated enthusi-
asm that department hoisted it's flag
on the receipt of the telegram and the
crowd cheered.
1t is announced that Col. Baden-Pow-
ell will be made a major general.
Mafeking was actually relieved by
Col. B. T. Mahon, who served in the
Dongela and Nile expeditions with Gen.
Kitchener.
Lord Roberts's latest dispatch merely
continues his description of the organ
1zation of the transport of supplies and
the rest for the men that the British
forces in the Free State and Natal found
necessary after their long quick march.
A dispatch from Kroonstad dated
Sunday, May goth, says a British con-
Voy on its way to Lindley was attack
ed by the Beers and obliged to halt.
The result of the attack is not known,
but 1T is evident that the Beers facing
the main British army are on the alert
and aggressive.
LONDON, May 81, 2:22 p. m.-The
following dispatch from Sir Alfred
Miner, the British high commissioner
III South Africa to the secretary of
state for the colonies, Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain, was received at 1:30 D.
NJ, to-day:
Barton telegraphs from Taungs that
Mafeking was relieved May 18th.
4" The receiving column was a COM
posite force under Col. Mahon, of about
1900 men,"
LONDON, May 81, 2 p. m.-The war
office has received the following mes
sage from Lord Roberts:
"Kroonstad, May 21.-Buller re-
ports that his advance will be delayed
for a few days on account of the way
in which the railroad has been destroy
ed.
Rumble reports that Ladybrand has
been Occupied.
Hunter is pushing up the railway
with supplies for the Mafeking garri-
son and is arranging a hospital train
for the conveyance of the sick and
wounded to Kimberley.
'Methuen has left Hoopstad to coop
crate with this force"
LOURENZO MARQUES, May 21.-
The defense works of johannesburg
are progressing rapidly.
Six guns brought from the front
have been emplaced in a fort, while
Schanzes and trenches intersect Katz-
rand near Kip Riversberg, behind the
race course.
LONDON, May 21.-9:35 .. m.-The
following dispatch has been received
from Lord Roberts at the wal office:
"KROONSTAD, May 21.-The follow
ing is from Hunter:
"Mafeking is relieved. Mahon enter
ed it May 49,"