The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-13
EARLY ADVANCE EXPECTED.
ROBERTS HOPEFUL NOTE TO THE
PRINCE OF WALES.

Some Fighting stilI Going on at
Warn Portugal ms TO Neutrality.
Peace commissioners Want Italy
TO Intervene-MiIner states Em-
phnticaIIy That Independence Cans
not he Expected.
London. April 1s. 4:O5 a. MIN round
about way London hears that LORD
Roberts when wiring to the Prince OF
Wales at Copenhagen, congratulations on
his escape form assassination added two
or three hopeful sentences. portending an
early advance with wide reaching combs
nations.
Quiet assurances are passed around
among military men that Lord Roberts is
employing his great army effectively. and
that the adventurous Boer commanders
are likely to be enmeshed. Scraps oe
news, a detail hero and another there.
have reached England tonight over com-
parativey idle cables, but they do not liz
Illuminate the situation.
The coonials at Wepener still hold of
the Beers Lord Methuen has worked
eastward until he is within eighty miles
VI iAitOhatNlt. toOtl EIOutS nave HOtld
around Ladysmlth and have appeared au
Dewdorp and other places on Gen. Bulls
er's fianks and rear The officers of Bulls
er's irregular horse estimate the Beers in
Natal as 1900, but these figures are prob
ably excessive, 10. 900 being regarded here
as the outside number
After Gen. Hart's brigade leaves him.
Gen. Butler will still have close upon 5000
men. 1t is generally assumed that this
brigade is going TO join Lord Roberts. bus
Its destination is really unknown.
Boer Note 10 Portugal.
The Beers have issued note to Portu-
gal regarding the use by the British of
the Beira route for the transportation OF
troops to Rhodesia, and this may IL the
Beers act against Portugal, lead Great
Britain to land troops at Lorenzo Mar
ques. This possibility has been seriously
discussed, and is referred to at length in
the morning papers to-day.
The work OF the Boer peace commissions
ers has begun. Mr. Fischer has asked
Italy to intervene and the Italian Min
lister of Foreign Affairs, the Marquis df
Nisconti-Nenosta, has replied that whila
he would receive the ENJOYS, the best he
could do would be to transmit their pro-
posals to London, thus following tho
course Of the United States.
Miner Speaks for England.
Sir Alfred Milner, when replying to a
deputation of clergymen in Cape Town
yesterday (rhursdaD said:
!" Never again must be the motto of all
thinking and humane men, but not from
lust of conquest or a desire to trample up
on the gallant IL misguided There must be-
no compromise or patchwork In the set
tlement and no opportunity for misun-
derstanding. intrigue. the revival of inn
possible ambitions, or the accumulation
of enormous armaments.
THE British will no longer tolerate dis
similar and antagonistic political systems
In a country which nature and history
have declared to be one"
In these absolute utterances Of Sir ALI
fred Miner he speaks for the imperial
government
Roberts Fighting Force.
II is calculated that Lord Roberts now
has 214,OO0 effective troops, with 1900
more afOat or under orders. The war
office has instructed officers not to take
any more expanding bullets to Africa fon
revolvers.
Hlldyard steyn, brother of President
Steyn. in the course of an interview al
Bloemfontein, said:
THE original war plan of the Beers was
to oVerrun all Cape Colony, but on becom-
ing involved In the siege of Kimberley ana
Ladysmith. the burghers found the designs
Spoiled. To this l attribute the Boer fail~
ure to conquer the British. l expect tho
war to last until Christmas"
The seventh month of the war is begins
ming with Eastertide, and the morning pa
pers' editorials expatiate upon the need
of eoberness.