The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-15
BuLLER STRIKES AT BoERs.
HE HAS SUDDENLY BECOME QUITE
ACTIVE IN NATAL.

Turned the Boers' Position at the
BiggarsberG Range-He VIII Push
on Toward the TransvaaI-Roberts'
Infantry to Take a Rest-BOers Re-
ported Quite Despondent and
Their Army Is Disintegrating.
MafeIxing Is still Hopeful.
London, May IS, S:45 a. m.-Gen. Butler S
turning of the Biggarsberg position was
effected by a bold movement.
The Beers had evacuated Helpnakaar,
but were making a stand Monday evening
at BIeskoplaagte, seven miles from Dun
dee. The correspondents on the spot re-
garded this as a rear guard action intend
ed to cover the retreat of the army.
At the same time Gen. Hildyard took
Indoba, and it is reported that the Beers
withdrew in disorder.
Gen. Butler, who seems to be employing
his fun streng h, is expected to push on.
His first marches were forty-five miles in
three days He is thus breaking into Brit
ish territory which had been administered
for six months by, the Transvaalers as
though it were part of the republic, they
holding courts and levying taxes. His sue
cess therefore, has political as well as
military consequences.
While Lord Roberts infantry is con-
centrating at Kroonstad. where the men
will rest for day or two his horsemen
have penetrated eighteen miles north
ward. In the squadron which cut the rail-
way fifteen miles beyond Kroonstad was
ba orio u
Two hundred Beers who had hidden
in the river jungles near Kroonstad 20
escape service have surrendered to the
British and taken the oath of allegiance.
Wanted TO Sue for Peace.
According 20 dispatch from Bennett
Burleigh to the Daily Telegraph dated
Thursday, May 10, Paul Botha and Mac
Donald, members of the Free State Volks-
raad, demanded that the chairman should
call meeting 10 sue for peace, as fur
ther resistance was suicidal. and propos-
ed to make President Steyn a prisoner.
Nothing definite has been heard about
the expected relief of Mafeking. The
Cape Town correspondents continue to
wire that relief is imminent, fixing Tues
day or Wednesday as probable dates. In
quirers at The war Office are told that the
news OF the relief viii be made public
Immediately upon its receipt. No word
had come to hand at midnight.
The latest supposition concerning Gen.
Hunter is that possibly he is marching
up the north bank of the Vaal with a
force sufficient in cooperation with Lord
Roberts, TO render Boer defense of the
Vaal frontier impracticable.
East Of Bloemfontein Gen. Rumble is
advancipg toward Ladybrand.
Ills troops and those of Gen. Brabant
are stretched over a distance of thirty
miles. The Beers are described as quite
d.sorganized and as retreating northward.
President Steyn's lieutenants are trying
10 rally them.
Stories of Boer Dependency.
The same stories of disintegration come
from nearly every point where the Eng
lish correspondents are. Mr.. Hollawell,
tornerfy a correspondent ct Mafekirg,
hut who was put over the Transvaal bOr-
der telegraphing from Lorenzo Marquee
Sunday, says:
Judging from talks I have had with
the Beers the end of the war will come in
month or six weeks. Mr.. Steinekamp,
chairman of the second Raad who trav-
elej with me, said that if the burghers
were pressed from Pretoria they would
retire TO the district of the Lydenburg
mountains. which had olready been pro-
Nisioned. He remarked that he hoped
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 was now
in the field the final communicating hav-
ing taken place last Thursday, and that
T. is only the powerful magnetism Of Pres
ieent Kruger that keeps the burghers to-
gether"
y the British hospitals in Bloemfontein
the deaths from enteric fever averages
from eight to ten daily