The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-11
Correspondents Again Choked Off
From Sending News.
Roberts, According TO His Dis
patches, Is Pressing Rapidly
After the Beers, who Are Re
treatipE From the Zand-Presi-
dent steyn, with 10000 Burghers,
Is Reported to He East OF Thaba
N'Chu, and n Battle Is Imminent
with the Forces OF Gems,
RundeI and Brsbant There.

RundeI and Brsbsnt There.
LONDON May II. 4:50 a. m.----Members
Of the house Of commons were freely bet
ting in the lobbies last evening that Lord
Roberts would be in Pretoria in two
months. From 1900 TO 20,Ooo is the high
est estimate of the Beers under the pres
ent command of Gen. Botha, who is said
to have forty-six guns
Lord Roberts Is pressing hard after this
force with 5000 men and 40 guns, and
90.000 more men are easily available.
News Is Held Back.
The correspondents are confined in their
narratives TO events two or three days old
so far as Lord Roberts Is concerned.
President Steyn, with 10000 men, Is re-
ported to have been east OF T'haba NChu
yesterday (Thursday) noon and battle
was then imminent. The advance troops
of Gen. Rundel and Gen Brabant were
being fired or.
Parties of Beers are still holding the
mountains adjacent to Springfield.
New Zealand scouts burned the home
stead of farmer named Greyling, in
whose house arms We're found at Deer
ing.
Wholesale Commnndeering.
During a concert for the relief of the
sufferers from the Begbie works explosion,
given Saturday evening at Pretoria in the
Gaiety theater. the doors were suddenly
closed and every man In the audience was
commandeered.
An the horses were taken from the con-
veyances outside.
Iourenyo Marques Merchants Protest
Half the foreign merchants at Lourenzo
Marquee held an Indignation meeting TO
protest against the new Regulations
whereby blankets. clothing and bully
beef are declared contrahand Twelve
thousand cases of supplies are I'm bond
there and much more is expected, Two
French vessels carrying goods consigned
to Lyndenberg, have been stopped.
The Dispatch From Roberts.
The war office has received the follow
ing dispatch from Lord Roberts:
Gable Cart, Zand River.
May 10. 1890 D. m
Enemy are In full retreat They oc-
cupied a position only twenty miles in
length. Ours was necessarily longer Be
cause of the widely scattered force II viii
take some time TO learn casualties. but
l am hopeful we have not suffered. The
cavalry and horse artillery are pursuing
the Beers by three different roads"
sooner Than Was Expected.
The crossing OF the Zand river by the
British appears to have boon effected soon
or than even the most sanguine expected.
and this morning Lord Roberts temporary
headquarters is established in a cable cart
on the north bank of the river, though the
opposition the federnls are Offering shows
that yesterdays report of the abandon
ment of the position was m founded,
Roberts Advance Force.
Lord Roberts advance force, consisting
OF from i0.0n0 to l2eto mounted mon, bo-
sides Infantry. artillery and the naval con-
ungent, appears TO be sufficiently powerful
TO overwhelm any opposition the burghcrs
can offer Even though, as reported yes
terday, they have been reinforced by S.O00
men from other commands and possess a
score OF heavy guns the experts think
that the opposition VIII not be prolonged
longer than is necessary 10 remove the
guns and other impediments in the direc-
ton OF krooEstad
Corncd beef Contraband.
Further reports from I>ourenzo Marquee
show that the customs authorities there,
In addition 20 clothing and shoes, refuse to
clear corned beef for the Transyaal. hold
ing It as coutraband.
Women Want TO Ftght.
PRETORIA. May 9--President Kruger
has received a telegram from q burEher
asking u tho time has not arrived FOR the
formation of a corps of women adding
that he Is prepared, with body of wom-
en- volunteers. 20 take up arms IN defense
OF the independence OF the TransyaaL
Cannot Sell Mining Rights.
The request of the government for per-
mission 10 sell mining rights for prices
which should he approved by the govern
ment was rejected by the rasd by a vote
% l2 Co ?. The session IA closed
Mines VIII Not he Injured.
CAPE TOWN. May io.-The Cape Argus
rtAflshts report from johannesburg
said 20 have been suppressed In the cross
examination Of Mining Engineer Munnick,
that in the recent mysterious Dempsey
case Munuick testified that preparation
had been made TO explode twenty-five
mines. and that on the authority of Secre-
try Re,tz he .Munnick) had already bored
shafts 80 eight.
Well-iufoTmed foreigners In Pretoria,
saws the correspondent of the Cape Argus,
noa consider the mines safe. The TRANS.
yaal officials have issued appeals 90 the
people 20 protect property, and although
preparations were made 20 destroy the
principal mines, wiser counEelS now pre-
vail
State Engineer Kltnk declined 20 re-
sumo his duties unless the dynamite was
removed. and the government agreed 20
his demand
Free staters Ready To Quit.
LONDON. May IA dlspatcn 20 the
Daily Telegraph from WslEeiegen, dsted
Wednesday. says.
"The burghers hell a meeting recently
without the consent of President Steyn.
at which the advissibillty OF iubmissi0n on
the part Of the Free State was discussed
anG approved"