Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-03-22
RELIEF ON THE WAY.
Siege of Mafeking Bids Fair Soon to
Be Raised-Progress of Brit
ish Advance


to the relief of Mafel1ing, has arrived
at Warrenton. AS the force neared
Windsorton the Beers evacuated the
town, blowing up the bridge.
London, March 19.-The Morning
Post expert thinks that Mafeking has
been relieved by Col. Plumer by this
time, as the Post has cable from
Maj. Baltic, its correspondent, say
ing: "Wire Instructions which is
dated Lobatsl, March 49, Mai. Baillie
has been with: the Mafeking defenses
for the last few months and has been
sending his dispatches out by various
means.
The news from South Africa to-day
is entirely satisfactory to the British
public. Therelief of Mafeking is not yet
announced, but it is extremely prob
able that this is already accomplished
by Col. Plumer's advance.
London, March 19.-The war office
has received the following dispatch
from Field Marshal Lord Roberts,
dated Bloemfontein, Sunday, Marcn
IS:
''The Guards brigade returned yesterday
from Norvals Pont. Several burghers have
laid down their arms to Gen. Pole-Care at
Edenburg and elsewhere. The officer COM
handing at Belmont reports that some de-
serters have come in with maxim,
nine-pounder and another gun. Another
nine-pounder has been brought into Coles
berg. The cavalry brigade has gone to
Thaba Nchu in order to reassure the in
habitants of that district and to distrib-
ute copies of the proclamation to the peo-
pie of the Free State. These proclama-
lions are being eagerly sought after. Lord
Methuen reached Warrenton on March 1s.
He was in time to prevent the Deviation
bridge from being completely destroyed
and to secure the pont on the Vaal The
English mail was dispatched from here
by rail yesterday and tomorrow the regu
lar mail service with Cape Town will be
reopened."
Lourenzo Marques, March ia
dispatch from Mafeking, dated Sat-
urday, March 10, says:
1.-THE garrison is holding it's own. We
have heard numerous rumors that the
siege will be raised, but so far that is not
the case. We are pegging along patiently
on quarter rations, supplemented by the
occasional capture of cattle Our home
made gun erratically bombards the Boer
trenches. Horrible stories are current that
the Beers are inf1icting nameless tortures
upon captured native runners. These may
not be true, but they are tending to inflame
native passions to such an extent that it
may soon be impossible to hold the ma
tives in check. Owing to the Beers having
deliberately bombarded the native stadt,
which is full of women and children, COL
Baden-PoWeu has armed the natives, but
| he has only allowed them to act on the
defensive, although they have clamored to
hn To 90 nd
| point of the assegai. They will be pre-
| vented as long as possible from inflicting
| reprisals on the Boers.''
Cape Town, March 19-The MAIZE
king relief column, Coils. Drummond
and Peadman commanding, had a
sharp engagement at Fourteen
Streams. The British succeeded in
driving the Beers of
Pretoria, Friday, March 16.-The
chief of the intelligence department,
Molengraaf, announces that the feder-
al losses, prior to the relief of Kimber-
ley and Ladysmith were: Killed, GIT;
wounded, 2,129. . Accidents, sickness
and other disabling causes, he asserts
bring the total to 4.351.
London, March 19.-The Orange Free
State is the queens dominion. Gen
Gatacre has occupied Springfontein
and Gen. Pole-Carew, with the guards
has joined Gen. Clements at Norval's
pont. The Free State commanders
have disappeared in the south, and
their guns have probably been buried
or concealed. No resistance has been
offered to the British columns in the
southern district, and the burghers are
everywhere returning to their homes
There are many press dispatches from
Brabant's, Gatacre's and Clements col
umns, but there is only one story-the
Free State forces are disbanding and
the rebellion in the Dutch district OF
Cape Colony is at an end. The British
troops have been welcomed as allies
and not received sullenly as enemies
London, March ia dispatch tc
the Daily Mail from Bloemfontein
dated Friday, March 16, says: ''We
are getting rifles surrendered faster
than a factory could turn them out
It is quite certain that if British Of
fetal can reach the northern laagers
with Lord Roberts proclama ton, the
whole Boer population will declare
for peace"
London, March 19.-The Naples cor
respondent of the Daily Mail tele
graphs an interview he has had with
Webster Davis, United States assist
ant secretary of the interior. Ac
cording to this Mr.. Davis said: "Whe1
[ left Pretoria the Beers were becom
ing DESTROYS of peace. President
Kruger and Gen. Joubert were the
strongest opponents of the peace par
ty, but they were becoming exceed
ingly unpopular. I do not believe
the Beers will resist much longer
The correspondent says Mr.. Davis dc
clined to speak regarding his mission
but that the general belief in Maple:
is that he is bearing terms and a re
quest for American mediation.
London, March ia dispatch to tn.
Daily News from Bloemfontein, dated
Friday, March 16, says: Events hav.
occurred which induce some to predic
that the war will last only so long as il
takes to march to Pretoria. The edu
Gated Beers, even the Transvaalers, ar,
ready to accept the inevitable.
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