The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-18

burg and From There wtn Fau
Back on Neutrality-suspicious.
Commanding Relief Column.
LONDON. May Is. $50 a. m.--England
still waits with intense and almost
breathless interest for news of the relief
of Mafeking. A crowd remarkable for
the number OF men In evening dress. and
Including many ladies' fingered around
the war Office even after midnight. hop
ing for some announcement Only re-
luctantly did the people dlsperse. when
the Hobbies OF the war office were finally
cleared, with the word that nothing had
been received
one thing seems clear The town stiu
holds out. Were It otherwise the Boer
wires laid to the camps of the heleag-
uerers would have flashed the news.
Beers Fail Into Tran.
Skeleton messages from Isourenzo
Marauez. based on information that leak
cd out at the Pretoria war office. show
that the Boer stormers on Saturday fell
into "A trap. Colonel Baden Powell per-
mitted them to seize one fort, and he
then surrounded and overbore them be-
fore the large forces near at hand per-
ceiyed the strategy 1t was thus that
sarei Eion. President Kruger's grand
son and part Of his commando were
taken and hfty Beers killed.
Canadians MT Buiuwayo.
The Canadian artillery contingent of
the Rhodesian force Is now reported to
have reached Buuwayo, May q The
distance from Buluwayo to Msfeking is
400 miles. AS the railway Is open ALI the
way TO Pitsany. twenty-eight miles from
Mafeking, where Col. Piumcr is. the Cam
adams may yet take part IN the relief
Gen. French, scouting northward
found the Beers I'm strong force at Rhen-
osterspruit. thirty miles from Krpon-
stad. Gems. Botha. Delarey and Olivier.
with artillery. were holding the posi-
tiou.
President steyn. according TO one els
patch. has gone to Pretoria. Another
says he is fugitive Mt I.indley. The
Free Staters are surrsndering on all
sides. A dispatch from Cape Town says
that proclamations are being printed
there TO be published on the queens
birthday. May 70, annexing the Fres
State.
Free steters Were Threatened.
One Of President s,eyn's brothers, who
u a prisoner of Gen. Brahant. says that
the Free Staters will accept annexation.
Those who took up arms the second time.
he explains had 20 do so under threats Of
instant death II they refused
Five hundred rifles have been surren-
dered at Kroonstad in excess Of the num-
her Of Beers who have taken the oath OF
allegiance. Lord Roberts has directed the
British commanders 20 receive sil comers
In good spirit and 10 issue 10 them passes
TO no to their farms.
Gen. BuiIer Pushing Ahead.
Gen. Butler is pushing straight ahead
without opposition. He has only ioat five
wounded during The movement Appsr-
entity he Is aiming az lalngsnsk. which ls
the direct road 10 the TranSpaai, although
he may diycrFe 20 BoihsR pass
gen. Hunters movements In the West.
orn Transyaal are rather puzzilng Ha
has returned 90 Fourteen Streams with
one brigade. leaving another. Cion. nar.
tens, az Christiana. Lord MethiScn n said
20 be advancing along the south bank Of
the Vsai Col. Kekewich Is with him. The
loop railway line across the Naai Il fast
nearing completion The probability ~
that Gen. Hunter took hack a brigade TO
Fourteen Streams owing TO the scarcity
Of transports.
Michael Davifrs Prophecy.
Michael Dayitt. according 70 dispatch
from Loufenzo Marqgez. IL said TO have
advised the HoeFs while he was in Pre-
toria that u they could hold out unS1 ths
presidential election d the United States
they might feel pretty sure of lnteryen-
ton"
At johannesburg the women are form
ing a police c0rps 20 as 70 release every
man for fighting purposes Rt the front
Eagii.bmen With the Boer..
Dr Archer. who was at Dundee during
the Boer occupation. asAaFfa that there arc
several hundred Engiishmsn serving in
the Boer forces who would desert II as.
aared % pardon from the British Tne
Pretoria oflciai list of foreigners shows
100 Engiisamen. who are not Fighting. bot
hold their residence in the Transyaal by
special permission They are rank clerks.
engineers and sh0pkoepeTs.
Durham reports the receipt o; a telegram
from Ioureazo MARQUEE sayins that a
Bosr plot 20 bIow up the British cruiser
Forte was discovered and that IA conse-
quence ths Wsrsaip ztsaHs out seven miles
nightly.
steyn wn. Impressed
Presidepf sieyn say the nzhf at the
Zaud river The impression be fos there
was that his burgbers could not face Lor1
raafarfs fo "A r.stohaA t,affla ar1 .hia -.