Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-03-29
Beers ARE GROWING
AGGRESSIVE AGAIN
Raiding Party Makes a Dash for
JacobsdaI to Cut the
Railroad.
oL'vleR's REMARKABLE FEAT

He Succeeds in Dodging roberts
aid Getting His Army and
Wagon Train Into II DcA
fcnsiblc Region.
London, March 29.-The Beers are
having little good luck, and are
showing some boltlness again, us a
raiGlihg party estimated at 400 is be-
lieved by the British forces at Warren
ton to have crossed..lthe Kimberly
Bloemfontein wagon road Monday,
and TO have headed for Jacobsdal,,
with the ihtentios of cutting the rail-
road ten miles west. Commandant
Olivier appears to have gotten his
5000 men and twenty-five miles of
wagons into the rugged country,
where he can make an easy rear-guard
defense.
Charles Williams, the military eS-
pert, says:
"lf this column gets through sub
stantiallY, Commandant Olivier will
have carried out the great feat of the
war, seeing that he ran every chance
of being ground between the upper
milestone OF Lord Roberts army and
the neither milestone of the broken
Basuto frontier
He will have done 1t within fifty
miles or so of Lord Roberts main
strength. Certainly it looked for Il
week as though Lord Roberts held Oil
viei' in the hollow of his hand.
If Olivier gets through to Kroon-
'statlt with even 5000 men, it will be
an important addition to the Boer
gathering there. His escape is at
tributable in part to the WORKOUT
condition of the British cavalry
horses. Lord Roberts transport APP
pears to have been badly dislocated by
the loss at Iliet river before Cronjes
surrender OF the wagon train, and in
addition to this the army with which
he purposes to advance toward Pre-
toria is nearly double that of the
earlier rapid movement. Ten thou
sand transport cavalry and gun ami
mails are due to arrive at Cape ports
during this and NEXT week.
1t is given out at Cape Town that
Lord Roberts advance maybe delayed
for months. Although such statements
should be received with reserve, it
seems positive that he intends to go to
Cape Town to meet Lady Roberts,
who is due to arrive there in ten days.
The war office has issued another
table of British losses. Showing an ag-
gregate OF 1862, which does not in
clude 4,004 who have been invalitled
home.
London, March -Reconnoissances
of slight Importance continue to be
the only features of the war in South
Africa. Roberts wires the war office
as follows:
"Bloemfontein. Monday, March 90
Captain Sloane-Stanley. of the Six
teenth lancers, was slightly wounded
i'm affairs of outposts, north of Mod
der river, March 81"
This bare statement is all that
comes from the commander-in-chief.
a dispatch from Blocmfontein.
dated March 90 and published in The
Times, amplifies Roberts dispatch as
follows:
"A cavalry reconnaissance was made
Sixteenth lancers, by diminishing,
into the open, when the Ninth lancers
while,itI, were engaged from the
front. by dismounted sections of the
Sixteenth lancers. Our casualties are
reported as few
\ dispatch from Maseru, Basuto-
land, dated the goth, says:
The Basutoland government is busy
collecting natives to be employed at
Bloemfontein repairing and laying
railroads. The natives report that the
Free Skaters on the borders of Basuto-
land refused to go to Kroonstadt and
are staying on their farms, as it is
now the blowing season, and they are
inclined to keep the land and submit
rather than to give it UP and fight"
"A Boer report from Natal shows no
developments of Importance had oc-
CURED to March %.
n Ladysmith special says:
"Boer patrols entleavorcd to trap a
party of thirteen hussars March 25, at
Waschband. A hot chase cnsued. Sew
eral Beers We're wounded"
The same dispatch says: IA printed
statement has been found giving the
Boer losses at SpionlSop at over $500,
but this can be scarcely crcdited.'
Rain will Delay Advance.
Advices today from Cape Town say:
Trains are general throughout
South Africa and rivers which have
been dry for years are being flooded
Many camps are transformed into
swamps. This will still more initiate
against an immediate British advance
sickness among the Boer prisoners
OH transports is increasing. Three
deaths occurred March 26. The bodies
were buried by the British with the
Transvaal flag on the collins. The
leading Dutch of Simonstown attend
ed the funeral. Typhoid alone claim;
1000 victims among the prisoners, ant
the population of Simonstown fear az
epidemic.
"a meeting of the bund was held al
Paarl March 26 and attended by sew
eral members of the Cape assembly
1t passed resolution regretting thai
the Cape government had not bee,
consulted before the war and declar
ing that any settlement which did no
respect the Independence of the re
publjcs would be detrimental to The
highest interests of the British en-,
pire. Hargrove, one. of the chic
c,.,o l.orc ,pDt1,n,. ,,,.,,