The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-23
BOER WOMEN Want TO
KILL BRITISH OFFICERS
Frantic at ReVerSeS Of Their Army and Are Eager
to Take Up Arms Themselves.
Persistent RumOrs Of the Relief of aekng Denied at the
War Office.

London, March %, 4 a. m.-Again
rtere is a persistent rumor that MAIZE
king has been relieved. 1t is even as
serted that the war Office has received
q dispatch positively announcing the
relief. but that publication Of il is
withheld because the form o. the mes
sage admits the possibility of mistake.
The war office, however, declares tina
there IS no confirmation of the rumOr,
and that no further news on the sub
ject is at hand.
No attention is paid in any quarter
10 the wild BOer TumOrs Of Command
ant DIVERS victory over General Cat
acre. which are only deSigned 10 revive
the dropping spirits Of the burgheTs
1t seems certain THAT Mafeking's only
chances lie In relief by the column sup
posed to be advancing from the south,
or in The possibility that Colonel Baden
Powell is still strong enough to attempt
a sortie with a view Of capturing the
BOer guns at a time when Command
ant Snyman has Withdraw his men to
oppose Colonel PlumeT's advance.
All reports regarding the British op-
eratiOns in the Free State continue
most satisfactory. Nothing has devel-
oyed regarding General Buffers fnten-
tons, but it seems hard to believe that
he is again embarking General War
ren's division.
Boer Women Frantic.
Il is reported from Lourenzo Marques
that Pretoria is prepared to stand a
siege Of two years, that the BOer WO-
men, frantic at the reverses to the BOer
arms, are entreating to be allowed to
shoot the British officers imprisoned at
Pretoria. It is also announced from the
Transvaal capital that the Italian gov
eminent has declined 30 intervene.
Winston Churchill, telegraphing from
LadySmith Thursday, pleads for mercy
IN dealing with rebels. He says: 1--WE
must not try for our pound of flesh.
No real COnquer1r ever lost by Glenn
cncy, either in this world or in the next.
We have by no means a monopoly of
right in This quarrel ard our African
record does not entail on US to judge
harsnly"
a special correspondent Of the Times
at Bloemfontein, telegraphing Thurs
day says: Yesterday Mr.. Kruger is
syed proclamation annexing the Free
State TO the TransvaaL Mr.. Steyn i'm
medi2tely issued a counter prOclama-
uon, declaring the Free State intact.
LOotsrs Are Punished.
a dispatch 10 the Daily News from
80. ne .oulelI., d.ltei Wednesday MORN
lng, March y, says: General C2atacre
and his staff are still here. He is most
strict regarding the private property
or the Beers. Some Kafirs who had
looted Beers farms have been tried and
severely punished TO the great astonish
ment and qualification Of the BOer res
identS"
The Standard, in its principal edito-
rial today, INDUCES the hope that many
Beers may yet become British soldiers
1t says.
The Beers are proved to have a re-
markable turn for soldering and there
must be many young Beers who VIII be
reluctant to return TO a hum0rum pas
toral life after the excitements of cam
paignlng. If they are willing to adopt
q military career We can find room for
them i'm safer and more satisfactory en-
lelprises than armed rebellion. We NAV
YET hope TO see some future CrOnie or
Jouhart leading British troops on the
battlefield, side by side with generals
oil Irish, Canadian and Australian orr
gin.
army commissioners are to be given
10 Australia. Similar privileges must
ne granted TO other colonies, including
Ihose OF South Africa"