Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-22


present at the entry into Pretoria.
London, March 22.-4.12 A. M.-Sev-
crel kilograms have passed between
President Kruger and the British gov
eminent in addition to the Salisbury
Kruger correspondence already pub
lished The foreign office received
dispatch from Pretoria, yesterday.
The contents Of these communications
cannot Yet be obtained.
So far as the military situation is
| concerned there is practically no
| change. Lord Roberts is quietly max
| ing preparations for the next move.
! As necessary to beginning, Gems. Cat
acre and Brabant are swiftly moving
from point to point in the southern
districts of the Free State dispensing or
accepting the surrender Of any remain
ing Beers, thus cnsuring the safety of
Lord Roberts communications before
starting toward Pretoria.
a correspondent of the Daily News
at Sprngfontein describing these
movements says: Gen. Gatacre is
sweeping through the country like a
cyclone, with flying columns in all di-
rections. His sWiftness and strategy
have proved Of inestimable value to
Lord Roberts"
The rebuilding Of the railway bridge
At Norval's pont will occupy two
months. The temporary bridge will be
completed in about 10 days. Mean
while supplies are transported by an
aerial tramWay across the gap. These
works necessarily delay the providing
Of supplies for the advance.
Lord Methuen's movement north of
Kimberley are believed to be a pre-
/ clude 10 the gathering of column of
10000 men with Kimberley as a base to
strike cast ward from Fourteen streams
into the Transvaal.
The long ana anXiously awaited news
Of the relief of Mafeking, has not yet
been received.
Mr. Schreiner the Cape premier. has
granted the request of the mayor of
cane Town that a public holiday be
proclaimed through the colony on the
relief Of NIafeking.
a dispatch to the daily Mail from
Pretoria dated Monday. March 10.
says: President Kruger returned
from kroonstadt, yesterday. He
says the fight in the Free State will
be desperate. l am informed that the
Transvaal government has taken no
resolution to destroy mines or property
as last resort
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail telegraphing, Tuesday,
March 20. says: II have just arrived
from Bloemfontein, where l learned
that no further movement is probable
for three weeks, as negotiations are
pending. l fail to ascertain the nature
of the negotiations or whether Sir AL
fred Miners departure from Cape
Town is connected with them. but l
should not be surprised if the war col
lapsed quickly"
A dispatch to the Standard from
Bloemfontein, dated Tuesday. says:
-Four thousand Transvaalers from
Colesberg trekked, Sunday, to the
northeast, going by the way of the
Basutoland border. They will prObab
ly be caught at one of the passes.
"A striking feature of the advance
on Bloemfontein was the abandonment
of our communications with Poplar
Grove. Lord Roberts. confident in the
ability of his transports to meet all the
immediate needs of the army, deliber-
ately left the enemy at Abraham's
kraal to do what they liked. The re
suit fully justified him. The enemy
to the south were paralyzed by the
boldness and rapidity of the stroke
and Gems. Clements and Gatacre were
enabled to cross the Orange river al
most without opposition"
A Daily Chronicle correspondent at
Bloemfontein, telegraphing, Tuesday.
March 20, says: THE civil govern
ment has been reorganized. Mr.. j. A.
Collins. under secretary Of the interior
in Steyns executive has been APP
pointed landdrost. Steyn is regarded
as guilty of faulty but not influenced
by nepotism. He was always Kruger's
tool 1t is rumored that he has reaped
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