The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-03-28
GEN. OL|V|ER'S GREAT FEAT.
HAS APPARENTLY EFFECTED
SAFE RETREAT.
Carries His Five Thousand Men, En-
numbered with Miles of Wagon
Trains, Entirely Around Roberts
Main Army and Avoids Fighting.

LONDON. March q. a. m.-The Beers
are having a little good luck. and are
showing some bolduess again, as raldln2
party estimated at 400 IS believed by the
British forces az Warrentun 20 have cross
ed the Kimberley Bloemfontein wagon
road Monday and to have headed for ia
cobsdal. with the intention Of cutting the
railway ten miles west
oIfvier's Magnificent Retreat.
Commandaut olivier appears to have
gotten His 5000 men and twenty-five miles
OF wagons into rugged country, where ne
can make an easy rear guard defense.
Charles Williams, the military expert
says.
"If this column gets through. substan-
uailv Commandant olivier viii have car
RED out the great feat Of the war seeing
, that he ran every chance Of being grounu
between the upper milestone Of Lord Rob
erts' army and the neither milestone OF
the broken Basuto frontier
He will have done it within nifty miles
or so OF Lord Roberts main strength. Ger
tainly Il looked for a week as though
Lord Roberts held olivier in the hollow OF
his hand. II Olivier gets through to Kroon-
stad with even 5000 men # viii be an i'm
portant addition 10 the Boer gathering
there.
Cavalry Horses Worn out.
His escape IS attributable in part to the
worn-out condition Of the British cavalry
horses Lord Roberts transport appears
10 have been badly dslocatcd by the loss
at Reit river before Cron1e's surrender OF
the wagon train, and in addition TO this
the army with which he purposes to ad-
vance toward Pretoria is nearly double
that OF tho earlier rapid movements
More Horses Coming.
Ten thousand transport, cavalry and
gun animals are due to arrive at Cape
ports during this and next week II Is
given out at Cape Town that Lord Rob
erts' advance may be delayed for months
Although such statements should be re-
caived with reserve. It seems positive that
he intends to go TO Cape Town 10 meet
Lady Roberts who is due to arrive there
IN ten days
Another Table of Losses.
The wa Office has Issued another table
Of british losses showing an aggregate Of
1868 which does not include t00i who
have been nvhlidcd home
Advance VIII lie Delayed.
The Cape Town correspondent Of the
Daily News. teographing Tuesday March
~, says:
'Tt is improbable that the advance from
Bloemfontcn vii be made for another
month. Gen. Clements Is advancing to
Bloemfonteln I'm four columns. when Lord
Roberts begins the march northward, Gen
Gatacre viii be left In charge Of Bloemfon-
tein.
The colonial government has ordered
the Cape volunteers to withdraw south OF
the Orange river for fear OF accentuating
racial feeling
Free stnters on Raid.
A dispatch TO the Daily Chronicle from
* mherley. dated Monday says.
-Four hundred Free Stater1 have taken
possession OF tho road between Kmher-
ley ana Paardoberg They have seized a
farm near Randamsfontein where a num-
Der Of army horses had been sent to rest
and Craze II is rumored that their OBJ
sect Is 20 raid the railway by way Of ia
eobsinl"
Boers Guard the Passes.
special to the Daily Telegraph from
1ndysmith. dated Monday slvs
There are about rocco Beers guarding
the nine passes over the Drskcuherc
range They a;e led by Commandant De
Deer. of IIarrism'th, and consist Of Free
aiaters. 1t Is reported that the BQers have
moved their htg guns from Biggarsberg.
as Il is not Intended to make "A stand
there"
Apprehension for Olivier.
The correspondent OF the Daily News at
LourenEo Marquee toleFraphing Sunday.
says,
The Transvaal war ONCE announces that
The southern commands from Co.esbcrg
and Stormberg will Join the main body
within forty-eteht hours some appre-
hensiop exists that Commandant olivier
and Commander Groher may be cut OF
Dissolution Is Improbable.
The secretary ~ state for homo aueirs.
Str Matthew White Ridley. replying To a
At
luton Of parliament was improbable dur
ing the present year lie said that n the
government faced another session. which
was not probable 20 would remedy some
defects On the mining laws
Rains Raise the ai,rr-
Adviccs today from cape Town say;