Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-04-20
ADVENTUROUS B0ERS.
The noer Commanders likely TO be
Enmeshed-The Coloniais &C wepe-
ner still HOLD she Beers ~ nay
Boer scouts Working Around
Ladysmith and Dewdrop and other
Places ON Buffers Flank.

London. April 1850 a. MIN .
round about way, London hears that
Lord Roberts when wiring to the Prince
OF Wales at Copenhagen congratula-
lions upon his escape from assissin-
alton, added two or three hopeful SEN
fences portending an early advance
with wide reaching combinations.
Quiet assurances are passed around
among military men that Lord Roberts
is employing his great army effective
iy. and that the adventurous Boer COM
mandoes are likely to be enmeshed.
Scraps OF news-a detail here and an
other there. have reached England to-
night over comparatively idle cables.
but they do not illuminate the situation.
The Colonials at Wepener still hold
or the Beers. Lord Methuen has work.
ed eastward until he is within eighty
miles OF Kroonstad. Boer scouts have
gone around Ladysmith. and have ap-
peared at Dewdrop and other places on
General Buffers TANKS and rear. The
officers of Buffers irregular horse, esti-
mate the Beers in Natal as $4,000. but
these figures are probably excessive,
10000 being regarded here as the out
side number
After General Harris brigade leaves
him, General Butler will still have close
upon $4,000 men. 1t is generally assum-
ed that this brigade is going TO join
Lord Roberts. but it's destination Is
really unknown.
The Beers have issued q note to Por-
tugal, regarding the use by the British
OF the Beira route for the transporta-
tlon or troops 10 Rhodesia and this may,
II the Beers act against Portugal, lead
Great Britain to land troops at Lou
renzo Marques. This possibility has
been seriously discussed and is referred
to at length In the morning papers to-
day.
The work OF the Boer peace COM
missioners has begun. Mr. Fischer has
asked Italy TO intervene and the Ital-
ian Minister OF Foreign Affairs, the
Marquis di Visconti- Venosta, has re-
piled that while he would receive the
ENJOYS, the best he could do would be
10 transmit their proposal to London
thus following the course OF the United
States
Sir Alfred Miner when replying to a
deputation OF clergymen In Cape Town
yesterday Thursday said: Z" Never.
again must be the motto OF all think
ing and humane men, but not from lust
OF conquest or a desire to traInple on
the gallant. IL misguided. There must
De no compromise or patchwork I'm the
settlement, and no opportunity for mis-
understanding. intrigue. the revival OF
Impossible ambitions. or the accumula-
ton OF enormous ornaments. Tho
British will no longer tolerate dissim-
ilar and antagonistic political systems
In q country which nature and history
have declared to be one
In these absolute utterancezs of Sir
Alfred Miner. he speaks for the i'm
perial government.
i Tod no
now has $4,000 effective troops with
1000 more afioat or under orders. The
war Ofhce has instructed officers not
10 take anw more expanding bullets to
Africa for revolvers
Hildyard Steyn. brother of President
Steyn,in the course Of an interview at
Bloomfontein, said: The original war
>TSslan- OF -ths> Beers was to overrun all
Cape Colony. but -. AeSoming involv-
ed In the seiges OF Kimberley rSsr5nd
Ladysmith. the burghers found the de-
sign spoiled. To this 1 attribute the
Boer failure to conquer the British.
mas"
The seventh month OF the war IS he
ginning with easier tide and the morn
ing paper editorials eXpatiate upon the
need of soberness
Pretoria, April IA heavy cannon
aoe was heard this morning in the d.
situated
way between Windburg and Roshof In
the orange Free State and north OF
Brandfort
Advices from the Boer Headquarters
In Natal say that after a heavy bonn
bardment the British are retiring in the
direction or Ladysmith and the fede-
rals are going to their old positions
Advices from Wepener. where a Brit
ism force is surrounded. say the battle
continues favorable to the federals
ABOUT 1900 British troops are said to be
there.
The Free State Gazette publishes or
ders to the effect that no person who
has been Communicated for active SER
vice has the right to send a substitute
without the consent of the Landrost.
In reference to leaves OF absence. the
Gazette says that 10 per cent. of each
command will be relieved by ballot for
periods OF twelve days This is intend
ed 10 meet the wishes of the burvhers
desiring to plant their crops.
Cape Town. April 12.-The British
steamer Monterey, Captain Parry.
which sailed from Halifax March 17th
with Lord Strathcs ma and Mount Row
ais contingent of | madam troops on
board, has arriV' u here
Bloemfontein ADril 1l--Accordino 70
information received here the Boer ssc-
ivity eastward OF the railroad and in
proximity TO the border is largely dus
to the fact that Presidents Kruger and
Steyn have found they are unable to
Keep their forces together in Inactivity
the Durghers decE ring they are unw1ll-
Ing to remain with their commands IN
less actively employed. as they are con-
WINGED the British game is a waiting
one. IL is believed the Boer movement
was originally designed to oblige Lord
ROBERTS to weaken his force at Bloem-
fontein in order to protect the rail-
road, when the Beers would have at
tempted to recapture the capital. But
the purghers are evidently ignorant OF
the enormous forces Lord Roberts has
at his disposal.
Advices from Karee Siding say the
Beers are busy entrenching their posi-
ton east OF Brandfort running paralIel
with the railroad. while still strongly
holding the Waterfall drift water.
works.
London. April ia dispatch to tn,
Daily Mail from Lorenzo MARQUES dated
Thursday. says: 1t is reported from
Pretoria that Boer commando is NOV
Ing through BaSutOland Thfo &C. ooSS