The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-18
BOER ST0RMERS
FELL INTO A TRAP
Permitted to Seize a Fort
and Were Surrounded.
ARE sURRENDERIN(1.
The Free staters are Making Sub
mission on All Sides.
ByLLER is PUSHING AHEAD.
apparently Hc isaiminG at Lain=ss Mex.
Which is the Direct Read toTrans-
vaal-Lord nIcthuen Said to. Be
Advancing Along south
Bank OF the vaarasafe-,
kings Relief.
The Free staters are Making Sub
mission on All Sides.
BULLER IS PUSHING AHEAD.

LoNDcN. May Is.-s.2e A. ~ EngIstnd
still waits with intense anxiety EoF news
OF the relief of Atafellisg.
Skeleton messages from Lorenzo
Marques based on information that leaked
out at the Pretoria Mar Cfiee. saaw that
the Boer stormers saturday fell into 3
trap. Colonel .Badea-Eeweil permitted
them To seize one fSrt and he then sur
rounded and ovepaoge then, before the
Large forces near al trtud perceived the
s}ratesy 1t MAS .ltf+ Euat ConnEnaLlattnt
loft President Nel:ssrs grandson, ana
ninety prisoners. were taken and III llF
Beers killed
The piumer relief force. on May 2otiG
was reported at Bullwayo. +sJ miles trots
ltfel5.ug. and may yet participate IN the
General French. scouting nartlward.
found the Boers IN strong Lofce 81 tsie-
noster Spruit thirty miles from BIroon-
stadt. Generals Botha. pe2rey and o4i-
yer, with artillery, wef= .l.dlas tAe p1-
sition
President steyn. according to one dis
patcn. has gone to Pre,or.a Another
| SAYS he $ a tnsIsive at LindIs-y. fhe Fred
Sraters are su-reuderins on all sides
A dispatch from Cape Town says tnat
proe!Iniutious are being printed there q
| be published on the queens birthday, MAY
24tn aunexing the Free State.
!
| is a prisoner of General Brahant says
| that the Free Staters will accept anhe,S.t-
I Lord Roberts has dtrested the British
| comma nders 10 receive all Gamers II
| good sDirit ard to issue to them passes
| TO go to their farms.
| General Butler is pushing srraIStlt ai3sld
| without opposition. FIe has only lost fiYs
! wounded during the movement APp8reIl5r
/ ,iyr,ir, I
the direct road to the Transvaaf. q .thoug-i
he may diyerge to Botha's Pass
| General Hunters movements in the
| western Transvaai are rather Pusziing lie
| has returned to Fourteen Streams win
one brigade. leaving another. General
Earton's at Chaisti4na.
Lord Methuen is said TO be afjFasie5FiS
along the south bank of the Naai. col
onel Fekewich is with him
The Leop Railway line across the Eaat
is fast nearing completion.
General Rumble is marching sIsHly
| through Il district w-nicu IS daseTiEe1 as
literally teerning with cattle. shesp ard
| horses.
President steyn saw the fight at the
| Zaud River. The Impression ne sot there
was that his hurghars could not taca
| Lord Roberts in a pitched battle, and
| this resulted in his decision to eyaeuate
| KroonstadJ without u battle
| The standard says:
Prom prof. Boer sources wa learn thai
| the first great stand 10y the Federats vii!
| be on the ridges near Johangasbarg This
| position has been strongly sntreached, asi
lne burghers believe they can hold it tdr
for some If driven from that poinl par5
Of the force viii pa thrown info Pretoria
to withstand a siege. while The main BODY
| Will retreat to the Lyderburg District to
| maintain Il guerrilla warfare
/ in.
Kitchener is in command Of the aiafe,
king relief column. and tnat news nj IN.
relief Of the town cannot be received ura
Monday