The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-22
Fischer and wolmarans, Who Recent
Iy Left Pretoria, Going To RUS
sia to See the Gar.
ROBERTS FORMING
PLANS
EVIDENTLY NOT CONSIDERING THE;
POSSIBILITY OF PEACE.
Preparing for His March to the yaal
River - Kruger Said to Have
Predicted Hard Fighting.

kilograms have passed between President
Kruger and the British government in ad-
dition to the Salisbury-Kruger correspond
ence already published. The Foreign Of
flee received a dispatch from Pretoria yes
terday. The contents of these communica-
tions cannot yet be obtained.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail. telegraphing Tuesday. says:
II have just arrived from Bloemfontein.
where learned that no further movement
IS probable for three weeks. as negotiations
are proceeding. I failed to ascertain the
nature Of the negotiations or whether Sir
Alfred Miners departure from Cape Town
is connected with them. hut should not
be surprised II the collapsed quickly"
SO far as the military situation is con-
cerned. there is practically no change.
Lord Roberts is quietly making prepara-
tions for the next move. AS necessary to
beginning. Generals Gatacre and Brabant
are swiftly moying from point to point
I'm the southern districts of the Free State.
dispensing or accepting the surrender OF
any remaining Beers thus insuring the
safety CT Lord Roberts's communications
before starting toward Pretoria. A corre-
spondent of the Daily News at Spring
fontein describing these movements says:
General Gatacre is sweeping through the
country like cyclone. with flying columns
In all directions. His swiftness and strate-
gy have proved of inestimable value to
Lord Roberts,
The rebuilding of the railway bridge at
Norvars Pont will occupy two months
The temporary bridge will be completed
In about ten days. Meanwhile supplies
are transported by an aerial tramway
across the gap. These works necessarily
delay the providing of supplies for the
advance.
Lord Methuen's movements north Of
Kimberley are believed TO be a prelude to
the gathering of column of 10000 men.
with Kimberly base, to strike east
ward from Fourteen Streams into the
Transvaal
Spencer Wilkinson. in the Morning Post
offers the following suggestion: 'It may
be part Of the plan of Lord Roberts to
make raid with the mobile force Lord
Kitchener is collecting at Prieska through
the country beyond the vaal river, where
many Boer parties are scattered, and to
recover Kurumah from the Beers Such
a raid might be an effective means of
helping Colonel Baden-Powell at Mafe-
king"
STEYN IS KRUGER'S TOOL.
Daily Chronicle correspondent at
Bloemfontein, telegraphing Tuesday, says:
The civil government has been reorgan-
izec- Mr.. j. A Collins, under secretary of
the interior In Steyn's executive, has been
appointed landrost Steyn is regarded as
guilty OK faulty, but not Influenced by
nepotism- He was always Kruger's tool.
II has been rumored that he has reaped
financial benefit from this connection but
the report is not substantiated Mr.. Fischer
played the part of Steyn's Mephistopheles."
The long and anxiousiy awaited news of
the relief of Mafeklng has not yet been
received. Mr.. Schreiner. the Cape premier.
has granted the request of the mayor of
Cape Town that a public holiday be pro-
claimed throughout the colony on the relief
OF Mafeking.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Morning Post says: "On the best author
ity / learn that the real objective of the
Fischer-Wolmarans deputation is Russia.
i also hear that they have taken away all
the secret discriminating documents from
Pretoria, thus making IL difficult 20 impli-
cate Steyn and the Bondites."
n ulSpatcn 10 the Daily Mall from Pre-
toria. dated March 10, says: President
Kruger returned from Kroonstadt yester-
day. He says the fight In the Free State
will be desperate. am informed that the
Transvaal government has taken no resolu-
tion TO destroy mines or property as a last
resort"
Winston Churchill. in a dispatch from
Pietermaritzburg says: II think IL may be
counted certain that the Transvaal would
Immediately comply If Great Britain were
to demand equally fair treatment for all
prisoners by a threat OF reprisals on Trans
vaal prisoners"
From a Pretoria dispatch 1t appears some
misunderstanding regarding Lord Sails
bury's reply 10 Americas offer of media
ton. exists there. Ii had been quoted TO
the effect that Lord Salisbury said he could
accept the Intervention OF no one power
which leads to the belief that the American
representations would be listened to In
the final settlement.
Private Cole. the Canadian whom the
Queen visited at Nettley Hospital returned
TO South Africa to-day, fully recovered
from his wounds.
Rudyard Kipling has gone to Bloemfon-
tein-
QUEER STORY FROM PRETORIA.