Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-05-11
ADVENTUROUS BOERS.
rhe Boer Commanders LIKELY so be
Enmesaed-The Cefent~is at wrpr-
uer stilf Hold the Roers st hay
Roer scouts Workfng Around
Ladysmith and Dewdrep and Other
Places on Bulier's Flank


round about way. London hears that
Lord Roberts when wiring TO the Prince
OF Wales at Copenhagen congratula-
alton. added two or three hopeful sem
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
ly. 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
on the Beers. Lord Methuen has work.
ed eastward until he is within eighty
miles of Kroonstad. Boer scouts have
gone around Ladysmith, and have APP
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.
side number.
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 a note to Por-
tugal. regarding the use by the British
OF the Beira route for the transporta-
ton Of troops to Rhodesia and this may,
IL the Beers act against Portugal, lead
rff IN ~ 1rr
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
TO transmit their proposal to London.
thus following the course OF the United
States.
Sir Alfred Milner when replying to a
deputation OF clergymen In Cape Town
yesterday Thursday said: " Never
again must be the motto OF all think
Ing and humane men. but not from lust
or conquest or a desire to trample on
the gallant. II misguided. There must
DE no compromise or patchwork in the
settlement. and no opportunity for mis-
understanding. Intrigue, the revival OF
Impossible ambitions. or the accumula-
ton OF enormous ornaments. The
British VIII no longer tolerate dissim-
liaT and antagonistic political systems
In country which nature and history
have declared to be one"
In these absolute utterances Of Sir
Alfred Miner. he speaks for the i'm
perinl government
1t is calculated that Lord Roberts
now has $4,000 effective troops, with
IL. 600 more afloat or under orders The
War Office has instructed officers not
TO take anw more expanding bullets to
Africa for revolvers
Hiidyard Steyn. brother OF President
Steyn,in the course OF an interview ~
i,loomfontein, said: The original war
plan OF the Beers was to oyerrun ALI
Cape Colony. but on becoming involv-
"a In the seiges of Kimberley ana
.-adysmith. the burghers found the de-
sign spoiled. To this 1 attribute the
Boer failure to conquer the British. /
expect the war TO last until Christ
mas"
The seventh month of the war IS hs-
Sinning with easier tide, and the morn
ing paper editorials expatiate upon the
need OF soberness
Pretoria, April IA heavy cannon
ade was heard this morning in the d.
rection OF Built Fontein, situated mid
The Orange Fres State and north of
Drandfort
Advices from the Boer Headquarters
IN Natal say that after a heavy bonn
hardment the British are retiring In the
direction Of Ladysmith and the fede-
rails are going to their old positions.
AdVices from Wepcner, where q Brit
ish 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
1ers to the effect that no person who
mas been ccUmandeered for active SER
vice has the light 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 or twelve days. This Is intend
eo to meet the wishes of the burghers
desiring to plant their crops
Cape Town, April 1.-THE British
steamer Monterey. Captain Parry
which sailed from Halifax March 18th
with Lord Strathcona and Mount Roy
ais contingent Of Canadian troops ON
board. has arrived here.
Bloemfontein. April 1l.-According 10
Information received here the Boer &C.
tivity eastward of the railroad and In
proximity TO the border is largely due
TO the fact that Presidents Kruger and
-Steyn have found they are unable to
keep their forces together in inactivity
the burghers declaring they are unwill-
Ing to remain with their commands un-
less actively employed, as they are con-
WINGED the British game Is q waiting
one. 1t Is believed the Boer movement
was originally designed to oblige Lord
Roberts to weaken his force at Blosm-
sontein In order 10 protect the rail-
road. when the Beers would have at
tempted TO recapture the capital But
the burghers are evidently ignorant of
the enormous forces Lord Roberts has
at his disposal.
Advices from Raree Siding say the
Beers are busy entrenching their posi-
tfon east OF Brandfort running parallel
with the railroad. while stu strongly
holding the Waterfall drift water
works.
London April ia dispatch to the
Daily Mai from Lorenzo Marques dated
Thursday, says: II Is reported from
Pretoria that Boer commando Is NOV
Ing through Basutoland. This is said
TO be a clever ruse to draw the British
away from Wepen6r A bout 2000 for