The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-05-11
Betting On ROBERTS
That He VIII be in. Pretoria in
Two Months.
Beers IN FULL FLIGHT
From the British on the Zand
Bully" Beef Punched.
Beers IN FULL FLIGHT

London. May IL $50 a. m-)-Member:
OF the house Of commons were freely
betting in the Hobbies last evening thai
Lord Roberts would be In Pretoria IN TIVE
months. From 15co0 to 2o.ooo is the high,
est estimate Of the Beers under the com
nand of General Botha, who Is said tC
have Is guns. Lord Roberts IS pressing
hard after this force with 81. coo men am
40 guns, and e, 200 more zen are easily
available. The correspondents are con
fined in their narrative TO events two oil
three days old. SO far as Lord Roberts
is concerned. President Steyn, with 10.
600 men is reported to have been east ol
Thaba N'Chu yesterday CThursday) moor
and a battle was then imminent. The ad-
vance troops Of General Rumble and Cen
eral Brabant were being fred on.
Parties OF Beers are still holding the
mountains adjacent to Springfield.
During a concern for the relief OF the
sufferers from the Begbie works explosion,
given Saturday evening at Pretoria, ,in
the Gaiety theatre. the doors were sud-
denly closed and every man IN the aU-
dience was Communicated All the horses
were taken from the conveyances outside.
Halt the foreign merchants at Lorenzo
Marques held an indignation meeting %
protest against the new regulations
whereby blankets. clothing and bully
beef are declared contra5and. Twelve
thousand cases OF supplies are in bond
there and as much more IS expected Two
French vessels carrying goods consigned
TO Lydeuburg have been stopped.
The aiarrnist tone o3 Lord Salisbury s
Primerose League speech Wednesday has
been much discussed IN the lobbies % par
lament and the impression IS that The az
prehensions Of the premier are even more
serious than he then expressed. HIS utter
ances are ascribed to the recent sue
cesses OF the Nstionahsts IL France.
hatred Of England being one o. the weap-
ons OF the campaign. The revival Of mil
itary glory. one OF the Idols set ~ IN
France. IS regarded as dangerous 20 Eng
land.
BRITISH CROSSING OF THE ZAND
London. May T-Gv.B a MILFORD
RcI erts telegraphs 20 the war office from
Walegen. under date OF A2y 3. evening
as follows. ''Pois-Carew'z s1d Tsckar's
divisions. Hamilton column Of r ssvy NJ
val and royal agrrisan artillery gus sa1
FOUR brigades Of cavalry marched hers "a
dag. The enemy hold the opposite lark
OF Zaad river. Their strength vEl ts
ascsrtalued tomorrow. when i.5pe 10 o.
able 70 force a passage q sbs river
London, Nay 14-G9-z9>a- II J--T5 - gf-
fcially announced that the British aave
crossed the Zand river and thst ;he
Beers are being pushed back from ih =
strong positions Lord Roberts = Jo-1z 50
the war once as follows.
'Cabls Cart LeaseuarierE ~ fhe r -
May Bob a m.)-Ws arc now =cyess
the Zaad river. The enemy srs slE bod
ing a strong position. bot Ne are gra<u-
ally pushing them hack
London. May i0-II a na.)-Thc q yNs-
iag q the Zaa3 RIVER ~ she Brittle so-
pears 70 nave bssn Effected soo1sr To- :
even tbs most EanE1zsne ezss~'s.'. anj
this morning Lord Rabe-ss' tsfn5a-arF
headquarters ls estabiisssd IL q ca5is or.
CT TIE north bank o. the river Thr0@gs
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shsTs ;hat yesterdays reo9rt - f1e
abandonment q their osssslen ~e-e Sc
f0znsss. Lord T.oberrs a1Fsuee faree.
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