The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-04-10
LORD ROBERTS TAKING STEPS TO
PREVENT SURPRISES AT FREE
STATE CAPITAL
DoERS ARE on EVERY SIDE
BEWILDERING MOVEMENTS OF
BRITISH TROOPS IN AND ABOUT
BLOEMFONTEIN
AIR THICK WITH RUMoRs
Decisive Events Are Anticipated,
Though Gen. Roberts Seems
Doomed to "A Prolonged
Winters Campaign.

LONDON. April 1O.-Britons are begin
ming, though reluctantly, to realize that
Lord Roberts is in for a winter cam
paign, lasting several months. This is the
end, in a few words of the high hopes
based upon Lord Roberts brilliant dash
to Kimberley and Bloemfontein
Preparations are being made to hold
Z Bfoemfontein against surprises Lord
Kitchener has been given an important
duty, being responsible for the protec-
tion of the railway, while Lord Roberts
Is waiting for remounts and winter cloth
Ing for the troops, whose thin cotton
Khaki uniforms and boots are worn out
Gen. Brabant and Gen. Gatacre are
both at standstill. Lord Roberts will
probably for some time confine his opera
lions to clearing the Free State behind
him of raiders and to relieving Mafeking.
Tor which purpose the entire Eighth di-
vision, now arriving at Cape Town. has
been ordered to Kimberley
The Bloemfontein correspondent of the
Daily News, telegraphing Sunday, says:
ne railway and telegraph are work
Ing Well. Works and trenches have been
prepared in suitable positions around
BIoemfontein. The greatest vigilance is
exercised. Some of the troops sleen In
the trenches
Confirmation has been received of the
reports that the Beers are in laager in
considerable force, with ten guns at
Donkerspoort, eighteen miles southeast.
The British scouts report another BODY
stlll closer. The Boer patrols have grown
very daring, venturing much nearer our
tents"
BEWILDERING MOVEMENTS
The Bloemfontein correspondent Of tba
Mornlng Post, telegraphing Sunday. saws.
The movement of troops continues with
oewildering frequency. brigades and di-
visions appearing and disappearing at
4 Drlef intervals. No specific accounts of
such movements are permitted.
Some remounts were fired on yester-
qay on the railway while on the wav
here from the south.
Inc enemy are reported to be in con.
siderable numbers to the southeast of the
Hlhe- Tie Beers are also apparentlv
1eeHng their way, freqeutnly to the west
u 'he line A party has been thrown
IorWard and has reoccupied the laager
- ra1araenurs' probably to search for
buried arms and ammunition
bOERS IN FORCE.
Inc Bloemfontein correspondent of tba
DaiIy Mail, telegraphing Sunday. saws:
ne ar .s thick with rumors of large
4I Ces OF boers to the southwark but
there is no positive official information
on the subject. On the other hand the
FaIWay is said to be well guarded.
LIT Conan Doyle contributes tn the
FTlend OF the Free State a picturesque
@ uescIipCoh Of the British infantry He
Who could have conceived that bod
seen this prim soldier in time of neace
tnat ne SO quickly could transform him
sen INTO this grim, Virile barbarian?
buHdog taces hawk faces, hungry wolf
races every sort of face except a weak
one Most of them have gaunt faces
and lean little forward with ewes
steadfast and features impassiye but
resoute.
Here is a clump of mounted infantry.
with a grizzIed fellow, like a fierce old
eagle, at the head of them Some are
named like lions, some have young, keen
faces, but all leave an impression of IA
smiliarity upon me. Yet I have not
seen irregular British cavalry before.
Why should it be so familiar to me-this
loose-limbed, head-erect, staggering
type? OF course 1 have seen it in the
American cowboy over and over again
Strange that a few months on the yeldt
man as springs from the Western prai-
rie.' "
INSURANCE FUNDS MISSING.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing Sunday, saws:
Il have received information to the
effect that the negotiable securities to the
value of e130,G00, which We're lodged by
law with the Free State government by
foreign insurance companies, have dis
company has issued warning against
dealing in them"
CZAR MAY PROTEST
The Russian and French papers are
still eXcitedIy protesting against Great
Britain's use of the Beira route in trans
porting troops to Rhodesia, but there is
nothing to confirm the dispatch from ST.
Petersburg to the Aftenblabet of Stock
holm, saying that Emperor Nicholas Is
extremely agitated over the Anglo
Portuguese arrangement and intends to
Issue a proclamation protesting against
1t during. his forthcoming visit to Mos
cow
WEPENER GARRISON ISOLATED
The Times publishes the following from
Wepener, dated Sunday, April S:
The Wepener garrison is practically
Isolated. However, the lines are enor-
mously strong and the force is fully pro
Visioned Desultory firing between out
posts continues. A commando estimated
at 1000, with four guns, went into laager
last might five miles from here, In the
direction of, Dewetsdorf.
The Bloemfontein correspondent Of the
Times telegraphing Saturday says:
Two captured Roers agree that Only
fifty men remained unwounded out Of the
whole British column captured at Red
dersburg. Gen. Gatacre and his staff
were fired on from enclosures while tenn
porarily occupying Reddersburg.
Considerable movements of troops
have occurred here with the object of
preventing q surprise
THINKS BRITONS IN DANGER
BERLIN, April s.-The latest develop
ments of the military situation in South
Africa are interpreted here as very
gnfayorable to the British The Kreuz
zeitung's military writer says:
Evidently Lord Roberts troops have
lost greatly in their lighting fitness.
Moreover the enormous loss of horses
renders their case desperate, since the