Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-17
Check Advance Guard of the Re-
lief Force Sent to Mafeking,
GARRISON FIGHTS WELL.
surrounds the Bocr advance Pre-
toria Holding Back News General
View Of the situation,


] clal bulletin announces that the federal
| troops stormed and occupied the forts
around MafekIng on Saturday morning,
The same night the federals were sur
rounded. losing. so far as known seven
killed u wounded and a number taken
prisoners. The British casualties are
said TO have been 50 killed or wounded
II IS reported that the advance guard
Of the force proceeding TO the relief Of
MafcNng from the south was repulsed
yesterday
! BRITISH DOUBT TIE STATEMENT
London. May n. 1920 a. m.-The Brit
ish relief column fought the Beers at
Kraal Pan. thirty-two miles south OF
MafcNng. ON Tuesday according to a
| telegram received Wednesday al Lou
renzo Marques from Molopo. 100 miles
north OF Mafckiug This intelligence
/ is accepted here with some reserve, be-
cause &c &c. dmemt TO understand how
/ the news could have been SO quickly
put on the wire from a place 1872 miles
/ from the scene OF the engagement A
/ correspondent OF the Morning Post pre-
sumably John stuart is reported cap
tur,i by the Beers at Kraal Pan.
The British public IS keeping expec-
tant OF The announcement that Mafe-
king has been relieved I'm army circles
the opinion seems TO prevail that this
/ has already been accomplished, al
/ though two hours after midnight the
war office asserted that news off the PEE
lief had not been received The stead
/ fast courage of htc garrison has proc
tucgd % deep impression and the news
/ off uccor is awaited with more anxiety
/ than bias been felt regarding any other
event of the war;
beers HOLDING BACK NEWS.
Douglass story. the Mails corre-
spondout at Pretoria. wires. THE Boer
/ government is holding back some big
/ news Fever prevails here. President
! Kruger Us working day and night The
/ latest B0rr official bulletin is that the
relief column has been defeated with
/ great loss
! Lord Roberts continues passive at
/ Er0unsiad Ills cavalry are stretching
/ Ike "a semI-oiruular screen many miles
| in length. without tapping tanks, The
| railway WIN probably Doe completed toe
/ day The Kr11ustad censor permits the
passage OF long dispatches dealing With
| Incidents prior to The occupation.
FIGHT AT ZAND RIVER.
II seems that Gen. French's cavalry
/ had one lively fight after crossing the
Zand river A mixed squadron. COM
/ posed OF the Scots greys the Inniskil-
| lens. carbiucers and Australian horse
| took a kopje and dism0unted The Beers
suddenly fired from a concealed posi-
I ton killing many horses and stamped
| ing the rest
The Beers then advanced In over
| whelmlug numbers and drove the
squadron, capturing some. The Beers
/ robbed the dead and looted the saddles.
I A small brigade of cavalry drove them
off, Farther north the hussdrs charged
| the Beers killing and wOundug many
stracglers with sabers and pistols.
Lord Roberts infantry marched 100
miles in seven days Gen. French
marched thirty miles in one day. The
/ Beers when retiring. dragged thirty
/ two guns through KroonsJad.
BUTLER ADVANCING.
Gen Butler Is moving toward New
castle. lie appears To- be using % 900
men against 5000 or COCO His opera
lions will almost certainly result Go his
forcing his way into the Transvaal,
/ possibly IN time 20 cooperate with Lord
Roberts advance, although Gen. Bull
| Ter Is now 2i2 miles from johannes
burg or twenty-five days march
I nh YH.HffVa1 ItF "a
| South African holders says that there
| are 300 Frcnchmon with the Beers who
| are opposing Gen Butler, together with
many Germans and other foreigners.
The L7dysmIth correspondent Of the
Daily Telegraph says that only one
Boer was shot an the movement which
resulted IN the taking Of Helpmakaar
BRITISH SUCCESSES.
Gen. Rumble Is sweeping through the
northeast of the Free State. The Beers
are dlssolvIug before him and some are
surreudcring Their main force Is as
semhled between Ficksburg and VIM
burg but &c is without close organlza-
ton.
Today's irstalment OF the war story
from every part of the war field is
therefore seemingly n narrative Of
.INI"N HNNN"NH"rH NHN WIN NIN| NNN|IN
preparing FOR "a last desperate fling far
thor in the interior and with Boer guer-
ilia parties looting houses and stores
iu the northwest section Of Capt Col
onv. 90 rs not all roses Cor the British.
The Tpiugt0u district is the locality
where the guerilla tactics 0f the Beers
are iust row most in evidence
The postponed CONGRESS- OF the Afrl-
handler Buul has been called 10 meet
at Palrle June 18th.
A Canadian battery o. fifteen pound
srs arrived at Bc'ra, Portuguese East
Africa. Nav 10Th
BOER SYMPATHY IN AMERICA.
The Daily Graphic, which refers TO
the B0or mission 90 the United States
ls q by-product OF the war says:
"There rs no name 81 Importance among
the orators who sauted the delegates
we fear they have fallen into q sort
of Arclo-SaX0n ambush and are being
uCtlm.zod for purely party purposes"
The Times considers the rum0rs ca-
bled here as 20 President McKinley's
alleged proc Boer symp0thies utterly
useless" n Says "Mr Mckinley "a
convinced that the country does not
wish him tD Interfere and that inter-
ference would De ln an respects mex.
r.dlent ae wen as Impossible"
The Times also refers t0 The admi7-
sion hy thc American state department
0s porugoIs general right TO refuse
massage to CaJiroi3ul g1ofs.
FOREIGN REPRE- ENTATIVEs
ALARMED
The I0uruz1 NarIues CORE D0ndant .
rf thr Times under Tuesdays date. /
saws "Thare has been "a heated Discus /
a,0n ln the u1d in secret scion. tee /
ereet'ng the oypeliucy of destroying /
tbe mines The result, is not publicly /
known. The foreign mining reprcsen- /
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