Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-05-18
ADVENTUROUS BOERS.
eoBERTs EMPLOYS HIS GREAT
Army EFFECTIVELY.
rhe Boer Commanders Likely 20 be
ner SIM Hold the Beers az Bay
Boer scouts working Around
Ladysmith and Dewdrop and other
Places ON Buffers Flank.

ROUND ABOUT way, London hears that
Lord Roberts when wiring to the Prince
of Wales at Copenhagen congratula-
tons upon his escape from assissin-
alton, added two or three hopeful SEN
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
iy, and that the adventurous Boer COM
mandoes are likely to be enmeshed
scraps or 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
Off the Beers. Lord Methuen has work.
ed eastward until he is within eighty
miles OF Kroonstad. Boer scouts have
gone around Ladysmith. and have ap-
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 Is, 900, but
these figures are probably excessive.
10000 being regarded here as the out
eide number.
After General Harris brigade leaves
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 its 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
Great Britain to land troops at LOU
renzo Marques. This possibility has
been seriously discussed and is referred
10 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 Miner 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, IL misguided. There must
De no compromise or patchwork in the
settlement and no opportunity for mis-
impossible ambitions, or the accumula-
ton OF enormous ornaments The
british VIII no longer tolerate dissim-
liar 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 inn
perial government
1t is calculated that Lord Roberts
now has 2l4,000 effective troops, with
lz.oO0 more afioat or under crders Tbs
War Office has instructed officers not
90 take anw more expanding bullets 60
Africa for revolvers.
Hildyard Steyn. brother OF Presad@.,t-
Stsyn,in the Course &c an interview at
bloom fSIt~fn, said: The original war
Dian OF the bocrs was TO overrun all
cape Colony, but on becoming involv-
eu In the seiges of Kimberley and
Ladysmith, the burghers found the ia
sign spoiled. To this I attribute the
boer failure to conquer the British. I
expect the war to last until Christ
mas"
The seventh month of the war is be-
winning 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 III
rection of Built Fontein, situated mid
way between Windburg and Boshof. in
rtc'- ana north OF
Brandfort
Advices from the Boer Headquarters
IN Natal say that after a heavy bonn
Dardment the British are retiring in the
direction OF Ladysmith and the fede-
rails are going to their old positions.
Aovices from Wepener, where a Brit
ism 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
ders to the effect that no person who
has been coDmandeered for active ser
vice has the right 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 OF twelve days. This Is intend
ed to meet the wishes of the burghers
desiring to plant their crops
Cape Town, April 12-The British
steamer Monterey, Captain Parry.
Which sailed from Halifax March nth
with Lord Strathcona and Mount Roy
ais contingent of Canadian troops on
board, has arrived here.
Bloemfontein. April 11.-According TO
Information received here the Boer ac-
uvity eastward OF the railroad and in
proximity to the border is largely due
20 the fact that Presidents Kruger and
Steyn have found they are unable to
keep their forces together in inactivity.
the burshers declaring they are unwiIl-
ing to remain with their commands I'M
Less actively employed as they are con-
WINGED the British game is q waiting
one. 1t IL believed the Boer movement
was originally designed to oblige Lord
Roberts to weaken his force at Bloem-
fontein In order to 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 Karee Siding say the
Beers are busy entrenching their posi-
ton east of Brandfort running parallel
with the railroad, while still strongly
works.
London, April ia dispatch to tina
Daily Mail from Lorenzo Marques dated
Thursday. says: 1t Is reported from
Pretoria that Boer commando Is NOV
Ing through Basutoland. This is said
TO be clever ruse to draw the British
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