The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-05-03

one frontier OF the Free state to the
other, at right angles with the railway.
thus preventing Boer raids southwark.
It is essential, Therefore, that the Beers
should be expelled from the rugged
Thaba N'Chu district, and be .orced to
retire to Ladybrand
As the result of the desultory firing
Monday and Tuesday. the Beers were
pushed back a few miles. but nothing
ueLnlte appears 20 have YET been at
tanned. The BOerS continue TO follow
their harassing tactics One we'll horsed
commando. operating in the ueighbor-
hood OF Sannas Post, interferes with
tile British conveys going from BlOem-
Ionteln 10 Thaba NChu. The enemy
nearly captured q convoy Tuesday, but
they were driven of after a brisk
fight.
Preparations for an Advance continue
al kimberley Sir Alfred Miner has
written to the mayor of Kimberley. as
surlng him that the relief Of Mafeking
has not ceased TO occupy his attention
ana that of the military authorities
and that nothing viii be left unturned
10 raise the siege.
Beers Are Threatening.
The British garrisons along the rail-
way toward WarrentOn have been
strengthened, and supplies are going
Forward. A mounted force has gone to
Barklay West, in consequence of the
Beers having occupied WindsOrtOn. A
thousand Beers threaten the commune
cations between BOshOf and Kimberley.
Malala, chief of the Taungs. has in
formed the British that the Beers are
preparing to resist their attack at Phi
kowani. twenty miles north of Warren.
A correspondent at LOuTenZO MARQUEE
cabied Tuesday that a large part of the
investing force at Mafexing has been
Withdrawn. General Butler continues
quiet. The Beers assert that they are
delaying an attack upon him, in the
hope that all the horses of the British
VII die Of horse sickness
According 10 correspondent of the |
Daily Telegraph, with Lord Roberts, |
President Kruger is again asing peace !
terms The departure of the Boer dele /
gates from Holland TO the United States /
and what they have said of their pur-
poses and hopes, draw British atten- /
ton TO American views of the war. To- /
days Chronicle says:
Mission of Boer ENJOYS.
THE men who count In the United !
States are not likely to accept the
views which Messrs. Fishcher and Yves
sels intend to place before them"
I
says native women in attempting to
leave town by moonlight We're butch
cred by the Beers. Baden-POweu pro-
tested but was not answered. The date
OF tn relief of Mafeking IS fixed for !
the queens birthday, May "a
The LOurenZO Marques correspondents
Of the Daily Nail, telegraphing yes
terday, says: "A French steamer has
arrived with 10000 bags of coffee and
10000 bags Of sugar, consigned to a
syndicate which is buying for the Pre-
JOrId government. -Four more steamers
with similar cOnsignments are expect
ed this month. It is evident that the
Iransvaal intends making a long re-
SistanCe.
The Beers have begun constructing
LOrtlhcdtiOnS at Lydsnburg, where they
continue TO store provisions There is
also evidence Of an intention to con
meet the disused Selati railway run
1ing northwest from KOmatipOOFt with
Lydenburg, 10 destroy the Netherlands
railway as last resort and to hold
the DrakensbUrg range as an eastern !
barrier, with Lydenburg as headuuar- :
-eTs. II this plan should be adopted / I
the campaign viii become very diff
:ult.
The Portuguese authorities here OBJ I
ect TO her maJeSty's steamship Forte [
lslng her seSrchlights and they next
OBJECT 10 night patrols, Consequently.
ne steamer now steams outside the
larDor nightly to avoid possible repe- I
ition of the Maine disaster"
Beers Willing to Treat.
The Morning Post has the following
rom Winston Churchill. dated Thaba
\ Gnu, April %: when General Dick 1
ion retired in the circumstances re- [
ated IN my last telegram. his own v
rT ha Il
ell into the hal4ds Of the enemy, and y
us rear guard was heavily fired on. z
This retreat compromised General G
hamilton, who therefore collected his p
crces and fell back warily into Thaba p
V'Chu, after sharply checking the adj v
anc-ng enemy with musketry and ar e
iuery fire. a
Atbhough much ammunition was eX- u
'ended on both sides, the losses were n
aslgnificant, the fighting being at ,
reat ranges. The result is that the a
3Oers are willing to retreat, but it is
ct in the power Of the present fOrce1 )
o interfere with them or with their Il
-agons." q
The Bloemfontein Correspondent of Il
be Morning Post, wiring Tuesday, g
avs; We have received two interest h
lg letters. TIE first. which is from A
teyn TO BOtha, complains Of the neg cl
sct Of the defense Of KrOnstad by COM OF
Iaudoes there, who are described as bC
coupled in lO0ting the grain districts,
-hich causes AN increase Of ill-feeling
mOng the free State burghers' Steyn
DncludeS by declining to be resDOn- II
bic for the loyalty Of the Free Stat
rs unless a guarantee is given of the
intention TO protect Kron-
ad. Of
'eThe second is a letter from Kruger 10
the commandment at Fourteen
treams Kruger declares that it is in
npossible to send the reinforcements u
le comnandant asked for, since ala pa
ie federal forces are required at their fr
resent posts, but he declares that the at
deTals are gaining great victories and
lat European intervention is only a an
Iestion Of days" CT
Try TO Intercept Beers. re
While Generals French and Rumble ~
e holding the Beers at Thaba N'Chu M
sneral BrOadwOCd's cavalry has been ST,
shed on Houmek in the hope of in #
rcepfing the federal conveys between er,
ldybrand ana Winburg. As General Fri
Dtha has been reinforced there is M,
cry. prospect. of sharp fighting. sn-
Fhe new scene of operations and TIE an
neral movements Of the various col 60
ms are taken to indicate that Lord
,berts is depf0ying his army DreDar-
Dry to beginning his northern march.
now seems likely that it is the COM \
lnder-in-chiefs intention 10 advance sue
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