Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-10-07
DRAWING A GORDON
AROUND THE Beers
In Their Attempt to Escape They
Move From Farm to Farm,
WILL AVOID CONCENTRATION
scouts Continually Sight Armed Hod-
les of burgers Report on sOu,b
African Administration.

London. oct. IA correspondent OF
the Times wiring from Dundee Natal,
says that during the progress OF big
movement such as is now being con-
Quoted by Gen. Lyttleton in the south
east corner of the Transyaal. the news
conists mostly OF record Of the move
ments OF the Beers from farm 10 farm
IN their attempt to escape tha Gordon
which is now being drawn around them
by the British troops.
In the country in which the opera
tons are taking place IL is impossible to
prevent small groups Of Beers from
slipping through the columns.
It Is well known how successfully a
large number OF Beers can met away
in an almost incredibly short time
On the present occasion II Is to be
feared that the burghers though massed
in a greater number than usual Will be
alarmed by their experience az Fort
ITALIA, and will avoid further concentra-
ton.
The main body OF Beers, which re-
mains under the leadership of Com
mandant-Gen Botha, the Boer COM
mander- in chief, is within the Gordon
and Is pressing north from the Zulu
land frontier.
on the western frontier OF Natal the
danger OF invasion seems TO have been
ayerted by the rapid movement Of the
British troops.
Throughout the eastern Transvaal
the scouts continually sight armed
Beers Most of these 90 not belong 20
any particular commando, but watch
the movements Of the British and are
always ready to snip from a safe dis
lance when opportunity arises.
SOUTH AFRICAN ADMINIsTRA-
TON.
New York. oct 7.--Niseount de Mattel
Ia, formerly consul general and special
plenipotentiary for Portugal In the
Transvaal has issued a pamphlet re-
viewing the administration In South
Africa during the last quarter Of a CEN
fury, says the London representative Of
the Tribune. The yiscount throws 1T
tie light on the political intrigues Of the
Boer government. He states that Con-
yngham Greene the British representa-
tive at Pretoria was kept Wen in
formed Of the doings OF Mr.. Kruger and
the preparations that were being made
by the Beers for war Mr. Greene was
also supplied by friends with the cor
respondonce OF the Transvaale repre-
sentatives and agents in Europe at Pre-
toria detailing their interviews wi h
different foreign ministers on the
European continent, besides copies Of
official and secret correspondence that
went from Pretoria Il Europe. II Is
only fair 70 assume that Mr.. Greene
forwarded AL the documents that came
into his hands TO the British govern
ment so that II becomes more difficult
than ever 70 understand England's I'M
preparedness for this war. Copies of
the secret correspondence are, says the
viscount, still In existence for all that Is
known to the contrary. Before hostl'i-
ties broke out one Of the parties who
held the Information sent the particu-
lars out of the country for safety and
future use. On the arrival Of Lord Rob-
erts at Pretoria an order was given TO
send the papers back TO the Transvaal
capital. Directly afterward IL was
deemed fiji 10 countermand this order.
but lest the papers should be lost. the
ciphers were connded to Mai. Poore.
provost marshal at Pretoria.