The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1900, Page 1

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XY I affis\? / VOLUME LXXXVII—NO. 109 SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1900 PRICE FIVE CENTS HUNDREDS OF FREE STATERS HAVE LAID DOWN THEIR ARMS R B e S S SR = @4@—0—0—0—0—0—0—&0—0—0—0—0*—. bedesebese@® PED GBI DIBID D400 00 000000 0P0D0d0BDIDIDODGDS - . - . : BOUND FOR THE PRISON HULKS, t B [From the Sphere.] ® @ E I E SH 5 S0) APTI rHv BOERS CARRIED UNDER ESCORT TO THE ‘RAILROAD 4 ¢ STAT n WILL BE SENT ‘TO THE PRISON SHIP IN SI- [ ¢ NE -OYED IN THIS SERVICE UP TO THE TIME OF [ & B i S = 90‘%4—'\+/>—0 e e e e O e e e ol BOER DESERTERS SURRENDER GUNS TO BRITISH OFFICERS Lord Roberts Reports the Delivery of Small Cannon to the Commandants at Belmont and Colenso. 8. —The War Office has the following dispatch from Field Marshal Lord Roberts, dated Bloemfontein, s Brigade returned yest v at Edenburg an erday ewhere. from Norvals Pont. Several hurghers have laid down their arms to reports that some deserters have come in with a Maxim, a nine-pounder ht into Colesberg. The cavalry brigade has gone to Thalla Nohu “that district and to distribute copies of the proclamation to the people of the Free as in time to prevent the deviation bridge from being completely pontos was dispatched from he vesterday and to-morrow the regular service with Cape Town will be all was well on March A Mall frc emfontei d Friday, March 15, says: “We are getting rifles surrendered 1 out. It is quite certain that if a British official can reach the northern laagers with Boer population will declarc for peace. »m- Springfontein to Bloemfontein, at every station, Boers are coming in to sur- £ solice headquarters here there is a long line of burghers who are giving Throughout the country 2300 rifles, ejc., were handed in to-day. T h, a declaration not to take un arms against the British govern- war, no ance or information about the British forces to the republican forces, but home until the war is oveér.” nes from Ladysmith, dated Sunday, March 18, says: “Our advanced camp is on Sundays River, tw ndslaagte. The Bc hold two D fons on the Biggarsburg range, about ten miles north. The road, where several e already been' mountel and where they are digging extensive which is on the Dund: ch from Mafeking, dated Saturday, March 10, says: , “The garrison is at the siege will be raised, but so far that is not the case. We are casional capture of cattle. Our home-made gun erratically bom- s are current th tending to inflame These may soon be impossible to hold the natives Boers are inflicting nameless tortures upon captive native runners. ive passions to such an et that it ma ing to the Boers having deliberately bombarded the native stadt. which is full of women and Powell has armed the natives, but he has only allowed them to act on the defensive, Nowed tc t and attack at the point of assegai. children, Colonel although they have clamored They will be prevented as long as possible from inflicting re- B. PATRIOTIC ENTHUSIASM AT PRETORIA. {, March 19.—The § s the following from Pretoria, March 15, via Lourenzo r of Boers on the western border of the Transvaal, trong cordon, throug h, the Boers say, greates n attempted adva Marques, March 18: There in the neighborhood of Mafeking, and that town is sur- it is impossible for the British to break. The Federal forces nce toward the Transvaal of a British force from Kimberley. arsberg range are to the effect that everything is quiet at the Natal > are no British troops within twenty miles of Glencoe. The Boer po- v intrenched, and all the passages into the Orange Free State from Natal are very ing \l th the reverses which have recently befallen the Tederal forces patriotic enthusiasm here and elsewhere in the The_manner in which both the Transvaal and Free State Boers rally round their flags s remarkable. arch 17 (via Loure , March 18 'he gold output durmg February from company mines on the .re now being worked by the Government, was 97,700 ounces. The railway between Bloemfontein and Kroonstad royed. The British officers at Bloemfontein have shifted their quarters to new large buildings north of the town. SR e WEBSTER DAVIS SAYS THE BOERS WANT PEACE. f the Interior. ng to this Mr. Webster sald: re becoming desirious of peace. ~ President Kruger and General Joubert were the but they were becoming exceedingly unpopular. I do not believe the Boers will States Assistant Secreta left Pretoria the Boers w onents of the peace party, nger.” R e e R e T R S Relief of Mafeking Ap- pears to Be Near at Hand. —_— MUCH FIGHTING YET BEFORE THE BRTISH i Boers Fortifying Passes on the Frontier of the Transvaal. I S Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyright, 1800, by the New York | Herald Company. ONDON, March 19.—Re- markable quiet has fallen upon the whole field of | war in South Africa, except in | the neighborhood of Mafeking. News as to that long-besieged {little town is somewhat conflict- ing. It is reported by one dis- patch that Colonel Plumer has advanced, repairing the line as far as Pitsani, and that a patrol has pushed down within fourteen | miles of Mafeking. The relief of | the town seems be near at | hand. The southern part of the Free State is rapidly falling into Brit- |ish hands. The burghers are* re- ported . to be surrendering by hundreds at Bloemfontein and in smaller numbers elsewhere. A message from Natal states that no important move has been made for about ten days. The passes in the Drakensberg into Free State have been found to be held in strength by the Boers, who are intrenching there, as well as along the Biggarsberg and further back on the line of Vaal River. I have heard much talk about the war collapsing, and some papers have even gone so far as to print headlines predicting an immediate end to the struggle. That, however, not the idea held by military men here. One and all concur in agreeing that so far as the Orange Free State is concerned the campaign is at an end, but those who know the country predict that England has by no means finished with the Transvaal. I can give you the hest idea of what military ex- perts think by quoting one of them, who says: “After all, we have up to date captured no guns beyond “the very few which Cronje had. The Boers have in' a wonderful way been able to withdraw all their heavy artillery, and that they took so much pains to do so is distinct proof that they propose later on to use them against us. The mcment that the English ge' into the Transvaal they will be in n conntry which will once again be suitable to Boer tactics, and no one knows that better to 18 ,n@ent says Mr. Davis declined to speak re ms and a request for American media arding his mission, but the general belief in Naples is that . A \| ——— - BOER LOSSES AS REPORTED FROM PRETORIA. PRETORIA, Friday, March 16.—The chief of the intelligence department, Molengraaf, announced that the Federal josses prior to the relief of Kimberley and Ladysmith were: Killed, 677; wounded, 2120. Accldents, sickness and other disabling causes, he asserts, bring the total to 4351 E ng peace ter: than Roberts. That ‘Bobs’ will come ot all right is without doubt, but there will- be plenty more fghting between now and the time at which the English army reaches Pretoria.” R S R O S e = = SR =) e e e o e o e ] | | Ve 1. | R R R R R R R R R R RS AR R R RS IR 3 - - * ® * . $ - * I : * ! SOUNDING THE ALARM IN MAFEKING. ) - '; ; [Fram the Dally Graphic, after a photograph.] 3 : ¢ DIXON'S HGX‘%}N MAFEKING IS THE GREAT PLACE OF RENDEZVOUS FOR THE OFFICERS AND MEN o WHEN NOT ON DUTY IN THE TRENCHES. WHEN OCCASION ARISES, HOWEVER, A FEW BLASTS BY COLO- J7NEL BADEN-POWELL'S BUGLER 800N EMPTY IT AND SEND THE MEN IN A HURRY TO THEIR POSTS. y B+ 4000000404003 4640400006040 00404000 B A } AMAZON CORPS FORMED BY WOMEN OF THE TRANSVAAL Two Thousand Wives and Daughters of Burgh- ers to Fight in Defense of Their Country. ONDON, March 19.—A dispatch to the Daily News from Bloemfontein, dated Friday, March 16, says: “Events have occurred which induce some to predict that the war will last ‘only so long as it takes to march to Pretorfa. The educated Boers. even of the Transvaalers, are ready to accept the inevitable. “I am told that a corps of 2000 women has been {ormed at Premrla. It is called the Amazon corps. All the mem- sers are uniformed in kilts and are armied.” The rellef of Mafeking is not vet announced, but it is extremely probable (hag this i8 already accomplished by Colongl Plumer’s advance. Lady Charles Bentick, at Cape Town, has received a telegram from her husband in Mafeking, dated March 12, saying that he expected to join her shortly. The actual relief movements have not been publicly devgluped in detall, but it seems that Lord Methuen started only very recently and is rather engaged in dispersing the 's of the district than aiming at actual relief. Colonel Peakman has dispersed 500 Boers at Fourteen Streams. Lord Ro Tts prob- ably ascertained from Mr. Frazer, the new Mayor of Bloemfontein, before dispatching General Pole-Carew southward that, in all likelihood, the railway was clear. The next move will be to collect at Bloemfontein 'by railway _suffictent stores for the immediate army Lord Roberts will have when the Orarige River forces have joined him.~ This’ will probably occur in'from two to three weeks. Therefore the next important operatiohs ‘may be expected ih Natal. . The cavaly brigade which Lord-Roberts has sent.to Thaba Nchu,.thirty-five miles east of Bloemfontein, is designed to cut off some 2000 Boers who are escaping (rom the southward. The Boers are reported to have destroyed the railways in the neighborhood of Kroonstadt. “ ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN SOUTH AFRICA. CAPE TOWN (Sunday), March 18.—St. Patrick’s day was celebrated with, exlnordlnxry enthusiasm_throughout South Africa. In a message to Irishmen of Cape Town, the Queen sald: “I have always felt confident that the spirit, courage and allegiance which Have dls!ln(ulshed the Irish soldiers in the face of the enemy.would not be spared by their brethren in the colony in support of the authority of my Government.” On the initiative of Lord Roberts. a newspaper has been started at Bloemfontein for the edification of the troops. Rud- yard Kipling contributed to the inaugural edition yesterday the following lines: ; O, Terrence dear, and did you hear, The news that's going "round? The Shamrock’s Erin’s badge by law, ‘Wherever her sons are found. From Bloemfontein to Bally Bank "Tis ordered by the Queen. Wi've won our right in open fight— The wearing of the green. The Mafeking relief eolumn, Colonels Drummond and Peadman commanding, had a sharp engagement at Fourteen Streams. The British succeeded in driving the Boers off. They had only a few casualties. The mounted force from Kimberley, proceeding to the relief of Mafeking, has arrived at Warrenton. neared Windsorton the Boers evacuated the@§own, blowing up the bridge. It is reported that the rebels who refused to accompany the Transvaalers when the latter vacated Taung and Vryburg are preparing to trek into Damaraland on the approach of the British, but that Hottentot chiefs are getting ready to bar their escape. As the force - b SPENCER WILKINSON ON PROBABLE MOVEMENTS. LONDON, March 19.—Spencer Wilknson in the Morning Post says: “Probadly Mafeking will be relieved by the approach of Colonel Plumer before Lord Methuen, who seem engaged in the work of clearing the country north of Kimberley, can arrive. - ““The pacification of the Free State is progressing satisfactorily. ~Ultimately there will arise, probably, among Transvaal Boers a strong peace party, who will point to the condition of affairs at Bloemfontein as evidence that in British provirce of Pretoria life may be tolerable. “It must not be too readily assumed that Lord Roberts will continue his advance by a direct line to Johannesburg and Pretoria. = There are other routes with advantages that may be worthy of consideration. According to Winston Church- ill there are 14,000 Boers with twenty guns in the Biggarsburg range. They will have to be caught sooner or la,(er The British troops are anxious to try and the feeling is general that before long they will be permitted to do so." AMERICAN REPLY SATISFACTORY‘ TO THE TRANSVAAL LONDON March 19.—The Times correspondent at Lourenzo Marques, telegraph ng under date of March 16, says: “State Secretary Reitz of the Transvaal, in the coursé of an interview, sald that the Government considers the American reply highly satisfactory, and that the United States will bring such pressure to bear as will result in a settlement agreeabla to the people of the two republics. While admitting the serigusness of the situation, Mr. Reltz says he is convinced that the burghers of both republics will enthun'nsucnlly defend the independence of the Transvaal to the last.” ENGLAND READY TO DEAL WITH PORTUGAL LONDON, March 19.—Mr. Trohane sands to the London papers a letter he has received from the secretary of the Delagoa Bay railroad arbitration trfbunal, which is to the effect that the award will probably be officially proclaimed in about a month., ‘The Standard, commenting e:!itorially upon this communication from the Admiran advocate, says: **When this prrotr.ceed arbitration has been settled we shall be in a position to deal with ugal on the entire subject, and we may. possibly secure for the Anglicised Transvaal improved commercial facilities. It would be a welcome coincidence 1f the award should coincide with Lord Roberts’ arrival at Pretoria.” ' the the

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