Show PLANS Of lORD ROBERTS His Objective to Establish a Line of Posts EXTEND ACROSS FREE STATE I I I Hopes to Prevent Boer Raids Southward South-ward Boers Continue to Follow Their Harassing Tactics Preparations Prepara-tions for nn Advance from Kimberley tons 4 ley Continue Relief of ItLafeking Has Not Ceased to Occupy Attention I Atten-tion of tho Authorities Boers Are I Threatening Communication I < London May Snl 110 n mThe immediate 1 im-mediate objective of Lord Roberts is I I I Lo establish n line of British posts from one frontier of the Free Stale to I the other at right angles with the railway I raids south way thus preventing Bocr ward It is essential therefore that the Boers should be oxpciicu from thc rugged Tliaba NChu district and be forced to retire to adybrand As the result of the desultory llring Monday and Tuesday the Boers were pushed back a few miles buf nothing definite appears to have yet been attained HARRASSING TACTICS The Boers continue to follow thcl harrasslng tactics One wellhorsed commando operating in tho neighborhood neighbor-hood of Sannns Post Interferes with the British convoys going from Blocm fontcin to ThabA NChu The enemy I nearly captured a convoy Tuesday but they were driven off after a brisk light I ADVANCE FROM KIMGERLEY Preparations for an advance continue at Klmbcrley Sir Alfred Milner has written to the Mayor of Klmberlcy assuring as-suring him that the relief of Mafcklng has not ceased to occupy his attention and that of the military authorities and that nothing will be left unturned I In 1 < t h c1 o GARRISONS STRENGTHENED The British garrisons along the railway rail-way toward Warrenton have been strengthened and supplies are going forward A mounted force has gone to Barkley West in consequence of the Boers having occupied Windsorlon A I thousand Boors threaten the communl cations between Boshof and Kimbcr leyMalala Malala chief of the Taurgs has Informed in-formed the British that the Boers are preparing to resist their attack at Phlkowanl twenty miles north of Warren INVESTING FORCE WITHDRAWN A correspondent at Lourenco Mar ues cabled Tuesday that a large part oC the Investing force at Mafcklng has been withdrawn Gen Duller continues quiet The Boers assert that they are delaying an attack upon him In the hope that all the horses of the British will die of horse sickness PEACE TERMS According to a correspondent of the Dally Telegraph with Lord Roberts President Xruger is again asking peace terms The departure of the Boer delegates from Holland to the United States and what they have said of their purpo sand s-and hopes draw British attention of American views of the war VIEWS ON V AR Todays Chronicle says The men who count in the United States are not likely to accept the views which Messrs FIshchcr and Wcssels Intend to place before thorn PREPARING FOR SIEGE The Lourenco Marques correspondent of the Dally Mail telegraphing yesterday yester-day says A French steamer has arrived with 10000 bags of coffee and 10000 bags of sugar consigned to a snydicate which Is buying for the PretorIa Pre-toria Government Four more steamers steam-ers with similar consignments are expected ex-pected this month It is evident that the Transvaal intends making a long resistance BUILDING FORTIFICATIONS The Boers have begun constructing fortifications at Lydenburg where they continue to stoic provisions There Is also evidence of an Intention to connect the disused SelatI railway running northwest from Komatipoort with Lydcnburg to destroy the Netherlands railway as a last resort and to hold the Drakensburg range as an eastern barrier with Lydenburg a headquarters headquar-ters I this plan should be adopted the campaign will become very difllcult NO MAINE DISASTER The Portuguese authorities here objected ob-jected to H M S Forte using her searchlights and they next objected to night patrols Consequently the steamer now steams outside the bar hor nightly to avoid a possible repetition repeti-tion of the Maine disaster LEAVE BLOEMFONTEIN A dispatch from Blocmfonteln dated Tuesday May 1st says Early this morning Gen PoloCaraws division composed of the Guards and Gen Stem vensons brigades with several bat teries of artillery all In winter cloth I Ing left Blocmfonteln Lord Roberts with Lady Roberts and their daughter reviewed the division divi-sion in market place While marching out the men appeared to be in capital condition Later Lord Roberts whilp reviewing Robertfas Horse congratulated the men upon their bravery spoke of the gal I lantry of the Colonial troops and cx pressed the hope that he might soon I review them in Pretoria FIGHT AT HOUTNFK A dispatch from Tlmba NChu Tues Jay afternoon says Gen Hamiltons division was engaged Hamllons day In forcliiK a passage northward At Houtilck the Boer front held a line of hlllR lne llllJ commanding the sides of tho Nek The Canadians and Gordons nt laoked the hill to the left and the Shropshire and Marshalls 1 Horse rshalB sup ported by a battery also made anal lack on the enemy who I mel finally fed leaving many ounded and the pas I rage was cleared BOERS SHELL THE CAMP I The Doers on the mountain are now shelling the outlying camp necessi I t LIt removal to a safer place The Boers have three guns on the hill to the eastward of this place outside the range of the British artillery The Blllsh 1t I ClY Boor shell is not doing shel 10t any damage The damaJc enemy retain their positions and the British are not attempting to die lodge them Gen Hamilton by reach Humllon ing Houtnek after afull days aCel n4ful fighting secured the Thaba NChuBloomfon lofmfon tcln road I STORIES ARE TANGLED l 1 te r dllllenlt to unravel I the ti lnc langled tuorlos coming thclnSINl utolij from the neighborhood l of lhabu NChu but apparently the lent British forceo are engaged hi a move meat having for Its object the hemming In of the Boers still In that district While Gens French and hle lrcnch an Rundlc are holding thi Boers at Thaba NChu Gen Broadwood8 cavalry has been pushed on Houtnek In the hope of In tercepting the federal convoys between Ladybrand hland and Wlnburg As Gen I Ji Botha has been reinforced there Is every prospect of sharp fighting DEPLOYING BRITISH ARMY The new scenes of operations mid the general movements of the various columns 1 col-umns are taken to Indicate that Lord Roberts Is deploying his army preparatory prepara-tory to beginning his northern march I now seems likely that it is the com manderlnchlcfs intention to advance simultaneously from Klmborley Bloem fonteln and l ulysmlth with the view of preventing the Boers from concentrating concen-trating their forces at any given point WAn NEAR END A dispatch from Bloemfontcln dated yesterday chronicles the prevailing opinion among the townspeople there that the war Is not likely to last more than six weeks once the British advance ad-vance begins 1 but adds that the correspondent corre-spondent has been unable to discover any ground for this opinion beyond the fact that Gen Carrlngton has arrived at the Marandellas base whence 0 flying column wIll be dispatched in I fllrr > r > tlrm not milo nubile KRUGERS PROCLAMATION I A dispatch from Pretoria gives the toxt of President Krugers proclamation proclama-tion expelling British subjects from the I j I Transvaal I says I As numerous burghers Insist on the removal of the British and as the Gov I I eminent Is desirous of complying with the wishes of burghers and others fa orablc to the ruble all Britishers residing In the district and town of Protoiia and the Witwatersrand gold I Melds must leave the State within thir I I tyslx hours from noon April 30th l J i Exception will be made In the case of those obtaining special permits 1 BRITISH CASUALTIES Lord Roberts forwards a list of the casualties of Gen Ian Hamiltons force April 1 30th as follows Killed MaJ Showers Lieut Parker and one private y Wounded Four officers and five men Missing Two officers and ten men ATTACK ON MAFEKING A dispatch from Mafeklng describing describ-ing the Boer attack ofApril llth says The bombardment of the creusots was the hottest of the siege Many shells entered the hospital and womans laager Under coer of the artillery I a I large force commanded by Cronje the I younger including the German corps I advanced close to Fort Abrams The I garrison laid low until the Boer forces wero at close range when they fired a volley killing live Bounded many and I the attack was repulsed The bombai ment then ceased The Boers under a recover Red Cross their flag dead later were permitted to I |