Salt Lake Tribune | 1900-03-21 | Page 7 | Pertaining to the Transvaal

PERTAINING TO THE TRANSVAAL It Is reasonably lo believe that tile relief of Mafeklng may bo heard of at any hour GOIIB Roberts and Duller aro still Inactive Inac-tive pending developments at tho theater of war For all the nows that reached London yealerday Great Hrluiln might almost os woll have been nt peace Tho loer have blown up the bridges north of Uloemfonteln Including those at VInbnrg and ICroostadt and are retreatIng retreat-Ing to thq north > Much concern Is being hovn by the Gernuin Government In the lhoi iiKuy by l Montagu Whlto that tile Boers will destroy de-stroy Johannesburg to prevent It being made the base of tho British operations against Pretoria Tho Brlllsh Government Is about lo Is suie aproclamation mi the fjtlbjeci of thi alleged threals of the Boers lodehlroy Iohanne bnrg and as to what he Uoer may expeel In the event of wanton do slrucllon of British proporty The Imperial Government will not recog nlro as valid or effectual any alienations of properly whether of lands railroads or minis within the Transvaal or the Orangu Free Slate or any Interest therein there-in or eiifiimbraneea or any eoncesalons granted by the yald Governments A part of the British plan for the pacification pacifi-cation of South Africa Ij I < now apparent In tho t announcument thai all the lirlilyl authorlllea there wilt iimkc every effort to liulucj the re orvlslK tho time expired men tho volunteers anti the colonial from abroad u fcettlo thoro as soon as iho war IH over by giving them 210 acres of land each provided thfy will occupy Iho land for ten years