| Show 1 BRffTHSllATflOOPS1Ae Lord Methuen Entered the Town on Thursday Thurs-day He is Now Seventy Miles from Kroonstad I Bailer Has Occupied Newcastle Broadwood Marches into Lindley Mutton Captures One of the Bothas and Rundle Encamps at CIocolanThese arc the British Successes for ThursdayNew Peace Proposals Being Prepared by the Boers London May 191 1 t mThe relief of Mafeklng has had the effect of suspending sus-pending for a moment interest in the operations elsewhere in the field of war Nevertheless yesterday brought Important ollicial announcements Lord Methuen entered Hoop td Thursday He is now seventy miles from Kroon stand and fifty from Bothavillc ROBERTS NOT IDLE Gen Buller entered Newcastle Thursday Thurs-day evening Lord Roberts is not idle While waitIng I wait-Ing for stores at Kroonslad he Is using his mounted men to search 0 wide ll tot t-ot country Col Broadwood occupied Limllcy on Thursday and the same day Cot Hutton captured one of the Bolhas thirty miles from Kroonstad Gen Rundle on Thursday encamped at Clo colan British successes are thus rePorted re-Ported at every point from which news came yesterday BULLER AT NEWCASTLE Gen Buller In a dispatch to the War office dated Newcastle May 18th says Newcastle was occupied last night and today the whole Second division and Third cavalry brigade wIll be concentrated I con-centrated there I have sent the mounted I mount-ed force through Nqutu to expel a small force of the enemy and to reassure re-assure the natives natvcs BOERS BLRN CKAPEL The enemy have burned the chapel broken much glass plundered many houses and taken cash from the banks but otherwise they have not done much I harm The railway Is badly damaged I the Ingagane and Nkader bridges are I destroyed u are many culverts and the pumping station and waterworks I BOERS ARE FLEEING Of the 70pO men flying before us about 1000 seem to have gone to Wak korstroom and some by Millers pass I to the Free State The remainder who are described as disorganized rabble have gone north and say they Intend lo make a stand at Lafngs Nek ROBERTAS DISPATCH The following Is the text of Lord Robertss dispatch to the War office Kroonstad May IS Methuen entered en-tered Hoopstad yesterday unopposed Gen Duprey and Daniels and forty men have surrendered Broadwood occupied oc-cupied Lindley yesterday after slight opposition Only two of our men were WoundEd Steyn was not there and his Government day officials had left last Sun dayONE OF BOTHAS CAPTURED Huttons mounted infantry yesterday yester-day surprised and captured about thirty miles northwest of this place Commandant Botha Field Cornet Gas sen five Johannesburg policemen and I seventeen Boers There were no casualties I cas-ualties on our side Buller reports that several Natal farmers are handlnjr In arms A dispatch from Dannhauser dated Thursday May 17th says Gen Buller entered Dannhauscr at 10 oclock this mOJ ninE The houses In the town were found to be not much damaged owing to the sympathies of the Boer Inhabitants Inhabi-tants A house at Hatting Sprult however was destroyed A number of rebels were found at their homes and ounl arrested The railway is little damaged but several large culverts have been destroyed The Boers north of Newcastle New-castle are falling back on Amajuba I BULLER CONGRATULATED Gen Duller has received a message from the Queen congratulating him upon the taking of Dundee and ox pressing appreciation or the work of the troops to which he has replied 1 Tho Boers left two doctors and an ambulance am-bulance here NEW PEACE PROPOSALS A Lourenco Marquex correspondent telegraphing yesterday said New peace proposals will probably be put forward by I the Boer Government The recent reverses arc causing despondency despond-ency iThero was a prolonged meeting of the Transvaal Executives at Pretoria Thursday and the dcstructlon of the mines was again considered It Is I understood I un-derstood that the Government does not Intend to destroy the mine MOVE TO LYNDENBURG According to other advices from the same point President Kruger and other high olllclals purpose leaving almost Immediately for Lyndenburg The Brit ish prisoners will be conveyed there and the foreign Consuls Pretoria are leaving for Lyndonburg WHEN KRUGER WILL QUIT In Kroonstad it Is said that President Krutjer will surrender when Lord Rob erts crosses the Transvaal frontier Lord Roberts Is accumulating im menso quantities of supplies and the preparations for another movement are well advanced The next stop will be Johannesburg Two thousand men arc working on the railway deviation at Valsch river BOERS ARE MASSING There aro 12000 Boers atRhcnoster I Spruit Reconnoitering parties are sighted daily by the British patrols SIJh Commandant Nel with the Johannesburg Johannes-burg Zarps Is actively commandeering commandeer-ing fifteen miles northwest of Kroon stud Desperate efforts are being made by the Transvaalers to bet every man oil the fighting lIne All exemptions have ben canceled The civil administration admin-istration is reduced to the lowest limits lim-its TUNNEL DYNAMITED I The Doers have dynamited Lalngs tunnel and the railway is completely wrecked The work of repairs will occupy 1 I oc-cupy many weeks The Doers now hold tho best positions for defending the I pass passSTEYN LEAVES PRETORIA A dispatch from Pretoria says President Pres-ident Steyn left lucre for the Free State last night Addressing a crowd on the jplatform ho urged them to be of good cheer SIt S-It is riptntcd that oOOOO British trooos have surrounded Christianin and time Landroul and other officials have been taken prisoners James Mime time correspondent of the RctiJer Telegram company who has been a prisoner here was liberated i 1 and ing escorted to the border this morn I |
