Show I NOT OPPOSED I I I t lranGe of British Army i is j Meeting with No 1 i Opposition S i ORANGE RIVER GROSSED I i I Gen Gatacre Occupied Bethu lie I Yesterday I CLEMENTS AT BURGERSDORP He and Gatacre Have Joined Forces Gen PoleCarew7 with Two Thousand Thou-sand Men and Artillery are Also on the Way to Join Hands with the First Named Critics Now Declare I there is Nothing for the British to Fear as by the Time Lord Roberts Reaches tho Vaal River Ho will I Command 80000 Hen while Gen Duller will Have 40000 So Far I as the Campaign is Concerned from a British Point of View Events arc Moving Very Satisfactorily Boer Forces will be Crushed London March ICtli 5 a in Events are moving In the South African campaign cam-paign In a speedy and satisfactory manner from both the military and political po-litical points of Iew It could hardly have been expected by the most sanguine san-guine Englishmen that they would take a turn so favorable The War ofllcc last night received the following fromj Lord Roberts g BETIITJIIld OCCUPIED i Bloemfonteln Thursday March ISth4 755 ii j mGen Gatacro crossed the Orange river and occupied Bethullc this morning Gen PoleCarew with 2000 men of the Guards brigade two guns and a small body or mounted infantry left here In three trains this morning Lo join hand with Gen Galacro and Gen Clements Ho had passed Beth any by JIO J p in without meeting with opposition having been able to supply from his troops enginedrivers firemen fitters molders smiths I and carpenters etc GATACRE AND CLEMENTS JOIN A dispatch from Bcthulle bridge camp dated Wednesday March llth says Gen Clementss brigade has effected a junction with Gen Gatacroa troops at Burgersdorp A patrol left today for Allwal North to Join hands with Gen Bribant VIEW OF AN EXPERT Spencer Wilkinson In the Morning Post commenting upon the very satis factory nature of thy occupation 01 Bloemfonteln hays The anticipation that ho I Boer resistance along the Orange Or-ange river would collapse on the British Brit-ish I occupation of the Free State capital seems to have been realized It will be IntiiXSllirg to await the meeting and perhaps time fight between the British troops moving southward on the railway rail-way and the retiring Boers TO CRUSH BQER FORCES Looking to the strength of Lord I Roberts8 army by the time he reaches Vaal river It Is not surprising that Sir Charles Warrens division Is retained In Natal An advance of this two armies on separate lines will be quite the best form of operations to crush the enemys forces and to bring about his absolute submission l CANNOT DIVIDE ITS ARMIES o The Boers cannot longer afford to divide their forces Serious resistance In Natal would enable Lord Roberts to I cross tho Vaal and compromise the BOer force in Natal Serious resistance at Bradford or Ventersberg would enable en-able Gen Buller to pass the mountains and threaten the Boer communications communica-tions INTERCEPTS JOUBERT It appears that when MaJ Weston cut the railway north of BloemfonteIn he thereby intercepted Gen Joubcrt who far from having retired from the campaign was then coming southward with 3000 men presumably to superintend superin-tend the defense Elaborate defense works three mll s long hail been prepared pre-pared outside tho town DID NOT LIKE FISH No Doer wounded were left In Bloem i fonteln When asked the reason by Lord Roberts Mr Frazer replied The burghers do not like fish and would not I care to go to Capetown The evidence goes to show that so far as the southern part of the Free State Is concerned there will bo no further resistance It Is understood that Mr Frazer Mr Ycssel and other lenders are quite prepared I to accept the position posi-tion of a selfgoverning British colony ROBEUTSS BIG ARMY By the time Lord Roberts reaches the Vaul river he will command some SOOOO men while Gen Buller will have 10000 From the military point of view the critics now think there Is I nothing ton to-n S |