Show OEWET BEINGPUSH O i Kitchener and Methuen Are I Pressing Boer Commander j 1 STEYN UNDER SURVEILLANCE I II I I Ho is Confined in Dewets Camp o SmithDorien Reports Shropshire I Regiment Sfarchcdy i Fortythreo I Miles in Thirtytwo Hours Bul lors Occupation of Ermalo is Having I Hav-ing 1 Good Effect According to I Lord Roberts Advices A Field Cornet and 138 Burghers Surrender iI i I 1 London Aug 11Lord Robertsre ports to the War oflce under date of Pretoria August 13thns follows I Kitchener reports from School paals eight miles cast of Venters i dorp that Dewet blew up three o r his wagons Six British prisoners who es j Tjaped from Dewets camp state that President Steyn is confined in camp under surveillance and that Ddwet was forced abandon his ammunition and thirty horses They also confirmed the report that Methuen captured one of Dowels guns and shelled the main convoy effectively Ian Hamilton telegraphs tele-graphs that he hopes TObe at Blaauw banl today with Ills main body Mt lions mounted troops are pushing onto on-to the westward Another report from Lord Roberts of the same date says Methuen and Kitchener still following Dewet and Stcyn yesterday reached Bodderfon S teln ten miles east of Ventersdorp Methuen Is In touch with Dewets rearguard rear-guard SmithDorlen reports that the Shropshire regiment recently marched fortythree miles In tWrt two hours and the city of London Imperial volunteers volun-teers thirty miles In ten hours hoping to prevent Dewet from crossing the KrugersdorpPotchefstroonV railway Dullers occupation of Ermalo la i having a good effect A field cornet and 1S2 burghers of the Standerton commando surrendered yesterday to Glory The Pretoria correspondent of the Dally News wiring yesterday ant an-t nounces the safety oCCol TTonroys column and the convojv reported to have been captured by the Boers at I Elands river Dealing wlth the British South Afr I rlcan chartered compan offer of free farms In Rhodesia to colonial volunteers I volun-teers the Morning Post maintains that although It is well meant it Is a < breach of courtesy to persuade Canadians and Australians to desert their own country coun-try in favor of South Africa In the Immediate past says the Morning Postwe have slighted these great but sensible nations oC English speaking peoples and It will be well to avoid even the appearance of such discourtesy dis-courtesy |