Show TO PUSH ON t Lord Roberts will Soon Begin Be-gin His Advance on Pretoria NO REST FOR BOERS Great Britain to Push War with Utmost Vigor GATACRE IS AT 6ETHUUE I Whole Line of the Railroad South of Bloemfontein is Now in Control of British and Communication with Capetown is Practically OpenGen Roberts Cables War Office that His Proclamation is Having an Excellent Excel-lent Effect Several Hundred Burghers Bur-ghers Announcing their Intention I to Surrender their Arms and Be I turn to their OcoupationAdvices from ProtoriivSay the Boers Themselves Them-selves Now Admit that their Causo I is HopelessTwo Generals Refuse to Fight Again II I II I I London March 17 120 I a mWith I the railway communication to the Capo Intact Lord Roberts will In a very few days be In a position to begin tho advance ad-vance on Pretoria Ills deep political Intuition combined with bold strategy Is having tho result desired in the southern sections of tho Orange Free Slate which arc rapidly calming down rho following dispatch was received from him at the War ofllco last night = 9AQy rq o J Es1ORI111 Bloemfontoln Friday March 16 Gen Clements crossed the Orange river yesterday Repairs to the railway bridge at Norvals Pont have commenced com-menced and It will shortly be ready for trallia Gen PoleCarew telegraphs his arrival at Sprlngfonlcln so that Bloem fontein now Is practically In rail communication com-munication with Capetown My proclamation pro-clamation is already having an excellent excel-lent effect Several hundred burghers have expressed their Intention to surrender sur-render their arms and return to their occupations Tho resident Commissioner of Basu toland reports that SOO Boers lately arrived ar-rived from Bloemfonteln and that a further contingent from Allwal North was only walling to know the terms of my proclamation to surrcndut They had refused to attend a council at Kroonstadt to which President Stcyn hud summoned them PUSH ON TO PRETORIA Lord Roberts success In handling tho civil problems at Bloemfonteln and I the manifest equanimity with which the I residents of the capital of the Orange Free State accent the British occupation occupa-tion momentarily eel lose in interest tho military situation It Is believed here that Iho comnuinderInchlef uf the British forces In South Africa will sooit push on to Pretoria but Great Britain is quite content to listen for a few days to tho acclamations of the people ot Bloemfonteln and permit the troops to enjoy a few days rest before expecting expect-ing further success MADE A QUAINT SPEECH i Lord Roberta made a quaint speech I to the guards at Bloemfonteln when In his first congratulatory words he expressed pride In their splendid march of thirtyeight miles In twentyeight hours and gave ample assurance of hIs ultimate design Through a small mistake said Lord Roberts I have not been able to march Into Bloem fontein at the head of the brigade as I Intended I promise you however that I will lead you Inlo Pretoria GATACRE HOLDS BliTHULIE Gen Gatacrc Is holding Bcthulle and the whole line of the railroad south of Bloemfonteln is now In the hands of the British and Gen Brabants column col-umn having crossed the Orange river after a forced march at Allwal North on Sunday and Gen Clomentss column col-umn being across at Van Zyl the three columns will form an army of IL000 to 13000 men which IH expected to re ulacc the forces of Lord Roberts at Bloemfonteln as he pushes northward Just where the Boers will attempt to oppose that march Is an Important question but It cannot be easily answered an-swered until Gen Joubert Is more definitely defi-nitely located MAFElvING HOLDING OUT Further news has reached the outside out-side world from Mafcking dated Friday Fri-day March 9th showing that though the garrison was In hard straits they were buoyed up by the knowledge that their plucky fight was appreciated at home GREETED BY GREAT CROWDS A dispatch from Bloemfonteln dated Tuesday March 13th says As Lord Roberts was being conducted to the town today by the deputation of otll dais which had gone out to meet him he wa greeted by great crowds cheering cheer-ing and waving handkerchiefs and displaying dis-playing tho utmost enthusiasm and I cordiality English songs were sung the Union Jack with a fourleafed shamrock embroidered In the corner by Lady Roberts was raised over the presidency and the cheering was tremendous tre-mendous STRIKING CONTRAST When that portion of the troops necessary to man the northern height began to march through the town I amid the cheers of the people when the hopw batteries i > ass < Hl 1 th contrast between be-tween thai wellfed citizens and the i exhausted and wornout gunner who f I sat upon their hog wul T AdMon I lthlut a flgn of motion StH moan rEikifl f f i rItt r I r IIIrg FIr Ihl I FI-r ff tic nIl I I 1 jr lJTtlr1 tj 1 I lrg bUrbl thin a hJt ten mijos to deliver up their arms assuring I as-suring them they would be paid for the contlscatlon of their property He I stipulated that the arms must bo delivered de-livered by Sunday March ISth Lord Roberts Is about to issuc I fresh oroclamatlons which It Is considered will have the effect of disarming further fur-ther t opposition upon tho part of the Free Staters Mr Colllnss has been appointed Landdrost vice Pappcnfus deposed und Mr Frazer will act ns Mayor STORES REjVERED Great quantities of stores captured at Wasserfall have been recovered Aa I the result of Hunter and Westons hue cutting the British have secured twen tysix engines and the line has been cleared to the Kaffir river Rumors are current that former President Stcyn Is willing to surrender Much unrest exists among the Dutch population popu-lation The burghers described the soldiers sol-diers as locusts saying they are innumerable in-numerable and of Identical color with them NO SIGN OF BOERS IJIlIM safe to say that the Boers have completely collapsed In the Free State south of this point The British cavalry caval-ry patrols going as far as the Modder river have found no sign of the enemy The bridge Is untouched Altogether 500 Boers have come in here to surrender surren-der derPROTECTING PROTECTING FREE STATERS In the lobbies of Parliament last evening it was rumored that Lord Rpb erts Is about to Issue a proclamation I announcing that the former system of I government in the Orange Free Stale is abolished and promising Freo Staters who immediately surrender due consideration REFUSED TO INTERVENE It is I understood that all the continental conti-nental powers with one exception Uncompromisingly Un-compromisingly refused to intervene The exception was Russia whose reply was couched In less firm language although al-though like the others who declined to Interfere It Is said that the Pope was also appealed to but that he declined to do anything beyond writing a letter to the Queen appealing to her to stop the further effusion of blood Dr Leydns efforts with King Leopold were quite futile DESTROYING JOHANNESBURG The possibility of the destruction of Johannesburg is still discussed hire but It is expected that the French and German shareholders would offer a strong protest The latest advices respecting the surrender I sur-render of Bloemfonteln show that the uppioach of the British caused a stampede stam-pede Thirteen trains each composed of forty cars and all crammed with Boers hurried northward Just before the line was cut HOW STEYN ESCAPED > Mr Stcyn would have been compelled to surrender but he pretended that he was going to visit one of the outposts and at midnight took a carriage which was waiting for him outside the town and rthus escaped The Bders got the bull of their wagons aud military stores away METHUEN SHELVED Lord Roberlss comments upon the earlier operations of the war in the London Gaxetle and his absolute alienee respecting Lord MojJiucu rdlspatcI j J i roKardo d a8 very mgrrrnc lit Tlio Tunes j observes that this silence Is perhaps more significant than words especially when connected with the fact that Lord I Methuen no longer takes any prominent promi-nent part In the campaign GEN MDONALDS WOUND Gen Hector McDonalds wound has nearly healed He accompanied tho brigade to Bloemfonleln Spencer Wilkinson in the Morning Post says The difficulty now Is to imagine a successful plan of campaign for the Boer operations The Boer positions po-sitions will always be turned before a frontal attack is made To await the attack will be to risk capture Tho only plan to avoid it will be a hasty cc treat MUST PUSH THE WAR Then proceeding to discuss various possibilities for the Boers Mr Within hon arrives at the following conclusion The best thing the Boers can hope for It to gain time There are chances ot their being able again to restore lie equilibrium and lo turn the balance in their own favor By gaining time they Jiiay hope for some foreign Intervention ror complication Great Britain must therefore push the war with the ut no > > t vigor and must not spare any effort to keep the navy and the home defense forces in the ulmost cJIlclency ready for any emergency TALK WITH CECIL RHODES The Dally Mall publishes an interview inter-view this morning with Mr Cecil Rhodes secured by Mi Julian Ralph In the course of which complaining of the bungling of the home authorities he said Gen Bullers extraordinary orders to Lord Methuen to relievo KlnrOcrley were lo take all the people I away and to fall back to Orange river You people In England have such wonderful won-derful ideas l about Bullers generalship but such a retreat would have been monstrous Mr Rhodes declared that there had only been 30000 Boers in the Held altogether and that the foreign mercenaries were only about 10000 The numbers of the Boers he wild had been exaggerated in order to explain the British reverses REFUSE TO FIGHT AGAIN The Dally Mall has the following dispatch dis-patch from Lourenco Marques dated Friday March lath Intrenching Is proceeding on the Vaal river nt Voroy nlg Late arrivals from Pretoria gay that the Boers themselves now admit that their cause Is hopeless Gen Lucas Lu-cas Meyer refuses to light again and has returned to his farm Gen Schalk bergen has also returned and the burghers are going home by hun dreds GATACRES REPORT ON STORM BERG Lord Roberta In transmitting Gen Clatacros report of the Stormborg de feat gives hiM opinion thus The failure fail-ure was mainly duo to reliance on Inaccurate In-accurate Information regarding tho ground to be traversed to the position held by the Beers to the employment of too small a force and to the men being lout by a long night march before they came In contact with the enemy When It became evident short ly 1 after midnight that the guides wer leading the column in the wrong direc tion 1 consider Gatacre should have I halted and endeavored to find a proper road or should have fallen back on Moltcno rather than have risked the f safety of the entire force by following a route which brought the 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