Show BULLER ROUTS BOERS I In an Engagement on Sunday the British General Succeeds in Capturing I T J Boer Position d i r r > Dundonalds Cavalry Broke the Boer Center and Bethunes Men Advanced on the Extreme RightBurghers Evacuate Help maaKar and MaRe a Stand at BlesKoplaagte Seven Miles from DundeeBuller Moving Rapidly I i London May 1A dIpatch received from Pletermaritzburg Natal dated yesterday brought the first Intimation of a success attained by Gen Bulletin I Bullet-in northern NatM l The sender of this dispatch evidently assumed that news of the affair had been received direct from the scene of hostilities for he merely said U SUCCESS AT BIGGARSBERG i Gen Bullers omclal telegram notifying noti-fying us of his success at the Blggars berg received hero an hour ago has given keen l satisfaction I Is confidently confident-ly I anticipated that Dundee will be occupied oc-cupied by the British today The residents resi-dents of the north country are delighted I de-lighted as forcing the Biggarsberg means that they will speedily be enabled I en-abled to return to their homes BATTLE ON SUNDAY Another dispatch dated Stonehlll Farm 820 this morning says After four days march eastward at the foot of the Biggarsberg ridges in the direction direc-tion of Ilelpmaukar which was occupied occu-pied by the Federals the Second brigade bri-gade Sunday led the attack Dundonalds cavalry broke the Boers center and Bethunes horse advanced ad-vanced on their extreme right In the direction of Pomeroy a small party of burghers occupied a ridge overlooking oerloollnb Helpmaajcar but they did not wait for the assault DIVIDES HIS FORCES Recent British scouting1 In the direc lon of the Dundee has shown tat the Federals were In great force on the J3lggarsberg So apparently Gen Bul her concluded It necessary to clear them from his rear before commencing a movement in the direction of the Drakensburg range I that Is his plan he has probably divided his forces sending one column eastward to threaten Vryheld and Utrecht and take Laingsnek In the rear while a westbound column attempts to form a Junction with the forces of Lord Roberts Rob-erts yq the HarrjsinJIth railroad < 1 BRITISH PUSHING ON I A special dispatch from Stone Hill Farm Natal says Gen Bullers advance I ad-vance commenced Thursday when he left Ladysmith In strength When I within two miles of Helpmaakar the Boers opened a heavy artillery fire and the British guns replied while a por tion of Bullers troops worked round the Boer flank The British attack was pressed home Sunday Bethure on the right outflanked the I Boers whose splendid defensive posi tions on the Biggarsberg were practically practi-cally taken Gen Bullers march subsequent sub-sequent to the attack was carried out without a hitch The British hich BriIsh are still pushing on l WAS A BOLD MOVE Gen Bullers turning of the Biggars BIggars berg position was made by a bold movement The Boers had evacuated U Helpmaakar but were making a stand making a Monday evening at Bleskoplaagte seven miles from Dundee The corps on the spot regarded this as a rear guard ac lon intended to cover tho retreat of the army At the samo tim Gen Hildyard took Innoba and It is reported that tho Bors withdrew In disorder Gen Bullev who seems to be employ ing his full strength is expected to push on His first marches were forty miles In thire days He Is thus break brelll Ing Into British territory which has been administered for six months by the Transvaalors as though it were part of the republic they holding courts and levying taxes His success therefore has political as well as military tary consequences ROBERTS IS RESTING While Lord Robertas Infantry are concentrating at Kroonslad where they will rest fOI a day or two his horsemen horse-men have penetrated eighteen miles northward In the souadron whIch cut the railway fifteen miles beyond JCrnnn stad was the American scout Frederick Freierlclc Burnham Two hundred Boers who had hidden in the river jungles near Kroonstad to escape service have sur rendered to the British and taken the oath of allegiance TALK OF PEACE According to a dispatch from Bennet Burleigh to the Daily Telegraph dated Dal lelegaph Thursday May 10th Paul Botha ana Botm MacDonald members of the Free State Volksraad demanded that the chair man Hhould call a meeting to sue for peace a further resistance was sui cidal and proposed to make President Steyn a y rJsoJ r NOTHING FROM MAPEKING I niJ Nothing definite has been heard The about Capetown the exPect < V relief of Matching ts correspondents continue to wIre that relict Is Imminent fixing iK ° 1 Wednesday as probable date told that Inquirers at the War nice are < the neW ° f the elef will b ° made pulihle inime w1 10 ISnf publc meaiatoly upon Its ro Ilpts No Word had mffighU0 come to hand at midnight HUNTERS MOVEMENTS The latest suPP ° sItIon concerning Gen Hunter Is that Possibly he is M marching on the north bank tJ3 ° c the Aaal with n force mifllclenl in co operation with Lord Roberts to render Boer defense oC rent wiSi the Vaal 1 frontier im 1 practicable CIontel East of Bloemfontein Gen Rundle Is J I I advancing toward Ladybrand HIt troops and those of Gen Brabrant Brbrant ire I stretched over a distance I distnce of thirty I miles The Boers quite disorganized Boer and are as described retreating as northward President Sleyns lieutenants I lieuten-ants are trying to rally them I WAR NEAR IN END The same stories of disintegration come from nearly every point where I I I the English correspondents are Mr I Hollawcll formerly a 4 Holnwel correspondent r it Mafeklng who was put over the I 1lnteltlg OCl Transvaal Trans-vaal border telegraphing from Lour < n co Marques Sunday says I Judging from talk I have had with 1 the ond 01 the wih Boers the war win corno I wi COlnu In n jnonth or ci lx weeks Mr lein I kampf chairman of the Second tard I Who traveled with me said that If the burghers wcrv pressed from Pretoria they would rvtliv to the district cf the Leydcnhprg mouiilahiM vhlch they had already provisioned He remarked tlu the t-he hoped the InirKhTS wduld stand firm but he feared they were too broken In spirit ALL BOER FORCES IN FIELD I gathered from him that the whole available force of the Transvaal was now in the field the final commandeer ing having taken place last Thursday and that It Is only the powerful mag notnm of President Kruger getting his burghers together At the British hospitals hos-pitals In Bloemfontein the deaths from fever average from eight to ten dally ROBERTSS CASUALTIES The War office has received the fol lowIng dispatch from Lord Roberts Kroonstad Sunday May 13There were more casualties In the cavalry division di-vision May 10th than reported by me I have been unable to get an exact account ac-count of what occurred as the com manding officer Capt Elsworthy was killed and two officers were wounded l at the same time and have been sent to the rear But It would appear that a party of our men going up to a kraal where l white flag was flying were suddenly attacked by a large number of the enemy OFFICERS AND MEN MISSING Two officers Capl Halg of the Sixth Dragoons and Lieut Wilkinson of the Australian Horse were made prisoners and twentyone men are still unaccounted unac-counted for Some of them may have turned up as tho cavalry covered a considerable distance May 10th and men reported missing have been re joining during the last few days The above dlspatchrefcrs to the loss sustained 1 by the Enneskillens May 10th uuiuuuu m uie cuspatcncs to the Asso iI tU 1 O tle 8S0 I elated Press Saturday last The troop ers were fired on while unsaddling their horses havlitg approached the kraal unsuspiciously as a white log was flying from It I CORRESPONDS WITH KRUGER The War office has published a dispatch dis-patch from Lord Roberts dated S Kroonstad Sunday May 13th giving tu correspondence between Lord Rob I ldcnLJijiicecjclatlve > to the alleged illtreatment of colonial prisoner The Transvaals rejily was to the eTfect that there was no difference differ-ence in the treatment of the prisoners and that only a few who had contro I verted martial law or who had tried to escape or who it had been suspected might try to escape had been placed In jail for security Otherwise they had been treated like the other prisoners of war warRegarding enteric fever the Government Govern-ment of the Trrnsvaal said TrCnsval It was prevalent among the civil population as well as among the prisoners and every remedial measure had been taken leen takenLORD ROBERTS ANSWERS Lord Roberts replied April 22nd that he was glad to receive President 1Tru gers assurances and pointed out that no difference was made by the British authorities In regard to the Boer prisoners pris-oners against whom there might be c reasonable ground fcr suspicion that they would try to escpo adding that such exceptions gave room for abuse by officials without tho knowledge of the authorities MAY ORDER BRIEF HALT Telegrams from Kroonslad Indicate that Gen Frenchs cavalry Is keeping In touch with the Doers but oprraps Lord Roberts will be compelled to order a brief halt of his main body in order to allow the troops to recuperate after the exhausting marches of the past weekABANDON ABANDON TRANSrAALERS All the correspondents agree that to all Intents and purposes the Free Staters have severed their military alliance al-liance with the Transvaal though scattered scat-tered bodies they say will possibly nom out here ana there lor some tune At tho same time a dispatch from I Capetown dated today says a proclamation procla-mation will be published this week annexing an-nexing the Orange Free State I Is also said that Gen Botha the com mauderInchief of the Boor forces threaten to resign If an rcslG any preparations arc made for the wanton destruction of property EIGHTH DIVISION MOVES A dispatch from Thaba NChu Sunday I Sun-day say The Eighth division with 1 its front extending thirty miles was yesterday moving forward Gen Green i fell and Gen Brabant followed the i Boers reaching Newberrys mills and capturing great quantities of flour and grain Gen Brabants main force with Campbells brlgado of Guards and Gen Boyces brigade have cleared thq country The Boers arc splitting up land and retiring In the direction of CIoco |