Deseret Evening News | 1900-03-19 | Page 1 | Advance in Force on Pretoria

ADV ANOE IN IM FORCE ON PRETORIA Lord Roberts Evidently Making It by Way of ON TIlE rU Lord to ho be u hence to II His C l Get tva 1 Dispatches London March 19 p the advance by way of Fouren Fourteen Streams nor Cal Col movement has yet et resulted In bringing 0 news of relief From and Natal there are apparently no 10 lerl set ous eus developments Ind and public interest romaine remains centered In Col forr force undistracted by events of greater grenter military Importance however It ap appears appears pears lIkely that the converging of the troops toward Indicates a much more serIous purpose than merely Its ita relief Judging Item Lord pre pres presence ence at Warrentown Warrenton and the I capture of the near nearby by passage of the apI at Streams Stream keen keon observers be believe lele lieve Lord Roberts mediates an advance In fore force on Pretoria by way of Husten berg This mh might ht start either from Fourteen Streams or 1 and would probably coincide with an advance by byway way 0 of and atal aai Thus Thul Methuen may be given the chane chance to redeem his reputation u as ba ha been done with Gen Oen Gatacre ulMer has accomplished another feat In hi his retreat from north northern northera era ern Cape Colony evacuating where and roll goIng towards President Steyn Sten II Is capetown March to the tho ot Of Col Co the act Oer actman man of er In n Of the Doer arti lery who was OS wounded 1 and t ton prisoner tl at the batte battle of he ha has been removed the er ore camp to a transport transport