The sun., 1900-05-31
IN THE GOLDEN CITY.
Roberts Reported to Have Occupied
johannesburg,
MINES BELIEVED TO BE SAFE
General Butler Reports That CIery
liz Bombarding Laingsnel<, and
That the Beers Are Very
Much Disheartened.

London, May 30.-It is stated that Lord
Roberts and his troops have entered Jo-
hannesburg, though the fact has not yet
been formally announced at the war Of
flee. After Johannesburg all that re-
mains for the British commander in chief
is to redeem the promise he made to the
guards regiment at Bloemfontcn-to lead
them into Pretoria. President Kruger
is expected to surrender at any moment
now. The serious work of the South
African campaign, from the military
point of view, is regarded as ended.
ANY prolonged defense of Pretoria is
considered highly improbable, and many
military men anticipate that General
French will capture the Transyaal cap
ital within il day or two by Il sudden and
unexpected move.
Public interest largely ccntcrs in Pres
ident Kruger his capture or escape. The
occupation of Pretoria would be largely
robbed Of its value in the estimation of
the British if Dom Paul were still mt
large and able to keep alive the dying
Cmbers of war.
A Pretoria dispatch says the situation
at Johannesburg shows as reported by
Lord Roberts, that order is maintained
in the Gold Reef City.
A dispatch from Mafclng, dated Fri
day. May -, reports that General Sny-
man, the Boer commander, has left his
force and arrived at his farm with a
shrapne bullet in his foot.
The Boer lager at Rooigraad, it is
added, has retired further into the Trans
vaal. and Mafeking is rapidly resumng
its normal state. Major General Baden
Powell on the queens birthday gave a
dinner to the officers of the relief col
umns. During the course of speech
proposing the queens health the defender
of Mafeking remarked that he was SO
elated by the recent occurrences that ne
felt he could drink the health of Pau
Kruger himself, coupled with that OF
Cecil Rhodes" adding:
"Because Kruger has been the cause OF
the present outburst of imperial feeling
and Rhodes was the red rag to the bull
(which drew him on"
General Buffers Report.
The following dispatch has been re-
ceiEed at the war office from General
BAfer, at Newcastle:
1.-THE enemy, having formed a laagel
east of the town, at nornberg, pressed
INV right rear annoyingly. On May -
directed force under Hildyard, by
Woolsdrift and Utrecht and another un
der Lyttleton, by Schangadrift, on Dorm
berg. These movements have caused tho
enemy at Dornberg to retire north.
"Hildyard is at Utrecht, and the tow
has surrendered. .Clery is bombardln'
Iaingsnek. The enemy are much dis
heartenod, and were they not in sucl
very strong positions | doubt If the!
would show fight. The railway wa
opened to Newcastle on May Is
1t is officially announced that tn
Beers arc leaving Natal General Hid
ward has occupied Utrecht, IN the south
eastern portion of the Transvaal.
The war office has communicated I
the organizers Of the imperial yeomanE
4he governments gratitude for the serN
ices of "this force Of well equippe
fighting men, to whose admirable servlc
in the field Lord Roberts has borne sue
high testimony
The war office adds that the time ha
arrived when the committee of the i'll
perial ycomanly can safely he release
from Its arduous duties, so patrioticall
assumed at timc of national emergency
and Lord Lansdowne expresses on b'
half of the government its sense of Il
great debt the state owes the yeomanly