The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-06

menIatOrS consider the incident deplor-
| able, but as having no weight to speak
OF in the results. he battalion num-
bered between 400 and 500
Botha Gets Away.
General Botha and most of his men
got away from Pretoria. This is in
ferred from Lord Roberts message,
but the presumption is that the Boer
eommandant general cannot escape the
British dispositions without a fight
Operations elsewhere seem TO have
dwindled TO nothing. General Baden
Powell Joined General Hunter on sun
day at Lichtenburg.
Sir RedVers Butler has not moved.
Bennett Burleigh wiring from Jo-
hOnneSburg, says President Kruger
took G2,00O00 in cash to Middleburg
Mr.. Burleigh and Guy II. SCull, an
American correspondent entered 10
hannesburg the night Before Lord Rob
ers occupied the city and made tour
of it unmolested by the armed burgh-
ers.
England is Celebrating.
England has been celebrate tonight
the fall OF Pretoria very much as She
did the relief of Matching Drunken
ness has been a trile less than when
Baden-POWell was the hero of the mo
ment, but in London and in other large
towns the scenes last evening We're
practically a repetition of those which
marked the other victories, and long
after midnight uprOarious yelling, the
footing Of horns and discordant chants
assembled from city streets usually at
such an hour as silent as the grave.
During the evening professions
marched along the Strand. Piccadilly
and the other leading thOrOughfares.
Into the faces of all were continually
thrust huge peacock feathers, descriD-
ed for no known reason as ''Krugers
perSuaders."
Girls were indiscriminately kissed,
jcstled and tossed around among the
ecstatic jubilation of the crowd. A
species of confetti which stuck to the
clothing Of the recipients proved a pop
ular form of showing ones eXultatiOn,
until the stores of the peddlers ran out.
Battles Before Pretoria.
The war Office this morning issued
the following dispatch received from
Lord Roberts:
Six Miles Spruit. $50 p. NJ. June A.
We started this morning at daybreak,
and marched about ten miles TO Six
Miles Spruit both banks Of which We're
occupied by the enemy. HenryS and
Ross mountain infantry with the West
Somerset, Dorset Bedford and Sussex
companies of yeOmanry, quickly dis
lodged them from the south bank and
pursued them nearly mile, when they
found themselves under a heavy fire
from guns which the Beers had placed
in a well concealed commanding posi-
ton.
Our heavy guns Of the naval and
heavy artillery which had puTpOsely
been in the front part of the column,
were hurried to the assistance of the
mounted infantry as fast as oven and
mules could travel over the &. ~. roll
ing hills surrounding PretO1a. The
guns were supported by Stevenson's
brigade Of POle-Carew and after a few
rounds, drove the enemy from their po-
sitiOns.
THE Beers then attempted to turn
our left flank, in which they were again
foiled by the mounted infantry and
yeOmanry, supported by MaxweH's bril-
gade of fuckers DIVISION AS, how ever,
they still kept pressing our left rear, I
sent word to Ian Hamilton, who was
advancing three miles to our left. to
incline toward US and fill up the gap
between the two columns. This finally
checked the enemy. who We're driven
back toward Pretoria. 1 hoped we
would have been able to follow them
up, but the days are now very short in
this part of the world; and, after nearly
two hours marching and fighting we
had to bivOuac on the ground gained
during the day"