The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-09
Mountain Spurs Taken with n Dasl
Placed mt Vantage Points.
GENERAL LORD ROBERTS SILENT
HAS SENT NO WORD TO THE WAR
OFFICE FOR THREE DAYS.
BeIated Dispatches from the Front
Consul HOIiis's Hurried Visit
TO President Kruger.


Office has received the following dispatch
from General Butler:
yellow Boom Farm, June Son June s
Gen. Talbot Coke. with the Tenth Brigade
and the South African Light Horse, seized
Van wyke hill The enemy made some re-
sistance and a good deal of sniping oc-
CURED. Our casualties were about four
killed and thirteen wounded. During that
day and the following we got two Al and
two 12-pounder naval guns on to Van Wyke
hill and two 5-inch. guns on to the south
western spur of Inkewelo Under cover of
their fire General Hildyard to-day assault
ed all the spurs of the berg between
Botha's pass and Inkewelo. The attack
which was we'll planned by Hildyard and
| carried out with immense dash by the
| troops, for whom no mountains were too
steep, outfianked the enemy, who were
forced to retire from their very strong posi-
| tion.
81 think we did not have any casualties.
| and hope I have obtained position from
which can render Laings mex untenable." !"
| LONDON. June Q. 3:15 a. m.-General
| Butler has at length taken the offensive
and. by maneuvering. he has secured po-
sition west of Laings mex, by which he be-
lieves he can make the Boer positions un-
| tenable. Presumably, he viii Immediately
| follow up his success.
Lord Roberts has communicated nothing
| for three days, nor permitted the corre-
| spondents to wire what is going on Lon
L ;vfa f- hot ha al
| though he is possibly disposing his army
for a reach after Commandant General
| Botha.
| A blockade of the wires, owing to the
crush of official correspondence, may ac-
| count for the scanty press dispatches.
| Some kilograms, filed week ago, are only
| just now arriving. Among these are spir-
| tied descriptions of the firing at Glands
| fontein. According to one of them the
streets were filled with women and chill
| dren. Rifle shots could be heard every
where The British soldiers would stop fir
| ing and join in the chase after chickens.
| The burghers surrendered to any one.
| Kaffirs went about looting the Jewish
| stores, and mounted infantry galloped
| hither and thither.
| Lord Roberts's army has new song. 1t
| runs thus:
| Were marching into Pretoria,
| 1t belongs to Queen Victoria"
| The Daily Express has the following
/! from Pretoria, dated Wednesday: 1.-The one
| thousand prisoners who were deported
| from Waterfall were told they were about
to be given up to Lord Roberts. They en-
trained cheerfully and were conveyed to
4 ms of
| Louis Botha. with a rear guard of two
| thousand. left Pretoria during the night
| The British advance guard, on entering,
was upon the very heels of the retiring
! Beers. Botha has sworn to carry on the
| war in the mountains"
EXPECTED KRUGER.
| At Lourenzo Marques station crowd
| waited all Thursday night to see President
| Kruger. as it was reported that he would
| arrive by a special train to gain an asylum
| on board the Netherlands cruiser Fries
| land
/ Middleburg is said to be full of Boer
| refugees and wounded The railway still
| delivers goods at Brockhorst spruit. forty
miles east of Pretoria.
A British column is at Bremerdorp,
| Swaziland.
Eleven British prisoners have been TAX
| en- to Middeburg
| The British at Beira are moving into the
interior in detachments of two hundred
| daily.
A special dispatch from Pretoria de-
scribes the visit made by officers of Lord
| Roberts's staff to the presidency, Tuesday,
| June 5. 1t says: I'VE were received by a
Il
Mrs. Kruger. The latter wore a black silk
| dress and white cap. She exchanged greet
ings with her visitors. who notified her of
their intention to replace the burgher
guards by a guard of British troops. The
burghers. thereupon. laid down their arms
| on the asphalted porch Of the building.
near the lines guarding the entrance"
| Colonel Plumer occupied zeerust on May
| 2S. without opposition. That district is re-
| gaining its normal condition. Supplies are
arriving daily.
General Warren, with a strong force in
| cluding the Canadian artillery. is marching
north through Griqualand. He encamped
at Campbell on Thursday. no opposition
| being offered Numbers of the rebels are
handing in their arms to the British COM
| mander.
General Rumble has made a strong DEM
onstration against the Boer positions near
Hammonis. employing five hundred of Gen.
Brabant's Queenstown Mounted Rifles. two
| guns and the Cape Mounted Infantry. un-
Ger Colonel Dalgetty. The Boer outposts
were driven back and their laager located.
but the troops returned without a battle
PREPARING FOR ANNEXATION.
Mr. c. ". Fiddes. imperial secretary to
the high commissioner. with part OF Sir
Alfred Miners stan, left Cape Town Tues