The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-06-09
BULLER AFTER LAING'S MEX.
MADE TWO SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS
ON BoER POSITIONS.
Had Four Killed and Thirteen
Wounded in One FiEht-Roberts
Is Probably Resting His Army
Preparatory to Chasing Botha.
Britishers Have a New SonE-How
English Prisoners Were Deceived.
NTiddleburg Full of Refugees.

MiddIeburg Full of Refugees.
London, June s. 11:25 p. m.-The war Of
flee has received the following dispatch
from Gen. Butler:
yellow Boom Farm. June Son June 6
Gen. Talbot Coke, with the Tenth Bri-
gade and the South African Light Horse,
seized Van Wyke hill. The enemy made
some resistance. and good deal of snip
ing occurred. 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 southwestern spur of Inkewelo.
Under cover of their fire Gen. Hildyard
to-day assaulted all the spurs Of the berg
between Bothas pass and Inkewelo.
THE attack, which was we'll planned
by Hildyard and carried out with immense
dash by the troops. for whom no noun
tains were too steep ,outfanked the enc
my, who were forced to retire from their
very strong position.
81 think we did not have any casualties,
and I hope I have obtained a position
from which I can render Laing's Mex
untenable." EE.h
Situation as Seen I'm London.
London, June 9, S:15 a. m.-Gen. Butler
has at length taken the offensive and by
maneuvering he has secured a position
west of Laing's Mex, by which he believes
he can make the Boer positions untena-
BILE. Presumably he will Immediately fol-
low up his success.
Lord Roberts has communicated nothing
for three days, nor permitted the GORE
spondents to wire what is going on. Lon
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 a week ago are only
just now arriving. Among these are spir-
tied descriptions of the fighting 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
firing and join in the chase after chick
ems. The burghers surrendered to anyone.
Kaffrs went about looting the Jewish
stores and mounted infantry galloped
i4ltASI anu llllIlSls
Song of Roberts Men.
Lord Roberts army has a new song. II
runs thus:
We're marching into Pretoria1
1t belongs TO Queen Victoria"
The Daily Express has the following
from Pretoria. dated Wednesday:
THE one thing prisoners, who were de-
ported from Waterfall, were told, was
that they were about to be given up to
Lord Roberts. They entrained cheerfully
and were conveyed to Nooitgedacht in
stead of Pretoria.
Gen. Louis Botha, with rear guard
of 1900, 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.''
At Lorenzo Marques station, a crowd
waited all Thursday night to see Pres
ident Kruger as il was reported that he
would arrive by a special train to gain
an asylum on board the Netherlands
cruiser F'rlesland.
Middeburg is said to be full of Boer
refugees and wounded. The railway still
delivers goods at Brohkorst Spruit, forty
miles east of Pretoria. A British column
is at Bremersdorp, Swaziland. Eleven
British prisoners have been taken to Mid
dleburg. The British at Beira are moving
into the interior in detachments of 200
daily.
Mr. G. V. Fiddes, imperial secretary to
the high commissioner with part of Sir
Alfred Miners staff, left Cape Town
Tuesday evening for Pretoria, possibly, as
the Cape Town correspondent of the Daily
News thinks, to arrange the annexation
details