The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-03

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the Marquis of Lansdowne, as follows:
Johannesburg, May 81, $40 a. m.-
/ Frenchs report Of his operations dur
| ing May % and % reached me at 3 a.
m. today. He was opposed throughout
/ his march but managed to drive off the
( enemy from the strong positions they
| successfully held with very little loss
and is now holding the place which 1
/ directed him to do, north of Johannes
| burg. Two officers were wounded and
| c5yO men were killed and twenty-seven
wounded
Fighting for the Highlanders.
The war office has also received the
/ following dispatch from Lord Roberts,:
johannesburg, June 1, 9:45 p NJ
/ Sir Henry COlville, IN reporting the ar
rival Of the Highland brigade at He'll
/ bTun, May 20, states that he was Cd
posed more or less the whole way from
| Ventersburg. Eight men were killed
and four officers and thirty-twO men
were wounded. Colville says the Lam
cashire battery of field artillery did ex-
/ cellent work. Grants naval guns were
most valuable and the troops behaved
in most soldierly manner throughout
! the trying march.
Rumble telegraphs that his casualties
were thirty-twO killed and 80 men
wounded.
Tells of Entry Into johannesburg.
A cablegram from Lord Roberts,
dated Johannesburg, May 81, but which
was not dispatched from there until
$50 a. m. of June j, has been received
by the war office 1t says:
THE occupation of Johannesburg
! passed off quite satisfactorily, thanks
to the excellent arrangements made by
DR.. Kraus the Transvaal commandment
here and order prevailed throughout
the town.
DIR. Kraus met me on my entrance
TO johannesburg and rode by my side
, to the government offices, where he in
troduced me to the heads of the several
/ departments, all of whom acceded to
my request that they would continue To
carry on their respective duties until
they could be relieved of them.
johannesburg is very empty, but
good crowd of people assembled in the
main square by the time the British
flag was being hoisted. A royal salute
was fired and three cheers for the
queen were given.
cat the end of the ceremonies the
Seventh and Eleventh divisions
marched past with the naval brigade,
the heavy artillery and two brigade
divisions of the royal field artillery.
General Ian Hamilton's column and
the cavalry division and mounted in
fantry were too far away to take part
in the ceremony.
THE Fourteenth and naval brigades
have been left in Johannesburg to pre-
serve order while the remainder of the
force is encamped north of the town on
( the Pretoria road"
Scouts Shot in Street
a press dispatch from Pretoria dated
May 81, and delayed in transmission,
says: Johannesburg was formally
handed over to the British at II o'clock
this morning in an orderly manner.
Lord Roberts was accompanied by a
small force. The banks are guarded.
There was a slight engagement out
side Johannesburg, and some Austria
Ian scouts were shot in street fighting.
after this a message was sent to the
nearest British general, notifying him
that the town would not be defended -
In a disDatch from Mazeru, Basuto-
land, dated June ?, says that General
Brabant has practically surrounded the
Beers five miles outside of Ficksburg.
The only side open for the retreat is
the Basutoland border, where thou
sands of Basutos, under Chief Jona-
than, are awaiting events.
The Grenadier guards were the heaV-
lest sufferers during General Rundle's
fighting They lost thirty mers killed
and had lightweight wounded.
Wilkerson on the Situation.
Spenser Wilkerson. reviewing the
events Of the week in South Africa Tor
the Associated Press says
The situation can clearly be under
stood If we, in the first instance, neg
lect the Pretoria kilograms. Lord Rob
erts advanced from the Vaal in %wO
columns, he himself with the main
body, following the line Of railway, and
Generals French and Hamilton keep
ing pace with him a short march to the
left, and slightly in advance
ION Monday night General Roberts
was at Kip river station. the left wing
column being south of Kip Riversburg.
The Beers retreated before General
Roberts. but resisted The left wing.
"On Tuesday night General Roberts
was at Germiston, and the Seft wing
near Florida, just west of Johannes
burg.
"On Wednesday morning General
Roberts summoned Johannesburg and
agreed to give twenty-four hours de-
lay before entering the town. which,
however. he surrounded with troops.
Generals French and Hamilton were
kept away from the town, and pushed
forward.
"On Thursday General Roberts en-
tered Johannesburg. and made for
NAL occupation. He hel0-a review of
two divisions. and then. leaving a bri-
gade to garrison the town, he put his
main body into camp to the north on
the Pretoria road s0n Friday morning.
At that time French and Hamilton
were well forward toward Pretoria.
Very likely General French was east
of the railway, and the remainder of
the army within TWO easy marches to
the capital.