The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-30
|B0ER GUERR|LLAS ACTIVE.
uINOR CONFLICTS ALONE DIsTIN-
GUIsH PRESENT SITUATION.
Durghers Believe That the War
VIII Continue From Nine TO SIX
Months-Inveatfgati Charges
Against the Hospital Service.

LONDON, June 90, 40 a. inactive
Boer guerrilla operations are reported
from half dozen points In Orange River
colony.
| Boer official reports from Machadodorp
| aver that part OF British convoy
| was captured on June "a near winburg
The Lourenzo Marquee correspondent Of
the Times says:
Both the burghers and the foreigners
who are arriving here profess a strong
belief that IL will take from three TO
~ months 20 subdue the Beers"
Another dispatch from Lourenzo Mar
quez says:
"a consignment OF a foreign firm.
marked Dutch Cheese Damaged proved
on landing 10 contain army boots for the
Beers. 1t passed the customs. however,
With unusual dispatch, and the British
consul is making representations to the
Portuguese government"
Outside of minor conflicts in the Orange
River colony. showing continued Boer ac-
tivity in the Senekal district. the tcle-
grams from South Africa merely Indicate
preparations for, 1t is hoped. the ANAL
operations OF the tediously prolonged war
A Cape Town dispatch reports an at
srg and 20 sdw up fPe
Il is added that an artiierymnn, who
frustrated the attempt by withdrawing
| n
whom the soldiers afterwards attempted
10 lynch.
Tho British authorities are depor,ing
large numbers of Hoilanders to Holland
70 be dealt with by their own govern
ment for not observing the state of neu-
frality declared by the Netherlands.
IS wts en E BE
Sir Alfred Miner, the British high COM
missioner. has notified the government to
pay the interest on the Free State per
an hat
there is no liability for further interest.
Cape Town reports that President Krug n
Is iii at Machadodorp. afraid 20 move
Tor tear the bridges arc undermined.
The house OF commons went into COM
mittee OF supply today on the supplement
tary vote. for the army medical service.
introduced for the purpose of debating
the charge of hospital Encouragement in
South Africa. made by Mr.. Burdett-
Contts. Conservative member for West
minister. tho parliamentary secretary OF
the war ONCE. George Wyndham. briefly
presented the government defense. The
allegations as TO neglect of the sick and
TO a lamentable extent The disabled were
exposed he said, 10 terrible harishIps
but u was not due to any shortage OF
supplies, but TO the insuperable difficulties
OF distributing supplies. OF which there
had been an embarrassing accumulation
In South Africa.
true impression of the state of affairs
existing. Mr.. Burdett-Coutts should have
pointed a companion picture showing the
difficulties encountered In supplying X go
troops on march which was carried out,
practically under the conditions OF a huge
flying column The single line OF railroad
with bridges broken, he asserted had TO
carry I,oeo tons daily by order OF Lord
Roberts.
The army. Mr., Wyndham further re-
marked. should not stsrve or be defeated.
He concluded with contending that Mr..
Burdett -Coutts' picture rested on the fall
lacy that Bloenfont~in was a railroad
baae and hospital whereas during tho
period referred to. Lord Roberts fianns