The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-06-01
firm a rumor, said to be current in Ber-
lin, that Johannesburg has been blown
UP.
DER.

up.
Debating TERMS OF sURREN-
DER
Pretoria, May 3o.-British officers are
now at johannesburg debating terms
of surrender.
The British advance guard is half
way between johannesburg and Pre-
toria- 1t is reported that there is a
force also at Hatherly. All the forces
have been dismissed from the forts
around Pretoria President Kruger is
now at Waterfallboven
Lourenzo Marques, May 30.-Goods
traffic between here and the Transvaal
was officially closed today, the reason
apparently being the military move
ments in progress.
A Transvaal commando has arrived
at Komati poort. All the Portuguese
troops have been ordered to be in read,
jness to proceed to the frontier and
Portuguese fleet along the coast has
received orders to concentrate here
INTENSE EXCITEMENT AT JO-
HANNESBURG.
Pretoria, May 30.-A dispatch sent
from johannesburg last night describes
the town as intensely excited through
out the day on reports that the British
were approaching; but says the excite
ment Subsided in the evening, owing
to rumors that the British had been
driven back. There are large num-
bers of burghers at johannesburg, but
remarkable order prevails there.
London, May 30.-And prolonged de-
fense of Pretoria is considered highly
improbable and many military men an
ticipate that General French will cap
ture the Transvaal capital within a
day or two by sudden and unexpected
move.
A dispatch from Mafeking. dated
Friday, May 25th, reports that General
Snyman, the Boer commander. has left
his force and arrived at his farm with
a shrapnel bullet in his foot.
KRUGER AND RHODES THE BULL
AND THE RED RAG.
The Boer laager at Rooigraad, it is
added, has retired further into the
Transvaal, and Mafeking is rapidly
reSuming its normal state. Major Gen.
eral Baden-Powell, on the queens
birthday, gave a dinner to the officers
of the relief columns. During the
course of a speech proposing the
queens health the defender of Mafek-
ing remarked that he was so elated
by the recent occurrences that he felt
that he could drink the health of Paul
Cecil Rhodes" adding: Because Kru-
ger has been the cause &c the present
great outburSt of imperial feeling and
Rhodes was the red rag to the bull
which drew him on
The war office has communicated to
the organizers of the Imperial Yeo-
! manry the governments gratitude for
it's services.
The war office adds that the time
has arrived when the committee of the
Imperial YeOmanry can safely be re-
leased from Its arduous duties, so
patriotically assumed at time of ma
tional emergency
Pretoria, May 30.-At a public meet
ing called this morning by the burgo-
appointed to keep public order.
PRETORIA TO SURRENDER.
London, May 31.-2 a. m.-The Daily
| from the Earl of RoSSlin, who was a
prisoner at Pretoria, but who, as a
civilian, appears to have been released: ::
Pretoria, Wednesday, May 80, 40
| a. m.-Pretoria will be occupied in
about two hours, without resistance.
The president has gone to Waterfall
bowen. BurgOmaster de Sousea is au-
| thOriZed to receive the British. He,
with an influential committee OF citi-
| owski, has been appointed to preserve
life and property during the interreg-
mum.
Everything is quiet but crowds are
waiting eXpectantly in church squares
for the arrival of the British
Fearing a possible disturbance and
bloodshed among the prisoners of war
at Waterfall, United States Consul Hav
and Leigh Wood insisted upon twenty
| officers being liberated ON parole to 70
to the men. Their action cannot be too
highly praised.
Il was permitted to accompany the
officers. Everything was quiet"