The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-19
GEN. BOIHA STILL FIGHTS.
REFUSAL OF BoER COMMANDER TO
ACCEPT AN ARMIsTICE.
English Army Astonfshed to Find
the Enemy with Abundance of
Arms and Ammuni tion-Prepa
to Make n Firm stand in Hills.

LONDON, June IL. a. m.-Lord Rob
erts. according TO a Boer dispatch from
Machadodorp. sent dispatch TO Com
mandant Louis Botha, on June Ii. sug-
costing disarmament and complimenting
the bravery of the burghers 1t was
pointed out that the surrender would be
without dishonor TO the burghers and
would prevent much suffering. Gen.
Botha asked for six days arnltstice in
order to confer and consider. Lord Rob
erts consented to five days. Finally Gen.
Botha declined to accept the proposal,
and hostilities were renewed.
The Boer commanders are retiring on
Middleburg. followed by the British cav
airy and artillery, occasional shells
reaching the rear guards. The Beers are
destroying the bridges and burning the
veldt behind them, carrying off provi-
sons and cattle and leaving the country
barren. Other advices from Machado-
dorp say that the Beers have an album
dance of arms and ammunition, with dy-
Mantle, and that they are preparing
heavy wagon trains for a retreat to the
Lydenburg district, where the chiefs.
notwithstanding rumors to the contrary,
are prepared to make a stand.
The Beers continue to work the Barba-
ton mines says a dispatch from Lour-
EMO Marquee and there are eight car
with President Kruger. Mr.. Steyn, in his
proclamation declaring the Free State
still free ana independent, says the Iact
that the army is yet in the field renders
Lord Roberts action contrary to inter-
national law. In a dispatch 10 the war
office from Pretoria, dated Yesterday.
Lord Roberts says that Gen. Baden-Pow-
ell has just arrived there.
New Cape Town Cabinet Announced.
CAPE TOWN, June 1s.-The new cab
met has been officially announced Sir
j. Gordon Sprgg Is premier and treas
urer: j. ]. Graham is colonial secretary:
Mr.. Rose-Innes, attorney general $.
Ward, department OF public works; Sir
Peter Faurue. department OF agriculture,
and c. S. Frost without portfolio.
Lord Roberts May Seize Railway.
dispatch from Lord Roberts sent from
Pretoria, June l6, gives an official YER
sion OF an attack on British post at
Zand river. June l6. by 500 Beers with
three guns 1t says that Gen Knox. with
a mixed force. drove off the Beers. who
left four dead and four prisoners on the
field, The British loss was Mai. seymour
and two men killed, and nine wounded. A
rumor at Cape Town that Lord Roberts
is about to seize the Delagoa bay railroad
at strong strategic point. and the an
cabinet constituted the only other news
of the South African situation today.
Paul Kruger VIII Not Surrender.
LONDON, June lS-The I.ourenzo Mar
queg correspondent of the Times. under
wen, who left Pretoria with "A permit
from the military governor. is understood
to have been the bearer of a verbal mes
sage from the British authorities to Presi-
dent Kruger TO the effect that II he would
surrender now he would not be sent out
of the country. Van Leeuwen was I'M
able to see Mr.. Kruger. but when pass
Ing through Machadodorp he told State
Secretary Reitz The latter secuted the
idea of a surrender r. J. II. Fortuin.
head OF the Transvaal secret service, is
taking to Europe very important docu-
ments.