The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-04
LONDON REVIEW or SETUATION.
Correspondents Get No Word Through
Regarding Pending Operations.

London, June A a. m.-There is no
direct news from Pretoria of later date
than Thursday evening General
Frenchs cavalry We're then at Irene,
eight miles south of Pretoria, and firing
was heard there. Lord Roberts mes
sages about secondary operations else
where and the situation at Johannes
burg, dated at Orange Grove, farm
four miles northeast of johannesburg
showed that on Saturday at $40 p. m.
he was twenty-five miles from Pretoria.
The correspondents with Lord Rob-
erts have not got through line about
the operations after the occupation of
Johannesburg Official messages con-
tinue to come through, but press tele-
grams are held up, probably to avoid
their giving even hint as to what may
be the pending operations. From the
other side there filters through Lorenzo
Marquez a mass of statements, some
contradictory others obviously improb-
able, but the following purporting to be
facts:
Passengers arriving at Lorenzo Mar
quez Saturday direct from Pretoria say
that the capital was preparing to sur
render when they left Thursday. The
forts were dismantled. The Boer guard
at Komati Poort searched all trains and
turned back most of the fugitives,
among them deserting foreigners who
were striving to reach neutral soil.
Immense Boer conveys of provisions
are between Pretoria and Middleburg.
Fifteen trains are sent daily to Machad-
asdoran with supplies for Lydenburg.
Pretoria is pictured by the refugees as
in a state of indescribable confusion and
chaos. The populace are dismayed,
and the British are expected hourly
Some foreign attaches have arrived at
Lorenzo Marquee to communicate with
their governments for orders to leave
as they consider organized war on the
Transvaal side is at an end Flying
among the Beers are reports that the
British have been beaten back at Lind
ley, with heavy loss, that the main at
tack on Elandsfontein failed and Lord
Roberts was forced to retire to Klipsriv-
erberg, that the railway has been cut
behind him south of Vereeniging and
that provision train has been captur-
ed.
Without crediting any of these Boer
bulletins, everything from the field Of
war behind Lord Roberts points to a
great effort last week to paralyze his
advance by a bold stroke from the east
ward at the railway north of Bloemfon-
tein. At least four Boer columns were in
a movement seemingly with this object
i've There was a commando in front of
General Brabant, near Ficksburg, am
other faced General Rumble, near Sena-
kal, a third occupied Lindley and press
ed toward the railway, and a fourth
seized Heilbron and pushed toward
Kroonstad These operations. assuming
them to have been Independent, all APP
pear to have failed.
The revival of the Boer fighting
power east of Lord Roberts advance |
although fruitless, is a symptom that |
the Beers are not yet crushed. In Gen |
eral Rundle's attack on the entrenched |
Beers, seven miles east of Senekal, May |
%, the British did not see a Boer all |
day, so completely We're they screened. |
The British infantry did not get within !
/ 200 yards of their riflemen. The 1872 |
losses wired by Lord Roberts were suf- |
fered by the Grenadiers and Scots /
Guards while advancing over level |
from which the grass had been burned.
The Britishers in khaki were a conspic-
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