Daily inter mountain., 1900-06-01
THE BOER CAPITAL
MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS IN THE
HANDS OF THE CITIZENS.
KRUGER AND CABINET FLED.
Beers Will Probably Trek Northward
Toward Lydenburg Region-Are
Iassing At Pretoria.

London. June 1.-3:35 q. m.--Belatod
messages from Pretoria confirm the re-
ports Of the departure Of President
Kruger with his cabinet and Staf ON
ctals Tuesday night and the selection
al a meeting of citizens Of q COMMITTEES
to administer the city professionally.
Since these kilograms left on Wednesday
nothing, apparently. has reached Lour-
EMO Marquee by telegraph from Pre-
torfa. Possibly the wires have been cut.
termediate point interrupts kilograms.
Although the war Office has not receiv-
ed a word about It, no one in London har-
bors the idea that the Boer capital Is not
already in the hands Of the British. or
about to be there. The possession Of Jo-
hannesburg, at all events, as Lord Rob
erts has telegraphed, is fact. States
Attorney Smuth did not depart with
President Kruger, but remained in Pre-
toria.
The present seat Of the Boer govern
ment, according to a dispatch from
Lourenzo Marquee. dated yesterday, IS
Middlesburg. but it will probably be
shifted further east.
The Beers lately confronting Lord
Roberts appear to have gone toward
THE Lydenburg region. The defenders
of Laing's Mex. when their position be-
comes too perilous. will probably trek
straight northward toward Lydenburg.
When this concentration takes place,
there will be possibly 10000 men who may
hold out for time, with scattered bands
Of guerrilas everywhere. The press
dispatches from the headquarters OF
Lord Roberts give no estimate as to the
number of Beers who were fighting Gen
eral French and General Ian Hamilton
Monday and Tuesday, but they all agree
that the Beers retired and that the Brit
ish casualties ere slight.
$3.50 a. m.--Bennet Burleigh. writing to
the Daily Telegraph from Elandsfontein
Tuesday. says:
Much rolling stock and seven en-
gines have been captured by Lord Rob-
erts' column. The principal loses in the
fighting have been sustained by the
mounted infantry, but the casualties are
trifling. General Hamilton and General
French We're engaged to the west of JO-
hannesburg.
.'Since Sunday the western columns
have been fighting. but although guns
were used, the actions were never Sc
rious. In fact they were only big skir-
mishes The Beers are retreating to Pre-
toria.'
Provost Battersby, in dispatc to. the
Morning Post fro Germiston, dated May
30. says:
THE enemy fought a rear guard ac-
ton. retiring from the south to the north
of the town with their pom-poms and ar
tillery in the morning and withdrawing
their rif1emen through the town in 1.-THE
afternoon. We captured nine engines
and over a hundred wagons. Two trains
are leaving tonight for the sVaal.
! I'VE succeeded in cutting the line in
three directions, and imprisoning all the
rolling stock in Jehannesburgg. 1t was
a splendid piece of work. The enemy
We're astounded at the rapidity of our ad-
vance,"
Another correspondent, telegraphing
from Germiston the same day. says:
II learn that the Beers are massing six
miles south of Pretoria for new and
desperate stand, with front of twelve
miles,
Other rumOrS in the camp Of Lord Rob
erts are that President Kruger is i'll at
Lydenburg and that the ammunition OF
the Beers is running short
! London, May 3.-The war Office knows
nothing about the reported capture OF
! President Kruger.
! Boston, May 31-Mesrs. Fischer, VOL
marens and Vessels, the Boer ENJOYS
We're received at the city hall by Mayor
! Hart and subsequently called at the state
house. The mayor alluded to the days
: news from South Africa and hoped the
adversity sustained by the Beers might
be for the best. Mr.. Fischer responded
affirming that all he and his compatriots
wished was justice.
/ The ENJOYS did not seem greatly de-
pressed by the news from Johannesburg
/ and Pretoria. Chairman Fischer, when
: ever opportunity gave, did not fail to re-
j iterate the statement that the war is by
no means ended. Mr.. Fischer said that
President Kruger would not surrender
while there was bullock cart and six
: teen oxen in the Transvaal to transport
| him from place to place. Mr.. Vessels ex
pressed much the same opinion as Mr.
Fischer, but he said that he looked upor
the late news from South Africa with
some suspicion.