The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-20
Beers Are Confronting Gen. RundIe.
Who Has a Very Thin Line i'm
the Ficksburg District.
TRIED TO STEAL BOER GOLD
AMERICAN MADE A RAID ON MIR.
KRUGER'S TREASURY.
Bridge Blown Up ON the Delagoa Rail-
road Roberts Has Secured
Many Stands of Arms.

LONDON, June 20, $3.50 a. m.-The casual
ties made public by the War Office, includ-
ing a long lis; of missing, show British
loss in engagements hitherto not reported.
In an attack on a reconstruction train at
Leeuw spruit, on June IA, three were killed.
five wounded and sixty captured. Leeuw
spruit is forty miles north Of Kroonstad.
This was the day of the San river attack.
eighty miles distant. Another list shows
nine wounded and eleven missing in an
action at vredefort, on June z. no previous
mention of which has been made. The
Daily Mail points out that it is quite pos
sible the wires nave been cut in Lord
Roberts's rear, as no dispatch later than
June 16 has been received.
The Beers are gathering in force in front
of General Rumble. near F~icksburg. His
forces stretch forty miles. AS some parts
of the line are weakly held, the British
fear the Beers may break through. Outpost
skirmishes are of daily occurrence. The
Beers there are commanded by De Villiers
and Hermann.
Mr.. Steyn is at Bethlehem. the temper
airy capital of the Free State.
According to dispatches from Lourenzo
MARQUES. dated yesterday, the Malana
bridge has been destroyed. One account
says it was blown I'D. Another asserts
that it was undermined by a patrol from
Swaziland, and so collapsed under the
weight of a train. This will temporarily
interrupt the flow of supplies to the Beers
from Lourenzo Marques.
The Bloemfontein correspondent of the
Daily Mail, telegraphing June is. says Lord
Roberts is getting huts for $4,000 men and
is arranging Transportation for a part of
his army, although his plans are not to
take effect Immediately.
The Lourenzo Marques correspondent of
the Daily Express says: "A German-Amer-
lean. we'll known to the New York police.
is alleged to have planned a desperate
attempt to steal some of the bar gold from
the trucks attached TO President Kruger's
travelling capital. He is said to have car
ried off several bars before he was dis
covered"
The Lourenzo Marques correspondent of
the Times says: Three escaped British
prisoners are believed to have tempered
with Malana bridge. A freight train
pitched into the stream, and two men were
killed"
Lord Roberts reports that over 1900
stands of arms have been given up at
Pretoria since the occupation of the cap
ital. These will be- utilized by the released
British prisoners. of whom there are 1S
officers and 1909 men. OF the former, II,
and of the latter, 24S are in the hopsitals.
General Butler reports that the first train
passed through Laing's Mex tunnel Mon
day, June is, and proceeded TO Charles
town.
The first batch of Mafeking's sick and
wounded arrived at the hospital at Beel
Fontein June 10.
Joseph Chamberlain, secretary of state
for the colonies. addressing a meeting OF
the Womens Liberal Unionist Association
this afternoon. said the colonies had seen
through the haze of the South African
ante-bellum negotiations when Sir Henry
Campbell Bannerman (the Liberal leader in
the House of Commons) and others were
mystihed. Now that the war was con-
GLIDING, he added, all were unanimous that,
whatever the final settlement might be, 1T
must be final and should not leave behind
it the seeds of further mischief and make
a repetition of the trouble possible. The
Opposition wanted to know when a gem
eral election would occur. He was unable
to crafty their natural curiosity. but
whether the election took place tomorrow
or was postponed indefinitely, 1T would be
one of the most momentous presented to
the people of the United Kingdom during
a century, involving the future of South
Africa and the future of the empire.