The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-15
IRANSVAAL'S PROPAGATION
IT MAY REQUIRE MONTHS RATHER
 THAN WEEKS,
Significance of Botha's stand Before With the eBritish--ISruger Announce $ That British Regiment Was "Anni- htlatedo ut Almonds Nek Butler VIII Have to Wait for Supplies Before Ad- vnnciMg Further.
vanciMg Furihcr.

Have to Wait for Supplies Before Ad' | vanciMg Further.
 London, June 15.-That Commandan' General Louis Botha should have beer
 able to stand for two days against Lore
 Roberts and then retreat without losing
 any ground or guns or having any o1
 his men captured is taken to mean that
 he has a force that the British must stil
 reckon with before acting defensively
 The specification of the whole of the
 Transvaal especially the wide spaces
 far from the railways is looked upon
 as a business requiring months rather | than weeks. Meanwhile everything goes | well for the British arms,
 | A Boer bulletin issued June 12 al | Machadodorp says: Both wings of the federal forces touched the advancing enemy at 10 a. m. yesterday east of Pretoria. Fighting continued until dark. The enemy though in overwhelming numbers, were checked along a length of thirty-six miles, and the burghers succeeded in driving back their wing five miles Two burghers were killed and ten injured"
 Another Machadodorp announcement is that the first regiment of General Buffers force to attack Almonds Nek was "annihilated," but as the British were in overwhelming force the burgh- CTS were compelled to abandon the Nek.
 General Butler will be unable to ad- vance further until he gets supplies He will probably wait until the tunnel has been cleared. Nearly every farm house his troops passed flew a white flag. The British took nothing without paying for it, and brisk business was done in milk, eggs. bread and chickens by thrifty housewives who were pleased to get so much English money. One woman whose husband and two sons have been fighting, said:
 You British are unlike our people. They took my horses in exchange for sheep and mealies. and made me make butter, which they never paid for am sending to have my men come home at once" Usually the first question Boer woman puts is: Will my husband be shot if he is captured?" One young man was pulled from under the bed, and he went on his knees begging the British patrol not to shoot him.
 A dispatch from Lorenzo Marquee, dated yesterday says President Kruger is holding on to his gold and is issuing paper notes from press In his executive car. The Boer governments coin stock Is exhausted and the officials are now paying out plain gold discs un- stamped. Some who have declined to accept notes have taken their salaries in gold bars. The Boer government is still paying out much gold in that way.
 Two steamers arrived at Lorenzo Marquez yesterday bringing several thousand tons of supplies consigned to Portuguese merchants, but destined for the Boers. One hundred Americans. Frenchmen. Germans and Hollanders have arrived there by various steamers. en route for the Transvaal MT Grove, the British consul general has large stocks Of clothing for the British pris- oners, but be will not forward these until he gets assurances that the Boers will not take them for their own use.
 General Rundle had sharp skirmish at Ficksburg on June 12 The Boers had been aggressive along the whole Ficksburg- -Senekal line and menaced Ficksburg in force. The British out posts retired to the village. General Rundle held the attention of the Boers in front with two guns, while yeomanry were sent round to their rear and drove them off, with loss to the British of three wounded Two patrols were also wounded. President Steyn is at Uito- kop. His presence there is supposed to account for the Boer activity,