The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-04

Champagne for Medicine.
London, June 4, 4 a. m.-There is no
direct news from Pretoria of a later
date than Thursday evening. General
Franch's cavalry was then at Irene,
eight miles south of Pretoria, and fir
ing was heard there. Lord Roberts
messages about secondary operations
elsewhere and the situation at johann
nesburg, dated at Orange Grove, a
farm four miles northeast of johann
nesburg, show that on Saturday at
$40 D. m. he was twenty-five miles.
from Pretoria.
The correspondents with Lord Rob
erts have not got through a 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 a hint as to what may be
the pending operations. From the
other side there filters through Lou
reno Marques a mass of statements,
some contradictory, others obviously
improbable, but all purpOrting to be
facts.
Forts Dismantled.
Passengers arriving at Lourenzo
Marques Saturday direct from Pretoria
say that the capital was preparing to
surrender when they left Thursday.
The forts were dismantled. The Beers
guard at KOmatipOOrt searched all
trains and turned back most of the flu
gitives, among them deserving foreign
ers who were striving to reach neutral
soil
Immense BOer conveys of provisions
are between Pretoria and Middleburg.
Fifteen trains are sent daily to Mach
adaSdOTf 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. LourenzO Marques TO communicate
with their governments for orders to
leave, as they consider that organized
war on the Transvaal side is at an end.
Flying among the Beers are reports
that the British have been beaten back
at Lindley with heavy loss, that the
main attack on ElandsfOntein failed
and Lord Roberts was forced to retire
to Klipsriverburg, that the railway has
been cut behind him south of Vereen-
lying and that provision train has
been captured.
Behind Roberts.
Without crediting any of the 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
eastward at the railway north of
1raF ,f,,,f cSv rr,Trr
were in a movement seemingly with
this objective. There was a commando
in front of General Brabant near Ficks-
burg; another faced General Rumble
near SenakaI; a third occupied Lind
ley and pressed toward the railway
and a fourth seized Hebron and
pushed toward KrOOnstad. These Op-
erations, assuming them to have been
Independent, all appear to have failed
A revival of the BOer fighting power
east of Lord Roberts advance, al
though fruitless, is a symptom that the
Beers are not yet crushed. In General
Rundle's attack on the entrenched
Beers, seven miles east of Senekal,
May 20, the British did not see a B0er
all day, so completely were they
screened. The British infantry did not
get within a thousand yards Of their
rifiemen. The 1872 losses wired by Lord
Roberts were suffered by the grena-
diers and Scots Guards while advanc-
ing over a level from which the grass
had been burned. The Britishers in
khaki were a conspicuous target
against the black background.
Champagne for Medicine.
General Rumble withdrew his whole
force at shutdown to Senekal, having
succeeded in drawing the Beers from
Lindley, allowing the threatened force
to get away safely. The Beers sent to
the British for medical help, saying
that Commandant de Villiers was SER
iously wounded. General Rumble sent a
doctor with a bottle of champagne and
his compliments, as well as message
that he would release all the BOer
prisoners at Senekal.
The LourenzO Marquee correspondent
of the Times telegTaphing June 3
SAYS:
AN Austrian who has seen seven
months active service in the Trans
vaal declared that a large proportion
of the burghers are deserving to their
homes. The arrangement whereby the
British prisoners at Pretoria have been
placed under an armed guard with
British officers, pending the formal oc-
cupation of the town. is ascribed to the
General Louis BOtha and the Transvaal
war secretary, both of whom have
earned the profound respect of all
classes.
TT is interesting to note that Lord
Roberts soldierly qualities are admired
by both Beers and foreigners. It seems
that the BOer attack upon Irene was
intended to cover the withdrawal from
Pretoria of all the supplies procurable
The last consignment was 600 wagon
loads"
4:S0 a. MIN the advance of the
Grenadiers, Colonel Lloyd led in the
face of deadly fire. He was hit, but
struggled on. only TO be disabled by
another bullet Lieutenant Murry,
falling. cried, Forward, Grenadiers!"
The binding smoke of the veldt ham,
pered the operations. Lieutenant Lord
Seymour on offering TO go back to di-
rect the artillery, was wounded. The
CIDER to retire was given and executed
under screen of smoke. The Boer
fire was kept up until dusk
According to a dispatch to the Daily
Telegraph from Newcastle, dated Sat
urday, the Beers exhibit no signs Of
leaving Laing's Mex
Newspaper commentators here gem
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