Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-15
His March From Ladysmith Toward
the Transvaal Unopposed.
REPORTS BUT few CASUALTIES
Boers Set Fire to the Veldt as
They Retire.
FIGHT EXPECTED AT VAAL

LONDON. May l3.-The war office has re-
ceived the following dispatch from Gen.
Butler:
DI NpEE. MaY L.. I p.m.-We have occu-
ried Dundee. About $50 of the enemy left
Yesterday for Glencoe. where they entraincd.
Their wagons also left yesterday by De
Jagers Drift and the Dannhauser road.
Th.:r kaffirs said they We're going to
IdH-'s Neck.
Almost every house in Dundee is COM
rletely looted. The navigation colliery is all
right The machinery of the Dundee col
li,rfes is destroyed. The houses of the town
are damaged but are structurally intact
The war office today furnishes tardy con-
firrf!ation Of the Associated Press story OF
Yesterday telling of Gen. Buffers move on
the Bi.-afsbeIg, in dispatch from Gen.
I;Gl,rr. as follows:
Move on the B'ggarsbcrG.
"NEMP'S FARM. May 1.-THE following
t,lceranlS sent 10 Roberts are now repeated
tp YOU. They begin under date of Nay 10:
Ia accordance wiki instructions to Keep
the enemy occupied al the BSSarSberg, ON
May II | concentrated the Sd Cavalry BIZ
ldv Of the II Division and some corps of
artillery At Sundays River Drift. on the
Hy.pruak.ar rosd. ami directed Col Be
thupe 10 advance ON Greytown with the
3.thunt. Mounted Infantry. the tmvot
Nuunted Rifles and the Imperial Light In
.4nIry. ON May L. We moved to WasCh-
nlnk ana Behuue to PUmeroy while Gen.
Hildyard. from Eidnslaagte occupied lndo-
da mountain. ON May l.; 1 sent Gen. Ham
lion. with three battaliOnS, up the steep
slop. Of Withock Hill. The I'd Cavalry Bri-
gade crowned hill on each sode Of the main
road. and Bcthuue attacked by the Pomeroy
road from three sides. The enemy hurriedly
abandoned the position which they had
Sfr0IIIslN lntIpncneu. and retired to the Mex
In front Of HelVmaakar. whence We hope to
diSlutice tnem tomorrow. as many of them
hdV, retired. We have gained the summit
of the Berg. with the loss of only few
mon wounded. l advance tomorrow on
Lelth. and Hi.lyard moves on Vessels Mex.
our small loss. l think. was certainly due
10 the excellent troops leading of Gems.
Hamilton and Lord Dundonald and Col.
Brt tA-nc. "
Hocr> Fled in the Night.
\ second dispatch. dated May H. says:
The enemy evacuated Helpmakaar Mex
during the night, leaving rear guard of
about thousand men in front of US
These We have forced back throughout the
day under considerable difficulties. as they
fired all the grass on top of the berg as
they retreated. and the wind being un-
favorable TO US were scarcely able to
see at all. / halted the infantry, who
marched very well through the not smoke,
III Beth. The cavalry have not yet re-
ported, hut are some miles ahead. We
have taken few prisoners. Our casual
lies ar small
a third dispatch. dated from kemp's
farm. MAY L.. says:
'DunGuuald reported late last night that
he had driven the rear guard on to the
main body of the enemy near Buralinden,
where they occupied III force strong po-
sition. with three powerful guns. Maj
Cough. with the composite regiment. man
euVvrcd to The right round their left flank
and they retired. Dundonald then halted.