Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-07
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Transvaal President Giving Author.
ities Of the Netherlands Con.
siderable Concern.
Said to Have Taken Refuge on One
ofsDutch Ships at Lorenzo
Marques.
British Army will Pursue the Beers
Beyond Pretoria-The Present.
Situation.

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Post, the organ OF Joseph Chamber
lain, secretary OF state for colonies,
says 1t hears from an official source at
The Hague that a serious question con-
cerning Kruger Is now before the
Netherlands ministry. The paper adds
that Kruger, up to last Friday, ecided
to seek refuge on board the Dutch
cruiser Friesland, now off Lourenzo
Marquez. and asserts: There Is, be-
yond doubt. good reason to believe that
Instructions on the subject have been
cabled to the commander OF the war
ship
hoERs PLAN LONG FIGHT.
Concentrating in Mountainous Dis
trict of Lydenburg.
London. June Military operations
in South Africa are apparently at
standstill. For day or two the tired
troops OF Lord Roberts are resting ana
he is filing the magazines and ware
houses at his new base, Pretoria, pre-
paratory to a long chase after the9retir-
ing Beers in the direction or Lcyden-
burg. His cavalry are probably seek
ing to intercept Commandant Gen.
Botta.
Some dispatches are to hand which
left Pretoria Monday while the fight
Ing was going on outside the city. They
come by way OF Lourenzo Marquee.
One OF them says:
..Toward the end of the day, when
the British naval guns We're shelling
the southern forts. number OF pro-
jectiles burst, damaging the suburbs.
All day armed burghers have been
leaving Pretoria, going east. The
greater part OF the railway rolling
stock has been removed.
Gen. Botha was fighting an essen
& TALLY rear guard action, hisEobject be-
Ing not to defend Pretoria, but to della.
Lord Roberts until the railway switch
had been cleared and the main part OF
the Boer army had started to. with-
draw The British advance appears to
have left open to the Beers the best
4 iine OF retreat along the railway.
The Lourenzo Marquee correspond
4 ent OF the Timeg. telegraphing June 5,
says:
I'D According to refugees from Pretoria
thousands of burghers under Gen.
Botha have taken an oath to continue
the struggle to the bitter end.
UNITED States Consul Hollis started
for the Transvaal today. The nature
OF his mission is not made public here.
Possibly Lord Roberts may have
been able to cut the railway before q
full retirement was effected.
That Pretoria would be defended was
apparently given out after the connci
OF war, with view to misleading the
British.
Lydenburg. the district into which tho
provisions originally destined for Pre-
toria have been diverted and whore q
cartridge factory has been erected anC
reserve supplies OF. all sorts stored. i.
volcanic region of fertile valleys, in.
closed by great ramparts OF precipitou.
rock. penetrated by narrow. winding
passes. There are herds of cattle in TIL,
valleys and there is much native labor
Il available for the fortifying.
The Beers used both heavy and ligh
Il artillery at Pretoria. What is supposed
TO have been the last train out OF Pre-
toria arrived at Lourenoz Marques Sun
day evening The passengers included ,
number Of foreign volunteers, who wer
& leaving the Beers. and also the wive
and children OF Hollanders. They de
scribed Pretoria az destitute OF food an,
clothing. What the Boer officials coult
not take the natives and townspeopl
did.
Probably the most important Boe
army is at Laing's g mex, where both side
are passive. Gen. Rumble and Gen
Brabant have withdrawn little south
ward.
Gen. Baden Powell has extended mar
tial law to all Marico and North Lich
tenberg districts. Shots were exchange,
between Boer and British patrols eigh
teen miles cas, OF Mafckins on May q
Part OF the forces lately at Pretoria ar
reported to have gone westward to mee
en-Powell and TO make a show .
holding the country thru which he an
Gen. Hunter are moving.
"A dispatch to the Daily Telegrap
from Newcastle, dated Tuesday, dc
ecribes the Beers there as nn unorgan
ICED rabble. without flour, meat q
sugar. Their surrender IS only ques
tion OF time. Nevertheless, the CORE
sPondent AYERS, they hold strong pos
tions, with the prospect OF a safe retrea
toward Lydenburg.
It 10 understood at Newcastle that tn
British government has approached tn
Natal government with a propositio
that Natal should voluntarily renounc
local self government for a time In OF
der that q general system OF crown go,
ernment may be instituted for all Sout
Africa, leading In the course OF time
federation and the subsequent autont
my Of the various states simultaneoul
~.
L0urenzo Marques correspondents al
tach Significance to the number OF Bri
iah war ships In Delagoa bay, sugges
Ing that they are there possibly in al
ticipation OF aiding the Portuguese
the event Of disturbancesso on the Tran
vaal border.
There ID % strong feeling thruout II
country that striking hpnors should a
Z u sconferred Immediately upon Lord Rol
erts, without waiting until he returns
England.
Boer ENJOYS at sc. Paul.
-; Paul, June 7.-Dr. Abraham Fl
cher and C. H. Vessels. two OF Il
Z thfse Hoer envoys now In this scountr
g: arrived y this city at neaa tedays