The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-06-16
FIGHTING NOT OVER.
Late News Says British and Beers
Are Hotly Engaged.
Near B"odeval the Burehsrs Cut Roberts
L.ne aud Took over 500 Brltish Prisoa-
ers-At Ficksburg 1900 Boers
Surrender to RrnbAut

London, June 12.--Lieut. Gen. Sir
Frederick Forestier-W Walker, in COM
maDd of the lines of communication
in South Africa, reports that in the
disaster to the British troops June 7,
at Roodeyal, where the Beers cut
Lord Roberts line of communication,
the Fourth battalion of the Derby
shire regiment were all killed, wound
ed or made prisoners, except six en-
listed men. Two officers and Is men
were killed and five officers ED 7s
men were wounded. many Of the
verely. ,5lhe Rorrs rctarned the
wounded to the British.
II is Inferred that the Beers cap
tured over 500 men and as late as June
10 held positions cutting of the Brit
ish forces north of Kroonstad from
reinforcements. A dispatch from
Gen. Forestier-Walker says Gen. Me-
thuen was fighting within ten miles
of Heilbron June 6.
The news that the shutting off OF
Lord Roberts communication with
the outer world was accompanied by
such a serious loss came like a bolt
from comparatively clear sky. In
London, until the news came, it was
thought that the destruction of the
railroad was accomplished by Free
Staters who were avoiding rather
than annihilating the British detach-
ments stationed at the point attacked.
Brabsnt aets I.BO0 Boers
London, June 12.--Fifty thousand
British troops are within half hun
dred miles of the marauding Beers
north of Kroonstad and they. are ex-
pected, of course, to make short work
of them. Nevertheless, outside OF the
war Office kilograms, no one knows
what Is going on. South of Kroon-
stad there is wide gap. The rail-
way is only partially defended and,
as Gen. Kelly-Kenny has hurried all
the available troops northward, the
assumption is that there is danger of
a second raid. The loss of the Derby
shires is estimated at from 500 to 700
men.
A Reuter- dispatch from Maseru,
dated June II, s:35 p. m, says: Eff
teen hundred Beers surrendered to
Gen. Brabant to-day in the Ficks-
burg district"
Machadodorp has been officially
proclaimed the capital of the Trans
Vnal A Lourenzo Marques dispatch
says that the village has swollen into
II small city, the majority of the in
habitants living in tents.
The Beers still cling to Laing's Mex,
but Gen. Buffers forces are still work.
ing far around in that direction.
Lord Roberts has wired Cape Town
that prior to Wednesday, he liberated
Isl officers and $500 Of the rank and
file. The Beers consequently took off
only 800.
A Boer deserter who arrived at
Maseru yesterday asserts that 1000
Beers participated in the Rooekrantz
engagement, that Gen. Olivier was
killed and Gen. DeVilliers mortally
wounded.
The American young women who
are nursing in the hospital at Lady
brand have been slighted by the Boer
women who are nursing the Boer
sick in the same hospital and have
been made the object of unpleasant
remarks because the Americans are
nursing the English.
Two Hundred Boers Surrender.
Ventorsdorp, June 1.-Two hun
dred and fifty Beers have surrendered
to Gen. Hunter and the remainder in
this district have promised to give up
their arms.