Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-05
WILL SURRENDER
kUMOR THAT THE TRANSVAAL
CAPITAL WILL CAPITULATE.
GREAT WAR COUNCIL HELD.
sen. Delarey Says Pretoria Will Be
Defended to the Last-Kruger is
Denounced.

London. June $500 a. m.-Of official
intelligence regarding what is transpir-
ing outside of Pretoria there IS niue OF
nothing today. Lord ROBERTS IS sllell'.
Nevertheless, by piecins toeelnei ltels
from various correspondents. 1T Woulu
seem hat Lord Roberts immense army
iS all amployed north OF J~ohanneSpufs
except one brigade. when Is az ~
hannesburg, and that six columns are
co~nversing on Pretoria.
An undated news agency messase
from Pretoria via Lourenco Marquee
June 4, says: pu;+
pretoria is now invested by the Brit
;sh. No resistance will be offered. Inc
city will be surrendered by the purge
maste,. as soon as formal demand Is
made" i,
This message purports 10 come IN
cipher. President Kruger commands uAs
telegraph eastward from ffetofla anu
telegraphic news from Pretoria 10 Lou
renco MARQUEE has ceased, but the mes
seneers of newspaper correspondents
continue to pass to and from on the rail-
way. The latest to arrive at Loufenco
MARQUEE brings events at the Boer cap
ital down to a late hour Friday night.
At that time, according to these sources
of information, the military leaders had
quite owe from the panic ana nad
determined to defend the town. ohe
message. which is dated une l, says:
Pretoria is full of state burghers, but
most of the commands are iaasefeo
outside. A great war councll ol gen
erals has just concluded it's deliberations.
The decision as to the future military
course has not ben made known. Lonls
Botha n Delarey sat in the council
Another dispatch brought to Lourenco
Marquee by messenger and dated at Ere
toria Friday at midnight, says:
1.-THE war council assumes the powers
= l. - TIC MIXERS declare
that the capital may still be success
fully defended. One commander de;
cclared: With the help of God, the Aoa1f
will come when Great Britain Will ac-
knowledge the Independence of the two
republics. A tremendous change Wll~yet
come over the situation General De-
larey said that Pretoria would be de-
Tended to the utmost, adding: There is
every chance that We will yet beat the
enemy out Of the country"
President Kruger is somewhere to the
eastward, but is in constant wire COM
munication with the leaders here. There
is. however, a deep feeling of anger
against him on account of is now
called his unnecessary flight, and be-
cause he and the officials took all the
gold and left their subordinates unpaid.
The latest phase of public opinion is a
marvellous revival of courage. ~
From Lourenco Marquee comes a dis
patch, dated June 4, saying:
1T is known that some great British
movement is In progress outside Of Pre-
toria. The mysterious movements of
President, Kruger's secretary and physl-
clan. particularly their visit to the Dutch
warship Friesland, which is in the har-
Dor here, has aroused suspicious that
important 4~personages are expected.
The news from the minor theaters IS
less cryptic. The Boer operations to
reak-L Lord Roberts communications
have been completely baff1ed and the
Beers are in danger of being surrounded
by7 the British forces at Ficksburg, Sem
ekal,t Heilbren and Lindley.
General Rumble, instead OF throwing
himself against the Beers, intrencf1ed at
B~edulphberg. moved toward Ficksburg
and established communication with
General Brabant. The Beers marched
narallel with Rumble, intending to seize
a strong position on the F~icksburg faad,
but General Rumble got there first. Inc
$500 Beers who were in the movement
are now reported to be going elsewhere.
The correspondents with General Run
die continue to point out the hardness
of the fight of last Tuesday, but they be-
lieye it will be the last real resistance.
Colonel Lloyd was thrice and
Haynes, While aiding Colonel
Lloyd, was shot in the hand, which 9Was
resting near the colonels heart.
General Buffers guns throw a shell on
two toward the Boer positions in front
of them occasionally. General Baden
Powell is still at Mafeking. General
Hunters column is marching unopposed
into the TransVaal.
A new phase of the Anglo-Dutch con-
tliet is opening in Cape Colony. The lead
ers of the Afrikanderbund propose, 1T is
asserted, to block bushes in the Cape
parliament until the British government
acts on the resolutions adopted by the
peoples congress at Graaf Reinert, de
claring that the chief immediate cause
of the war was the unWarranted n in
tolerable interference of the ministry in
London in the internal affairs of the
South African republics.