The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-06


came too late for the public to know
it last evening The newspaper COM
mentators considered the incident de-
plorable. but as having no weight to
speak of in the results. The battalion
numbered between 400 ana 500.
General Botha and most of his men
got away from Pretoria.
This is inferred from Lord Roberts
me ssage, but the presumption is that
the Boer commandant general can not
escape the British dispositions without
a fight.
Operations elsewhere seem to have
dwindled to nothing. General Baden
Powell Joined General Hunter on Sun
day at Lichtenburg. Sir Redvers Bull
Ter has not moved.
Bennett Burleigh, wiring from Johan-
nesburg, says President Kruger took
100000 pounds in cash to Middleburg.
Mr. Burleigh and Guy H. Scuu, an
American correspondent, entered Johan-
nesburg the night before Lord Roberts
occupied the city and made a tour of
it unmOlested by the armed burghers.
CELEBRATED ALL NIGHT.
London. June 6.-England celebrated
last night the fall of Pretoria very
much as she did the relief Of Aiafa:xing.
IranAeNness has been a trifte less than
wnen Baden-PoWell was the hero of the
moment, but in London and in other
large towns the scenes last evening
We're practically a repetition of those
which marked the other victories and
the footing of horns and d1scOrdant
chants ascended from city streets usu-
ally at such an hour as silent as the
grave
marched along the Strand, Piccadilly
and other leading thoroughfares. In
fact so great was the crush that the
easiest method of locomotion was to
join one of the professions for whose
strident choruses and waving flags all
traffic was stopped. Coaches and cabs
were freely chartered in honor of the
joyful occasion and these were soon 50
packed with invited and Uninvited
guest that they assumed the aspect of
living pyramids of BachanalianS. Babies
in arm, white haired women, girls of
the street, club men in evening dress
and White Chapel cOster mOngers inter
mingled along the haring thOrOughfareS
bent upon celebrating the victory. Into
the faces of all were continually thrust
huge peacock feathers described for no
known reasons as 'Kruger's persuad-
ers."
Girls were indiscriminately kissed,
/ jOstled and tossed around amid the &C.
static jubilatlOn of the crowd. A spec
} les of confetti which stuck to the cloth
] ing Of the recipient proved a popular
form of showing ones exultation, until
/ the stores of the peddlars ran out.
Then the night grew older and rOWdy-
/ ism of the worst form held sway. From
Z almost every bar room came sounds of
/ inebriate attempts to sing God Save
J the Queen and Rule Britannia
At the music halls and theaters last
evening the mention of Lord Roberts at
/ Pretoria brought every audience to its
/ feet in a second and it was almost i'm
! possible for the performers to hold the
/ interest of those in front of them. Every
I building possessing an Illuminating de-
| vice used it for all it was worth until
! the metropolis was ablaze with light.
The clubs of Pail Mall We're lit up with
( huge torches and the staid old street of
/ bindings
/ able.
BOTHA AND BULLER MEET.
London, June "a special dispatch
! from Lorenzo Marques dated Tuesday,
I June 5, says: General Butler and
/ Christian Botha met at Laings Mex at
Buffers request when a three days ar
mistice was agreed upon" The dispatch
adds that the British have evacuated
( Utrecht
BOER ARMY IS INTACT.
London, June 6.-Until the situation
in the neighborhood of Pretoria is en-
lightened teh officials here as we'll as
others will find difficulty in prOgnosti-
eating Lord Roberts immediate pro-
gramme. It appears evident that the
Boer commander in chief Gen. BOtha
with all his guns withdrew in good or
der, probably along the Delagoa Bay
! railroad with the view of joining Presi-
/ dent Kruger. SO the Transvaa1 forces
/ remain practically intact with Presi
/ dents Kruger and Steyn with Genera
T3otha. and Secretary of State Reitz, al
safe and in a position to continue di-
rection of affairs.
The more optimistic see in the fac
that President Kruyer's wife and Gen
Botha's We're left at Pretoria, an indi
cation that the president does not coun
on a long resistance. In any case it vii
probably take Lord Roberts at least ;
week to organize a campaign of pur
suit. The military authorities antici
pate that the next important news vii
come from Gen. Buffers direction
plenty of time has elapsed to cOmplet
l the turning movement at Laings Mex
A belated dispatch from Mafeking da
ted May 81, announces the British oc
cupation of Malmani. where 200 Boer
surrendered.