Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-16

p1ltish Win Several Points Of I'm.
portance and Are Crowding
tho Enemy Hard.
London. June 16.-Bulle etin-Rumor is
rife In this city, that Roberts is negoti-
ating with Kruger and Botha, thru
their wives. terms Of surrender.
London, June 16.The war Office has
received the following from Roberts at |
Pretoria: ..Rustonburg was occupied
yesterday by Powell, A column starts
from this place tomorrow to meet Pow
ell and repair the telegraph between
Pretoria and Rustonburg. Hunter is
.noving from Potchoefstroom. His adj
vance brigade is expected to reach Jo-sl
.hannesburg June 18th. Butler. have
hopes, is at Standerton. Heidelberg
will be occupied from this place shortly
and then Orange River colony will be
completely cut OFF from the Transvaal.
Powell reports the district thru which
he passed settling down satisfactorily.
Over 1000 arms have been surrendered
and Eloff and Piet Kruger, son OF the
president, We're to make submission to-
him yesterday, having been previously
disarmed on their farms Botha's army
has retired and is believed to be at Mid
dleburg. His rear guard was surprised
entirely and routed by Ian Hamiitons
infantry.
4 London. Saturday Morning, June 16.-
Roberts dispatches leave the affairs
east OF Pretoria with the Beers with
drawn to new positions Tuesday. News
i OF fresh fighting is expected at the war
office. but none came last night. Run
dies patrol had skirmish with the
Boer videttes again Wednesday, Some
wonder Is expressed here as to what
he is doing with his three divisions. II is
assumed by. some that Butler will move
into the Orange River colony and CO.
operate with Methuen and Rundle in
bagging Steyn and his seven or eight
Thousand followers.
Part OF Christian Botha's force has
halted at Paadekop. eighteen miles
northwest Of volksrust. The Boer
parties are still near Nolksrust, and fire
OCCASIONALLY upon the British pickets.
The British government Is considering
whether q substantial force should not
4 be sent to China from South Africa.
4 1t Is thought unof1icially that Roberts
could spare a brigade or two and the
necessary transports now in South At
rican waters. The commander OF the
of the expedition, 1t Is said. will prob-
ably be General Nicholson.
"a dispatch from Lourenzo Marques,
dated yesterday, says:
..Persons have arrived here who have
seen the preparations OF the Beers and
have learned that they will retire when
forced thru the Lydenburg dlstric. into
the Zoutansberg region, adjoining
Rhodesia and Gazaland.''
The Daily Mail has a dispatch from
Blosmfontein, dated Wednesday. say
Ing:
..De Vets attack on the railway was
made after he had succeeded in turn.
/ ing Methuen from where he had de.
stroyed the line. Then he cleverl.
seized 1t north OF Kroonstad. blew VI
bridge and destroyed long section
OF line with dynamite"
Baden Powell has been appointed L
the rank of lieutenant general.
The Cape Town correspondent of tn,
Daily Telegraph, In a dispatch yester
day. says:
II understand De Wet. in addition 7
the Derbyshire battalion. captured .tw'
companies OF city volunteers and tw
company of yeomanry. two men onl,
escaping to tell the tale
The LourenZo Marques correspondent
Of the Times says:
at appears that steyn and no
Kruger. is now the stumbling bloc
in the way of the surrender of tn
burghers. Shortly after the British en-
try into Pretoria, Kruger proposed I
reopen peace negotiations. Steyn, bear
ing in mind that his former advice wa
secuted. demurred to this and pointe
out that. according to the treaty be
tween the republics. neither could co
clude peace without the other KruG
er, equally unwilling to incur tn
charge Of breach OF faith, had to con
tinue the war. Nothing further
known regarding the rumored peac
negotiations. but 1t is a matter of not
oriety that Kruger favors peace on a
most any terms. but dislikes PERSONAL
TO take the initiative that would II
yolve an unconditional surrender
~ n ss3t i
WANT TO KILL MINISTER'S.