The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-06-19
.UNLUCKY
BR|TONS
Six Hundred Derby
shires Missing.
RESULT OF A BOER RAID
President Krueger Near the Portu-
guese Border With a Strong
bodyguard.

bodyguard.
LONDON, June 11.-General Fores-
Itier-Walker sends this dispatch:
CAPE TOWN. Sunday. June 1O.-The
following telegram has been received
from Charles Knox:
'KROONSTAD.-The following casu-
alties, reported from Stoneham, COM
manding the Imperial Yeomanry Hos
pital, dated Rhenoster river June Sth,
received here by flag of truce June 10th:
The Fourth Battalion of the Derby
shire Regiment (the Sherwood Forest
ers), killed, Lieutenant Baird Douglas
and Lieutenant Hawley, and fifteen of
, the rank and file. Wounded-Colonel
Wilkinson, Captain Bailey, Lieutenants
Hall. Lawder and Blanchard, and fifty
nine of the rank and file; the Shrop-
shire Light Infantry, L. Cape Pioneer
Railroad Regiment, z; Ammunition
Park, Royal Marines and Imperial
Telegraphs, 1 each; Postoffice Corps, /.
severely wounded, and the remainder
of the Fourth Derbyshire and details of
prisoners, except six of the rank and
file. are in his camp. All the wounded
are in his camp, lately occupied by the
Fourth Derbyshire. Inquiries are be-
ing made as to the names''
Losses Six Hundred.
IONnON Tuna 10 70 On - nue.
thousand British troops are within half
a hundred miles of the marauding
Beers north of Kroonstad. and they are
expected, of course, to make short work
of them. Nevertheless, outside of the
War Office kilograms, no one knows
what is going on.
South of Kroonstad there is a wide
gap. The railway is only partially de-
Tended and as General Kelly-Kenny
has hurried all the available troops
northward, the assumption is that there
is danger of second raid. The loss of
the Derbyshires is estimated at from
500 to 700 men.
A Reuter- dispatch from Maseru. dat
ed June 11th, 1886 p.. M. says: Fifteen
hundred Beers surrendered to General
Brabant today in the Ficksburg dis
trict."
Machadorp has been officially pro-
claimed the capital of the Transvaal.
A Lourenzo Marques dispatch says that
the village has swollen into a small
city, the majority of the inhabitants
living in tents.
| An official Boer telegram asserts that
the British have been defeated with
considerable loss at Donkerspoort, in
the southern extremity of the Free
State. or Orange river colony, ten miles
from Norvals Point. 1t was thought
that this district had been cleared of
Beers and rebels long ago.
| The Beers still cling to Laing's Mex,
but General Buffers forces are still
working far around in that direction.
| Lord Roberts has wired Cape Town
that prior to Wednesday he liberated
151 officers and $500 of the rank and
file. The Beers consequently took off
only 500.
] Mr.. SchreiDer, the Cape Premier, had
eight supporters out of forty at a eau
Gus called to consider the Ministerial
programme. ]. x. Merriman, Treas
urer. ard ]. w. Fauer. Commissioner of
Public Works. have resigned from the
Cabinet, and Mr.. Schreiner's own res
fgnation is believed to be imminent,
although he may reconstruct the Min
istry with the ad of the opposition. the
British members. The Cabinet situa-
ton Is so interesting that Sir Alfred
Mlrer Will postpone his trip north
ward
Food Is still scarce at Mafeking. but
the railway is nearly repaired Seventy
two rebels have been arrested in the
Vryburg and Mafeking districts Sixty
five men were marched into Mafeking
by two of their late prisoners at Mos
tia.
All of General Harringtons force
landed at Beira a week ago. TIE or
sanitation to invade the Transvaal
from the north is already far advanced.
A Boer deserter who arrived at Ma
seru yesterday asserts that 1000 Beers
participated In the Rooekrant engage
ment: that General Olivier was killed
and General de Villiers mortally
wounded.
The American young women who are
nursing in the hospital at Ladybrand
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
tie Americans are nursing the English.
VENTERSDORP. June 1.-Two hun
dred ard fifty Beers have surrendered
to General Hunter and the remainder
in this district have promised to give
up their arms.
Krueger's Big Bodyguard.
LONDON, June 1.-THE Lourenzo