The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-26
CLEMENTS IS VICTOR.
Drives Beers Back From Vicin-
ity of Winburg.
HEIDELBERG is ENGLISH
INHABITANTS MET INVADERS
WITH "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN"

London, June rs. Az a. m.-The follow
ing dispatch has been received at the war
office from Lord Roberts:
Pretoria, Presidency, June 25.-Clem-
ents successfully engaged a force Of Beers
yesterday near Winburg where he had
gone to pick up supplies and some heavy
guns preparatory TO acting in combination
with columns from Lindley, Hebron and
Heidelberg He drove the enemy north
of Sandspruit with loss. No casualties are
reported.
Ian Hamilton reports that Heidelberg
IS the most English town he has yet seen.
The inhabitantH gave him a great recep-
uon- Inc ST. acts We're crowded and
decorated with bunting Captain Valen-
tlne h0iSted the Union Jack in the mar
ket square amidst the cheers of the pop
ulace and of the British, Australian and
other colonial troops. God Save the
queen was sung, the crowds heartily
The poor royalists have had a rough
time lately. HuttOn's mounted infantry
sk1rmlshed with the Beers yesterday a
! lew miles southeast OF Pretoria Captain
Aniey IS reported to have managed the
little business very well. Lieutenant
Cryspin and one OF the Northumberland
fus1ilers were wounded
Lord Roberts six columns are conVerg-
ing apparently so as to close in upon the
7 Free Skaters, although decisive result
cannot be expected for several days.
A number of Beers who were supposed
to be within the wide flung net have
broken, or, rather, stolen through Gen
erai BUNDLES icksburg-Senekal lines.
Canadians In Fight.
The Canadians were engaged in the
HOninspTuit fight last Friday. General
Dewet men first cut off Canadian out
post Of mounted rifles at dawn, two be-
ing killed. Lieutenant Triglis and four
others were wounded and three were cap
tured. The Free StaterS then attacked
the camp where there were fifty Cana
dams and two companies of ShrOpShires,
though without much erect as the men
were well entrenched
The foreign military attaches who
were with Lord Roberts are now In Cape
town, en- route for EuToke.
United States Consul Hay of Pretoria is
going to MachadOdOrp in the interest OF
the British prisoners and to see President
Kruger
Eight Houanders have been lodged in
jail at Standerton for destroying property
prior to the British occupation. The wives
and children OF the Beers are surprised
that the British do not loot, but pay for
what they get.
The Beers derafled a construction train
near StandertOn June a. Two trdlnmen
were killed and four badly hurt.
A party Of Brabants horse near F1cks-
burg saw q camp of khaki-clad men and
walked in only to find themselves among
the Beers. The visitors surrendered
The LOurenzo Marques correspondent OF
the Times, telegraphing yesterday. says
The Beers are losing large number
of horses from the cold and from lack OF
food, and the survivors are IN miserable
J condition The inadequaCy OF the BoeI
/ commissariat is telling on the burghers.
The Times, editOrially, adopts the sug'
gestion of a correspondent that johannes
/ burg should be the capital of the Trans
wall colony, because the traditions tc
+ Pretoria are corrupt.