The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-07
ANGLO-BOER WAR SITUATION
ROBERTS RESTING PREPARATORY
TO Il LONG CHASE.
Filling the Magazines and Warehouses
at Ills New Buse-Retrent of the Beers
from Pretoria u ost Important Army
of the Eurghers Probably Now at
Lains's Nek-Rumdle and Br"b"nt
Withdraw IA Little South.
Withdraw "a Little South.

London, June 7, 3:15 a. m.-Military
operations in South Africa are at a
standstill For day or two the tired
troops of Lord Roberts are resting, and
he is filling the magazines and ware
houses at his new base. Pretoria, pre-
paratory to long chase after the re-
firing Beers in the direction of Lyden-
burg, His cavalry are probably seek
ing to intercept Commandant General
Botha. Some dispatches are to hand
which left Pretoria Monday while the
fighting was going on outside the city.
They come by way OF Lorenzo Marques
One of them says:
"Toward the end of the day, when the
British naval guns were shelling the
southern forts, a number of projectiles
burst damaging the suburbs. All day
armed burghers have been leaving Pre-
toria, going east. The greater part of
the railway rolling stock has been re-
moved General Botha was fighting an
essentially read guard action, his object
not being to defend Pretoria, but to de-
lay Lord Roberts until the railway
switch had been cleared and the main
part of the Boer army had started to
withdraw The British advance ap-
pears to have left open to the Beers the
best line of retreat along the railway"
Possibly Lord Roberts may have been
able to cut the railway before full re-
tirement was effected. That Pretoria
would be defended was apparently given
out after the council of war with view
of misleading the British Lydenburg,
the district into which the provisions
originally destined for Pretoria have
been diverted, and where a cartridge
factory has been erected and reserve
supplies of all sorts are stored is a vol
canic region of fertile valleys, enclosed
by great ramparts of precipitous rock,
penetrated by narrow, winding passes.
There are herds of cattle in the valleys,
and there is much native labor available
for fortifying.
General Baden-Powell has extended
martial law to the Marico and North
Lichtenberg districts, Shots were ex-
changed between Boer and British pa
trolls eighteen miles east of Mafeking on
May %. Part of the forces lately at
Pretoria are reported to have gone
westward TO meet GeneraI Bdden-POW-
ell and to make a show of holding the
country through which he and General
Hunter are moving.
Probably the most important Boer
army is at Laings Mex, where both
sides are passive General Rumble and
General Brabant have withdrawn lit
tie southwark.
A dispatch to the Daily Telegraph
from Newcastle dated Tuesday describ-
ed the Beers there as an unorganized
rabble, without flour, meat or sugar.
Their surrender is only question of
time. Nevertheless the correspondents
assert they hold strong position.
Lorenzo Marques correspondents at
tach Significance to the number of
British warships in DeIagoa bay, sug
gesting that they are there possibly in
anticipation of aiding the Portuguese in
the event of disturbances on the Trans
vaaI border.
There is a strong feeling throughout
the country that striking honors should
be conferred Immediately upon Lord
Roberts without waiting until he returns
to England