The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-06-14
ANGL0-BOER WAR SITUATION
DEWET HAS PROBABEY AGAIN
 ESCAPED THE BRITISH.
Ills Forces Assumed to he Practically Intact- General Buller's Advance Lntng's Nek Tunnel Blown Up at Both Ends but Can bs Repaired in A About Four Objectionable Gives Free Staters Until To-day to Surrender.


 Four Objectionable Gives Free Staters
 Until To-day to Surrender.
 London, June 14.-3:50 a. rn.-The dis patch from Lord Roberts clearing up the situation at Pretoria and along his lines of communication stands alone, no other news from the British field mar shal or the correspondents having come through to supplement it. Military ob- servers noting that no mention is made of prisoners assume that General Dewet got away with his forces practically in- tact.
 General Buffers headquarters entered Volksrust Wednesday, having passed through Charleston and encamped near Laings Nek. The tunnel was not much damaged. Both ends were blown up; but the engineers think that repairs can be effected in about four days. The ad- vance troops of General Butler saw the E terday It was estimated that eight thousand Boers were withdrawing. The towns people at Ermelo counted fifteen guns. General Buffers casualties on June 10 have been issued by the war of flee. They were 26 killed, 126 wounded and two missing.
 Three hundred Free Staters, released from guarding Van Reenan's pass have gone to join President Steyn's con- mando in the eastern part of Orange river colony. General Rundle has sent notice to the Free Staters that unless they surrender by June 15 their farms and other possessions will be conffs- cated.
 President Kruger according to dis patch from Lorenzo Marquez keeps locomotive with steam up attached to the car in which he concentrates the ex- ecutive offices of the government and he intends leaving Machadodorp soon and to establish the Tranvaal capital at Mel Spruit in the mountains, fine defen sive region. The state printing press is operating at Machadodorp, producing leaflets containing war news for distri- button among the Boers.
 It is again reported at Lorenzo Mar quez that the British are advancing through Swaziland. Lord Roberts, it appears, however, countermanded the order given to Strathcona's horse to land on the coast and to penetrate to the Transvaa through the Swazi coun- try.
 MT. Schreiner, the Cape premier and his colleagues, resigned last evening, Sir Alfred Mlner accepting their resig- nations. The London papers only re- gently abused MT. Schreiner for not making war preparations. Now they are experimenting his refusal to follow the majority of the Afrinkander bund in opposition to the British military policy.
 A meeting of women who object to | he war was held at Queen Hall last l evening Mrs Howard Courtney pre- l sided and Mrs. James Bryce moved a l resolution declaring that the war re- suited from the bad policy of the gov This and other anti-war reso- utions were adopted. The meeting | 1issed MT. Chamberlain's name vigor- )usly. MT. Donohue the Daily Mails | at Pretoria, insists that | President Kruger took f3 100000 gold in lis flight
 Roberts Official Report of the Boers' De- feat at the Rhenoster, the Opening of
 His Communications Again and q