Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-05-31

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GENERAL LORD RoBERTa.
bloodshed among the prisoners of
war at Waterfall, United States Con-
sui Hay and Leigh Woods insisted up
on twenty officers being liberated on
parole to go to the men. Their action
cannot be too highly praised. was
permitted to accompany the officers.
Everything is quiet.''
London, May 31.-A dispatch from
Roberts dated at Germiston, May 30,
says: Hamilton is now at Florida,
due west of johannesburg, and French
is few miles further northeast. Cor
don's cavalry, and mounted infantry
and the Seventh division are holding
the heights of the town. The 11th Gi-
vision is south of Johannesburg"
Germiston, May s0.-Johannesburg
is practically in British possession.
The mines are uninjured. Nine en-
gines. coal train and great quantity
of rolling stock were captured.
London, May 31.-A special from
GermistoTa says that several hundred
Beers sought refuge in a mine, where
the British grenadiers cornered them
and barred all escape.
Cape Town, May 31.-The British
have occupied Heidelburg on the rail
road connecting johannesburg with the
Transvaal frontier town of Volksrast
on the Natal border near Laings Mex
Lord Cecil Nlanors Captured.
London, May 31.-Lord Cecil Manors,
son of the Duke of Rutland, acting az
a newspaper correspondent, is among
the prisoners captured by the Beers
during Roberts advance on May 30.
Roberts Grants Delay.
London, May 31.-Roberts under
date of Gernliston, May 80, says: I'm
answer to the flag of truce l sent to
Johannesburg this morning the com
mandant came to see me. He beg
ged me to defer entering the town fol.
"a hours as there were many armed
Burghers still inside. Iagreed to this,
as am most anxious to avert the
possibility OF anything like disturb
ance inside the town, and as boslies
of the enemy are still holding the hills
in the immediate neighborhood, from
which they will have to be cleared be-
forehand.
''Rundle reports that be attacked a
large party of Beers near Senekal, ON
heavy
''Brabant reports that on the .Sth
his patrols, consisting of two officers
and forty men, were cut off by the
enemy and taken prisoners"
Think War is Over.
London, May s1.-The Transvaal war
practically ended yesterday. Convinced
that further resistance would be futile
johannesburg admitted the British
troops early in the morning. Before
noon President Kruger departed from
Pretoria, leaving a committee of safety
to preseKv order and to make full
submission to Lord Roberts victorious
army. Terms of surrender are now
being drawn.
So draws to close the struggle be-
gan by the Beers last October and
waged with unvarying fierceness on
both sides for nearly eight months. at
a cost of $4,000 lives and over 81 1,OOO,-
OOO,OO0.
Complete details of the last stages
of the war are yet to be received, but
enough facts have come over the wires
from Pretoria to show that the Boer
republics are now things of the past.
1t appears that early Yesterday NOR
ming Lord Roberts, secure in the belief
that he would meet with no further re-
sistance, sent several of his officers in
to johannesburg to arrange the terms
of surrender. The commanaer-in-chi
expected to perform this duty himself,
but evidently changed his mind.
Meanwhile Lord Roberts advance
column, led by General French, pro-
cesding at rapid rate, covered half
the distance to Pretoria, while still an
other British force reached Hatherly,
a small station some twelve miles east
of the Boer capital on the Delagoa Bay
railway line.
President Kruger a Fugitive.
The facts regarding the rapid prog
IeSS OF ICfQ RODerlS column ana the
fate of johannesburg were well known
in Pretoria, and before the morning
was half spent President Kruger was
aboard his private car, which had been
kept in readiness for some days, speed
ing toward Watervalboven, an insignifi-
cant station 100 miles due east of Pre-
toria, on the Delagoa Bay railway. Be
fore quitting the capital, however, Pres
ident Kruger withdrew the Boer troops
from the city's defenses and authoriz-
ed Burgomaster De Souza to receive
the British.
Immediately after Kruger's depart