The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-04
IN SOUTH AFRICA.

LONDON, June 2S.-Gen. Rumble
had on Wednesday sharp artillery
and rifle skirmish near Senekal with a
large force of entrenched Beers. He
declined to attack them. This is the
only fresh fighting reported. The Boer
outposts northeast of Pretoria are busy.
The telegraph wires between Stander-
ton and Newcastle were cut Sunday
and Sir Redvers Butler had to resort to
heliograph.
Commandant Dewet with 5000 men
and three guns is moving northeast in
the Orange River colony. 1t is under
stood that he and Commandant Gen.
Botha entered into compact that
neither would surrender so long as the
other was in the field. Twelve thou
sand rifles, all told, have been surren-
dered to the British.
The exposure regarding the hospit-
ais in South Africa have made a great
sensation in England. They began
with three columns of restrained lam
guage in the Times yesterday from w.
A. Burdett-Coutts, conservative men,
Der of Parliament for Westminster.
His disclosures have been widely re-
produced; and they are supplemented
this morning with denunciatory tele-
grams and interviews from survivors
and army medical men.
The archbishop of Cape Town in an
address before the society of Good
Hope, in the Cape government house,
expressed great dissatisfaction at the
way in which the sick and wounded
were treated. He declared that the
warm clothing that WAS absolutely nee
essary was freely offered but was
rarely if ever distributed by the army
doctors; that the sick slept on the bare
ground and that even in Cape Town
the way in which the hospitals were
mismanaged made ones blood boil.
The Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily Telegraph says that Lord Roberts
will reply fully to the charges of Mr..
Burdetts-Coutts. Mr.. Frederick Ire
yes, consulting surgeon to the London
hospital, who was recently at the front,
says the charges come to him as an alb
solute shock and are quite increditable
He praises the medical department.
LONDON, June 29.-Lord Roberts
has sent bulletins of two small fights,
occurring on June 26 and 81, in which
the Beers were discounted In a dis
patch from Pretoria dated yesterday he
says: GA small force of mounted
troops, with two guns commanded by
Lieut.. Col. Dreiper, was attacked by
the enemy under Prefers and Nelson
the morning of June 20, seven miles
north OF Senekal. They beat off the
enemy and burned their lager. Our
casualties were three killed and ten
wounded. Hunter temporarily com.
manding Ian Hamilton's made one
march yesterday from Heidelberg to
Warden Rank without meeting any OPP
position"
The enemy attacked the British
troops at Roosdeval Spruit post on the
railway on Thursday but were easily
beaten off by detachment of the
Derbyshire light infantry, the West
Australian mounted 15.pounder and
an armored train.
Gen. Baden-Powell reports the cap
ture OF an influential Boer named Ray,
who was endeavoring to raise COM
mando in the Rustenberg district. A
patrol brought in over a hundred rifles.
More than 1000 rifles and 1000 infe.
rior pieces have been taken during the
last few days. He states that thirty
Beers have arrived at Rustenberg, 90.
ing TO their homes from Delarey's com.
mando. They would have left before
II they had seen the proclamation
which was carefully withheld by Boel
authorities.