The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-29
NIBAADON|NG B0ER WAR.
~earsGN EVENTS BELITTLE TIE
souTH AFRICAN AFFAIRS.
~.xssn soldiers Become Weary of
Z - Fighting and Are Losing
nsept-startiing Complaint That
~ Hospitals Are Mismannged.

| LYNDON, June %. 2:30 a. m.-Lord Rob-
- has sent bulletins OF two small fights,
ssruyrfng on June 26 and q. in which the
Sserr we're discounted. In n dispatch
- Pretoria. dated yesterday. he says:
-s1 small force Of mounted troops. with
- guns, commanded by Lieut. Col
sfwslper, was attacked by the enemy un-
- Prefers and Nelv on the morning o.
jroe q. several miles north of Senekai
IN beat on the enemy and burned
~ issEer The casualties were three
Hunter, temporarily commanding Ian
Hamilton's brigade. made one march yes
iefday from Heidelburg toward Frank
~. without meeting any opposition.
sThe enemy attacked our RoodvaI
Uruit post on the railway yesterday. hut
4ere easily beaten on by n detachment
n the Derbyshire light infantry. the West
Australian mounted io-pounder. and an
vsBaden- Powell reports the capture OF
q Influential Boer. named Ray. who was
0deavoring 2 raise commando In the
svsr 100 rifles. More than 1900 rifles and
In inferior guns have been taken during
lhe last few days. He states that thirty
Beers have arrived at Rustenburs. going
nando. They would have left before II
fhey had seen the proclamation which was
esrsfuily withheld by the Boer authori-
LORD Roberts says that Wednesday
June q, was record market day in Pre-
t0na for Boer farmers selling produce
Parties OF Roers still hang on Buffers
tanks r y Bnrnham. the American
Writing 10 the Morning Post from Win
burg, Provost Rattersby frankly declares
that the British soldier. though just as
whole concern" that is TO say of South f
There are very few men out here"
writes the war correspondent. who have
sspented OF their pluck: very few who
show Is finished; but there are fewer
stu who are not heartily sick OF the
whole concern. who do not reckon daily
Eh 's racing ~eas snG s are vars ssDs ana a
me cricket, the little meetings and the
little matches and the shooting II may
y. to follow. The big. thing they are
y n9es each Of WHICH hs rs
make kingdom; the drawing OF the
corner OF the world.
Mind, they mean going through with
h; they would meet anything short of
unconditional surrender with voluble dis
gust: they would stop not a step this
side OF Pretoria But they hate It, Their
s s Is not IN the enterprise, but In the
tons They would. had II been In their
lscision. have left the cursed place 10
the Dutchmen, Since II WINS not, they
starve and fight and die with the best
grace and most excellent courage posi-
bic. But the change Ia there. from the
spirit of the men who won the Indies and
made America and set our flag on the
seas"
The exposures regarding the hospitals
II South Africa. which began with q
shree-column letter In the Times Monday
from W. A. Burdette-Coutts, Conserva
tive member OF parliament from West
minister. detailing the suffering endured
By soldiers, owing 80 mismana cement, led
to q number OF questions In tho house OF
commons today. In response the govern
ment leader, 4. ]. Balfour. the first lord
OF the treasury. made a long statement
during the course Of which he said tina,