The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-06-09
NO NEWS FROM ROBERTS.
Correspondents Not Permitted to Wire
BRITISH Column In swaziland.

London, June 8, 3:15 a, m.-General
Butler has at length taken the often
sive, and, by manoeuvring he has Sc
cured a position west of Laing's Mex,
by which he believes he can make the
Boer positions untenable. Presumably
he will Immediately follow up his sue
cess.
Lord Roberts has communicated moth
ing for three days, nor permitted the
correspondents to wire what is going
on Londons Inference is that he is
resting, although he is possibly dispos-
ing his army for reach after Com
mandant Botha. A blockade of the
wires owing to the crush of official cor
respondence may account for the scan
ty press dispatches. Some kilograms
filed a week ago are only just now ar
irving.
Lord Robrts army has a new song, it
runs thus: "We're marching into Pre-
toria. 1t belongs to Queen Victoria"
The Daily Express has the following
from Pretoria, dated Wednesday,. 1.-The
one thousand prisoners who We're de-
ported from Waterfall were told that
they were about to be given up to Lord
Roberts. They entrained cheerfully and
were conveyed to Nooit Gedache in
stead of Pretoria. General Louis Botha,
with rear guard of two thousand, left
Pretoria during the night. The British
advance guard on entering was upon the
very heels Of the retiring Beers, Botha
has sworn to carry on the war in the
mountains"
AT Lourenzo Marquee station a crowd
waited all Thursday night to see Presi-
dent Kruger, as it was reported that he
would arrive by a special train to get
an asylum on board the Netherlands
cruiser Friesland. Middleberg is said
to be full of Boer refugees and wound
ed The railway still delivers goods at
Brookhorst Spruit forty miles east of
Pretoria. A British column is at Brem-
ersdorp, Swaziland. Eleven British
prisoners have been taken to Middle
burg. The British at Biera are moving
into the interior in detachments of two
hundred daily.
G. V. FiddeS, imperial secretary to
the high commissioner. with a part of
Sir Alfred Miners staff left Cape Town
Tuesday evening for Pretoria, possibly,
as the Cape Town correspondent of the
Daily News thinks to arrange the an
nexation details
The Beers In the western part of the
Transvaal are giving up their rifles to I
General Hunter.
Harold G. Parsons, federation dele
gate from western Australia, writes to
the morning papers to protest against
the treatm given the wounded Cana
dams. He says:
''The invalid Canadians at Shorncliffe |
camp returned from the front, COM
plain that they are badly fed, unhealth-
lily crowded and refused a furough. |
This seems a curious return to make |
for their conspicuous services volunta-
rily rendered. l have it on indisiputa-
BILE authority that it is the practice of |
the war office to administer the British |
volunteer, and for all / know the regu-
lar army, by means of regulations
drafted and issued in great part on no |
better authority than that of it's pro-
NOTED second-class clerks, a body of |
men no doubt of irreproachable char
acter, but by no means adapted by their
intelligence or education to be entrust-
ed with so great responsibility Such
a delegation of authority, which is un-
precedented and unbusinesslike, is in
itself enough to show that the whole
war office from top TO bottom must be
reformed, if not reconstructed, after the
war"