The age-herald., 1900-06-11
TROOPS EMBARRASSED Many Now Think the War is
 Not Over. THE BOERS HAVE GROWN ACTIVE British Under General Butler Marched Eight Miles Keeping Up Run ming Fire With Bosrs Who
 Resisted the Advance
THE BOERs HAVE GROWN ACTIVE

London, June 11.-(3:30 a. m.)-The Boers have torn up twenty-one miles of Lord Roberts line of railroad between America siding ard Roodeval. 1t is a bold raid and veXatious, but it does not disquiet the mili- tary authorities as yet, for they expect General Kelly-Kenny to drive off the ma rauders and to reopen the line. The rapid ity of the advance of Lord Roberts cannot have permitted him to have accumulated large reserves of stores Therefore, an in- terruption of the railway, even for a week, must embarrass the army and may bring the forward operations to a standstl.
 Nothing has been heard from Lord Rob- erts for three days This raid on the rail- way, the strenuous opposition to General Rundle and the nimble escape of Com mandant General Botha's division have forced the war office observers to the re- luctant conclusion that the war is not yet over, although even the occasional civilians who are Boer sympathizers cannot see how the Boers will be able to do anything to change the result.
 General Butler is in Boer territory. Dis patches of correspondents with him, filed yesterday at sunset, describe the corps as camping at Gansolei, close to the point where the frontiers of the Free State where the Transvaal and Natal meet.
 'The British marched eight miles yester- day." says a Reuter- correspondent, "be- fore encountering opposition. The Boers, who had one gun, withdrew under heavy ordnance fire to a ridge just ahead of the camp"
 Long Range Running Skirmish
 This long range, running skirmish will doubtless be renewed this morning. General Butler is expected to make rapid progress now, and to throw the weight of 10000 men into Lord Roberts Transvaal combina- tions. The fighting on June 6, in which there were fewer than 20 casualties kept up all day long by muskery and artillery. The British attacking line, three miles in length, made it's way amid the precipitous hills. A Boer gun on SpitZ Kop fired shrap- mel rapidly at a range of four hundred yards, at the British right flank, but every shell was buried in the ground before bursting The defensive power of modern weapons seems less effective in rough country than upon levels, where wide spaces can be covered with flat trajec- tories.
 General Bundles and General Brabant's
 
 Ficksburg district. The latest intelligence from their headquarters is that the Boers are determined to fight to the bitter end. They are concentrating 4O0O men around Bethlehem. The country between them and General Rundle is mountainous and re- sembles northern Natal in being exceed ingly difficult for military operations. Gen eral Bundles present care Is to prevent the Boers gettin past him southward. Major Wood Of Bundles staff, rode to a Boer outpost on June and announced that Pretoria had been occupied by the Brit ish. How the Boers received this news Is not recorded. Altogether GOO Boers have surrendered to General Rundle.
 General Hunters advance has occupied Ventersdorp, 100 miles southwest of Pre- toria-
 General Hunters immediate objective is Potchefstroom. This town and Rustenbure are the largest towns west of Johannes burg. It is reported that Potchefstroom is ready to submit General Hunter has warned all burghers that if the telegraph is cut behind him he will send back and burn the houses near the line.