New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-04
FOUGHT AN UNSEEN FOE.
LATEST DETAILS OF GENERAL BUNDLES
BATTLE AT SENEKAL.

BATTLE AT sENEKAL
London June 4-There is direct news from
Pretoria of later date than Thursday evening.
General French's cavalry were then at Irone,
eight miles south Of Pretoria. and firing was
heard there. Lord Robertss messages about
secondary operations elsewhere and the situa-
ton at johannesburg dated at Orange Grove.
farm four miles northeast of Johannesburg.
show that Saturday at 9:1O p he was
twenty-five miles from Pretoria
The correspondents with Lord Roberts have
not got through a line about the operations
after the occupation of johannesburg Official
messages continue to come through. but press
kilograms held up. probably TO avoid their
giving even hint what may be the pend
ing operations. From the other side there filters
through Lourenco Marques a of state
ments. some contradictory. others obviously i'm
probable. but the following purporting TO be
facts:
Passengers arriving at Lourenco Marques Sat
urday direct from Pretoria say that the cap
iJal was preparing surrender when they left
on Thursday. The forts disuanted- The
Boer guard at KOmatipoort searched all trains
and turned BACK most or the ruSlt1VeS among
them deserving foreigners who were striving to
reach neutral soil.
Immense Boer conveys of provisions are be-
tween Pretoria and Middeburg Fifteen trains
ara sent daily 10 MachadOdorp with supplies
for Lydenburg. Pretoria is pictured by the
and chaos. The pOpulaCe are diSmayed and the
British expected hourly.
Some foreign attaches have arrived at Lou
renco Marques 70 communicate with their Gov
ernments for orders TO leave. as they consider
that organized the Transvaal side is at
end. Flying among the Beers are reports
that the British have been beaten back at Lind
ley, with heavy loss; that the main attack on
EIandsfontein failed, and Lord Roberts was
forced TO retire to KIipsrtverburg that the rail-
way has been cut behind him south OF Vereenig
ing and that provision train has been capt
ured
without crediting any of these Boer bulletins,
everything from the field Of behind Lord
Roberts points to great effort last week 10
paralyze his advance by a bold Stroke from the
eastward at the railway north OF BloeInfontein
Unless four BOer columns were in a movement
seemingly with this objective, there was COM
| 1nando in front of General Brabant near FTcks-
| burg; another faced General Rumble. near Sene-
| kaI; a third occupied Lindley and pressed tow
| ard the railway. and fourth seized Hebron
| and pushed toward KroOnstad- These opera
tons. assuming them TO have been independent,
| all appear have failed
The revival Of the Boer fighting power east Oh
| Lord Roberts's advance although fruitless, Is
| symptom that the Beers are not yet crushed In
| General BUNDLES attack the intrenched
| Beers seven miles east Of SeneSal on May %
| the British did not see BOer all day. so COM
| uleteIy were they screened The British in
| fantry did not get within one thousand yards
| OF their riferen. The 49, losses telegraphed
| by Lord Roberts were suffered by the Grana~
| diers and Scots Guards while advancing over
| level from which the grass had been burned
| The British, in khaki. were a conspicuous tar
| get against the black background.
| General Rumble withdrew his whole force at
! TO- eIxaI hayf 9IICCpedeI draw
| ing the Beers from Lindley. allowing the threat
| ened force 10 get away safely. The Beers sent
| to the British for medical help, saying that Com
| ulandant De ViIliers seriously wounded
| General Rumble sent a doctor. with a bottle OF
| champagne and his compliments. as well as a
| message that he would release all the Boer
| prisoners at SenekaL
1.-The Daily Telegraph" has the following rom
| Senekal. dated May %:
| The scene during the battle wonderfully
| picturesque, rolling pillows Of smoke. higher
| than the highest kOpje. Obscuring the com oa-
| tants. The roar OF artillery and the cracAe or
| musxetry under the light OF the names or the
| burning veldt, combined to produce a picture or
| appalling grandeur but terrible for those en-
/ gagged within its field.
| Tonight the surroundings Of the Boer posi-
| ton are blackened and waste We expect the
| enemy TO yacate the hills before morning and
! to retire. Their desperate efforts during the
| day directed 10 getting a force 70 the
| kopje which General Rumble threatened last
| night and to-day in order 10 enable Colonel
| Spragge % 70 extricate the Duke OF Cam
| bridges YeOmanry.
The whole army OF Free Staters Is be-
| tween Senekal LindIey and Ficksburg II is
| reported to be composed chiefly Of desperate
| men, who would not go to the Transvaal TO
| fight and who too proud TO surrender. Their
| total number is believed TO be from 5000 10 1000
! In the advance of the Grenadiers Colonel
! Lloyd led IN the face OF a deadly fire. He was
/ hit. but struggled on, only TO be disabled by
| another bullet Lieutenant Murray. falling.