The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-06-21
ESCAPE OF BO7HA
British Must Reckon With a
Formidable Force.
cRANSvAAL NOT YET PACIFIED
Buller's Advance Delayed by the Laok
nj Snpplies-Rundle in . ski.
mish at Ficksburg.

ant General Louis Botha should have
been able to stand for two days against
Lord Roberts and then retreat without
losing any guns or having any of his
men captured, is taken to mean that
he has force which the British must
still reckon as formidable when acting
defensively. The pacitication of the
whole of the Transvaal. especially the
wide spaces far from the railways, is
looked upon as a business requiring
mOnih his, rather than weeks. Meanwhile,
everything goes we'll for the British
arms.
A Boer bulletin issued June IL. at
Machadodorp said:
"Both wings of the federal forces
touched the advancing army ut A. NJ.
Yesterday, east of Pretoria. Fighting
continued until dark. The enemy,
though in overwhelming numbers, we're
checked along line of So miles, and
the burghers succeeded in driving
back their right wing five miles. Two
burghers were killed and 10 wounded. "
Another Machadodorp announcement
is that the first regiment of General
Buller's force attacked Almonds Mex
and was 'annihilated," but as the
British were in overwhelming force,
the burghers were compelled to abandon
the Mex.
A dispatch from Lourenco Marques,
dated yesterday, says:
President Kruger is holding onto
his gold and issuing paper notes from q
press in his executive car. The Boer
governm ent's coin in stock is exhaust
ed, and the officials are now paying
out plain gold discs unstamped. Some
who have declined to accept notes have
taken their salaries in gold bars. The
Boer government is still paying out
much gold that way.
1.-TWO steamers arrived at Lourenco
Marques yesterday, bringing several
thousand tons of supplies consigned to
Portuguese merchants, but destined for
the Beers. One hundred Americans,
Frenchmen, Germans and Hollanders,
have arrived there by various steamers
en- route for the Transvaal. Mr..
Grove. the British consul.general, has
large stock of clothing for the British
prisoners, but he will not forward
these until he gets assurances that the
Beers will not take them for their own
use.'
General Butler will be unable to ad-
vance further until he gets supplies.
Nearly every farmhouse his troops
passed few white flag. The British
took nothing without paying for it,
and brisk business was done in milk.
eggs, bread and chickens by the thrifty
housewives, who were pleased to get 50
much English money. One woman,
whose husband and two sons have beer
fighting, said: "You British are unlike
our people. They took my horses in
exchange for sheep and mealies, and
made me make butter, which they
never paid tor. am sending to have
my men come home at once" Usual
ly the first question Boer woman puts
is, "Will my husbad be shot if he 10
captured?" One young man was
pulled from under q bed, and he went
on his knees begging the British patrol
not to shoot him.
General Rumble had a sharp skirm.
ish at Ficksburg, June IL. The Beers
had been aggressive along the whole
Ficksburg- -Senekal line, and menaced
Ficksburg in force. The British outpost
retired to the village. General Rumble
held the attention of the Beers in front
with two guns, while yeomanry were
sent around to their rear and drove
them off with loss to the British ol
three wounded. Two patrols were also
wounded.