The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-05
BOER COMMANDERS MEET AND
DISCUSS PLANS FOR RESIST
ING THE BRITISH
PRETORIA is HEMHED ABOUT
FORCE OF LORD ROBERTS HAVE
TRANSVAAL CAPITAL COM
PLETELY INVESTED
HINTS OF KRUGER's FLIGHT
Mysterious Movements of His Fol-
lowers at LOurenzO Marquee At
tract AttentiOn-MOve-
ments of Armies.

LONDON, June 8, 3:2O a. m.-Of official
intelligence regarding what is taking
| place outside Pretoria there is little or
nothing today Lord Roberts is silent.
| Nevertheless, by piecing together items
from various correspondents, it will be
| seen that Lord Roberts immense army
is all employed north of Johannesburg,
| with the exception of one brigade which
is at Johannesburg, and that six columns
are cOnverging at Pretoria. An undated
news dispatch, via Lourenzo Marques,
June 4, from Pretoria, says:
Pretoria is now invested by the Brit
ish. No resistance will be offered The
city will be surrendered by the burgo-
master as soon as a formal demand is
made"
This message purports to come in cipher
President Kruger commands the teIe-
graph eastward from Pretoria, and tele-
graphic news from Pretoria to Lourenzo
Marques has ceased, but the messengers
of newspaper correspondents continue to
pass to and fro on the railway, The
latest to arrive at Lourenzo Marques
brings news of events at the Boer capital
down to late hour Friday night At that
hour, according to these sources of infor-
maton, the military leaders had quite re-
covered from their panic, and had deter
mined to defend the town One message,
which is dated June l, says:
Pretoria is full of strange burghers.
but most of the commandos are Iaagered
outside. A great war council of generals
has just concluded its deliberations. The
decision as to the future military course
has not been made known. Louis Botha
ana Delarey sat in the council
WAR COUNCILS WORK.
Another dispatch brought to Lourenzo
Marques by message from Pretoria at
midnight, says:
The war council assumes the powers
OF the government. It's members declare
that the capital may still be successfully
defended. One member said: With the
help of God, the hour will still come when
Great Britain will acknowledge the in
dependence Of the two republics. A tre-
Tnendous change will yet come over the
situation
Gen. Delarey said that Pretoria will
oe defended to the utmost, adding: There
Is every chance that we will yet beat the
enemy out of the country
president Kruger still remains in the
country, but in constant wire comnunica-
tlon with the leaders here. There Is
a deep feeling of anger, however, against
MIN, at wEat is called his unnecessary
hght, and because he and his officials
took ell the gold and left their subordi-
mates unpiad.
1he phase of public feeling is a mar
velous revival of courage"
From Lourenzo MARQUES comes q dis
patch dated June 4, saying:
1t IS Known that some great British
rIoNement is in progress outside of Pre-
torla. The mysterious movements of
President kruger's secretary and physi-
clan, particularly their visit to the Dutch
Warship Firesland which is in the har-
Dor here, has aroused suspicious that
important personages are expected
BOERS OUTGENERALED.
The news from the minor theaters of
hostilities is less cryptic. The Boer oper-
ations to break Lord Roberts commune
cations have been entirely baff1ed, and
the Boer commandos are IN danger of
being surrounded by the British columns
at Ficksburg and Senekal. Gen. Rumble,
instead of throwing himself against the
Beers intrenched at Bidulphburg, moved
towards Ficksburg, and established COM
munication with Gen. Brabant The
Beers marched parallel with Rundie, in
fencing to seize a strong position on the
Ficksburg, but Gen. Rumble got there
first, The 800 Beers who were in this
movement are now reported to be going
elsewhere.
The correspondents with Gen. Rumble
continue to point out the hardness of
the fight of last Tuesday, but they be-
lieve it was the last real resistance. Col.
Lloyd was twice wounded Drummer
Banes, while assisting Col. Lloyd, was
wounded in the hand, which was near
Col. Lloyds heart.
Gen. Butler continues to exchange shells
with the Beers
Gen. Baden-Powell is still at Mafeking.
Gen. Hunters column is marching into
the Transvaal beyond Lichtenburg.
A new phase of the Anglo-Dutch con-
hict is opening in Cape Colony. The lead
ers Of the Afrikanderbund propose, it is
asserted to block business in the cape
parliament until the government acts
upon the resolutions adopted by the peo-
pies convention at Graaf Reinat, de-
claring that the chief immediate cause
of the war was the unwarranted and
intolerable interference of the ministry
in London III the internal affairs of the
South African republic.
BoERs NEED NO CAPITAL
CLEVELAND, o., June 4.-The Boer
ENJOYS and their party received num-
Der of callers at the Hollenden this morn
ing. AT II o'clock they gave reception
10 the citizens. Abraham Fischer, when
shown the published reports that Boe2
women were fighting in the trenches,
said:
.The women of our country offered to
share the hardships of the men, fight
with them and if need be die with them.
for the fatherland. But the men would
not allow it. They are willing to fight
to the bitter end, but would not permit
their wives, daughters, sisters anG
mothers to SIGHT in the trenches
"Of course. there are women who have
volunteered for hospital service, but the
rcports that our women are using rifles
in the trenches is not true.
AS to the recent events In the Trans
vaal he said:
"We know the country and understand
what each movement means. We have
not had definite information for several
| days from South Africa. When that is
| the case we may expect that our forces
are doing something. In fact, from this
meager. reports 1t looks as if we had got
ten in between them and their objective
point Beers are not used to being be
sieged. Therefore they will not attempt to