The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-12


the Free state 1900 Beers Sur
render 20 Gen. Brabant-BuiIcr
Is in Free state Territory, Hav-
stiII Holding Lainss Nek, by a De-
tour 20 the Westward to Kip
River-Transvaars New Capital.
LONDON. June 12. $3.50 a. nifty
thousand troops are within half hundred
miles Of the marauding Beers. north OF
Kroonstad and they are expected. Of
course, to make short work of them.
Nevertheless. outside OF the war Office
kilograms. no one knows what is 60
Ing on.
Danger of . Second Raid.
South of Kroonstad there is a wide gap.
The railway is only partially defended.
and, as Gen Kelly-Kenny has hurried
all the available troops northward. the
assumption is that there is danger Of a
second raid. The loss OF the Derbyshires
is estimated at from coo 20 7o0.
Boer Force surrenders to Brabant.
A Reuter- dispatch from Maseru, dated
June II. s;35 p. m. says: Fifteen hum
dred Beers surrendered TO Gen. Brabant
today in the Ficksburg district"
Trnnsvnars New Capital.
Machadorp has been officially pro-
claimed the capital OF the Transvaal. A
Lourenzo Marquee dispatch says that the
village has swollen into a small city. the
majority of the Inhabitants living In
tents
An Alleged British Defeat.
A Boer telegram asserts that the British
have been defeated with considerable loss
at Donkerspoort in the southern extrem-
ity OF the Free State. or Orange river col
ony. ten miles from Norvalspont. 1t was
thought that this district had been cleared
OF Beers and rebels long ago.
The Beers s,ill cling TO Laings mex. but
Gen. Buffers forces are still working far
around In that direction.
Many Prisoners Released.
Lord Roberts has wired Cape Town
that prior to Wednesday he liberated l5l
officers and $500 of the rank and file. The
Beers consequently took OF only 800.
schreiner May Resign.
Mr.. Schreiner, the cape premier, had
eight supporters out OF forty at a caucus
called to consider the ministerial pro-
grsmme. J. Y. Merriman. treasurer, and
j. w Fauer. commissioner OF public
works. have resigned from the cabinet.
and MIR. Schreiner's own resignation is
believed TO be imminent, although he may
reconstruct the ministery with the aid OF
the opposition. The cabinet situation is
so interesting that Sir Alfred Miner Will
postpone his trip porthward.
Food scarce at Nafekiug
Food is s,ill scarce at Mafcking. but the
railway Is nearly repaired Seventy
rebels have been arrested In the Vry burg
and Mafeklng districts, sixty-fve men
were marched into Mafcking by two OF
their late prisoners At Mostis-
All Of Gen. Harringtoas force has land
ed at Betra a week ago. The organixa-
don ta invade the Transvaal from the
north Is already far advanced.
Gen. oiiscr Reported Killed.
\ Bocr dcserter who arrived AT Maseru
asserts that seven thousand Beers par
tic,pated ia the Rooekrau,x engagement,
that Gen olivier Was Killed and Con. De
Nutsrs mortaNy wounded
The American young women who are
nursing IA tac hospital az I.adybrand
have been sukhtcd by the Bosr women.
who are nursing the Ba-r SICK Ca 'he same
hospital and nave been made the objec
/ % unpleasant remarks br a4se the Amer
lcAus are nursing The English.
Thirty thousand troops Were Engaged "a
the mlu,lc aeld operations a. Aiae-sho,