The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-11
ROBERTS is ISOLATED
Beers Cut the Railway and Tel
egraph Lines.
WAR IS NOT YET OVER
BURGHERS RESIST BUTLER
HUNTER, AND RUMBLE.

London, June Il. $3.50 a. m.-The Beers
have torn up twenty-four miles of Lord
Roberts vital line of railway between
America Siding and RoodevaL 1t is
bold raid and Vexatious. but it does
not disQuiet the military authorities as
yet. for they expect General Kelly-Ken-
ny TO drive off the marauders and to
reopen the line.
The rapidity of the advance Of Lord
Roberts cannot have permitted him to
accumulate large reserves Of stores.
Therefore an interruption Of the rail-
way, even for week, must embarraSs
the army and may bring the forward
operations to a standstill.
War Not Yet over.
Nothing has been heard from Lord
Roberts for three days. This raid on
the railway, the strenuous opposition
to General Rumble, and the nimble es-
cape of COmmandant BOtha's division
have forced the war Office observers
to the reluctant conclusion that the
war is not yet over, although even the
occasional civilian Boer sympathizer
cannot see now the Beers viii be able
10 do anything TO change the result.
Butler Enters Beer Territory.
General Butler IS in Boer territory.
Dispatches Of correspondents with him,
filed yesterday at sunset, describe the
corps as camping at GansOlOi, close to
the point where the frontiers of the
Free State, the Transvaal and Natal
meet
''The British marched eight miles
yesterday before encOuntering any OD-
position" says a Reuter- correspondent.
Fn E.I 4I.a
drew under heavy ordnance fire to a
ridge Just ahead of the camp"
Ihis long range running shiTmish will
doubtless be renewed this morning.
General Butler is expected to make rap
ID progress now, and to throw the
weight OF 10000 men into Lord Rob
ertS' Transvaal combinations.
Battle Lasted All Day.
The fighting on June 6, in which there
We're fewer than twenty casualties. was
kept up all day long by musketry and
artillery. The British attacking line.
three miles in length, made its Wav
amid the Drecipitous hills. A Boer gun
on Spitz KOp fired shrapnel rapidly. at
a range OF 400 yards, at the British
right flank, but every shell was buried
IN the ground before bursting. The de-
Tensive power of modern weapons
seems less effective in rough country
can De covered with fiat trajectoThI.
Butler Wires About Fight.
The war Office has received the fol-
lowing dispatch from Sir Redvers. Bull
er:
Headquarters in Natal, June 10
With reference to my telegram of June
S: We halted yesterday to get our
trains up the pass, which is very steep.
L found the enemy were about 1000
strong in very carefully prepared DO
sition, which they must have been very
dlSheartened not to have held longer
than they did. They have eli retired
about. tWenty-six miles to the north
west.
Il find our casualties were more than
first thought. They We're one officer
wounded and two men killed and thir-
teen wounded"
A dispatch from Lourenzo MARQUEE.
dated Saturday, June 9, says: It is re-
ported that the British have occupied
kOOtmatipOOrt after fighting.
President Kruger is said to have q
large quantity OF personal vaIuabIes
with him.
General Sir Forester Walker wires
10 the war Office from Cape Town. un-
DER tOday's date. as follows. "iuforma-
ton received from natives early yes
terday Saturday. reports the enemy
THE railway has been almost com
pletely destroyed between America and
Roodeval."
Desperate Beers at Bethlehem.
General Rundle's and General Bra
bant's divisions are still at Hammonia,
in the Ficksburg district The latest
intelligence from their headquarters is
that the Beers are determined TO fight
10 the bitter end. They are cOncen-
Irating 4,0e0 men around Bethlehem.
The country between them and Cen
eral Rumble is mountainous, and ex-
ceedingly difficult for military opera
lions.
General Rundle's present care is to
prevent the Beers getting past him
southwark. Major Wood of Rundle's
staff rode to q BoeF outpost on June 6.
and announced that Pretoria had been
occupied by the British. How the Beers
received this news is not recorded. Al
together 500 Beers have surrendered to
General Rumble.
General Hunters advance has Occu-
pied Nentersdorp, 100 miles southwest
OF Pretoria This took place on June Z.
overawe Scattered Burghers.
General Plumer's column is on the
Glands river, northwest of Pretoria
The British are sending attachments
right and left to accept the surrenders
Of commanders, horses, cattle and for
aSe. and to Overawe the sparsely. set
lied country. Thus far only one small
commando has been heard of, a com
mandO at Tailbasch.
General Hunters immediate object
I've is POtchcfstrOom. This town and
Rustenburg are the largest towns west
of johannesburg. 1t is reported that
POtchefstroOm is ready to submit. Gen
eral Hunter has warned all burghers
that if the telegraph is cut behind him
he viii send back and burn the houses
near the line.
The Dutch in Cape Colony appear to
have split. a majority OF the Afrikan-
darbund being displeased by the I'M
willingness of Mr.. Schreiner. the Cane
premier. to go the fun length of the
proposed opposition 20 the British.
Jameson for Parliament